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2025

Annual Report & Accounts

Including a 3-year summary & accounts 2022-2024

- The Musique Cordiale Trust is an English charity. It supports and arranges concerts, educational opportunities for talented young musicians, especially through the annual Musique-Cordiale International Festival & Academy . It has emerged from the pandemic era and is again particularly supporting the Festival which attracts musicians from across Europe but especially from the UK. Among a few indoor performances in 2021, when the festival had to be cancelled, (this in Faversham’s Assembly Rooms) was a Brahms Trio for Cello, piano & Clarinet and MOZART Piano quartet no 1 in G minor, BEETHOVEN: Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello & double bass & HOFMANN: Serenade for flute & strings (in Newnham church) and ALBINONI Oboe Concerto, James Hulme oboe (in Doddington church). The events supported in 2023 and 2024 have taken place in Kent, England and also, once again, in Provence in the south of France. 2024 was the festival’s 20th annual edition. With a new but experienced team, the festival is planning its repertoire and detailed programme for its 21st annual iteration in the Pays de Fayence, Var, France in late July and early August 2025.

Le Musique-Cordiale Trust est une association caritative anglaise. Elle soutient et organise des concerts et des opportunités éducatives pour les jeunes musiciens talentueux, notamment par le biais du Festival international et de l'Académie Musique-Cordiale annuels. Elle est sortie de l'ère de la pandémie et soutient à nouveau particulièrement le Festival qui - attire des musiciens de toute l'Europe, mais surtout du Royaume Uni. Parmi les quelques représentations en salle en 2021, lorsque le festival a dû être annulé (ceci dans les Assembly Rooms de Faversham), il y avait un Trio de Brahms pour violoncelle, piano et clarinette et MOZART Quatuor avec piano n° 1 en sol mineur, BEETHOVEN : Septuor pour clarinette, basson, cor, violon, alto, violoncelle et contrebasse et HOFMANN : Sérénade pour flûte et cordes (dans l'église de Newnham) et ALBINONI Concerto pour hautbois, James Hulme hautbois (dans l'église de Doddington). Les événements soutenus en 2023 et 2024 ont eu lieu dans le Kent, en Angleterre, et aussi, une fois de plus, en Provence dans le sud de la France. L'édition 2024 du festival a été marquée par une 20e édition. Avec une équipe nouvelle mais expérimentée, le festival prépare son répertoire et son programme détaillé pour sa 21e édition annuelle dans le Pays de Fayence, Var, France, fin juillet et début août 2025.

For grant applications, details of application procedures for bursaries and project grants and to - see the Constitution of the Trust and its statement of grant awarding priorities, please go to: - www.musique cordiale.org

( Please note: The Trust is mainly focused on its own concerts and musical events and on supporting the annual MusiqueCordiale International Festival and Academy , now in its 20th year. So grant requests from other organisations or individu- als have a low priority at present and are unlikely to be successful. For more information about the festival in English & en français).

- Graham Ross, director of music at Clare College, Cambridge and Music director of the Musique

- Dominus in December 2021. The Musique Cordiale Trust organised this concert and weekend of music.

If you are interested in supporting the charitable work of The Musique-CordialeTrust - - by one off or regular donations or by becoming a Friend of Musique Cordiale, please see the SUPPORT US pages on the website.

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- The Musique Cordiale Trust

The Musique-Cordiale Trust, a charity registered in England, was launched in June 2016. It raises funds to promote education and the arts, including the Musique Cordiale Festival & Academy, which was founded in 2005, - - and other forms of high quality musical performance and education, through project funding, small grants & bursaries.

The objects of the Trust are to promote education and the arts. To further these objects, the Trust’s goals include the promotion of European understanding of - arts and music, the performance of high quality music, the promotion of musical and artistic talent and the education of musicians from all over Europe.

