Ryedale District Council supports the Ryedale Festival.

York Minster

Celebrity Concert - BBC singers: Guy Johnston violoncello: Stephen Cleobury (conductor) -

Richard Rodney Bennett Serenades (first concert performance)
Moore three prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bingham Waterlilies
Tavener Svyati
Bach Suite no.3 in C for violoncello
Martin Mass


The BBC Singers is the country’s only full-time professional choir, and this 24-voice ensemble is renowned for its chameleon-like ability to perform a huge range of repertoire, from Tallis to Takemitsu.

This programme includes a poignant work by the Minster’s Master of the Music Philip Moore, a new work by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and Frank Martin’s glorious setting of the Mass for double choir. The cellist Guy Johnston, who has become a fast-rising star since his BBC Proms debut with the Elgar concerto, will play Bach’s Suite no.3 and join the Singers for John Tavener’s haunting Svyati, in which the cello soars over the choir. Performed in the magnificent surroundings of York Minster, this concert is bound to be a highlight of the Festival.

Tickets for this concert can be purchased on line at -

the Theatre Royal Box Office

by telephone at -

Ryedale Festival Box Office 01751 47577 or the Theatre Royal Box Office 01904 623568

by email at

rftboxoffice@aol.com

Let us save you wear and tear as we remove the strain and pain by providing a special bus service to and from the market towns of Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Pickering and Malton and the Minster for this event. Enjoy the company of fellow Festival goers. Contact -

Dave Young at Ryecat – 01653 699059