OPERA at Oborne and Opera Cameratina get together over Valentine’s weekend to celebrate the distinctive music of America, with an evening of three short operas on Saturday 14th February, an open workshop and song recital on Sunday. The performances are at the village’s lovely St Cuthbert’s Church, the venue for the summer Opera at Oborne…
THE next concert in the Shaftesbury Chamber Music series at Port Regis School brings the Carducci String Quartet back to North Dorset for an evening of varied works on Sunday 15th February at 5pm. The quartet, violinists Matthew Denton and Michelle Fleming, Eoin Schmidt-Martin, violin and cellist Emma Denton, will play Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet, Shostakovich 4…
THE 2026 season of recitals at the Tincleton Gallery, at the Old School House, Tincleton near Dorchester, opens on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th February, with piano-violin duo Milda Daunoraite and Amber Emson. The programme is an evening of romantic musical dialogues – just right for Valentine’s Day. Pianist Milda Daunoraite is studying with Tessa…
CONCERTS in the West opens the 2026 series on Friday 13th February, with a welcome return for the acclaimed, young, Hungarian-born pianist Daniel Lebhardt. The recital programme follows the usual pattern of coffee concert at Bridport Arts Centre at 11.30am on Friday 13th followed by a 7.30pm performance at Ilminster Arts Centre. The third concert…
DORCHESTER Arts has got together with Sherborne Girls School to present an exciting evening of piano virtuosity, on Friday 6th February at 7pm, when two of the most gifted young pianists of our time, Martin James Bartlett and Mariam Batsashvili give a programme of piano duets at Gransden Hall in the school’s Merritt Centre. Franz…
BOURNEMOUTH Symphony Orchestra, the region’s leading classical music organisation, regularly includes music with a lighter touch in its programme, alongside mainstream and more serious works. A series of concerts features music from some of the greatest blockbuster films of the past 40 or so years, composed by two of the all-time movie music greats. Beethoven’s…
THE third Shaftesbury Festival of Baroque takes place at the arts centre, St Peter’s Church, St James’s Church and other venues from 20th to 26th January. The programme ranges from film to dance to a “battle” of 17th century playwrights. Professional musicians from the region and beyond (even Cumbria) will be taking part in this…
BATH Festivals has announced some of the highlights of next year’s international music festival, with tickets for five concerts released early – a perfect post Christmas gift for the music-lover in your life! The international music festival will run from Saturday 30th May to Sunday 7th June, and the first of the newly released events…
SHAFTESBURY Chamber Music Series founder violinist Ruth Rogers returns home to Shaftesbury on Saturday 13th December for a sonata recital. She will be joined by pianist Simon Callaghan at the Farrington Hall at Port Regis School on Saturday 13th December for a recital that begins with Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in D, Op. 12 No. 1…
A CRITICALLY acclaimed young pianist, Reed Tetzloff, will give an afternoon recital, The Romantic Piano, at St John’s Church, Tisbury, on Saturday 13th December at 3.30pm. The concert is raising funds for the church. Tetzloff came to international attention ten years ago at the XV Tchaikovsky Competition, where he was dubbed “the lyric hero of…