Our In Conversation series continues with pianist and festival artistic director, Libby Burgess.

Pianist, chamber musician and accompanist, Libby's work has taken her to festivals and concert-halls around the country. She is also Artistic Director of the New Paths Festival, founded in 2016 and which takes place each spring in Beverley, and Co-Artistic Director of Beverley's own Chamber Music Festival.

In this interview, Libby reflects on finding new ways to engage audiences for the New Paths Festival in light of the pandemic, her own responses as pianist and vocal coach, and looks ahead to her ' Bach Project48,' setting herself the ambitious challenge of playing all of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues in each of the forty-eight counties of England, and what effect playing the entire set in different venues throughout the country might have on her own relationship to the famed set.

http://libbyburgess.com

Theme: Partita no.2 in D minor by JS Bach: Olivia Harris-Harding, violin

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