Frinton Festival 2023 Comments

Many congratulations on the wonderful Dissonance concert – such a stimulating experience.  We loved all the compositions too.  You are all such creative artists and musicians. I wish we could have been to every concert, especially the Echo Ensemble – it’s our ambition to take the time off next year so we can be there for the whole festival.

Thank you very much for a really glorious Rococo. I arrived at the church in time to grab the last free seat in the front so I was able to see every note as well as hear. A very special concert to hear father and son performing together. Noah’s achievements are impressive indeed. His Radical Severance is so beautiful and the flautist was magnificent.

Many thanks to you and everyone else involved for another splendid Frinton Festival, [we] are already looking forward to the next one.

Thanks so much for such an enjoyable concert with your heartfelt Rococo Variations! We gave up saying hello afterwards when we saw you in the centre of a crowd, but [our daughter] would love to share her thoughts on the concert next time. She was excited to explain to us how Noah’s piece works.

Thank you for letting us know about the Frinton Festival. We had a lovely weekend – we very much enjoyed the music, the walks by the sea and the beautiful Voysey house all added to by the spectacular weather.

The silence of the audience…their respect for the music…the delicious canapés.

What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon! We so enjoyed listening to The Barbican Trio, with such beautiful music and amazing performances. You all play so sensitively together. You have such incredible rapport it’s as if you are an extension of each other…The Mendelssohn and Beethoven were just sublime. Well done to you all. I must admit that even if the music hadn’t transported us, sitting in the long room at Homestead was fabulous. What a great house, it’s so characterful and it certainly was built for entertaining - Voysey would have loved to have listened to your concert…

Thanks so much for inviting us…We had a wonderful time - such a warm, enthusiastic audience…

I do hope you now have time to relax and reflect on the great success of the very diverse and appealing concerts you organised. How marvellous that the younger Max members are providing such interesting collaborations. Dissonance programme particularly - challenging and witty! So exciting also to hear/see the widening group of musicians in Noah’s Ensemble - multi-talented and enthusiastic. So much to look out for so the 10th anniversary season will have to meet big expectations. My congratulations to all who made those four concerts so different and so memorable.

Last Sunday afternoon was a magical sail into so many musical pleasures of the past. Thank you so very much, a real treat. I hope there will be a next time very soon and I can’t wait.

It was lovely to have a chat at the concert on Monday. It was a great occasion; [we] really enjoyed ourselves. Your playing in the Tchaikovsky was astonishing and Noah is a very talented young man with a great future ahead of him. Exciting times!

Frinton feels empty today.  The Festival has moved on...After the end of last night's concert a lady came up to me and said “After this concert I am going to go home and pick up my bow again. I shall start playing the cello once more”. Wonderful to think the Festival can have such an impact.

Thank you so much for having me at Frinton Festival, I was delighted to take part.

I found the initial film and music a bit discordant but by the end it made sense and was rather beautiful. Similarly on Monday- very unexpected but I could sense the emotion and skill that went into the piece. The orchestra was exceptional… Thank you for all your hard work…

I would like to thank The Frinton Festival for a wonderful evening yesterday. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Please do share any future events.

I wanted to say a big thank-you to you all for making the Frinton Festival possible. I attended the Free Church concert with my daughter and some friends. It was most enjoyable and was medicine to the soul…I wanted to say how much I enjoyed your son's composition. What a clever chap! Not a short piece to write either. The players looked as though they enjoyed it too. All in all, the energy was incredible....I don't know how you do it! And it was lovely to go out with the memory of that energy....

Yours was [my friend’s granddaughter’s] first ever classical concert,  which is why I didn’t want to move her when she chose the front row…I’m sure it would have touched you as it did us to hear her bubbling over all the way home…thank you for the gift of your music…