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The Best Non-Sacred and Public Venues For Performance Tours
Casterbridge Concert Tours recognizes the unique needs of ensembles that focus on non-sacred repertoire, whether they are choirs, wind bands, orchestras, or other performing groups. Accordingly, we have established contacts to offer a most extensive range of non-sacred, public, and instrumental performance venues for our groups.
Music directors seeking such performance venues usually have certain musical and cultural goals for their concert tours. Casterbridge can arrange for and coordinate concerts that can meet and exceed your goals.
Consider the wealth of opportunities that await you.
1. Music Director Goal:
Perform a non-sacred or instrumental program in a quality concert hall or auditorium with excellent acoustics.
Sample Performance Venue Options:
Berlin: Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic
New York: Carnegie Hall
Paris: La Sorbonne-Amphitheater Richelieu
Prague: Dvořák Hall • Smetana Hall • Majakovsky Hall • Novotneho Lavka
Salzburg: Mozarteum
Tel Aviv: Israel Opera House
Vienna (Eisenstadt): Haydn Hall in Esterhazy Palace
2. Music Director Goal:
Present a program in a social center, such as a town square, stately home, public hall, or similar tourist attraction.
Sample Performance Venue Options:
Amsterdam: Vondelpark
Bath: Pump Rooms
Bruges: Market Square Bandstand
Delphi: Sikelianou Amphitheatre
Dublin: St. Patrick’s Day Parade
London: Covent Garden • Barbican Performance Platform
Montreal: City Hall • Underground City • Public Markets
Orlando: Amusement Parks
Osaka: Hattori Ryokuchi Koen
New York: IBM Atrium • UN Headquarters
Paris: Le Jardin de Luxembourg
Prague: Old Town Square
Salzburg: Mirabell Gardens
Stirling: Castle
Venice: Piazza San Marco
Vienna (Eisenstadt): Esterhazy Palace
Washington, D.C.: Embassies
Windsor: St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle
York: Castle Howard
3. Music Director Goal:
Perform in an overseas academic institution.
Sample Performance Venue Options:
Edinburgh: Tynecastle High School
Florence: Fiesole School of Music
Geneva: International School
London: St. Dunstan’s College • King’s College School • Royal Military School of Music
Oxford: Trinity College
Paris: Conservatoire
Rome: American University
Salzburg: American International School
Seville: San Isidro School
4. Music Director Goal:
Perform joint concerts with a similar ensemble from another country. Enjoy rehearsing, interacting, and making music with international peers.
Sample Performance Options:
Britain: British Brass Bands
Bruton (England): King’s School
Florence: St. James Church
Leipzig: Leipzig International Choral Festival – Bach churches • Alte Börse • Gewandhaus
Paris: The British School
Québec: Quebec International Choral Festival – Palais Montcalm • Le Capitole de Québec • Notre Dame Basilica
San José, Costa Rica: Joint performances with local choirs and schools
Seville: San Isidro School
Vancouver: Vancouver International Choral Festival (2012)
Wales: Joint rehearsals and performances with a Welsh Men’s Choir
5. Music Director Goal:
Enrich the lives of the elderly and underprivileged through music.
Sample Service Performance Options:
Concerts focused on service or charitable causes offer the chance to “give back” to a body of people who would not otherwise have the privilege of attending a musical performance. Including even one of these options in your program can be an extremely rewarding experience, as the warmth and gratitude shown by such audiences can make an indelible mark upon performers that is just as meaningful and memorable as a performance in a larger or more historic venue.
For virtually any worldwide destination, Casterbridge can coordinate a service concert at numerous performance venues, including children’s centers, hospitals, homes for the elderly, and orphanages.
6. Music Director Goal:
Present an informal or impromptu concert.
Sample Venue Options:
Buenos Aires: Plaza de Mayo • Plaza De Los Dos Congresos
Dublin: St. Stephen’s Green
Graz: Freedom Square
Innsbruck: Hofburg Palace
London: Covent Garden • Parliament Square
Paris: Le Jardin de Luxembourg
Rome: Spanish Steps • Piazza Navona
Casterbridge can provide you with many other impromptu concert options in all our worldwide destinations. Opportunities for impromptu and informal recitals are maximized on all Casterbridge Concert tours. Performers find such concerts for a wide and varied public to be exhilarating. And indeed, you all may enjoy knowing that through music, you have lifted the spirits and brightened the days of untold numbers of people!
Register to plan a Casterbridge performing tour, either online or by calling 1-800-522-2398. Start planning your performing travel program today!
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