Chamber Music Holidays- Thirtieth Anniversary Newsletter

It was a pleasure to welcome Vivienne Pittendrigh to Zagori a month ago. We share a special interest in Corfu, Australia and the Czech Republic.
Here is an extract from her latest Chamber Music Holidays Newsletter:


Corfu is still alive with music with two wonderful festivals last month.  Highlights for me were the amazing performance of Dido and Aeneas with the famous Baroque conductor Stanley Ritchie in historic St George’s Church, the Arriaga Quartet from Brussels in the romantic Achilleon Palace and the legendary Vienna Chamber Orchestra in the excellent Ionian Academy. Zbynek Padourek violist of the Martinu Quartet, formerly Kocian Quartet, and his family were among the visitors this month. We had a very interesting talk about working together again in 2012.
Corfu dates to be finalised for either late June or late September. 
Information about the coaching and concerts will be on the website in late October. As always we shall spend a day in nearby Albania to visit the amazing archaeological site Butrint. I am looking into a additional option of three days in north west Greece just opposite Corfu to visit the mind boggling Meteora then to the Zagori region with the largest gorge in the world and enchanting villages with traditional white stone houses and cobbled streets, an absolutely amazing place.         

Vivienne Pittendrigh.