DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

Isn't it nice to know that in this increasingly busy, noisy world, we can go to a place where everything starts in silence and where time waits while great minds, past and present, speak to us through music? The Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts becomes our aural sanctuary as the wisdom of the great composers speaks to us through your friends, the performers, who themselves are in awe of the greatness they are encountering in the music.

Welcome to the 32nd edition of the Festival of the Sound. Our programmes this summer will range from the incomparable depth of the complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle, to the dazzling virtuosity of Liszt and Paganini, the brilliance of big band jazz and the grand sounds of choral masterworks, all in the intimate, acoustically and visually perfect Stockey Centre.

I invite you, as usual, to browse through our offerings and I look forward to welcoming you to the 2011 Festival of the Sound.

James Campbell
Artistic Director