This report focusses mainly on 2024 and does so in the context of how so many things changed, not always promisingly, in the years since our previous successful and optimistic - year of performances and educational development in 2019. The years 2020 2022, following - the emergence of the worldwide Covid 19 pandemic, proved to be a very difficult and different time for music and musicians and for charities which support and encourage them. The past two years since then have featured a slow and partial recovery. The Trust’s income & activities were seriously curtailed in those pandemic years but they were not prevented altogether. Musique Cordiale managed to be resourceful and responsible and did not give in. It staged festivals and concerts throughout that time but with considerable challenges and the need to relocate from its traditional venues—as well as having to scale down its ambitions for a while. But 2023 saw a full revival and 2024 has seen the Trust and its associated French non-profit organisation, L’association Musique-Cordiale returning to their previous energetic path. From its inception, The Musique - Cordiale Trust has had a particular focus on:

· helping musicians and singers to participate in opportunities available from conservatoires, academies, schools or tuition, including, in particular, those offered via (or in association with) the Musique Cordiale International Festival and Academy or directly organised by the charity itself. Here, assistance has been given to enable musicians and singers to attend, to provide teaching or - to participate in high quality public per-

singers, musicians and loyal audiences, as well as genererous and committed donors, we have succeeded in having an unbroken record of annual festivals since 2005 to date.

The organisers of concerts, festivals and learning opportunities provid-

ed via public and educational media have attracted the interest of the trustees but their particular emphasis (and that of our donors) has been on supporting and sustaining the organisation and administration of the MusiqueCordiale Festival & Academy and its associated musical and educa-

tional activities in Britain and Europe. These have mainly focussed on its autumn weekends of choral, orchestral and ensemble music in Kent, GB ( Musique Cordiale in Kent ) and the annual international Festival in France each summer. 2019 was the 15th year in which the festival offered the chance for young talented musicians to play, learn, practise

and perform together with older professionals in lovely acoustic medieval settings or to receive coach- ing from well known players. It also runs a programme, directed by Graham Ross, director of music at Clare College, Cambridge, promoting high quality choral performance, included major oratorios and ‘ a cappella’ - singing. Unfortunately, the Covid 19 pandemic meant that 2019 was the last year in which the Academy Cordiale could operate fully. In 2020

and even 2021, activities were severely curtailed or, in some cases, cancelled. The 2020 festival and academy was the main victim of this: most musicians, singers, students and audiences across Europe lost the chance of live rehearsal and performance which became impossible except alone or via vitual and zoom sessions. People have been resourceful and imaginative. Musical education and careers had to be put on ice and sometimes abandoned. For a while, 2020 was the year the music stopped. It is such a relief that by 2023 and 2024 much had been restored. But, even as choirs have bounced back and Musique Cordiale events continued and revived, there has been a big worldwide decline in participation in live classical music and schools, especially in the public sector, have often ceased to proved organised musical education. Even as we have also had to reduce our commitment to education of children and young talent, we are glad to have been able to continue to offer challenging and uplifting opportunities for young musicians to enhance their skills and repulations and to bring pleasure to discerning audiences while also attracting new interest and enthusiasm for the genre in a wider public.

· in normal years…. The Trust and the organisations and individuals that it supports has actively promoted opportunities and vehicles for musical education and promo- - tion and, in particular but not exclusively, the Musique Cordiale International Festival and Academy and rehearsals, concerts under the banner of Musique Cordiale in Kent . These has tended to attract high-calibre players (aged 15 + to the Academy, aged 18+ to the Festival and Kent ensembles, with several more experienced profes- sional players who have life long experience in major international orchestras of the world or as soloists and teachers). The choir attracts singers from renowned university and cathedral choirs as well as a larger number of older members of noted choirs, especially in Britain, Holland, Switzerland, Germany and France.

- Summer festival concerts in Kent in 2020 2022 at a time when travel and the organisation the festivals and the academy in France was severely constrained, particularly indoors.

Annual Report 2025

This annual report is a double. It covers the financial years from 1 December 2021 to 30 November 2023. It also provides initial insights into the summer of 2024 and the promise of 2025 and the years to come

Unlike 2 other recent annual reports, the major items to report therefore largely cease to report on the immediate effect of the Covid-19 pandemic , including the much-reduced throughput of funds in Trust accounts in 2020 but also, unfortunately, in the following 2 years too. This time, we can report s gradual escape from all those limitations and a slow resurgence both of giving and of the activities that the trust supports and helps to – organise. This is reflected in somewhat more promising financial results in 2023 and 2024 though not yet up - to the levels of more optimistic earlier years. This crimp on so much cultural activity and cross cultural engagement, including ours, obviously derived from the virtual close-down of most forms of live music from March 2020. Initially this included the cancellation, well after it had been carefully programmed and organised, of the 2020 Musique-Cordiale International Festival & Academy , whose activities, musicians and students the Trust has supported over previous years. It then emerged that the 2021 and 2021 international Festivals would also have to fall victim to the same curtailment (and loss of optimism and opportunities for shared musicmaking across Europe, for which the Trust and its associated French non-profit Association Musique-Cordiale were founded and have always been dedicated).

