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Festival des Arcs - Chamber Music Festival in the French Alps

18 July to 6 August 2010 in Les Arcs, France
(near Bourg St Maurice 2-3 hours south of Geneva)

......in a wonderful holiday location with golf, tennis, mountain biking, mountain walking, open air swimming pool, and many activities for younger children.

 Download (pdf): 

Programme for 2010 not yet available
 
Programme of concerts 2009
 
Detailed information sheet about the Festival
18 July-6 August 2010
 
Detailed information sheet about the Academy
20-30 July 2010
 

Festival des Arcs is the "INTERNET" of the French classical music world. It is the annual meeting place for many French musicians and most of the professors and musicians are under 45. What makes the Festival really special is that the musicians play for almost nothing because they want to do so, and want to give something back for the benefits that they have obtained from the Festival and Academy in the past. This means that there is a very special atmosphere and you see many musicians listening to each other playing - this is quite different from the "prima donna" atmosphere of parts of the music world.

For further detailed information, please call or email the Paris office in office hours:

Mrs Benedicte Ordody
+33 1 4007 1148
contact@festivaldesarcs.com

For more general information from an English perspective, please call (including evenings and weekends) or email:

John Horrocks
01483 797807
john@horrocks.co.uk