Art & Music

One of the features of the Leicester International Music Festival is to make connections with Visual Art.  Lord Richard Attenborough's collection of Picasso ceramics inspired the 2011 Festival which explored Spanish and French composers who were contemporaries with many great painters and sculptors of the the 20th. Century.  

The theme of the 2012 Festival is the Art of Music. Artistic Director Nicholas Daniel says:

This year we feature the music of seven brilliant composers: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.  Then there will be four works by living composers. Firstly a World Première for Oboe and String Quartet by Sven Ingo Koch, one of the brightest up and coming stars on the German music scene; a second performance of Michael Berkeley's new Oboe Quintet; Jonathan Harvey's masterpiece Death of Light, Light of Death; and, finally, David Matthews' brilliant concertino based on Titian's The Flaying of Marsyas . All these works have been inspired by art, ranging from Tarkovsky to Grunewald. '

The Festival, which is based in Leicester's New Walk Museum's Art Gallery, has links with Tate Britain and has established a  symbiotic relationship with Leicester Society of Artists with which it shares its venue each year. Works by members of Leicester Society of Artists are exhibited below.

127th Annual Exhibition  21st July - 19th August 2012
LSA Project 2012  from 25th August - 16th September at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester where we have regularly exhibited since 1897 - more information coming soon.

http://www.leicestersocietyofartists.com/

Red & Green – Why Not? by Sue Marlow

Female Figure by Helen Gyngell

Virginia Creeper & Mug by Jennifer Percival

Family Outing, Trafalgar Square by Linda Pitcher

Glade by Peter Clayton.