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Concert concert series ''From Russia with Love''

Event Date: 
12/01/2020 - 3:30pm to 02/02/2020 - 4:45pm
Venue: 
Sidholme Hotel, Elysian Fields, Sidmouth

Our concert series this year will feature performances from our popular trio - virtuoso balalaika player Sergei Kosov (Gnesin Academy of Music, Russia), award winning violinist Yulia Northridge (Petrozavodsk Music Academy, Russia) and concert pianist Ekaterina Shetliffe (Dargomizsky College of Music, Tula, Russia) presenting a new programme by Sergei Rachmaninov, Modest Mussorgsky, Dmitry Shostakovich, Peter Tchaikovsky, as well as arrangements of popular Russian folk songs. We will be joined by a special guest performer mezzo-soprano Iryna Ilnytska at one of our events in Totnes on...

Exeter Airport unveils bumper 2018 schedule

Exeter Airport has unveiled one of its busiest ever schedules with publication of the latest edition of Exeter Connects Magazine.

With more than 40 destinations on offer this year, the magazine includes full listings of all the airport’s scheduled services, charters and seasonal specials available in 2018.

Flybe has an extensive summer schedule with 19 routes and up to 105 departures a week from Exeter to destinations across the UK and mainland Europe, as well as daily flights to London City and regular services to Norwich.

Matt Roach, Managing Director of Exeter...

BSO’s spectacular classical music and light show returns to Exeter

BSO Classical Extravaganza Great Hall, Exeter University Friday 22 July 7.30pm

Back by popular demand, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra presents another spectacular night of the best-known classical music with an amazing laser display and state-of-the-art lighting special effects at the Great Hall at Exeter University on Friday 22 July at 7.30pm.

The concert explodes into life with John Williams’ instantly recognisable Star Wars theme and the sultry strains of Bizet’s Carmen evoking images of sunny Spanish landscapes.

In contrast, the gothic intensity of Bach’s...

The Student Room gets a brand new look this month

The Student Room, the largest online student community in the world, which receives around 5.5 million unique visitors a month, launched a design update at the beginning of October as part of a brand refresh for the UK’s largest online student community. Among the elements unveiled are a new logo and a new strap line ‘where students connect’. This is accompanied on the website by a clearer and more user-friendly navigation bar.

Jamie O’Connell, Marketing Director at The Student Room, said: “Over the past few years we’ve grown from an idea in a student’s bedroom to become the...