What's on at Minterne
Special events and walks in Minterne Gardens
Introducing Music At Minterne
Following 50 successful years of Dame Dione Digby’s Summer Music Society of Dorset, we are now delighted that renowned cellist Guy Johnston with his wife Ali (Dione’s grand-daughter) have returned to the UK and will be based at Minterne.
Guy won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award in 2000, he is the Founding Artistic Director of the Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival and has been Associate Professor of Cello at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York for the last 5 years.
So we are all thrilled to welcome Guy and his fellow musicians to bring music back to Minterne.
The three concerts are planned for 2024 are:
Tuesday 2nd July – BACH
Guy Johnston Bach Cello Suites in St Andrews Church, Minterne Magna
5.00pm concert 1st half; buffet supper in the Trafalgar Hall;
8.00pm concert 2nd half.
Tickets: £40
Friday 23rd August 2024 – BRAHMS
The Bechstein Trio. Priya Michell – violin; Emmanuel Despax – piano; Guy Johnston – cello.
Programme: Beethoven Eb major Trio Op1 No 1; Faure d minor Trio Op 120; Brahms B major
Trio Op 8
Evening concert at 6.30 pm with reception in the Trafalgar Hall.
Tickets: £60
Sunday 29th September 2024 – SCHUBERT
String Quintet in C major, D.956 by Franz Schubert
Magnus Johnston – violin; Max Baillie – violin; Brett Dean – viola; Gemma Rosefield – cello; Guy Johnston – cello.
Evening concert at 6.30 pm with reception in Trafalgar Hall.
Tickets: £60
To book tickets please email MusicatMinterne@outlook.com with your name and the number of
tickets you require for each concert. (E.g. Bach 2; Schubert 2) You will receive an email confirming your allocated tickets and a request for payment.
FAIRY TRAILS AT MINTERNE GARDENS
There’s nothing more magical than searching forests, woodlands, and gardens for hidden fairy houses and here at Minterne Garden maybe you can hear the beat of tiny gossamer wings as our fairies’ land on their toadstools or a faint splash on the stream as they skim overhead.
If you believe in fairies, see if you can find them dancing under the towering oaks and acers; or are they hidden behind a rock weaving their magic spells or are playing tricks on the humans by hiding out of sight altogether?!
Choose a summer’s afternoon when the sun is the colour of honey (fairies love sweet things!) and search for our Minterne Fairy Trail hidden in the garden.
The Enchanted Night Garden
The magical Enchanted Night Garden comes to Minterne House and Gardens this Christmas. Come and see this beautiful stately home lit like you have never seen it before. The gardens will come alive with stunning woodland creatures, even fairies, sprites and the odd dragon are dotted around the stunning light displays to excite and delight all the family.