The Bangor Music Festival returns on 2nd and 3rd February 2018 and this year the theme is Space, giving you a unique opportunity to explore space, planets, stars and galaxies through the medium of music and science that will be an inspiration to the whole family.
A number of free events will be taking place, including the ‘Bangor Stargazing Experience’ allowing you to gaze at the moon, planets and stars with a powerful telescope with the expert guidance of Andrew Newsam from Liverpool John Moores University.
The Planetarium Event takes you on a tour of the night sky and explains how the night sky is organised with the telling of stories associated with individual star constellations.
There will also be a fun music workshop for children aged 4 – 7 years old, using songs and games to introduce the children to the basic components of music, and an improvised Musical instrument session – along with members of the Bangor University Fusion Ensemble which is suitable for any age and musical ability.
The Music of the Spheres will resound during Zubin Kanga’s concert, that also includes festival commissions by Maja Palser and Claire Victoria Roberts together with two iconic pieces by George Crumb and Patrick Nunn.
Live electronic sounds led by Scott Wilson will take centre stage at the Electroacoustic Wales and Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research concert at Theatr Bryn Terfel, with additional acousmatic music by Jo Thomas.
Audiences will be captivated by the performance of student compositions performed by the Bangor New Music Ensemble and local instrumentalists.
The performance by the Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (BEER), created in collaboration with the Art@CMS project at CERN in Switzerland, involves the real-time sonification of data streams from the Large Hadron Collider, is likely to be one of the highlights of the festival.
For more information on the events and how to book, visit the Bangor Music Festival website.
http://www.bangormusicfestival.org.uk/
