{"id":7833,"date":"2014-08-14T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2014-08-14T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:44:09","slug":"festival-hits-high-note-with-new-music-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2014\/08\/festival-hits-high-note-with-new-music-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"FESTIVAL HITS HIGH NOTE WITH NEW MUSIC SPONSORS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2014 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s, Ireland\u2019s leading international contemporary arts Festival has announced two new sponsors for key music strands of this year\u2019s programme.<\/h1>\n
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Richard Wakely, Director of the 2014 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s, Ireland\u2019s leading international contemporary arts Festival, pictured with Roy Adair, CEO, Belfast Harbour who have been announced as a new sponsor for the classical music elements of this year\u2019s festival programme. Leading telecoms provider O2 International Sim have also added their support as sponsors of the Music Club. The festival will showcase a diverse spectrum of the world\u2019s leading musical talent in venues across the city from 16th October- 1st November. Check-in at www.belfastfestival.com <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leading telecoms provider O2 International Sim and Belfast\u00a0Harbour have added their support as sponsors of the Music Club and the Classical Music elements respectively \u2013 both of which will showcase a diverse spectrum of the world\u2019s leading musical talent in venues across the city from 16th October- 1st\u00a0November as part of this year\u2019s Festival.<\/p>\n

Richard Wakely, Director, Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s, commented \u201cFor 17 days the city of Belfast will be buzzing to the beat of music from all over the world and this would not be possible without the support of our sponsors and public sector funders. We are delighted\u00a0to be welcoming two new sponsors, O2 International Sim and Belfast\u00a0Harbour and look forward to working closely with them over the coming months and alongside our Title Sponsor, Ulster Bank, Principal Funder, Arts Council for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Queen\u2019s University, Belfast City Council, British Council, Arts & Business NI and Department for Social Development \u2013 as together we\u00a0celebrate the positive and transforming role of the arts to our city.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Belfast Harbour will align their sponsorship to the classical programming of the festival, which features a range of high quality performances from award-winning acts from Sweden, Switzerland,\u00a0UK and Ireland,\u00a0which will be revealed on the Festival\u2019s 4th<\/sup> September launch.\u00a0 Highlight events which are currently on sale include three performances from our very own Ulster Orchestra\u00a0featuring visiting artists of international repute, including a thrilling opening concert of \u2018Four Distinct Moods in Music\u2019 with outstanding young Ukrainian violinist Valeriy Sokolov, an evening of \u2018Classics Though The Ages\u2019\u00a0with works by Haydn, Brahms, Strauss and Stravinsky and \u2018Fanfare to Fate\u2019 which celebrates the work of local composer Simon Mawhinney alongside those pf Beethoven andTchaikovsky and featuring world-renowned pianist Barry Douglas<\/p>\n

On launching the partnership, Roy Adair, Chief Executive, Belfast Harbour said: “Belfast Harbour is strongly committed to the people and communities we reach and believe that engaging with arts will help build a sustainable society. Facilitating access to the arts is a key dimension of our community engagement strategy and we are delighted to form this partnership with the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s. The Festival is a major highlight of the local arts calendar and we look forward to seeing the international talent showcased during the classical music programme.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Festival\u2019s Music Club returns for 2014 and is presented in association with O2 International Sim. Sponsorship of the festival and Music Club in particular, offers O2 the potential to reach a high number of festival goers, of which there were 45,000 in\u00a02013, to promote their latest offers including the O2 international sim brand incorporating an international sim card for calls between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. \u00a0The Music Club features a number of unmissable Irish and Northern Ireland\u00a0premieres from soul, folk and blues legends, all to be revealed at the Festival\u2019s launch on 4th<\/sup> September.<\/p>\n

“O2 International Sim is really excited to be partnering with the Music\u00a0Club and the wider festivities of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s. As a brand, it has a strong legacy of supporting the arts, especially live music so the\u00a0opportunity to work with the Festival was too good to miss. O2 International Sim can bring great\u00a0benefits to festival goers and the the people of\u00a0Northern<\/em> Ireland, they can call Ireland from just 1p. They only have to top\u00a0up\u00a0\u20ac15 to enjoy free O2 to O2 calls, as well as 100mb of data.\u00a0O2 International Sim is looking forward\u00a0to interacting\u00a0with the Irish community and the famous Ulster Bank\u00a0Belfast Festival at Queen’s atmosphere to promote its great calling rates,\u00a0data top up offers and coverage it has to Ireland and the rest of the World.” <\/em><\/p>\n

The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s presents great and diverse works of art from home and abroad and brings audiences something very special that they cannot see elsewhere all combining to deliver one unique festival which runs throughout the city from 16 October \u2013 1 November.\u00a0 The 2014\u00a0festival features performers from 18 different countries covering classical and contemporary music, film, dance, theatre, talks and visual arts, many of which are EU, UK and Ireland premieres. \u00a0First shows are now on sale with further booking information\u00a0to be announced in the coming weeks. For more information, Check-in to www.belfastfestival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2014 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s, Ireland\u2019s leading international contemporary arts Festival has announced two new sponsors for key music strands of this year\u2019s programme. Leading telecoms provider O2 International Sim and Belfast\u00a0Harbour have added their support as sponsors of the Music Club and the Classical Music elements respectively \u2013 both of which … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7835,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}