Septura: An American in Paris

Tickets will go on sale to Platinum Friends at 10am on Tue 27 Jan, with Gold Friends booking from 10am on Wed 28 Jan, Friends booking from 10am on Fri 30 Jan and on general sale at 10am on Tue 10 Feb.

We welcome back to the Festival Septura, the internationally renowned brass septet after their triumph in Newbury last year. 

A celebration of the vibrant music that arises from the crossing of boundaries of genre and culture. Septura explore a great transatlantic relationship, charting a course from Debussy’s Préludes, through Ravel’s Mother Goose, to his friend Gershwin’s iconic An American in Paris, especially arranged for brass and solo car-horns. 

The blending of classical forms and jazz idioms is exemplified by Gershwin’s Three Piano Preludes, and in a suite from Treemonisha, the first African American opera, by Gershwin’s compatriot and contemporary, Scott Joplin.