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The Lichfield Festival brings the best national and international artists and performers to the West Midlands each year for a summer celebration of classical music, dance, drama, film, jazz literature, poetry, visual arts and world music.
Our aim is to present high quality events from across the world in historic and unusual settings, providing the largest number of people with access to vibrant new experiences.
Performers as diverse as Oscar Peterson, Mstislav Rostropovich, Stephen Fry, Maxim Vengerov, Philip Glass, Anoushka Shankar, Linda Smith, Evgeny Kissin, Timothy West, Djivan Gasparyan, Marin Alsop, Soweto Gospel Choir and Sir Simon Rattle, amongst others have appeared since 1982.
Our education and community programme lies at the heart of the Festival’s activities.  Through workshops, free community events, master classes and schools projects we provide people of all ages with an opportunity to explore their creativity.
The Lichfield Festival was shortlisted for the Concert Series category of the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, Britain’s leading awards for live classical performance.
The Lichfield Festival has recently expanded to programme an annual Literature Weekend in the autumn.

Staff

Festival Director: Richard Hawley
Administrator: Peter Bacon
Development Manager: Vicki Stanley
Accounts/administration: Judy Grew
Box Office: Elizabeth Newton
Education: Pam Easto
Medieval Market: Megan Barr
Volunteers: Richard Bateman

Lichfield Festival Ltd - Board of Directors

Mr Nick Sedgwick, Chairman
Nick Sedgwick has been a board member since 1987, Company Secretary from 1988 to 2001 and Chairman from  2001 to date. His professional career has been in house building and he is currently semi-retired. He lives in Lichfield.

Mr Simon James, Company Secretary
Simon James has worked in Lichfield since 1978 and is now Senior Partner of Ansons LLP Solicitors where he specialises in agricultural and commercial property work. He is a director and company secretary of Lichfield Festival Limited and holds the same post with St Giles Hospice and St Giles Hospice developments Ltd. He is Warden of the Conduit Lands Trust and Clerk of Lichfield Municipal Charities. He has wide musical interests and has been a supporter of the Festival since its inception

Mr Rob Tyler, Finance Director
Rob Tyler is an accountant, and has lived in the Lichfield area for over 30 years. He spent 26 years as a director with a National house builder – and is now semi-retired. In addition to various other interests, directorships of two small businesses and membership of a local Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee continue to keep him fully occupied. A keen supporter of Lichfield Festival, he joined the Board in 2004.

Sue Arnold
Director of Haselour House Media Ltd, a full-service advertising agency with a client list that includes blue-chip companies Rentokil/Initial and the Pertemps Group. Sue Arnold has pursued a career in publishing for over 25 years. She is chair of SucceSS, the business and professional cluster group in South Staffordshire, immediate past President of Southern Staffordshire Chamber, previous director of British Chambers of Commerce (London), and immediate past Chair of Business Link Staffordshire.

Rt Rev David Bentley
David Bentley has spent his working life as an ordained minister in the Church of England, the first 25 years in various parishes, then bishop of Lynn in the diocese of Norwich for 7 years and 10 years as bishop of the diocese of Gloucester from 1993 to 2003. He and his wife Clarice moved to Lichfield on his retirement. He is chairman of the Lichfield Festival Association.

The Very Revd Adrian Dorber
Adrian Dorber has been Dean of Lichfield since September 2005; ordained as a priest in 1980 he began his ministry in the Oxford Diocese. He followed this as Chaplain and Lecturer at Portsmouth University and then as Director of Ministries and Training in the Durham Diocese. He is a member of the Oversight Group for the Churches’ Regional Training Partnership, he chairs the Lichfield Diocesan Local Ministry Scheme, is joint patron of Fair Trade Lichfield, Chair of Governors of the Cathedral School and a Governor of King Edward VI School, Lichfield. His academic interests are in Systematic Theology and Social Ethics.

Lisa Henderson
Lisa Henderson is an artist and art historian whose career has included many years of lecturing in further and higher education preceded by working for West Midlands Arts as Visual Arts Officer. As well as exhibiting her work widely over the past ten years, she has been engaged in writing, broadcasting, research and landscape design.  Her passion for engaging with contemporary art took her from the Central School of Art and Design, to Nottingham University and on to the Courtauld Institute  and a masters degree.

