WITH a month to go to the 14th West Meon Music Festival tickets are selling well with some concerts looking for certain sell outs. 

The festival will be held at churches in East Meon and West Meon from September 12-15. 

There is still time to book for the opportunity to hear one of today’s most exciting young pianists.

Lithuanian Gabrielé Sutkuté is the winner of 20 international competitions including first prize at the Chappell Medal Piano Competition in 2023 and the audience prize at the Birmingham International Piano Competition in 2022. She was also the recipient of the prestigious Mills Williams Junior Fellowship in 2022/23. For her musical achievements, Gabrielé has received the Lithuanian Republic President’s certificates of appreciation six times.

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“We are thrilled to have Gabrielé this year,” said the festival’s musical director, Andrew Fuller, who is the cellist of the festival’s founders, the Primrose Piano Quartet. “She really is a very special performer.”

On Sunday, September 15 at 11.30am, Gabrielé will be performing works by Rameau, Brahms, Debussy and Prokofiev at West Meon’s St John’s Church on the final morning of the four-day festival.

This year’s festival theme is 'Romantic' with concerts featuring 19th century German, Viennese and Russian romantic music by such composers as Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann as well as both Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. 

Earlier music is not forgotten with Truly Madly Baroque by Red Priest at All Saints, East Meon at 11.30am on September 14. Red Priest has been thrilling audiences with its original take on baroque music for more than 25 years – and is certain to be another sell out. On Saturday afternoon Purcell and Mozart are not forgotten either with the Primrose’s strings performing at Warnford’s 11th century Church of Our Lady.

Jazz enthusiasts will also want to be at The Thomas Lord in West Meon from 9.30pm on September 14 when local band East of Meon will be performing in aid of The Elizabeth Foundation, a Cosham-based charity that supports pre-school deaf children.

Full details and tickets are available at westmeonmusic.co.uk.