Little Missenden Festival

Little Missenden Festival The Little Missenden Festival takes place every October. It has a very intimate and special feeling. A concert here is a unique experience.

The Little Missenden Festival has a tradition of high-quality music-making in a unique village setting. Most events take place in the ancient village church of St John the Baptist, a small Saxon-cum-Norman building enriched with 12th-17th century wall paintings, dominated by a famous St Christopher. This lovely building has a fine immediate acoustic, and music heard at this intimate range has real

impact and presence. The small and unspoilt village is in beautiful Chiltern countryside. The Festival features promising young talents as well as nationally and internationally famous artists and composers. The programme ranges from classic masterworks through less familiar (but not less intriguing) territory. It includes something for all – early, baroque, classical and contemporary music rub shoulders with jazz, folk music, art lectures, poetry and children's events.

More lovely music in Amersham!
09/02/2025

More lovely music in Amersham!

Viv Mclean performs a concert "sonatas and Variations" at the Amersham Concert Club on 22nd February 2025

At this year's festival we will celebrate 500 years of Palestrina. His exact date of birth isn't recorded, but he was 68...
04/02/2025

At this year's festival we will celebrate 500 years of Palestrina. His exact date of birth isn't recorded, but he was 68 when he died in February 1594, so it was most likely some time in 1525. By which time the oldest parts of Little Missenden Church were already 400 years old: mark your diary for some new-fangled polyphony!

Wigmore Hall is offering a free live-stream of Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz performing Schubert songs this ...
31/01/2025

Wigmore Hall is offering a free live-stream of Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz performing Schubert songs this evening.

Important InformationThis concert will be live streamed on this page in HD. The video will be available on demand for 90 days after the date of the broadcast.ArtistsKonstantin KrimmelbaritoneAmmiel Bushakevitzpiano

Some local concerts from our friends at Amersham Concert Club
28/01/2025

Some local concerts from our friends at Amersham Concert Club

Viv Mclean performs a concert "sonatas and Variations" at the Amersham Concert Club on 22nd February 2025

Happy birthday, Mozart (born on 27th January in 1756)
27/01/2025

Happy birthday, Mozart (born on 27th January in 1756)

Our annual outreach programme with local primary schools is spreading its usual magic
26/01/2025

Our annual outreach programme with local primary schools is spreading its usual magic

26/01/2025

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Kerry Andrew's setting of the Cherry Tree Carol was featured on Radio 3 at 10am this morning
10/12/2024

Kerry Andrew's setting of the Cherry Tree Carol was featured on Radio 3 at 10am this morning

Listen live to BBC Radio 3 on BBC Sounds

Nice to hear the Corvus Consort (who performed at last year's festival) featured as the BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics A...
28/10/2024

Nice to hear the Corvus Consort (who performed at last year's festival) featured as the BBC Radio 3 Essential Classics Album of the Week.

Thanks to Robert Piwko Productions for capturing some of the best moments of this year's Festival, as well as some lovel...
16/10/2024

Thanks to Robert Piwko Productions for capturing some of the best moments of this year's Festival, as well as some lovely rehearsal shots.

Thank you Ensemble Pro Victoria for a magical performance of music on the theme of remembrance including Victoria's spel...
13/10/2024

Thank you Ensemble Pro Victoria for a magical performance of music on the theme of remembrance including Victoria's spell-binding Requiem at Little Missenden last night. Photo: Robert Piwko Productions

Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman played to a packed church on Thursday at Little Missenden (Photo: Sisi Burn)
13/10/2024

Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman played to a packed church on Thursday at Little Missenden (Photo: Sisi Burn)

Last night's blues concert with Kirris Riviere and the Delta du Bruit: Blues from Bristol was a first for the Festival
12/10/2024

Last night's blues concert with Kirris Riviere and the Delta du Bruit: Blues from Bristol was a first for the Festival

Some great pictures of last night's performers The Octandre Ensemble
10/10/2024

Some great pictures of last night's performers The Octandre Ensemble

What an incredible experience to hear The Octandre Ensemble 's stunning performance of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of...
09/10/2024

What an incredible experience to hear The Octandre Ensemble 's stunning performance of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time while Little Missenden Church provided not only an amazing acoustic but even a glimpse of the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse in its 14th century Doom painting (they are the diagonal lines, on the left, under the horizontal beam).

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Little Missenden Church
Amersham
HP70RA

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Don't miss the final concert in this year's festival. We look forward to welcoming the Barbican Quartet playing Haydn, Ligeti and Beethoven

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Little Missenden Festival

For over 60 years, the Little Missenden Festival has provided a glorious celebration of the finest music, art and literature. Set in a small, unspoilt village within the Chiltern Hills, most events take place in the 10th Century Church of St John the Baptist. This beautiful and atmospheric venue is enhanced by a unique sequence of Medieval wall paintings: www.little-missenden.org