A warm welcome to the Bangor Music Festival 2025, where there’s something for everyone in the various concerts, workshops, talks and community events that takes place over a period of three days. This year we also celebrate the 25th festival since its founding in 2000 and the theme is ‘music within the arts’.
Music has changed significantly since those early adventures, but the Festival’s core aims however have remained consistent throughout the quarter of a century. There is the same emphasis on new music that challenges and inspires, with new commissions by six composers/sound artists, in addition to Music and Film students from Bangor University, responding creatively within the Festival theme. Consequently, the majority of the music is combined with various poetry, dance or film, but also abstract paintings by the artist Chris Holley (that are also exhibited in Pontio before and during the Festival).
We will be captivated by some of our finest contemporary performers in Cerys Hafana on the triple harp, the experimental dancers Hedydd/VDKL to music by Eädyth Crawford, the enthralling Sinfonia Cymru, in addition to the innovative sounds of Electroacoustic WALES and celebrated soprano Deborah Norin. We are also pleased to include acoustic and acousmatic music by the Festival’s featured composer, Mikel Kuehn.
Many thanks to all our generous sponsors, to the dedicated Pontio staff, our enthusiastic volunteers and all the performers, artists and composers involved, not only this year but also for the past twenty five years!
