The Two Moors Festival 2024 will take place from the 3-13th October across Dartmoor and Exmoor. This year’s theme is the daily 24 hour cycle of various lights and darknesses, wakefulness and
slumber that we all experience.

The internationally – renowned chamber music Festival takes place on Exmoor from Thursday 3rd October – Sunday 6 th October and on Dartmoor from Thursday 10 th October until Sunday 13th October.

Venues on Exmoor will be in Lynton, South Molton, Bampton, Dulverton and Minehead and on Dartmoor Okehampton, Lydford, Chagford, Ashburton and Exeter Castle.

Since 2001, the Two Moors Festival (charity no. 1095723) has evolved into a well-respected and distinctive classical music festival held in remote, rurally isolated parts of Devon and Somerset. The Festival presents an artistic programme to rival many high-profile city-based events and has an international reputation for excellence way beyond its immediate physical reach. It attracts some of the most exciting performers in the world of the calibre only seen in large City venues. It has become an important part of the South West Cultural calendar.

Highlights of the 2024 Festival on Exmoor include:

• UK Premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen’s newly commissioned piece sung by Baritone, Roderick Williams, with Christopher Glynn on the piano
• Connaught Brass playing Debussy, Purcell, Fauré and modern works by Jan Bach, Robin Haigh and Florence Price
• Mahan Esfahani, the international and exuberant harpsichordist playing JS Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book 1
• Carducci Quartet playing Haydn, Mozart and Schubert

And on Dartmoor

• Stile Antico – the Early English a cappella group
• Palisander Record Quartet – known as the Early Music’s Spice Girls
• Artistic Director, Tamsin Waley-Cohen playing Bach, Ysaye, Paganini and Tartini
• Young Musicians’ Competition Winners’ Concert
• Pianist George Fu playing Chopin and Ravel at Exeter Castle

Tamsin Waley-Cohen Artistic Director, said “I’ve chosen to explore this year’s theme from different perspectives, from the 24 hours of the day and the 24 keys of western music, to magic and dreamscapes, the bright sunlight of the baroque to the reflected moonlight of romanticism, and our connection to the Earth’s daily turn on its axis. This promises to be a Festival full of evocative
experiences and storytelling from both internationally established and exciting up-and-coming artists.”