Bringing the 2024 Music Festival to a close are two incredible talents, Braimah Kanneh-Mason and Plínio Fernandes.

An exciting young guitar and violin duo, both musicians have been hailed for their talents. Plínio was named on Forbes Brazil’s Under 30 list, a Rising Star by Classic FM and more recently he received the Revelação Award at the 30th Annual Prêmio da Música Brasileira. Guitarist Plínio was born into a family of musicians in São Paulo, Brazil and his musical education led him to receiving a full scholarship to attend the International Campos do Jordao Winter Festival, the biggest festival in Latin America, where he gave recitals and performed in chamber concerts in around 35 cities throughout Brazil and Chile.

Braimah Kanneh-Mason is a dynamic and versatile young violinist, experienced on the international stage as a member of the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio, Festival Academy Budapest Ensemble and Kaleidoscope Collective. Braimah is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he was a scholarship student with Mateja Marinkovic and Jack Liebeck, winning the Harold Craxton Prize, the John McAslan Prize and the Dame Ruth Railton Chamber Music Prize.

We’re thrilled to welcome the social media sensation, Esther Abrami to our Summer Music Festival in Harrogate! Join us as we are dazzled by her sensational talents, at just 26 years of age, Esther is bringing classical music to the masses and inspiring a community worldwide.

Esther studied at the Royal College of Music and completed her master’s degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, she is considered one of the most promising young classical artists of her generation and has been appointed Creative Partner and Artist in Residence by the English Symphony Orchestra.

Esther plays a fine Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin, kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society.

Esther is set to delight us with a mix of traditional classical reportoire alongside works from her new album Cinema.

1st Prizewinner and Audience Prizewinner at the 9th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, and hailed as “brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating” by The Scottish Herald, the Maxwell Quartet is now firmly regarded as one of Britain’s finest young string quartets, with a strong connection to their folk music heritage and a commitment to bringing together wide-ranging projects and programmes to expand the string quartet repertoire.

They bring a programme of folk music, with a smattering of classical favourites, perfect for relaxing on the final Sunday of the Spiegeltent.

Exploring new ways to present classical music is The Gildas Quartet. Compare and contrast your experience with a seated performance in the first half, and in the second half enjoy ‘surround sound’ as you move between the players exploring new sounds, playing and balance.

The Quartet’s bold and explorative approach to performance has been recognized by the International Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition, Graz, where they won First Prize in the Audience Engagement Award 2018. The Quartet have given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Purcell Room and on BBC Radio 3. They have performed internationally and are renowned for their projects that actively encourage concerts to blur the lines of what is expected, from short one-work ‘pop-up’ concerts in unusual settings to full length recitals, with the audience literally in the midst of the players, in surround sound.