The Sussex English Music Festival | Rupert Marshall-Luck and Duncan Honeybourne

We are delighted to announce that the English Music Festival is playing its part in restarting music-making in the UK and that our Autumn Festival will be going ahead this year. We have been very aware of the plight of musicians in this country, so many of whom have lost so much work and, therefore, income since concerts stopped in March, and we have been deeply concerned about the future of concerts and live music in the wake of the lockdown. We are therefore doing what we can to rectify matters by arranging events, starting with an Autumn Festival at St Mary’s Church in Horsham, Sussex.

Our Festival opens with a recital given by violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Duncan Honeybourne. Both musicians have been acclaimed world-wide for their concert performances and recordings, Marshall-Luck’s performances having been praised as “perfect in intonation, phrasing, rich and luscious violin tone – in fact, everything”; while Honeybourne’s playing has been commended for its “suave confidence” and its “terrific intensity and touches of panache”. Their recital for the Autumn English Music Festival includes Elgar’s Violin Sonata, composed in 1919 just a few miles from the concert venue.