The second UK lockdown in the autumn 2020 also meant that none of the Autumn concerts , - which the Trust itself previously managed in Kent, could be organised in the usual October December 2020 time-spot. So it was rewarding that this report can again highlight both the successful 3-day concert series in and around Faversham which took place in November Cordiale 2019 – before the pandemic hit - and the Trust memorable one-off outdoor concert staged in Doddington Place Gardens, which briefly allowed people to meet (entirely out-of-doors) to make music together - (at a suitable enforced pre vaccine distance) after a long gap. Sadly, this in 2020 had to happen without box office (and, therefore income) or the substantial ticketed audience that it deserved. But it was achieved in improbably beautiful English warmth and September sunshine. This could feature no role for members of the Festival Orchestra and there could be no Academy. Instead, just four hands on a keyboard (the accomplished Rebecca Taylor and Richard Leach) accompanied our choir, soloists (Frederick Long and Emily Vine) and conductor, Graham Ross, performing the Brahms Requiem . This was the major work that had been intended for the final 2 concerts of the international festival that summer. But at least some of our soloists and deprived choir-members (albeit only those based in the UK) wer able to sing together again.

So, with the support of Richard & Amicia Oldfield who generously threw their magnificent Doddington Place Gardens in Kent open to us for the event, it was at least gratifying that Musique-Cordiale could, even in 2020, enable choir-members to sing together (in a new idyllic setting) after the first lockdown (and it allowed the choir to meet in more modest gardens to eat and drink and share convivial experiences after such activity had

Consequently, our accounts for this period illustrate diminished throughput of funds in the Trust’s coffers during the year in question and this had to continue through 2021 (and indeed 2022). However, in summer 2021, we did manage to help sponsor a ‘mini-festival’ , still limited to Kent and again without any performers or spectators from outside the UK, but this time with a Box Office. This did attract a new enthusiastic local audience in the beautiful Kentish Downs; they arrived with brollies, tables, chairs and picnics and proved remarkably resilient and enthusiastic, ready to adapt to local conditions, including some wet and windy demands of an English summer. But it was impossible to make it profitable even with all the voluntary contributions offered by musi- cians, organisers and chef/washers up alike! After the end of restrictions, we have not completely abandoned this new UK audience. We have staged autumn concerts in Faversham in 2022 and 2023; but we have had to - apologise to them because re launching the festival in its original home in France in summer 2023 (with the work and preparations for this starting the previous autumn and winter) has consumed our energies and funds, particularly as public funding for ‘culture’ there has been significantly reduced AND our flow of cash from donors, especially those outside the UK, has significantly shrunk without the 2020-2022 festivals on the European continent to remind them how much they WANT TO SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS! During all this period,

Summer 2022 Concert en pleine aire in Kent

it is also notable – and a significant impediment for us and for musicians generally - that BREXIT was implemented in a way that, at least for the initial years, made organising a festival and academy in Europe more difficult for us and added to our costs. And all this time, inflation, especially in prices of air-fares and accommodation, has been raging!

Donors were unsurprisingly reticent about supporting music and musicians whose artistry they mostly could witness. And this applied particularly to our established supporters whose main enthusiasm was for the Acad- - emies for young musical talent and for the whole idea and experience of pan European music making in the summer ambience of Provence that had been the big pull for audiences and players alike for the previous 15 years. Inevitably, with diminished paying audiences and having to operate with constraints (and no public - - grants) in Kent, our high quality concerts lacked the well deserved acclaim and, by definition, the visibility that remained their due. So, the 2021 summer concert series also incurred a deficit to which the Trust could not contribute to the extent that the trusties would normally have wished.... and which unavoidably but significantly landed on the shoulders of its individual organisers and singers, whose generosity and patience must be recognised here.

The Mozart Requiem, Vivaldi Gloria & Vivaldi Four Seasons (Emma Parslow, solo violin, Graham Ross conductor) were among the outdoor 2021 highlights of Musique Cordiale in Kent.

