Oundle International Festival in association with Oundle School Music Department presents

The Škampa Quartet

Thursday, 12th September

Oundle School Great Hall

12 New Street, PE8 4GH

5:30pm The Škampa Quartet in concert

7:30pm Oundle School Chamber Orchestra with The Škampa Quartet

Tickets: £10 Adults. Free for pupils. One free ticket for each performing pupil

Helena Jiřikovská – violin

Adéla Štajnochrová – violin

Martin Stupka – viola

Lukáš Polák – violoncello

The Škampa Quartet is among the very finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets that has represented their country in major Concert Halls around the world for twenty-five years. Through their mentors, the legendary Smetana Quartet, they trace their roots to the earliest quartets - such as the Bohemian Quartet - in a land described in 18th century as the Conservatoire of Europe and that remains, to this day, the very cradle of European chamber Music.

Education has long been an important facet of their work, and one that they find particularly rewarding. they teach in many places around the world but particularly at the Royal Academy of Music in London where they were appointed Visitng Professors of Chamber Music in 2001.

As they focus on their Wigmore Hall concert, we are fortunate to be hosting The Škampa Quartet to work with our chamber musicians ahead of our tour to Prague in February. After their 5:30pm concert, the quartet will coach our ensembles on Brahms Sextet, Clarinet Quintet and a movement from Mozar't Oboe Quartet, before more pupils unite with Ďvořák’s Serenade for Strings, first movement in the evening.

Oundle International Festival in association with Oundle Music School Department presents

Last Night of the Proms

Saturday 14 September, 6pm

Oundle School Great Hall

12 New Street, PE8 4GH

TICKETS: £10 / £4 U18

Rushden Town Band

Adele Hudson conductor

Following the huge success of the 2018 concert, we again join

forces with Oundle School Music Department and Rushden Town Band, directed by Adele Hudson, to celebrate one of the great British institutions, the Last Night of the Proms.

Our concert is a warm up for the relay from the Royal Albert Hall and the early start will give you plenty of time to get home to watch it live on television! Enjoy singing of perennial favourites, Jerusalem, I Vow to Thee My Country and, of course, Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia!

Oundle International Festival in association with the Oundle School Music Department presents

Concert with Yarwell and Nassington Britannia Brass Band,

Schola Cantorum and the Oundle Consort

Friday, 11th October at 7:30pm

Nassington Church

Station Rd, Nassington, PE8 6QB

Tickets: £10, includes bar and raffle

Always a warming thrill to be out and about, and into the extended communities, we join forces for another special evening with the Yarwell & Nassington Britannia Band, contrasting (and uniting) with the beautiful sounds of our Schola Cantorum and The Oundle Consort. Directed by John Hudson and Quentin Thomas, expect dazzling dynamics and flourishes from the brass, with the more evocative, poignant from the vocal forces. As the colder evenings draw on in, we focus on raising money in aid of the Peterborough Winter Night Shelter.