Winchester Chamber Music Festival 2023

Schools' Performance

Fri 28 Apr 11am – 12pm / St Paul's Church

The culmination of our Festival education project led by the wonderful Sam Glazer involving local schoolchildren who will devise from scratch and perform their own original songs alongside our Festival musicians. Do come and hear the results.

Tickets: Free

Funky Lunch

Fri 28 Apr 12.30pm – 1pm / The Arc

Lumas Winds
Come and join us

Tickets: Free

Opening Concert

Fri 28 Apr 4pm – 6pm / St Paul's Church

David Adams, Lucy Gould, Rosalind Ventris, James Toll, Kate Gould, Lumas Winds, Huw Watkins

Suk Piano Quartet Op. 1

Barber Summer Music

Huw Watkins Elegy for Violin and Piano PREMIÈRE

Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59 No 3

Tickets: £23 (£19 in side aisles)

Late Night Concert

Fri 28 Apr 9pm – 10.10pm / St Paul's Church

James Gilchrist, Huw Watkins

Schubert Winterreise

Tickets: £19 (£16 in side aisles)

The Mystery of the Missing Maestro

Sat 29 Apr 11.30am – 12.30pm / The Nutshell

World famous conductor Mrs A Beat has gone missing!

Join Musical Detective Will E Squeak in this interactive family concert where the audience literally roll the dice to decide where to go, listening to music and finding clues along the way.

Performed by clarinettist Lenny Sayers and our Festival String Quartet.

Tickets: £10 (£5 4-18 years old) Unreserved seating

Afternoon Concert

Sat 29 Apr 2pm – 4pm / St Paul's Church

James Gilchrist, Lucy Gould, David Adams, Maia Cabeza, Elliot Kempton, Kate Gould, Tim Posner, Lumas Winds, Huw Watkins

Schubert Auf dem Strom D943

Poulenc Sextet for Winds and Piano, Op. 100

Huw Watkins Piano Quartet (2012)

Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge

Tickets: £23 (£19 in side aisles)

Festival Folk

Sat 29 Apr 8pm – 9.45pm / St Paul's Church

We welcome folk-fiddler extraordinaire, Donald Grant, to join festival performers for his Celtic folk tune arrangements and compositions, alongside Eastern European folk influenced classical works from the 20th century.

You'll be tapping your feet and even singing along by the end of the evening.

Bar open from 7.30pm

Tickets: £23 (£19 in side aisles)

J S Bach Hour

Sun 30 Apr 2.30pm – 3.30pm

Please note this performance will now take place at St Paul's Church, St Paul's Hill, SO22 5AB

Maia Cabeza, Rosalind Ventris, Kate Gould

Bach Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio

In memory of Andy Stoller 1949-2022

Tickets: £19 (Unreserved). Includes a post-concert cup of tea.

Gala Concert

Sun 30 Apr 7.30pm – 9.30pm / Chapel of St Cross

David Adams, Lucy Gould, James Toll, Maia Cabeza, Rosalind Ventris, Elliott Kempton, Kate Gould, Tim Posner

Shostakovich Two pieces for String Octet, Op. 11

Purcell Fantasia on One Note

Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 Op. 110

Mendelssohn Octet Op. 20

Tickets: £25, £22, £19

Masterclass

Mon 1 May 10.30am – 11.40am / St Paul's Church

Come and listen to Festival musicians coaching young, up-and-coming ensembles:

Louisa Paterson violin
Kiki Skinner cello
Alistair Hamilton piano

Haydn Piano Trio in E flat, Hob XV: 30

Tickets: Free (unreserved seating)

Composers' Talk

Mon 1 May 2.30pm – 3pm / St Paul's Church

Huw Watkins in conversation with fellow composer Robin Holloway, Huw's composition teacher at Cambridge University.

Tickets: Free (unreserved seating)

Festival Finale

Mon 1 May 3.30pm – 5.30pm / St Paul's Church

Lucy Gould, David Adams, Maia Cabeza, Rosalind Ventris, James Toll, Kate Gould, Huw Watkins

Beethoven String Trio Op. 9 No 1

Robin Holloway Piano Quintet PREMIÈRE

Mendelssohn String Quintet Op. 87

Tickets: £23 (£19 in side aisles)