Thank you all for coming and supporting York Chamber Music Festival. It was a joy to see so many of you there, creating such a vibrant and engaged audience.
Your enthusiasm and presence makes each performance truly special. If you enjoyed the concerts, we’d be grateful if you shared your experience with friends who might also appreciate our festival.
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I wanted to share the message below we received from Charles Martindale and his friend David Hopkins. Their words capture the essence of what many of you told us after the concerts—a sense of uplift and joyous music-making that felt truly special. It was wonderful for us to perform for such an attentive audience; you seemed to be part of the conversation we were having through our music. As Charles put it, you were not just listening but truly joining in our dialogue. How wonderful is that!
Best wishes,
Tim
Save the date!
We are pleased to announce the dates for the 2025 York Chamber Music Festival are 19 – 21 September
❝ My friend and former colleague, David Hopkins, Professor of English emeritus at the University of Bristol, and himself an accomplished amateur musician, told us he had never enjoyed chamber music playing more (and he has heard most of the top groups in the world). In addition to the choice of programme and other excellences he was struck by the extent to which this was genuine chamber music playing - not a group playing to an audience so much as one listening and responding to each other and fully drawing the audience into their conversation. And the playing had such fire, panache, spontaneity, and sense of enjoyment, beyond what one normally encounters even in a good live performance, simply stellar. We sent them back to Bristol highly contented.
Congratulations and thank you Tim for doing this so generously for York..❞ We are already looking forward to next September. All best wishes, Charles (Professor of English, University of York)
Events by our friends and partners
York Late Music at the Unitarian Chapel
York Late Music returns for their 2024 season. The series showcases some of the very best of contemporary classical music. The series opens on the 4th and 5th October, with 3 piano recitals from David Hammond, Kate Ledger and Ian Pace playing everything from world premieres to the jewels of neglected British composers, through to Liszt’s iconic transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No.6.
