Buy two tickets for a Young Artist Platform concert and get two tickets free for another concert in the YAP series!
Swaledale Festival's Young Artist’s Platform showcases musicians early in their professional lives, many of whom go on to become major stars. Launched in 2008, it has helped more than two hundred young people build soaring careers.
To champion this year's young artists, we are offering Festival-goers the chance to buy two tickets to a YAP concert and get up to two additional tickets free for another concert in the YAP series.
YAP concerts included in the offer are listed below. Simply choose your event, buy two tickets from our website, then email emily@swalefest.org to specify the other YAP concert and number of additional tickets you would like (a maximum of two). They will be emailed to you within 1-2 working days.
This year's young artists include Welsh 'chamber-folk', a sonorous soprano and a Classic FM Rising Star. Let's celebrate young talent!
* YAP concerts are listed below; offer is subject to availability and applicable to tickets booked from 16th May 2023 *
Ligeti Quartet
Tuesday 1 June 2023, 16:00 - St. Mary's, Arkengarthdale
A string quartet dedicated to modern and contemporary music celebrates the great György Ligeti’s centenary.
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VRï
Monday 5 June 2023, 16:00 - St. Michael's, Spennithorne
The Welsh trio that won Best Album at this year’s Wales Folk Awards brilliantly balance the beauty of chamber music with the hedonism of a pub session. Their three-part vocal harmonies and stunning fiddle and cello playing result in a joyful sound.
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VRï
Tuesday 6 June 2023, 16:00 - St. Mary's, Muker
More vibrant and evocative songs from the three exceptional young Welsh musicians who have invented their own infectious mix of chamber music and folk traditions. "They summon up a magic chemistry that is... mesmerising" (FOLKWALES).
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Connaught Brass
Tuesday 6 June 2023, 19:30 - St. Mary's, Richmond
This upbeat young brass ensemble is taking the chamber world by storm! Grab this chance to hear them play Handel, Fauré & Rossini.
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Trio Volant
Thursday 8 June 2023, 16:00 - St. Agatha's, Easby
A fabulous young woodwind trio from Manchester play Mozart, Beethoven and Cecilia McDowall in Easby's ancient church.
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Lotte Betts-Dean and Brett Dean
Friday 9 June 2023, 16:00 - St. Mary's, Arkengarthdale
The Australian mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is well on the way to being a superstar. Her duo with her virtuoso viola-playing father Brett Dean will feature songs by Vaughan Williams and Bliss. A guaranteed Festival highlight!
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Mathilde Milwidsky and Annie Yim
Saturday 10 June 2023, 16:00 - St. Andrew's, Aysgarth
The outstanding violinist Mathilde Milwidsky has recently been named as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars. She will perform music by Telemann, Ravel, Elgar and Arvo Pärt with the excellent young pianist Annie Yim.
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