Kabantu is a collective from Manchester who unravel new marriages of music - this is autonomous music bridging countries and cultures, embracing the sheer joy in music from all over the globe. Highlights have included performing at the BBC Proms, live sessions for BBC Free Thinking Festival, BBC Radio 3 In Tune, World on 3 and an array of prestigious festivals and venues across the UK. Kabantu are Folk Alliance International 2019 Official Showcase Artists.


In addition, Kabantu will also hold an afternoon workshop with pupils from Shaldon School to build a performance piece which will be shown as an item in the evening concert.

Winners of the 2019 Parkhouse Award at the Wigmore Hall, London, the LUX Trio was founded in Berlin in 2014, having initially studied together at Seoul Art High School in South Korea.

The Trio has participated in masterclasses with Mischa Meyer, Priya Mitchell, the Fauré Quartet and in 2018 were selected for the chamber coaching programme led by the Belcea Quartet.They have performed widely in Europe and South Korea, where in March 2019 they were invited to perform in the Rising Star Series.


MOZART Piano Trio No.1 Divertimento K.254 in B flat major
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No.2 in E minor
SMETANA Trio Op.15 in G minor

'Come and Sing' in the Shaldon Festival Choir
Daytime Choral Workshop and Informal Evening Concert

Conductor: Gavin Carr
Music: Mendelssohn Elijah

Come and join the Shaldon Festival Choir to take part in an informal performance of Mendelssohn Elijah. The evening concert will be proceded by rehearsals duriing the day. With his trademark humour allied to deep vocal expertise and enormous experience in the choral world, Gavin Carr is recognised as one of the UK's leading choral conductors.

Joanna MacGregor OBE is recognized as one of the world’s most wide-ranging and innovative musicians.
The 2019/20 season will see Joanna perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and she will give recitals at Wigmore Hall, St. George’s Bristol, Turner Sims Southampton, Perth Concert Hall, Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, Hebden Bridge Piano Festival, Mayfield Festival and at the Shaldon Festival. Truly a performance not to be missed!

BEETHOVEN Sonata in A flat major Op.110
LISZT Nuages Gris; La Lugubre Gondola 1; Funérailles
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA Chaconne
BEETHOVEN Sonata in F minor Op.57 ‘Appassionata’