The 2009 Lower Machen Festival takes place from
23 June – 28 June 2009

St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Lower Machen

With the 42nd Lower Machen Festival we have put together a programme of events with something that, we hope, will reach the hearts of all our visitors.

• Three great international performers open and close the festival: soprano Rebecca Evans, harpist Catrin Finch and pianist John Lill
• Music from Renaissance Spain by one of Britain’s cutting-edge early music groups, Stile Antico
• One of the most expansive and intense late romantic chamber works: Chausson’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet given by Özcan Ulucan, Evgenia Startseva and the Edinburgh String Quartet
• Two of Britain’s leading up-and-coming chamber groups: the Erato Piano Trio and the Bridge Duo

Lower Machen is a rural idyll – just nineteen houses (no shop, not even a pub!) with an incomparably beautiful small church, blessed with a perfect acoustic. Our aim is the highest possible quality of music-making in an atmosphere that brings together what a member of our audience recently described as “a unique atmosphere, in which setting and music complement each other perfectly – the ideal way to spend a summer’s evening.”

Midsummer has always been a time for celebration and we hope that you’ll take up our invitation to leave behind the four walls of your home and make the most of the long days and evenings that stretch before us.

Full details of our 2009 programme are available on this website.
In addition, you can have a brochure mailed to you.

We look forward to seeing you this summer.

Please note: The gardens of Machen House will be open before and during the interval of each concert by kind permission of Mrs Mary Adams.