Jill Robinson

Pauline Round
Pauline Round has been closely involved with the Festival since its earliest days, as her late husband John Round was its first Finance Director. In 1985 she moved to Kent where she obtained an Hons. Degree in Eng . and American Lit. at the University of Kent , followed later by a Post Grad. Cert. in Theology. She  returned to Lichfield in 2002 and joined the Festival Board. She is also a member of  Lichfield  Cathedral Council , a member of the Exec. Comm. of the Friends of the Cathedral, Abbotsholme  Arts Society Committee and is involved in the selection of  art for exhibition in the Cathedral.

Mike Wilcox
He been with HSBC for 30 years, and is manager of the Tamworth branch of the bank, having previously been manager at Great Barr. He has held the post of Chairman of Alrewas & Fradley with Streethay Parish Council for the past four years and was recently elected onto Lichfield District Council.

Lichfield Festival Limited  Registered in England No.1592012  VAT Registration: 337 3346 28  Registered Office: 7 The Close, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 7LD  Charity No. 512201

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Millenium Members

The Lichfield Festival would like to acknowledge the following people who supported the Festival's Millennium Membership campaign in 2000:
Mrs Sheila M Abel, Mr & Mrs Colin P Ablitt, Miss M E Allen, Mr & Mrs John R Alsop, Mr & Mrs David G Arthur, Mr Philip E Baldwin, Mrs Sylvia Barnes, Mr & Mrs John M Baron, Mr W Alan Bateman, Mrs Nest Bateman, Dr & Mrs J B J Berrow, Mrs Jean M Blank, Dr R A & A R Bond, Dr Mollie A Brown, Mr Peter Brown, Mrs Ann Burdett, Miss J Rhona Clarke, Lady Hilda Clarke, Mr & Mrs David T Cliffe, Mrs Susan J Clough, Mr & Mrs David N Cooke, Mr & Mrs Aubrey J Craig, Mr & Mrs R A Crockson, Mr & Mrs Philip W M Davies, Mrs Margaret W Davies, Mrs Polly De Hamel, Mr & Mrs Derrick Duval, Mr & Mrs Philip W Elliott, Dr James I Ellis, Mr & Mrs Don Evans, Mr & Mrs Mark H L Farrant, Dr & Mrs Bryan J Fehilly, Mr Nick Fisher, Mr & Mrs William D Friel, The Hon H M T Gibson, Mrs M Roana B Giffard, Mr & Mrs M G Gilbert, Mr & Mrs P R K Glover, Mr & Mrs Edward Green, Mr & Mrs Robert D M Grew, Mr & Mrs Douglas Grew, Mrs & Ms Anne & Louise Hall, Mr & Mrs Rod W Hannam, Mrs Constance G Harford, Mr & Mrs J Martin Harrison, Dr & Mrs W F Hassell, Mr & Mrs James A Hawley, Mr Kenneth L Hayward, Revd & Mrs Peter L Holliday, Miss Celia J Holmes, Mrs M M Horler, Mr & Mrs C E Hubbold, Mr & Mrs G S Hudson, Mrs Grizel Inge-Innes-Lillingston, Mr & Mrs Ken & Catherine Jackson, Mr & Mrs Simon R James, Miss V Kay Johnson, Mr & Mrs Allen J Juxon, Mrs Morfudd Lamb, Mr John E Lane & Miss Ishbel M Curr, Dr & Mrs John H Lang, Lady M Ann Lightbown, Mr & Mrs A C Lindop, Dr & Mrs Chris M Lockwood, Mr & Mrs H W Lukeman, Mr & Mrs G Neil Mainwaring, Mr & Mrs R P Marchant, Mr & Mrs Paddy N Martin, Mr David R Mayes O.B.E., Mrs P F M McGauley, Mr David McQueen, Mrs Diana R McQueen, Mr & Mrs H I Mitchell, Mr & Mrs C H Mitchell, Mr R C Newby, Miss J Lavinia Newell, Miss Jean M Paddock, Mr & Mrs M M Palmer, Mr & Mrs P E M Parsons, Mr & Mrs I W Paterson, Mr J A Paulson, Mrs Ann Penrose, Mr & Mrs Bryan S Ramsell, Mrs Jill Robinson, Mrs Pauline E Round, Mrs Joan E Round, Mr & Mrs John D Rushton, Mr & Mrs Denis B Rust, Miss C M Salt, Mrs Barbara Samson, Mr & Mrs Alan H Seddon, Mr & Mrs N G Sedgwick, Miss P M Shelley, Dr & Mrs Peter J Sheridan, Mr & Mrs R M Simons, Mrs Gwen F Slater, Mr & Mrs Jonathan M W Smith, Mr & Mrs Martin F P Smith, Miss Margaret A Spooner, Mr & Mrs Gordon Statham, Mr & Mrs D Nigel Steeley, Mr & Mrs David H & Lyn Stephenson, Dr & Mrs I H Stevenson, Mrs Betty Stewart, Mr & Mrs Peter M B Stone, Mr & Mrs Mike A Swallow, Mr & Mrs Peter W & Laura Tanter, Mr A T N Teague, Mr & Mrs Christopher Teed, Mr Stuart C Tetley, Mr & Mrs Richard J Tetley, Mrs Connie F Thomas, Mr & Mrs Andrew W Tipper, Mr & Mrs Alan Toplis, Mrs K Brenda Towlson, Mrs Arleen Trickett, Mr & Mrs Rob Tyler, Mrs Annette Veitch, Dr Ishbel Villiers, Mr & Mrs Mervyn A Walker, Mr & Mrs David E Wallington, Mr Arnold G Ward, Mrs E A Weatherhogg, Mr & Mrs Michael Webb, Dr & Mrs Stephen Whitmore, Dr & Mrs F L Whittaker, Mr & Mrs David Wood.