However, the outdoor concert experience from 2020-2021 and the special venues for concerts in Kent, including both the outdoor ones in Doddington but also the lovely acoustic (recently restored) Faversham Assembly Rooms did - give the organisers the confidence to stage another week long series of concerts, Musique-Cordiale in Kent , in JulyAugust 2022 in the timeslot usually occupied by the International festival - after it again became clear (and too late after another New Year no-travel lockdown) that the 2022 festival could not happen in France that summer. Before that (in the period just covered by the set of accounts that featured in our 2022 annual report), it did also prove possible to stage a delightful pair of December 2021 concerts

in Faversham , including a rousing performance of Handel’s Dixit Dominus . This and the associated 2 days of - rehearsal finally achieved a full house (within Covid limits) and our first set of events in 2 years that did not

lose money! However, the proceeds were inevitably not enough to offset the accumulated deficits for the organisers (who contributed considerable funds of their own, enabling Musique-Cordiale to - survive into 2022 to live another day - - with support from long standing choir singers and association members and what limited funds the Trust did scrabble together). These featured some extraor-

supported by a new generation of players who worked very hard and inventively to make it happen. This culminated in a performance of Le Petit Messe Solenelle by Rossini . A larger Musique-Cordiale Ensemble also - performed what was intended to be a self financing “Last Night of the Proms” concert for the Queen’s Jubilee on 4 June 2022 . It ended up being a great and much-enjoyed outdoor concert. But its initial (pub car park) venue was cancelled less than a month before it could happen and we moved this too to Doddington Place Gardens at the last moment - for which, as we had agreed with them over previous months of planning, we bought a tent, did some (inadequate rushed) publicity and paid the musicians in full. By actually putting the

concert on regardless of the cancellation by the venue, we reduced the loss for the day from £14,800 to a ‘mere’ £8,500! Our individual organisers have had to write off this sum personally and it has not accrued to either the association or the Trust.

Meanwhile, we can here report on the popularity of the summer ‘mini-festival’ in 2022In the end, it was, force majeure, still in Kent (and again covered its costs only with a big financial input from the organisers and a healthy grant from local Henry Oldfield Trust). It is with relief – but still insufficient funds, though the finances in France are always on a larger scale on both sides of the balance sheet, we can

now continue to report here on 2 successful (though very hot) subsequent festivals in France as we tell our supporters, many of whom re-emerged to buy tickets and season-passes, about the renaissance of the Interna- tional Festival in the Pays de Fayence in France, 3 12 August 2023 (though largely without the accompanying Academy, in what we can proudly proclaim was our 19[th] series of concerts and festivals each year since 2005 . And this time, notwithstanding a bit of a false start, this began to feature a “New Generation” team of musi- cians and organisers contributing significantly to the (voluntary) pre season work of planning and organising as

It had, in those intervening years in England, been especially rewarding to have a live audience enjoying the concerts, particularly again in Doddington Place Gardens in Kent, where the weather did intermittently but eventually allow 3 popular concerts to take place in magnificent surroundings as the evening sun faded dramatically, and more indoors in Newnham, Doddington and Faversham, where we have earned new loyal audiences - during the pandemic years. In doing so, Musique Cordiale was able, in 2022, to celebrate having put on festivals and concerts for 18 uninterrupted years , a feat that made us relatively rare in those pandemic times, albeit that the past 2 years had not been the same and notably lacked too many of our loyal supporters and participants and lacked the pan-European appeal. These performances in our 17[th] year, in Faversham and the Kentish Downs, included the Mozart Requiem and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the latter of which we have subsequently - performed again, with different artists and in versions by 2 contrasting composers, in the open air amphitheatre in Fayence in 2023 and in the church in Bagnols-en-Forêt on the penultimate night of the festival in 2024. The big choral work performed, twice each, in 2023 and 2023 were, respectively, Oratorios of Handel and Mozart and Mozart’s Coronation Mass , fitting for the year of 2023, and the glorious Requiem by Verdi in Seillans church, for which we also staged a performance in the Anglican church in Menton near the Italian-French border beside the Mediterranean. During the most recent Festival, our 20[th] , 30 July – 10 August 2024 , MusiqueCordiale also semi-staged 2 opera performances of Verdi’s La Traviata beside the bell-tower in Tourrettes and we were able to open up a remarkable new venue for another outdoor performance of the Requiem in a new public park beside the old (disused since 1948) railway station in Seillans. There, on another hot Provencal evening, we also put on a packed-out concert of French songs featuring a Dutch-French vocalist and Dutch musical ensemble (see the concert programme for the 2023 and 2024 festivals for details). The station platform and canopy provided a memorable backdrop to the concerts there and will be used again in 2025 for suitable outdoor musical events where the warm ambience and the ability to bring wine and a picnic will make it especially inviting.

