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| 25 June 2026 until 5 July 2026 | |
| Devon Details: Web site | Four centuries of classical music by the East Devon coast |
| 17 July 2026 | |
| 7pm West Green House Thackham's Lane Hampshire RG27 8JB Details: Web site | West Green House Opera presents a Gala Evening of opera |
| 18 July 2026 | |
| 7pm West Green House Thackham's Lane Hampshire RG27 8JB Details: Web site | Mozart's dazzling masterpiece The Magic Flute in a stunning country house setting |
| 19 July 2026 | |
| 6pm West Green House Thackham's Lane Hampshire RG27 8JB Details: Web site | Mozart's dazzling masterpiece The Magic Flute in a stunning country house setting |
| 24 July 2026 | |
| 6pm West Green House Thackham's Lane Hampshire RG27 8JB Details: Web site | A rare performance of Puccini's first opera Le Villi |
| 25 July 2026 | |
| 7pm West Green House Thackham's Lane Hampshire RG27 8JB Details: Web site | A performance of Puccini's thrilling opera, Tosca |
| 26 July 2026 | |
| 6pm West Green House Thackham's Lane Hampshire RG27 8JB Details: Web site | A performance of Puccini's thrilling opera, Tosca |
| 3 July 2026 | |
| 2.30pm St Nicholas Church Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £10 | Tree of Strings Festival: Hear dynamic young talents the Elmore Quartet and cellist Hugo Svedberg Hugo Svedberg, cello Elmore Quartet Johann Sebastian Bach: G Major Suite for solo cello Dani Howard: Add Oil for solo cello Leo Geyer: Unfurling for string quartet Maurice Ravel: String Quartet This is the first chance to hear some of our featured young artists. Hugo Svedberg came to attention in the televised round of BBC Young Musician in 2024 and has since dazzled audiences in his home county of Dorset and further afield. The 18-year-old made his debut last year as soloist with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky’s ‘Rococo’ variations. The London-based Elmore Quartet formed in Manchester in 2017 and are embarking on a career fuelled by prizes, having recently won the Royal Over-Seas League competition, and performances at venues including Wigmore Hall. They are the first resident string quartet at Penzance MusicAbility Foundation in west Cornwall, which enables them to pursue their passion for sharing classical music with new audiences and to perform regularly in the many wonderful venues in the area. |
| 5.30pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £15 | Khanh Nhi Luong - Solo Portrait Khanh Nhi Luong, piano Johannes Brahms: Intermezzi Opus 118 Nos 1 and 2 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata Op 110 Henri Dutilleux: Sonata Khanh Nhi won Third Prize at the Leeds Piano Competition in 2024 and has had a great year establishing herself as one of the finest young talents emerging onto the classical music scene. Nhi is Vietnamese, and now based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her recent Wigmore Hall recital was a huge success and has led to many engagements around the world. We are very excited to present her in Abbotsbury for this attractive recital, including two famous pieces of the classical repertoire and a jaw-droppingly virtuosic sonata by French composer Henri Dutilleux that wowed audiences in Leeds and London. |
| 7.30pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £25 | Tango Nuevo and Jazz-Infused Samba: Music from Argentina and Brazil Joanna MacGregor, piano Adrian Brendel, cello Adriano Adewale, percussion Pre-eminent pianist and composer Joanna MacGregor is joined by two sensational musicians, Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale and cellist Adrian Brendel, for a celebration of music by Tom Jobim, Egberto Gismondi, Astor Piazzolla and more. Special guests are guaranteed! |
| 4 July 2026 | |
| 11.30am St Nicholas Church Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £15 | Hungarian Homage Adrian Brendel, cello Elmore Quartet Abigél Králik, violin Gareth Lubbe, viola Bela Bartok: String Quartet No 3 Zoltan Kodaly: Serenade for Two Violins and Viola Erno Dohnanyi: Serenade for String Trio Bela Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances, for violin and ensemble The Hungarian folk tradition has inspired composers from Haydn and Schubert to the present day. Two great Hungarian composers, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, collected hundreds of folk tunes over several years and wove them into their own music. The works in this programme reflect the stunning diversity and dynamism of this ancient musical culture. Musicians include featured festival artists Abigél Králik, Gareth Lubbe, Elmore Quartet and Artistic Director Adrian Brendel. |
