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The Ryedale Festival is an annual classical music festival that takes place in venues across North Yorkshire every summer. It was founded in 1981 by four musician friends, Geoffrey and June Emerson, and Peter and Alex White, and has since grown to become one of the largest classical music festivals in the UK. The current artistic director is the pianist Christopher Glynn.
The festival has a broadly based programme that includes orchestral and choral performances, chamber music and song, opera, jazz, folk, brass band and world music. It also has a thriving tradition of Community Operas and Community Song Cycles.
The festival takes place in venues including Duncombe Park, Castle Howard, Sledmere House, Hovingham Hall, Birdsall House, Ampleforth Abbey, York Minster and Scarborough Spa. It also gives concerts in churches and arts centres throughout the area, in places such as Malton, Helmsley, Pickering, Kirkbymoorside, York and Scarborough.
It regularly welcomes international soloists and chamber ensembles and has established ongoing partnerships with the Halle Orchestra, Opera North, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Leeds International Piano Competition and BBC Radio 3. Artists who have performed at the festival in recent years include Nicola Benedetti, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Kovacevich, Imogen Cooper, Roderick Williams, Sarah Connolly, Bomsori, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Labeque Sisters, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Simon Russell Beale, The Sixteen, Richard Goode, Patricia Routledge, Claire Martin, Jess Gillam, John Tomlinson, Jeremy Irons, Rachel Podger, Mahan Esfahani, Anna Lapwood and Mark Elder. Composers in residence have included James MacMillan, Sally Beamish, Errollyn Wallen, Cheryl Frances Hoad, Judith Weir and Michael Berkeley. The festival is also noted for its commitment to supporting young artists and composers.
In 2020 festival was cancelled for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic but instead launched an online platform to continue sharing concerts with its audiences. It was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in 2020 and 2023.
The festival is a registered charity supported by Arts Council England and a large number of subscribers, benefactors and volunteers. Its President is John Warrack.