If events in France prove viable under a changed management team in 2025, we may be able, once again to

access to education and to ented young musicians and among a wider public in Britain and Europe .

The accounts for the years ending 30 November 2022 and 2023 appear’ together with the most recent accounts for 2024’ on the following 2 pages . (These have been reported separately to the Charity Commission — — - but published together and comparatively here). They illustrate the degree of the post pandemic emergency re-emergence of MusiqueCordiale in these recent years. They also show the relatively minor but useful

place in its fuller form in the Pays de Fayence, France. [NOTE: There was a failure of the Charity Commission

accounts were ready and we corresponded and registered that we were trying to do so—with the Commission

current state of the accounts of the Trust

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What these accounts illustrate most of all is that music and arts do not attract huge grants or funding from public or private sources in Britain playing — are though choir is among activities -singing and amateur that attract large numbers of voluntary enthusiasts. The - kind of high quality classical and choral performance by top choirs and by professional musi-

Classic FM-type concerts and MusiqueCordiale tend to emulate this approach and to try to tap this enthusiasm while also try to put money and challenging experiences and opportunities in the way

of young talented players, conductors OY we 2 Y Ute 3 ae and singers, for whom many avenues have narrowed in recent years. We invite our supporters and adherents and those ¢ F ee Pag who witness our performances or who yaa i s[ar] - - look at our site and programmes or read our annual reports to SUPPORT US and also specifically to DONATE TIME OR MONEY if you can, to Musique Cordiale in all its forms and, especially if you are UK taxpayer, to contribute to The Musique-Cordiale Trust —

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Annual Accounts: Balance Sheets as at 30 November 2022 & 2023

WE URGENTLY NEED TO SUPPLEMENT OUR INCOME SO AS TO MAXIMISE OUR CAPACITY TO ADDRESS THE CURRENT COVID-19 HEALTH EMERGENCY STILL AFFLICTING MUSICIANS, MUSICAL EDUCATION AND ORGANMusiaue The Musique Cordiale Trust ISERS OF MUSICAL EVENTS AND VENUES. ) Balance Sheet Grant applications for this essential (charitable) activity have unfortunately far exceeded the caAs of November 30, 2024 pacity of the trustees to provide money, though they remain willing in principle if sufficient donaCordials - tions materialise or if specific fund raising for this is successful in future. For further information, including details of For the Trust's Grant-giving Criteria and procedures and for how to apply for funds OR how to support or donate to the Trust, please visit the Trust’s web-site: ET - 3 «7 17 Fixed Asset www.musique cordiale.org Tangible assets - (Please note that this site is separate from the site of the Musique Cordiale Festival & Academy which is run by a separate French charitable association and which is among the applicants and beneficiaries of grants awarded by the Trust: its website is Concert Equipment 251.86 Fixtures and Fittings Cost - 263.48 www.musique cordiale.co) Total Tangible assets £515.34 Total Fixed Asset £515.34 Cash at bank and in hand CAF Bank cash account 7.35 CAF Bank Gold account 0.16 Donation - sponsor paid bill directly 0.00. q funds held by M-C Services on behalf of Trust 0.00 S Total Cash at bank and in hand £7.51 a NET CURRENT ASSETS £7.51 2 NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES) £7.51 E TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES £522.85 3 TOTAL NET ASSETS (LIABILITIES) £522.85 = Chatytunds ~~ (oo) Retained Earnings 959.57 s Sumlus/(Deficit) -436.72 7] Total Charity funds £522.85 (3) ———— EE EEE EEE a Musique The Musique Cordiale Trust 9 THA S! awe Financial Activities

we w d especially like to thank: Friends usique Cordiale Eileen All s Pd — income Peter Bar —_ Non-Profit Income Drs Les B ardt & Gill Bernhardt Donations & Grants Chris & B ra Bone Gift Aid Nicholas LL er Give as you Live Total Non-Profit Income Sarah Bryant Total Income Douglas Connell Graham Cooper TOTAL Alain Deissard Expenditures Dr Stella Dixon Accountancy Alison Donaldson Bank charges Lavinia Ferguson Grants & Bursaries paid MC Trust Music events Tim & Heidi Herbert Musique-Cordiale Aart & Carolien Hooymeyer Total Grants & Bursaries Dr Jill Ladbrooke web-site & email Evalena Lidman Ticketing costs Stewart Jones Total web-site & email Danny & Gry Katz Total Expenditures Charles Kessler NET OPERATING Other Income NOTES ON THE ACCOUNTS Bank interest Total Other Income Of NET OTHER INCOME ne NET iti -

