The Three Choirs Festival 2017 will be held in Worcester, from 22nd July to 29th July, as an 8-day festival featuring over 20 events. The programme includes alongside the choral music, other events like excursions, family activities, talks and chamber music.
The launch of the week-long festival and to introduce the festival’s key themes, which is ‘echoes of the past’, there will be a performance by Three Choirs Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra, of ‘A Child of Our Time’ from Tippett. The Three Choirs Festival Youth Chorus will perform Jonathan Dave’s ‘There Was A Child’. There’s also a celebration of youth in the programme, featuring hand-picked recitals by the Royal College of Organists and Philharmonia, by the Fellowship Octet of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, besides visiting youth theatre, youth choir and children’s chorus and home-grown young performers in Cathedral Choirs.
The flagship choral and orchestral programme will be held on a relocated stage hosting the cathedral’s organ at the Worcester Cathedral, involving the Philharmonia Orchestra. Bookings open on 24th April for the general public. The ‘Festival Firsts’ is a new scheme being launched by the festival to provide free tickets to people, who never had attended the festival previously, from the local community. The scheme works by the donation of a free ticket for a new attender by loyal audience members.
