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Shoreham
Festival of Music
Shoreham
Festival 2009
Shoreham
Festival
2008
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The Festival
was founded in 1991 by Susan Hinks,
of The Old Vicarage, Shoreham, and
Andrew Reid, from
Otford, who was then organ scholar
at St Catharine's
College, Cambridge.
Susan and her chamber choir the
Sunday Singers (renamed
Temenos in 1999), were joined by
fourteen of Andrew's
fellow music students, and every
room in The Old Vicarage
was filled with the sound of music-making.
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In 1992, The Old Vicarage
was home to 27 Cambridge
undergraduates!
In Shoreham Parish Church,
there were recitals and concerts
with Temenos and Shoreham Singers (founded in 1987),
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followed by music from the
“Just Friends” Jazz Ensemble, led
by Shoreham's Dave Hutchins.
Children's events included Frank
Hinks reading stories
from his “Ramion”
series, and later years included fantastic
plays with musical themes, written
for Shoreham Junior
Players by Katie Kingshill with
music composed by Danny
Kingshill, Shoreham Church
organist and cellist.
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Andrew, Lionel, Danny in 1993 |
Susan and Frank Hinks |
The most wonderful variety of
music has been presented
over the years, from Tallis’s
40 part Spem in Alium to
Strauss’s Metamorphosen
for 23 solo strings.
Performers have included the English
Cornett and Sackbut
Ensemble, the Baroque
recorder ensemble Consortium5 (below),
and fine soloists such as Angharad
Gruffyd Jones (soprano)
and Christopher Suckling (baroque cello).
Conductors have included Roderick
Chadwick, Lionel
Steuart Fothringham, Tony Gould,
Geoffrey Paterson,
Andrew Reid, Nils Schweckendiek,
Charles Talbot and
Peter Westley.
At the present time, Charles
Vignoles conducts Temenos and
Michael Barlow conducts the
Shoreham Singers.
After the 10th anniversary of the
Festival, Susan returned to
her vocation as an artist (Susan
Haire) and the Festival has
been organised on a smaller scale,
involving many local
young musicians on the thresholds
of their careers.
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