Welcome to Music on the Moor
A multi-arts festival of music, poetry, painting, pottery, photography, food and family events at stunning locations on and around Bodmin Moor.
Guest artists this year include the world-renowned Brodsky Quartet with Jeremy Menuhin and Dimitry Ashkenazy; folk singer Claire Ingleheart in a new collaboration with author Philip Marsden; four art exhibitions; the Moorland Festival Orchestra with Poldark actor Rory Wilton as JS Bach; a children’s concert with poet Jane Newberry; a guided tour of Kerdroya Labyrinth, an abundance of cake, special pub suppers and much more.
If you live locally, don’t miss these fabulous events happening near you. If you live far away, join us for a feast of music in the magnificent landscape of Bodmin Moor, off the beaten track in a hauntingly beautiful part of Cornwall.
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Anna Brown
Anna Brown is a British violinist and versatile musician based in London. As both a baroque and modern violinist, she happily splits her time across many different musical genres.
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Brodsky Quartet
Since forming in 1972, the Brodsky Quartet have performed over 3,000 concerts on the major stages of the world and released over 70 recordings. A natural curiosity and an insatiable…
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Cathy Galvin
Poet, editor and journalist Cathy Galvin has roots in Coventry and Connemara. Her collection, Ethnology, A Love Song for Connemara, is due from Bloodaxe Books in the UK and Ireland in February…
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Chris Prindl
I feel so fortunate to be able to live in Cornwall, with all its rugged beauty and freedom of spirit, and make Japanese-inspired pots.
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Claire Ingleheart
Claire Ingleheart is a composer, musical director, multi-instrumentalist, choir director, workshop leader and associate lecturer at Falmouth University. She is passionate about the power of the voice, and is widely…
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Dimitry Ashkenazy
I was born in New York to an Icelandic mother and a Russian father, and grew up in Iceland and Switzerland.
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Dorothy Hanna
Dorothy is an artist working primarily in printmaking. The works I create develop from a quiet, meditative process where initial ideas evolve through layers of ink and the pressure of…
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Elizabeth Freeborn
Elizabeth Freeborn is a Cornish born singer-songwriter with a passion for re- enchanting the world through song and the magic of nature, with a particular focus on reviving the language…
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Enoch Wong
Born in 2006 in Hong Kong, Enoch Wong studied piano with Christina Kwok from 2014-2020.
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Hudson Swan LRPS
Hudson was born in Glasgow and was given his first camera by his father to take with him on a trip to Norway. After leaving school he toured Europe, USA,…
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Jacqueline M.A. Jarvis
Jacqueline was born in 1947. I am married with two adult sons and I have lived in the small coastal hamlet of Trevalga since 1979.
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Jane Newberry
Jane Newberry has been an Early Years Music specialist as long as she can remember.
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Jeremy Menuhin
Jeremy Menuhin is widely regarded for his artistry and the integrity of his interpretations: ‘unfailingly lyrical, exemplary, exquisitely polished, yet directly expressive’ ( New York Times).
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Joseph Barker
Joseph Barker grew up in Cornwall and began playing the cello at the age of 7, following a visit from a string trio to his primary school.
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Laura Frances Martin
Laura is a multi-disciplinary artist, performer & writer based in North Cornwall.
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Matthew Patrick
I am fortunate to live on a smallholding in southeast Cornwall, on the southern edge of Bodmin moor.
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Maura Dooley
Maura Dooley’s most recent collection of poetry is Five Fifty-Five (Bloodaxe, 2023).
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Moorland Festival Orchestra
Following last year’s thrilling performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, this group of excellent instrumentalists - based in the West Country, of mixed ages - unanimously voted to meet again for…
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Paul Jackson
Following a visit to Italy in 1979, and the chance to pick up shards from the city of Bologna, I fell in love with decorative ceramics.
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Philip Marsden
I’ve lived in Cornwall for more than thirty years and in that time have written a number of books about far-off places – the Horn of Africa, the Middle East,…
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Richard Sharland
Painting has been an important part of my life since I was a young teenager.
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Rory Wilton
Rory’s acting career started in 1992 after graduating from The Hub Theatre School. He was cast as Trystan in Bedlam Theatre Company’s touring production of Trystan and Yseult.
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Trudy Bailey
When music became a statutory requirement in all Primary Schools in 1992, I became employed by 11 schools local to me, having previously merely volunteered as ‘a mum’ in my…
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Will Coleman
Will Coleman describes himself as a ‘cultural entrepreneur’ – an educational consultant and Cornish speaker, an academic, director, film maker, performer, author and musician.
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