Music by Olivier Greif (1950-2000), a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. Greif's father was an Auschwitz survivor, and this heavily influenced his music.

6 pm: Pre-concert talk. The Festival has invited writer/journalist (brother of the composer) Jean-Jacques Greif to discuss the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation in our pre-concert talk led by Dr Ian Biddle.

Programme:

The Battle of Agincourt for two cellos

Quartet No. 3 "Todesfuge'' for string quartet and voice

Lettres de Westerbork for voice and two violins

Music Masterclasses will be taking place throughout the Festival to music students of Sage Gateshead Weekend School by the Festival's guest artists

Programme:

E.Schulhoff: five pieces for string Quartet, arrangement for chamber orchestra

W.A.Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante

Introducing repertoire by Holocaust victims to local
amateur orchestras and keen music lovers!

Programme:

Mesmerising play by Adolphe Nysenholc in which two dead mothers fight over their son: the mother who perished in the Holocaust and the foster mother who hid the child during the war to preserve him from deportation. The play will be preceded by a performance of Miracles de l'enfance by the Swiss composer Albert Moeschinger (1897-1985), based on poetry of Belgian children orphaned during war.

Education workshop

Programme:

W.A. Mozart: Piano Quartet No.1 K478

Robert Kahn: Piano Quartet No.1

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Piano Quintet Op. 15

Brundibár Arts Festival Special Commission "One/Life" by composer Vanessa Lann

The final concert is dedicated to the memory of Hanni Begg who was torn from home as a child during the war - the only survivor out of her entire family. Hanni was a keen supporter of the Festival before passing away in October 2017.