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Prestigious Sacred Venues. Intimate Musical Settings.
Among the many sacred performance venues available to Casterbridge groups are numerous prestigious performance venues, including many of the most magnificent cathedrals and churches in the world. The opportunity to experience the historic auras and superb acoustics of such settings can be a major tour highlight for any ensemble. Whether you prefer a lunchtime concert, a featured afternoon or evening concert, a summer choral residency, or otherwise, Casterbridge has the contacts and resources necessary to make concerts in world-renowned sacred venues a reality.
The following is merely a taste of our extensive worldwide portfolio of prestigious sacred venues.
ENGLAND
London: Westminster Abbey • St. Paul’s Cathedral • St. George’s Chapel at Windsor • St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Bath: Bath Abbey
Bristol, Canterbury, Coventry, Durham, Ely, Lincoln, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Winchester: Cathedrals
York: York Minster
SCOTLAND
Edinburgh: St. Giles Cathedral
Glasgow: Cathedral
Iona: Abbey
St. Andrews: Cathedral
IRELAND
Dublin: Christ Church Cathedral • St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Galway: Church of St. Nicholas
AUSTRIA
Salzburg: Cathedral (Domkirche)
Vienna: St. Stephen’s Cathedral • Votivkirche • Karlskirche
CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague: St. Vitus Cathedral • St. Nicholas Church
FRANCE
Chartres: Cathedral
Mont St. Michel: Abbey
Paris: Notre Dame • Sacre Coeur • Église de la Madeleine
Rouen: Cathedral
Versailles: Cathedral
GERMANY
Berlin: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Dresden: Kreuzkirche
Leipzig: The Bach Churches – Thomaskirche • Nikolaikirche
Munich: Asamkirche • Theatinkirche • St. Michael’s Church • Frauenkirche
ITALY
Assisi: Basilica of St. Francis
Florence: Duomo Santa Maria del Fiore
Milan: Cathedral
Pisa: Cathedral
Rome: St. Peter’s Basilica
Siena: Duomo
Turin: Cathedral
Venice: St. Mark’s Basilica
POLAND
Krakow: Wawel Cathedral
Warsaw: St. John’s Cathedral
SPAIN
Barcelona: Santa Maria del Mar Church
Burgos: Cathedral
Granada: Cathedral and Church of St. Nicholas and Capilla de los Reyes
Madrid: Basilica San Lorenzo del Escorial • Santa Cruz de Atocha Church
Santiago de Compostela: Cathedral
Segovia: Cathedral
Salamanca: Cathedral
CANADA
Montréal: Notre Dame Basilica • St. Joseph’s Oratory • St. Patrick’s Basilica
Québec: Église Notre-Dames-des-Victoires • Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral
UNITED STATES
Boston: Old North Church
New York: St. Patrick’s Cathedral • St. John the Divine
Washington, D.C.: National Cathedral
Los Angeles: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels • Crystal Cathedral
San Francisco: Mission San Francisco de Asís Basilica
Intimate Settings at Provincial Churches
Many music directors often prefer a combination of prestigious sacred performance venues and smaller provincial churches. Likewise, depending upon the needs of his or her group, a director may sometimes request a full slate of concerts in these more intimate settings. To this end, Casterbridge offers an extensive range of hundreds of local contacts worldwide who welcome the opportunity to host overseas music groups.
Smaller sacred venues present a number of attractive opportunities for choirs and other performing groups:
• Ensembles may perform a less restrictive sacred repertoire.
• Directors and performers alike may interact more closely with parishioners and the local citizenry.
• Joint concerts with local choirs are often feasible.
• Temporary choral residencies in some locations are possible.
• Overall, while more widely renowned venues offer the prospect of making music in highly historic, high-profile spaces, provincial settings provide the occasion for meaningful musical and cultural interaction in spaces with histories of their own.
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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