Saturday July 10

10.00am – 4.30pm St Swithun’s Performing Arts Centre      Come And Sing Mozart Requiem with David Hill

Following his conducting of the Bach Choir in the Festival’s Opening Concert David Hill, also Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers, will give you the opportunity to rehearse the choruses from Mozart’s magnificent Requiem. There will be rehearsals in the morning and the afternoon, followed by an informal performance at 3.30pm to which you are welcome to invite friends and family. Come and experience the fun and satisfaction of singing as part of a group, with the expert guidance of one of the best choral conductors. (Please bring a packed lunch; tea and coffee will be available. Scores will be provided)
Tickets: £10 Book Online

5.00pm Guildhall                                  Unreliable Sources John Simpson in conversation with John Miller

The BBC’s World Affairs Editor has spent a lifetime reporting the stories that matter across the globe. The author of several volumes of memoirs, John Simpson has now turned his attention in Unreliable Sources to the way the British press has reported key moments in our history, tracing the development of the reporter’s art over the last hundred years. Beginning with the young Winston Churchill on the Boer War, his analysis ranges through the coverage of both World Wars to the Suez invasion, The Sun’s relationship to Margaret Thatcher’s government, up to the operation of Tony Blair’s press machine, and tells the true stories behind the headlines. He shows how the press itself has changed, and reveals how it has often knowingly, and at times irresponsibly, manipulated events. Those who heard John Simpson on his previous visits to the Festival will know to expect some intriguing revelations in his distinctively trenchant and entertaining style.
Tickets: £10 Book Online

7.00pm Great Hall Sea Woman Presented by: Hampshire County Council’s Music Service Supported by the Leche Trust

A musical performance devised and created with young people from Winchester, based on a Scottish folk tale.
Under the direction of: Lorraine Cheshire, Martin Read, Allison Amin and Carl Clausen
This musical re-telling of the folk tale Sea Woman will use dialogue, dance, song, music technology, orchestral musicians and a gamelan. The piece will be devised and performed by young people from schools in Winchester, in a partnership between Hampshire County Council’s Music Service and Winchester Festival, bringing an extraordinary music and arts project to the stage in the Great Hall.
Tickets: £10 & £6 (young people up to 18 years) Book Online

7.30pm Chapel of St Cross The Ashton Singers Baroque Choral Music Conductor Julian Macey with sackbuts, cornetts and other period instruments directed by Theresa Caudle

A varied programme of choral and instrumental music including works by Gabrieli, Schütz, Schein and Telemann, presented by this Winchester-based chamber choir which has established an excellent reputation, particularly for the performance of Renaissance and Baroque sacred music, since their foundation in 1969. Having been successful this year under the BBC Choral Ambition scheme, the choir is to receive a master class from BBC Singers Chief Conductor David Hill. Singing services as a visiting choir in Winchester Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral are further highlights of 2010.
Tickets: £13, (including interval drinks in Master’s Garden) Book Online