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The sold out opening concert with legendary American composer Philip Glass performing his only UK solo piano concert in his 70th birthday year. The audience came from all over the UK and included record numbers of first time Lichfield Festival goers
The late night collaborative performance by Armenian Duduk player Djivan Gasparyan, Norwegian jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Tunisian sufi singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef
Capacity audiences for the Soweto Gospel Choir and Carl Davis conducting the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Sold-out nights at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre by Short & Curly, and for Salsa Celtica who had their audience dancing in their seats, in the aisles and on the stage
Facts & Figures
75 events over 10 days in 16 venues
50,000 attendees
From a c.30 mile radius of Lichfield including Birmingham, Burton-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Derby, Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford
Over 400 international performers from the UK, Tunisia, France, South Africa, Italy, Norway, Armenia, America, Romania, Germany, Argentina and Russia
3 World Premieres & 5 Lichfield Festival commissions
Marketing campaign to c. 1.53 million people
Press coverage from January – July 2007 providing over 13.4 million opportunities to see or hear about the Lichfield Festival
Press coverage included the Guardian, Times, Belfast Telegraph and Independent and the Birmingham Post, Midlands Metro, Lichfield Post, Express and Star and Lichfield Mercury. TV and Radio coverage included ITV Central, Radio 3, Radio 4, Capital Radio and Touch fm
2 extensive education projects with 200 school children from across South Staffordshire in dance, music, composition and performance
The Nash Ensemble, Philip Glass and Brodsky Quartet received five star reviews in the Birmingham Post.
The Nash Ensemble and Tango Siempre were the Guardian’s ‘Pick of the Week’ and Motionhouse Dance Theatre and Tango Siempre were ‘Top 5 Dance’ in the Times
What the press said:
“Philip Glass glistens brightly on Lichfield’s beautifully laid table… …cellist Matthew Barley and top duduk player Djivan Gasparian all help to complete the appetising spread” BBC Music magazine
“Lichfield secures another coup to launch Festival” The Birmingham Post on Philip Glass
“Some partnerships have stardust sprinkled on them. That between the writer and Vikram Seth and composer Alec Roth is turning into the Rolls and Royce of the Arts World” Richard Morrison, The Times on Lichfield Festival co-commission: Confluences II after Salisbury world premiere
“While the smart musical world queues up to celebrate him noisily in New York and London, he himself is giving discreet recitals of his solo piano music. Last week in Portugal, next week in Lichfield” The Independent on Philip Glass opening the Lichfield Festival
“…. a line-up worthy of Edinburgh” Midlands Metro
“Exquisite, international, a peak Festival experience” The Lichfield Post on Djivan Gasparyan
“… highly original music, astonishingly beautiful and compelling, a spectacularly successful meeting of cultures” Jazz Journal International on Gasparyan/Henriksen/Youssef
“This summer’s Lichfield Festival… was strikingly ambitious” “Joubert’s concerto was the jewel in the crown of the 2007 Lichfield Festival, an event notable for the quality and breadth of its programmes.” Tempo, October 2007
Audience and education comments:
“One of the most imaginative and moving performances I’ve every heard” Audience member on Confluences II by Ex-Cathedra
“I really enjoyed working with you at the Lichfield Festival, I thought it was brilliant! You have inspired me a lot, I look at music in a different way now and I’m never going to forget what you taught us” Participant on education project Making a Song and Dance
“First class all along the way. One should expect no more than this” Audience member on The Auden Project by Denis May
“Hugely original, evocative, compelling” Audience member on Bells of Paradise
“Between the Notes are not just great musicians but inspiring teachers. This has been an empowering experience” Parent on education project Making a Song and Dance
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