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Festival starts this week!

This year's Cambridge Music Festival has arrived, with the first concert on Wednesday! If you haven't booked yet, there is still availability for some events - details below. Don't forget you can get up to 25% off if you book multiple events. Handel Coronation Anthems - a few...

Keyboard engineering

With a reputation for daring, boundary-pushing music, how does pianist/technologist Zubin Kanga fit with the more conventional classical sounds at this year’s Cambridge Music Festival? Never underestimate your audience’s appetite for something new, he tells the Cambridge Independent. Keyboard engineering For a moment, everything seems relatively normal,...

The musical high-wire acts of CMF 2019

“That sense of risking everything helps to make live music special” Her work has been described as ‘magical’ and close to perfection, but 25 years after she first came to public attention, cellist Natalie Clein still gets nervous before every performance. Ahead of this year’s Cambridge...

Anglia TV report live from Corn Exchange

Last night Anglia TV broadcast live from the rehearsal for Music for 50 Musicians at the Corn Exchange, ahead of our concert with the Colin Currie Group and Mats Bergstrom. The children were so excited to be on live TV and the piece sounded great! You...

One week down – one to go

We're halfway through this year's Cambridge Music Festival. We're looking forward to what's to come this week. Highlights include the Brodsky Quartet, Steve Reich: Drumming, Julien Brocal, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Let's take a quick look at what's been happening so...

Colin Currie on Steve Reich

This month, it will be an enormous privilege to be back at the Cambridge Music Festival on 21 November for another opportunity to share the music of Steve Reich! For me, one of the highlights of recent years of performing was our concert at the...

Festival opens tonight

The Cambridge Music Festival 2018 opens tonight - launching 10 days of music-making of the very highest quality. Here's a quick reminder of what's coming up and which events still have tickets available. Remember you can book online, call 01223 357851 or call in at Cambridge...