Join the waitlist to be the first to know if any spots become available for the 2025 festival. Things have been moving since our sellout 2014 festival: we’ve put together a fabulous programme for 2015 welcoming four exciting new artists in addition to our Sanguine “regulars”; we’ve established a wonderful new partnership with the City of Greater Bendigo which involves expanding our concert offerin
g to the weekend before as well as sponsorship of an overseas artist for the Festival, and an accommodation partnership with the brand new four star Art Series Hotel in Bendigo. We’ve also established a Circle of Friends of the Festival to ensure future financial security and artistic flexibility. Rest assured that the intimate weekend at the winery will remain unchanged, but look forward to exciting events around the weekend in future years! You asked, and we listened: we once again have a singer at the Festival: the fabulous Tiffany Speight, star of Opera Australia, and a Kyneton local! She will be joined by clarinettist Paul Dean, irrepressible on and off stage, Adam Chalabi, leader of the wonderful Tinalley String Quartet, and the extraordinary Berlin-based violist, William Coleman, member of the internationally renowned Kuss Quartet, at home in the major concert halls and festivals of the world. We celebrate the combination of soprano and clarinet with masterpieces by Schumann and Spohr, and agree with Beethoven’s appraisal of the genius of both Cherubini and George Onslow, presenting dynamic string works by each of them. The Saturday afternoon concert explores arrangements of great composers by great composers, sometimes even themselves, as in Beethoven’s reworking of his second symphony, while the “Inside the Music” concert this time takes you on the journey from manuscript to performance, featuring arias by Mozart’s quirky and highly original contemporary, Zelenka, some of which have not been performed in modern times. As always, the unique warm Hunter family hospitality and their award-winning
Sanguine Estate Wines, as well as Monsieur Pierre’s delicious creative menus, all await you. We very much look forward to seeing
you there,
Howard Penny and Chris Howlett