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ST DAVID’S HALL, CARDIFF
The Lloyds TSB
Welsh Proms Cardiff
The Lloyds TSB Welsh Proms
Cardiff concert season returns to St
David’s Hall this summer with an
exciting programme of 13 concerts
in just 14 days. From Saturday 12 to
Saturday 26 July, Cardiff will be
filled with the sound of world-class
music in a special Proms
celebration of 25 years of the
National Concert Hall of Wales.
This year The Lloyds TSB Welsh Proms
Cardiff boasts some of the biggest
names in classical music with Bryn
Terfel and Grammy Nominated Rebecca
Evans taking to the stage in the Choral
Prom (19 July). Other soloists include
violinist Tasmin Little who will be
performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin
Concerto (17 July) and pianists Angela
Hewitt in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No
23 (18 July) and Freddy Kempf in
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5 (25
July). Maya Kock takes centre stage
with her violin in the Lloyds TSB Last
Night of the Welsh Proms which
includes a programme of Strauss,
Vaughan Williams and Elgar and, of
course, that patriotic party atmosphere
that the last night of The Lloyds TSB
Welsh Proms Cardiff always brings.
The Lloyds TSB Welsh Proms Cardiff
will feature three conductors this year,
including the season’s Artistic Director
Owain Arwel Hughes OBE conducting
six of the evening orchestral concerts,
as well as Thierry Fischer with the BBC
National Orchestra of Wales (23 July)
and a return for Michael Bell with the
Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra in the
ever-popular Children’s Prom (12 July).
The Children’s Prom, with special guest
narrator Sarah-Jane Honeywell, is one of
three concerts especially for younger
music lovers. The others being the
Primary Prom for 5-9 year-olds with a
special event Mozart (3 July) and the
ever-popular Tiddly Prom returning by
popular demand for 6 performances on
18 - 20 July.
In addition to the orchestral
performances, the 2008 season at
St David’s Hall brings the first ever
Gamelan Prom (12 July) followed by
the Folk Prom (22 July) starring
England’s finest roots duo Show of
Hands.
St David’s Hall’s mammoth pipe organ,
one of the largest in Wales, gets a rare
outing in the Organ Prom (21 July) at a
special lunchtime performance from
Thomas Trotter, one of the UK’s bestloved
organists.
Full details of the Lloyds TSB Welsh
Proms Cardiff 2008 including ticket
prices may be found at:
www.welshproms.co.uk
or visit the St David’s Hall website at:
www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk
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