| 2.30pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £10 | Tim Laycock: A Dorset Garland Tim Laycock, folk musician Colin Thompson, violin Join well-known local folk musician and storyteller Tim Laycock and violinist Colin Thompson for folk songs, traditional dance music, poetry and folktales from Wessex. Tim and Colin have worked and performed together for many years. Their rich knowledge of Dorset heritage, folklore and landscape is second to none. Prepare to be immersed in a very special hour with our national treasures of the folk world. |
| 4.00pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £10 | Cinema Music: John Grierson's Drifters Joseph Havlat, piano John Grierson’s famous and captivating silent film of 1929 tells the story of the British herring fishing industry in the North Sea. The multi-talented Joseph Havlat performs a part improvised, part scored piano accompaniment to this visionary masterpiece. |
| 7.30pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £15 | Musical Miracles Adrian Brendel, cello Elmore Quartet Abigél Králik, violin Gareth Lubbe, viola Khanh Nhi Luong, piano Ludwig van Beethoven: G Minor Cello Sonata Op 5 No 2 Felix Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings It is hard to believe that Mendelssohn wrote his amazing Octet for Strings aged just 16. It's one of the most exciting pieces to play and listen to in the entire repertoire: a work of unique invention, energy and superhuman craftsmanship. Beethoven was a great inspiration for Mendelssohn and composed several radical early works that fundamentally changed the course of music. His Cello Sonata in G Minor veers from operatic overture to turbulent waters and finally a rondo movement of inspired wit and charm. |
| 9.15pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £15 | Trio Miré Kit Downes, piano Colin Alexander, cello Héloïse Werner, voice This visionary trio close the night with a stunning extended set - fusing folk, jazz and classical music, including song and improvisation. Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, ECM recording artist, composer and performer. He burst onto the jazz scene playing with the band Empirical and has worked with artists as diverse as Squarepusher and Django Bates. He is an accomplished organist and recently gave a stunning concert on Cologne Cathedral’s famous instrument as part of the jazz festival there. French-born soprano and composer Héloïse Werner is currently an Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall and is ‘quickly becoming a latter-day Cathy Berberian or Meredith Monk’ (Richard Morrison, The Times). She is a recipient of the Prix Nadia et Lili Boulanger 2025 from Académie des Beaux Arts and the PRSF Composers’ Fund 2025. She has recently been appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College Oxford for 2026. Colin Alexander is a cellist and composer working across a range of disciplines and traditions. Whilst collaborating with artists such as Kit Downes, Héloïse Werner, Abel Selaocoe, Max Baillie, Alice Zawadzki, Sean Shibe and Misha Mullov-Abbado, Colin also performs with a variety of ensembles such as 12 Ensemble, LSO Ensemble for composers, Phaedra Ensemble and United Strings of Europe. |
| 5 July 2026 | |
| 12.00pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £20 | Invisible Waves Adrian Brendel, cello Elmore Quartet Joseph Havlat, piano Abigél Králik, violin Gareth Lubbe, viola Khanh Nhi Luong, piano A musical journey that weaves a line of unbroken fragments across seven centuries, which is the same timeframe as the existence of Abbotsbury’s Tithe Barn. This unique programme will range from early organum, Machaut, William Byrd, Bach and Mozart to Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho and other music of today. Performers will include most of our fantastic festival artists. Not to be missed! |
| 3.00pm Tithe Barn Church St, Abbotsbury Dorset DT3 4JJ Details: Web site £25 | Festival Finale Adrian Brendel, cello Elmore Quartet Joseph Havlat, piano Abigél Králik, violin Gareth Lubbe, viola Khanh Nhi Luong, piano Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op 76 No 5 Maurice Ravel: 'Mother Goose Suite' for piano four hands Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C Haydn was the godfather and great adventurer of the classical style - he invented the modern piano trio and string quartet and taught Mozart and Beethoven. His string quartets are among the most enduringly performed and admired works of any composer. Schubert’s string quintet is widely thought of as one of the very greatest pieces of music ever written. Encompassing light and shade, sublime serenity and anguished drama, it represents one of the most acute musical representations of the human spirit. In between, Maurice Ravel’s ever popular 'Mother Goose Suite' for two pianists is a wonderful contrast, originally written for orchestra and dedicated to the children of close friends of Ravel. |