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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, our popular Young Artist Concert this season 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 chamber musicians. We hope you’ll come and join us, but if you can’t actually join us for the whole weekend, tickets for individual concerts are also available here.