Our Winter Festival so far…

Its been an extremely busy week for us all with Week One of our Winter Festival sadly at an end. Its been a huge success, and a highly eventful week. The performances have been so exceptional, that we couldn’t sum up in one sentence all the incredible highlights, so we thought we would share a few of our staff…

Less than a week to go!

Our Acting Executive Director, Sarah Macnee shares with us a selection of the treats on offer at this year’s Winter Festival. This is my first Festival with Spitalfields Music, and I could not be more excited. Our Executive Director, Abigail Pogson, has just had a baby, and I have stepped into her shoes; being here…

Artist Focus: a filetta

a filetta arrive at this year’s Winter Festival  with their director, Jean-Claude Acquaviva who was just 13 years old when he founded this exceptional group!  The group are known throughout Europe for their stunning performances of Corsican polyphony including folk songs and hymns. They’ve even  dabbled in film soundtracks (including several collaborations with film composer…