Introducing Music at Minterne

Following 50 successful years of Dame Dione Digby’s Summer Music Society of Dorset, Minterne House are now delighted that renowned cellist Guy Johnston with his wife Ali have returned to the UK and will be based at Minterne.

Guy won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award in 2000, he is the Founding Artistic Director of the Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival and has been Associate Professor of Cello at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York for the last 5 years.

So Minterne House are all thrilled to welcome Guy and his fellow musicians to bring music back to Minterne.

The three concerts are planned for 2024 are:

2nd July 2024 - Bach

• Guy Johnston Bach Cello Suites in St Andrews Church, Minterne Magna
• 5.00pm concert 1st half; buffet supper in the Trafalgar Hall;
• 8.00pm concert 2nd half.
• Tickets: £40

23rd August 2024 - Brahms

• The Bechstein Trio. Priya Michell – violin; Emmanuel Despax – piano; Guy Johnston – cello.
• Programme: Beethoven Eb major Trio Op1 No 1; Faure d minor Trio Op 120; Brahms B major
• Trio Op 8
• Evening concert at 6.30 pm with reception in the Trafalgar Hall.
• Tickets: £60

29th September 2024 - Schubert

• String Quintet in C major, D.956 by Franz Schubert
• Magnus Johnston – violin; Max Baillie – violin; Brett Dean – viola; Gemma Rosefield – cello; Guy Johnston – cello.
• Evening concert at 6.30 pm with reception in Trafalgar Hall.
• Tickets: £60

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