Top International Artists

Cossington Concerts offers a platform for some of the finest musicans of our day.  Many of them – the soprano Emma Kirkby, the countertenor Michael Chance and tenor Ian Partridge, the violinist Margaret Faultless, the cellist Steven Isserlis,  the saxophonist Tim Garland and the trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins, the pianists Malcolm Bilson and Julius Drake and the members of the Chilingirian Quartet – have had long and distinguished international careers. 

Others, though still at the beginning of their careers, have already shown enormous promise; they include the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme artists - the violinist Victoria Sayles, the cellist Victoria Simonsen and the harpist Victoria Davies -  and young singers from The Classical Opera Company – the sopranos Rebecca Bottone and  Martene Grimson, the mezzo Anna Grevelius, the tenor Andrew Staples and baritone Jacques Imbrailo – who performed in our 2006 festival, Mozart at the Manor, as well as the pianists Alexander Karpeyev, Gwilym Simcock, and Nicholas Rimmer with his Leibniz Trio Hannover.

Occasionally we also present actors too, both in combination with music, as when Timothy West read passages from Casanova’s memoirs illustrated by Sophie Yates at the harpsichord, and on their own, as with Theatre Set-Up, the company who bring us Shakespeare in the Manor Garden Theatre.
           
These are artists of a calibre one would normally only hear in large concert halls and theatres in major cities or on recordings.  We feel privileged to welcome them to Cossington and honoured whenever they return.