2025 Season Ticket: All 6 Concerts

£57.00 – £112.00

There’s a lot to look forward to in our 2025 concert series.  This year, we’re offering different season ticket options.  This one gives you entry to all 6 concerts throughout the year, including three fabulous concerts on the weekend of 27th – 29th June at the historic Dore Abbey – a saving of 15%.

Event details below.
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2025 will see us host our first ever Festival Weekend.  Taking place at the beautiful Dore Abbey between Friday 27th and Sunday 29th June, a thrilling programme of celebrated British and European artists are set to delight.  The Festival is in addition to our other three concerts, two of which are with exciting young ensembles, and the other with the unusual combination of accordion and saxophone.

We’ll be kicking off the 2025 season in March with the exciting young wind quintet Ensemble Renard. Comprising five of the country’s most outstanding young musicians, Ensemble Renard carefully curate compelling and contrasting programmes tailored to each audience. Their programme includes music by Knussen, Milhaus, Mozart, Barber and others.

As we move into the summer months, we host our exciting new Festival.  Beginning on Friday 27th June, the acclaimed British cellist Laura van der Heijden joins exciting Welsh pianist Jâms Coleman.  Their programme is centred around two of the most well-known and loved sonatas in the repertoire – Debussy’s Cello Sonata and Franck’s Violin Sonata. In between these two great works, is a sonata by Mel Bonis, a composer of fantastic music who had a fascinating life, and Rebecca Clarke’s powerfully expressive “Rhapsody.”

Described by The Times as “Britain’s favourite clarinettist“, Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinet players to have made a career as a soloist. Since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year at the age of seventeen she has gone on to become one of the UK’s biggest selling classical artists and is known for the diverse range of the repertoire she plays. Joining Emma on Saturday June 28th are the bold and explorative Gildas Quartet. Praised for their ‘energy, verve and refreshing approach’ they have performed to critical acclaim at major venues including the Bridgewater Hall, Barbican, Wigmore Hall and live on BBC Radio 3. Their programme includes music by Glazunov, Shostakovitch, Mozart and Emma Johnson herself.

Concluding our weekend of glorious music on Sunday June 29th are the remarkably dynamic ensemble Trio Lalique. Founded in 2022 by pianist Ilya Kondratiev, violinist Yuri Kalnits and cellist Julia Morneweg, each already a renowned chamber musician in their own right, their debut as a group in the prestigious Pharos Arts Foundation series in Nicosia (Cyprus) was praised for its virtuosity and musical artistry alike. Their programme includes music by Beethoven, Bernstein and Ravel.

Our popular Young Artist Concert this August celebrates the founding and history of The Royal Society of Musicians with the innovative London-based Early Music group Ensemble Hesperi and soprano Claire Ward.  Their programme “The Fund for Decay’d Musicians” celebrates the founding and the eighteenth-century history of this remarkable organisation, featuring works by subscribing composers, all of whom worked in London’s thriving theatres and pleasure gardens. Weaved amongst the music itself will be fascinating stories from the Royal Society’s archives about the men, women and children who received support from the fund in its early years.

The season comes to a close in October with the vibrant, award-winning saxophone-accordion pairing The Mikeleiz-Zucci Duo. Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi and Spanish accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade’s repertoire spans everything from reimagined traditional works to modern repertoire and improvisation, all vividly rendered by the unique combination of saxophone and accordion.

This programme is inspired by dance music from different eras and cultures, from the courts of 16th century France to folk inflected Scottish music; from Eastern European traditional music to nuevo tango. Expect music by Bach to Bartok, Ravel to Piazzola!

We’re sure you’ll agree that this is an exciting and varied programme of events to look forward to with some of Europe’s most talented young chamber musicians. We hope you’ll come and join us, but if you can’t actually join us for all six concerts, tickets for individual concerts are also available here.

Additional information

Ticket Type for Dore Abbey

Front Nave, Rear Nave, Restricted View, Student under 25

Venue: Dore Abbey, Abbeydore

Venue Website: http://www.doreabbey.org.uk/

Address: Dore Abbey, Abbeydore, Herefordshire, HR2 0AA, United Kingdom

Description: A Brief History

A photo of the screen at Dore Abbey venue for Concerts for Craswall summer concerts
The Screen Dore Abbey

The Abbey was founded in 1147 by French Cistercian Monks from Morimond. The construction of the present stone buildings in the ‘new’ Early English style started in 1175 and was consecrated in 1280.

Having avoided being razed by Owen Glendower in 1405, the Abbey was suppressed (dissolved) by Henry VIII in 1537 and the buildings sold to John Scudamore. All the monastic buildings, the nave and roof of the Abbey were dismantled and the stone sold by Scudamore. All that remained (i.e. the present Abbey) was left as a roofless ruin until c1630.

John Scudamore’s great-great-grandson (John Viscount Scudamore) had no male heir, all his sons having died at birth or soon after. Archbishop Laud suggested that his ancestor had perhaps overdone the commercial benefits of the dissolution and that he should “consider his conscience”. Restoring the ruins into a Parish Church was deemed an appropriate penance and the rebuilt church was re-consecrated in 1634. Subsequently, Scudamore’s wife had a son who survived !

Laud had considerable influence on the restored church. The Screen through which the raised altar can be seen by the congregation was one of his innovations. His coat of arms together with those of Lord Scudamore and Charles I are on the Screen.

The church was further restored, first around 1700 when the wall paintings were created, and later around 1900 when the church was ‘shrunk’ into what had been the presbytery. The Church you see today has been little altered since the 1900 rearrangement.

Today The Abbey enjoys regular Church services, has a fine organ and a peal of 6 bells. It is also the venue for many concerts and local community activities, including Concerts for Craswall.