Founder Members

The Lichfield Festival would like to acknowledge the following people whose support founded the Lichfield Festival in 1982:
Mr & Mrs A E Aldridge, Mrs Joan V Allen, Sir Anthony Bamford, Major M K Beedle, Dr R A & A R Bond, Mr Godfrey Bostock, Mr & Mrs C Brown, Mr Peter Brown, Sir Adrian & Lady Cadbury, Lady Hilda Clarke, Mrs Winifred Clayton-Smith, Mr & Mrs David T Cliffe, Mr & Mrs J N Coley Shaw, Mrs B Cutler, Mrs Polly De Hamel, Dr & Mrs Jeremy R Duncan Brown, Mr & Mrs Derrick Duval, Mr & Mrs Richard B K Dyott, Mr & Mrs Michael Elsom, Mr & Mrs Mark H L Farrant, Mr & Mrs Robert K Fleeman, Mr & Mrs Ian Foster, Mr & Mrs Rodney T Gausden, The Hon H M T Gibson, Mrs M Roana B Giffard, Mr & Mrs M H Gilbert, Mrs & Ms Anne & Louise Hall, Mrs Margaret E Hassall, Mr & Mrs James A Hawley, Dr & Mrs J R Heron, Mrs Grizel Inge-Innes-Lillingston, Mr & Mrs Ken & Catherine Jackson, Mr J O Keir, Dr & Mrs John H Lang, Mrs Myra Leavesley, Lady M Ann Lightbown, Dr & Mrs Chris M Lockwood, Mr & Mrs H W Lukeman, Mrs Jeanine Maclaine, Mrs E J Morrison, The Venerable Richard B Ninis, Mr & Mrs John E Rackham, Mrs Pauline E Round, Mr & Mrs J M S Salloway, Mrs M E Sargeant, Mr & Mrs R M Simons, Mr & Mrs Hugh W Skemp, Mr Paul Spicer, Dr & Mrs I H Stevenson, Miss Gwen W Taylor, Mr A T N Teague, Mr & Mrs Richard J Tetley, Mr & Mrs Andrew W Tipper, Mr & Mrs Simon Tonking, Mr Arnold G Ward, Mr & Mrs D J Watkins, Mrs Sheila White, Mrs Jeane Whitney, Mr & Mrs N J Wilford, Mr & Mrs C J N Williams.