Sydney to Hong Kong
Date: 26 Feb 2024
Duration: 17 nights
Ship: Queen Mary 2
Line: Cunard Cruise Line
Royal Caribbean stage annual Music Festivals on five of their ships. This is a service particularly suited to music teachers and their students. Their package includes: festival adjudication on each Royal Caribbean International cruise giving an on-stage clinic for students, plus a chance to meet other students from across North America as well as visits to ports like Nassau, Ocho Rios, Cozumel and Key West. Accommodations in four bed cabins for students and double occupancy for adults/tutors, an awards ceremony with trophies, workshops by nationally recognized educators and so on.
Carnival offer an annual Rock The Waves with Gary Hoey. This years is a seven night cruise visiting Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas.
A Fred Olsen sample cruise is BW0918 to Spain, Morocco, The Canaries & Lisbon. Featuring Barry Cheeseman, who is manager of the Kirker Escorted Tours programme, and has been an opera lover for more than 40 years and Christopher Monckton, former choral scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. Concerts are held across the ship, and while some are open to all in the Neptune Lounge, but the majority are restricted to those who have booked for the festival through Kirker Music. Fred Olsen runs several similar cruises every year.
Date: 26 Feb 2024
Duration: 17 nights
Ship: Queen Mary 2
Line: Cunard Cruise Line
£2,605 BALCONY
£4,559 SUITE
Date: 21 Feb 2025
Duration: 9 nights
Ship: Constellation
Line: Celebrity Cruises
£2,299 INSIDE
£2,499 BALCONY
Date: 12 Oct 2024
Duration: 10 nights
Ship: Equinox
Line: Celebrity Cruises
£2,071 OUTSIDE
£2,228 BALCONY
Date: 15 May 2024
Duration: 19 nights
Ship: Regent Seven Seas Mariner
Line: Regent Seven Seas
Date: 15 May 2025
Duration: 9 nights
Ship: Star Clipper
Line: Star Clippers
Date: 1 Nov 2024
Duration: 11 nights
Ship: Utopia of the Seas
Line: Royal Caribbean
£2,079 OUTSIDE
£2,149 BALCONY