Founder and Artistic Director Lawrence Power writes:
I'm delighted to welcome you to the 2017 West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival. It's wonderful what a special event this has become for myself and the many musicians who visit each year. Not to mention our loyal and extraordinary audience! The church in West Wycombe is such an atmospheric and magical space to perform in, I genuinely look forward to it every year.
It's always a responsibility and a challenge deciding the programme for the festival and this year has been no exception. I have found it fascinating in previous years how themes started to emerge gradually when putting certain pieces together.
This year's theme will be Voices.
It's impossible to ignore the importance of Franz Schubert's works and in Concert No 3 we will be performing arguably one of his most important works - the Trout Quintet
I'm so happy to be joined once again for the Festival by artists who are now familiar to you all, such as Simon Crawford- Phillips, Bjørg Lewis, Stephanie Gonley and Annabelle Meare. But I'm also very excited to welcome for the first time such important artists as the cellist Natalie Clein, soprano Ruby Hughes, pianist / composer Huw Watkins, the multi talented violinist Max Baillie, the double bassist Tim Gibbs and the percussionist Chris Brannick.