A performance of Haydn's - Seasons, played by a pan European orchestra and sung, this time, in German, conducted by Graham Ross, director of music at Clare College, Cambridge, of this and other a Capella aftera week of rehearsal works. The engagement of the course director and rehearsal accompanist as well as travel for British players and teachers was paid for by a grant from

whatever ways your resources allow! The Coronavirus crisis in 2020-22 hit musicmakers of all kinds especially hard. The careers of many talented young musicians remain at risk, their educa-

All of the income of The Musique-Cordiale Trust is nonprofit, including donations and Gift Aid reimbursements of income tax paid by qualifying donors. Most income is either the result of individual generosity or the result of approaches made by the Trust and its trustees to other charities. There is a small additional income from the Give as You Live scheme operated

our donors and especially both to a few big contributors as well as the loyal group of regular subscribers and Friends, espe- cially those who reduce our costs and work and pay by direct debit and/or who contribute through the tax efficient Gift Aid scheme. Without all of them none of our goals could be met.

Expenditure by the Trust is listed by category in the accounts. No trustee receives any payment for their services and, in-

cluding the independent examiner of the ac-

counts, no other individual has received payment All expenditure including for accounting services. items listed separately (accountancy, Bank charges, Legal, web-site & email) was individually approved by properly constituted and minuted

This applies no less precisely in the category of Grants & Bursaries paid. The individuals who have received funds from the charity are all musicians, students, teachers or conductors or those providing essential ser-

vices (including venues, travel, accommodation, food, light, recording equipment etc. that enable them to perform). These constitute the main thrust of the Trust’s approved expenditure, Grants and Bursaries.

churches, school and providers of venues, enterprises which rent or sell sheet music and airlines or trains which transported students and musicians. Support for admin expenses (mainly part-(mainly part-mainly part-

Policies: The Trust has no investment income apart from bank interest and does not hold any - custodian funds. It is developing new fund raising, trustee appointment, risk management and safeguarding policies, which will be published on its website in late 2024. Its published

lives abroad and felt he coul no longer make a useful contribution, nor the goals, focus or intended public benefit of The Trust since in-

are envisaged. We are currently seeking to recruit new trustees and have receive a couple of encouraging

nominations. If these result in new appointments, they will be announced on the Trust website as soon as possible.

Musique Cordiale choir & orchestra (including Academy students sitting beside established professional musicians) in rehearsal under the baton of Graham Ross

Personnel & a Personal announcement

Pippa

Pawlik , after 20 years as - driving force of the Musique

though will doubtless be considerably involved as the new team tends to withdraw from the frontline ahead of the 2025 festival takes on the mantle (which they had already begun to do this summer). I am also proposing to withdraw, especially as a per-round hands-on worksonal funder of the festival and as a year er. But new arrangements for managing the things I have been responsible for are somewhat less clear at present though they are under development over the autumn and winter to ensure

We do propose to hand the management of the ASSOCIATION to Aidan Coburn , Rebecca Taylor and some

ary 2025. They are already members of its Conseil d'Ad- .

Christie who has resigned) while adding a couple of other

— developments and report them to the Charity

soon.

Above is an orchestral concert i n Seillans in the Pays de Fayence, France, conducted by James Lowe in 2019. Along with other teachers, conductors and

tion in this event, which included professional musicians as well as Academy studentstudentssittingsitting besidebeside th them, an established feature of the Musique Cordiale programme of education and cultural exchange to which

(without Academy but including Academy alumni as players) were only (just) possible in the UK - and largely devoid of its normal and quintessential pan European dimension which has been a

