Yorkshire’s leading arts organisation, the Harrogate International Festival, returns to its historic home at the Royal Hall this summer and celebrates over 40 years of music making in the iconic venue. General booking opens on Friday 30 May for two weeks of classical, jazz and world music, welcoming back some of the world’s greatest musicians with longstanding relationships with the Royal Hall.
This summer, the Harrogate International Festival is celebrating over 40 years of music making in the Royal Hall, with a prestigious opening series to be proud of.
The penultimate recital in Harrogate International Festival's 2008 series of Sunday morning coffee concerts proved to be another outstanding success. The cellist Raphael Wallfish, with John York, performed a programme of music for cello and piano from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
We are delighted to announce that the Harrogate International Festivals were awarded first place in the Business Tourism category of this year’s Ackrill Business Awards last Thurs 6 March. The presentation gala dinner, held at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate, was attended by over 500 of the region’s leading businesses.
A recital of the highest standard to a capacity audience reinforced the outstandingly successful Harrogate International Festival's series of Sunday Coffee Concerts held at the Cairn Hotel. The second in this season's series, it featured the Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa who, in introducing the recital, stated how much she appreciated returning to Yorkshire once more as she celebrated 20 years as a solo performer.
At a ceremony held this week in the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, Harrogate International Festivals won the Arts & Business Sustainability Award, Yorkshire for Theakstons sponsorship of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
The shortlist has been announced for the Arts & Business Yorkshire Awards 2007 and Harrogate International Festivals has been nominated for two prestigious awards that recognise its imaginative partnerships with Yorkshire organisations.
A record number of tickets have already been sold for the 14th annual Harrogate International Sunday Series, which will see a host of internationally acclaimed musicians perform the classical greats.
