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General Ticketing Help

In order to buy tickets using our online interface, either click on the 'Book Tickets' link in the top left hand corner of the screen, or find the event for which you wish to buy tickets using the menu on the right hand side of the main Gloucester pages, and the click on the 'Buy Tickets' button. This will open up the Ticketing interface, which expands down from the top of the page, allowing you to still view the page you were originally on.

The Ticketing Interface is split into 4 sections:

1. Select an Event

2. Select Seat Category

3. Choose your Seats

4. Confirm your selection

Each section has further help.

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Introduction from the new Artistic Director, Adrian Partington

Introduction from the new Artistic Director, Adrian Partington

Adrian Partington

Since my first Three Choirs as a Worcester Chorister in 1969, I have
wanted to assemble my own Three Choirs Festival programme. For a 10 year old boy, that week was wonderfully inspiring - I experienced my first Missa Solemnis, my first Glagolitic Mass, my first Gerontius, my first Venetian music and a fantastic new work by Jonathan Harvey - with a notated riot in the middle - Ludus amoris.  This was really a terrific programme, the inspiration of Christopher Robinson. In many ways, I have judged all the subsequent festivals I have worked at or attended by the standards of 1969! The Festival which ran closest to my childhood ideal was another Worcester one, (I'm not biased-honestly!), that of 1978,when Donald Hunt put together what we can now see was a daring but very successful week, culminating in my first experience of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, which haunted me for days afterwards.

Now that I am Director of Music at Gloucester, I have the opportunity to put my ideals, plus 40 years of Three Choirs experience, to good use! We are busy putting together a spectacular programme for 2010, one which I hope will capture everybody's imagination. It will include some exciting, but traditional programmes ... and some surprises! I think I can promise that 2010 will be a vintage year...

Adrian Partington

Adrian Partington introduces Gloucester 2010
In a wonderfully informal address to invited guests as captured on this 20 minute video, Adrian Partington describes his thought processes when planning the 2010 festival; how the programme ideas evolved and the innovations he has put into place to take the festival onward and upward.

Adrian Partington introduces Gloucester 2010 from Three Choirs Festival on Vimeo.

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