Sunday 16 March – Ryan Corbett (classical accordion)
3pm
St Andrew’s Church, West Street, Deal
Classic FM Rising Star and BBC New Generation Artist, Ryan Corbett is an accordionist hailed by Sir James MacMillan as “one of the most astonishing and surprising newcomers in Scottish music.” Ryan was met with a rapturous standing ovation at his Deal Festival concert in Sandwich last July. We are thrilled he’s returning to give a spring afternoon concert with a programme of works including a Bach Prelude and Fugue, Franck’s Chorale No. 2 in B Minor, Boulanger and Zolotaryov’s Sonata No. 2. His hour-long concert is followed by a delicious cream tea.
Ryan performing at his Wigmore Hall debut in 2024:

Sunday 27 April – The Woolf Quartet
3pm
Trinity Church, Union Street, Deal

Hoda Jahanpour (cello), this year’s Deal Young Artist in Association, brings her string quartet, the Woolf Quartet, to Deal in April with a programme including Debussy’s much-loved String Quartet in G minor. The quartet will also play Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint. As the youngest composer ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music, Shaw is one of the most popular composers on both sides of the Atlantic today. She has described this piece as “a conversation — with Beethoven, with Haydn (his teacher and the “father” of the string quartet), and with the joys and melancholy of his Op. 18 No. 6 “. This will be a wonderful chance to get a preview of Hoda performing before this year’s festival. Her role in the festival is made possible by a collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music.

Tickets for both concerts, including tea, are £20 plus a £1.56 booking fee per ticket and are available from TicketSource, either online at ticketsource.co.uk/deal-music-and-arts or through their telephone box office on 0333 666 3366.