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§ Jonathan Barker (chairman)
social researcher, educator &
music festival manager
contact: jonathan@musique-cordiale.com
§ Celia Bangham
general medical practitioner & choir
singer
§ David Christie (to 30 March 2024)
bank director, viola player
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§ Christopher Hoyle cellist & educator : § David Lowe Poe: IT consultant & choir singer § Peter Phillips FCA (treasurer) accountant, company director, arts administrator & choir singer § James Swainson viola player Please contact us if you have any questions about the Trust accounts or policies : finance@M-C-Trust.org

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in one of many ways. We are hugely grateful to our audiences and loyal supporters, - of whom have been devoted followers, ticket buyers or donors to one of our two

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Si vous lisez ceci, vous avez probablement assisté à l'un de nos concerts et vous avez peut-être - acheté des billets pour l'un de nos concerts en Grande Bretagne ou en France, ou vous avez soutenu Musique-Cordiale et son Festival international de diverses manières. Nous sommes extrêmement reconnaissants envers notre public et nos fidèles supporters, dont beaucoup sont des adeptes dévoués, des acheteurs de billets ou des donateurs à l'une de nos deux organisations à but non lucratif depuis plus de 20 ans. MERCI !

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abordables, pensez à nous soutenir, par exemple en devenant membre, ami ou donateur de Musique Cordiale ou en offrant une aide en nature en tant que bénévole ou

THANKS

Pays de Fayence through its Community of Communes and also to the Department of the Var. In

years. We invite such support both via the French nonAssociation Musique Cordiale de Seillans and through The Musique-Cordiale Trust , our charity registered in England: - www.musique cordiale.org

reconnaissants au Maire et au Conseil Municipal de la ville de Seillans et aux villes et villages qui

The Musique-Cordiale Trust , notre organisme de bienfaisance

enregistré en Angleterre: - www.musique cordiale.org

L’association Musique -Cordiale , 217 Chemin des Moulins, 83440, SEILLANS, France The Musique-Cordiale Trust , The Street, Newnham, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 OLL,

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THANKS We would like to express our huge thanks to our audiences, musicians, singers, soloists, helpers, donors all our &supporters. Including: Our Charitable Sponsors The MorrisVenables Charitable Foundation The W A Cadbury Charitable Trust The Henry Oldfield Trust Gold Donors, Friends & exceptional individual supporers Celia Bangham & David Lowe Jonathan Barker 4 ‘ Alan& Clare Brittain a. ; 5 u Franc & Cleo auf dem Brinke Dr Owen Hanmer & Maggie Donnelly Jos Gerres

Drs Wolf & Bäbel von Kalckreuth Eric & Ornella Lecat Julian Latcham Jacques & Valery Leforestier Serge Leibovitz Gavin & Sue King-Smith Nicholas Leader Derek Logan Franz & Teresina Marcus Dr Ambroise Martin Irene McGregor the Late Sir Roger Moate Regula Obrecht Richard & Amicia Oldfield Lady Caroline Mustill is Annie Oakes 4 Andrew Pearson 2 Cecile Panart Marc & Claudine Puel Peter Phillips Gary Morris Mark Newbery Arnelle Noblet Richard Oldfield & Amicia Demoubray Pippa Pawlik Sir Michael & Lady Rake Susannah RossRosemary Royle George & Marie Rushton Amanda Salmon Jill Saudek & Alva Ramsden Julian Schild

Graham Simons James & Suzanne Swainson Joy Stodart

Richard Street & Dame Sue Street Michael Struck-Schloen Ariane Todes Catherine de Tscharner Robert Venables KC Eugenie White Barbara Wilson Richard & Annie Wynn-Jones & other much-valued anonymous donors & supporters

Corporate & Municipal Supporters

René Ugo, maire de Seillans et President du Communaute des communes du Pays de Fayence Valerie Alain et le Mairie, le Service Technique et La Ville de Seillans Xavier et Bouniol< stephanmie Laborde & Emanuelle Cetre, l’Ofce de tourisme du Pays de Fayence Niclas Mantel, Le Maire et la ville de Saint-Paul-en-Forêt Le Mas de Romarains, Fayence Rene Bouchard, Le Maire et la ville de Bagnols-en-Forêt

Jacques Beranger et la ville de Callian La Ville et DAPEC de Fayence Le Departement du Var The Town Council of Faversham Odette Mariet et la ville de Mons

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2023-24 images of
memorable concerts in
Faversham &
Bagnols-en-Forêt :
Soloists: James Hall,
counter-tenor
& Oliver Cave, violin
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