In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor
At BIF Book Festival 11 July 2023

Alice Farnham is listed in Classic FM Today’s Ten Best Women Conductors. Recent engagements include concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia.

Who dreams of becoming a conductor? What does it take to get there and stay in the game? In Good Hands is not a guide on how to conduct: it is a frank, fascinating portrait of what conducting really entails today. It is a book about leadership, full of timely sentiment on who gets to lead, and what it takes to unite and inspire people.

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BOOK NOW – Alice Farnham

You don’t have to spend a fortune to enjoy yourself at Buxton International Festival. There are plenty of ways to enjoy BIF on a smaller budget! Whether you enjoy the best chamber music, boogie-woogie jazz gigs, listening to commentators and politicians debate their latest books, or, you want to try opera for the first time, here’s our pick of best 15 events for £20 and under, with some events completely free.

Jamie Safir

7 July 2023, Jazz at the Palace Hotel
Jamie is a critically acclaimed, much-loved young jazz virtuoso who has collaborated with pop-music royalty and is a witty raconteur.  His sparkling new one man show ‘Piano Talk’ presents the glamorous (and not so glamorous!) view from the piano.  Listen on Spotify – CLICK here. 

This year we’re thrilled to be joined by several talented chamber ensembles in our music series.

Described as one of the few chamber groups as much at home with Mozart as with Birtwistle, Endymion has won a strong following among audiences throughout the UK and abroad (15 July).

Established in 2020, the Paddington Trio have quickly emerged as a unique and versatile ensemble, recently winning first prize in the 70th Royal Over-Seas League Competition for Strings & Piano Ensemble (13 July).

Solis Trio is a London-based, all female brass ensemble, which formed seven years ago. Their programme includes Pergolesi, Bohme, Poulenc and Plog.

Il re pastore is one of Mozart’s most beautiful and intimate works, written in Salzburg while the composer was still a teenager. This production gives a platform to five extremely talented emerging British singers.

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