A year-long celebration marking our 30th year:
March:
Online filmed performances by Dunedin Consort playing Bach Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 and 5
June/July ‘pop-up’ Festival:
Sheku Kanneh-Mason & London Mozart Players played Dvorak and Mendelssohn (two concerts)
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble played Schubert and Price
12 Ensemble played Shostakoich, Dowland, Thomas Ades & Caroline Shaw
Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason played Rachmaninov, Bridge & Britten (two concerts)
Autumn Festival:
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields played Mozart, Walker, Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky
Stephen Hough played Chopin, Schubert, Rawsthorne & Hough
Mahan Esfahni played JS Bach, CPE Bach & Kuhnau
NEXT (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group graduates) played Grisey
12 Ensemble played Max Richter
Choir of King’s College & The Academy of Ancient Music played Vivaldi & Bach
Takacs Quartet played Haydn, Janacek & Beethoven
15 October-14 November:
A Percussionist’s Songbook
Online premiere of nine short works for pitched percussion & electronics, co-commissioned by CMF with Joby Burgess