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York Chamber Music Festival celebrates the return of live chamber music by bringing to the city a stellar cast of musicians! Tim Lowe

(Artistic Director)

Welcome to York Chamber Music Festival! The festival aims to bring some of the UK’s best chamber musicians to York with the specific aim of involving York’s young musicians and giving them an opportunity not only to hear these players but to talk and work with them in masterclasses. As part of the festival a national competition will bring aspiring chamber music groups to York from the national co

nservatoires, music colleges and university music departments. All these events are open for everyone to enjoy. The cost of entrance has been kept down thanks to generous donations from local sponsors keen to see York’s young people engage with ‘new generation’ chamber musicians. We are basing our programme around core repertoire but have included some lesser known works because, whether young or older, we want to stimulate peoples’ curiosity and imagination. I do hope you will support this new initiative in the musical life of York and enjoy what we have to offer.

09/05/2025

TRANSFIGURED NIGHT
Verklärte Nacht was inspired by a poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel – a progressive German poet. Schoenberg’s composition tracks the poem’s story. This unusual combination of chamber music READ MORE https://www.ycmf.co.uk/post/transfigured-night
What's Occurring York Ripon ConcertsYork Chamber Music Festival

Arnold Schoenberg and the late chamber music of BrahmsVerklärte Nacht was inspired by a poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel – a progressive German poet. Schoenberg’s composition tracks the poem’s story. This unusual combination of chamber music with programmatic content was intended by Sc...

14/01/2025

York Chamber Music Festival 2025 will be launched at this event by Tim Lowe, Artistic Director of YCMF and John Lenehan, who open this year’s festival with a ‘taster’ READ MORE >

National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate Wednesday 12 March 2025 7:30pmTickets £20 (18 and under free)TIM LOWEJOHN LENEHANBeethoven Cello Sonata in D major, Op. 102 No.2Bloch Three Pieces from Jewish Life IntervalRachmaninov Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19York...

23/09/2024

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.

By spreading the word, you help us build a community of music lovers and ensures the festival continues to grow...

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Thank you all for coming and supporting York Chamber Music Festival. It was a joy to see so many of you there...

13/09/2024

Get ready for the grand opening of the York Chamber Music Festival!

Join us for EVENT 1, an enchanting 'Cello Recital featuring Tim Lowe ('cello) and Andrew Brownell (piano). Immerse yourself in a French-themed program with works by Nadia Boulanger, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Fauré.

🗓 Date: Friday, 13th September 2024
🕐 Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
📍 Venue: Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
🎟 Tickets: £15 (Free for under 18s)

Don't miss this transcendent musical journey!

Limited tickets are still available on the door or book now at www.ycmf.co.uk/2024-programme

Let the music inspire and uplift you!

The performing artists taking part in the York Chamber Music Festival 2024. We bring you the UK’s best classical chamber musicians to York. Come and join us at this years classical music festival - events are open to everyone to enjoy.

28/08/2024

Tickets selling fast - don't miss out! Don't forget to use the Festival Saver - https://ncem.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173647120

11/07/2024

The two Piano Quartets by Fauré and Brahms to be played in Event Four are connected by a reaction to the spectre of Beethoven whose awesome presence overshadowed European musical culture across much of the nineteenth century. Both were young composers of genius but struggling to put a form and technique to the music that they both intuitively knew lay within their deep mind, as yet untapped... Read More
https://www.ycmf.co.uk/post/breakout-piano-quartet

07/06/2024

The Renaissance of French Music
Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924) and the Renaissance of French Music
The centenary of Fauré’s death is a moment to reflect on his influence in driving forward the renaissance of French music, in the decades after the defeat of the French army during the endgame of the Franco-Prussian war, 1870-71. When he was born Chopin was still composing but by the time of his death he knew the music of the Second Viennese School - Schoenberg, Berg and Webern and he knew Jazz..... read more >

The centenary of Fauré’s death is a moment to reflect on his influence in driving forward the renaissance of French music...

14/09/2023

Join us from 1pm Friday 15 September York Unitarian Chapel
A few tickets still available. Follow the link below to get yours!

Our friends at York Chamber Music Festival are busy preparing for their 10th anniversary festival opening tomorrow. We hope you have a great weekend.

If you haven't got your tickets yet it's not too late. There are still some available for all events and if you book for all five concerts in the same transaction, you can save £15.00!

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25/08/2023

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Tim Lowe (Cello) and Katya Apekisheva (Piano) launch the 2023 festival with some of the best-loved cello and piano repertoire; Beethoven seeming to improvise and in relaxed mood showing us his most human side, Brahms loving the deep, autumnal glow of the cello and Schumann also in thrall to the cello writing a love poem ending in an outburst of happiness!

Friday 15 September 1.00pm – 2:00pm
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
Tickets £15 (18 and under free)

https://ycmf.co.uk/2023-programme -1

04/08/2023

It was only a few weeks before he died aged 31 in November 1828, that Schubert completed his last instrumental work, the Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960.

In a change of programme to Event 3 of York Chamber Music Festival, Katya Apekisheva will perform Schubert's B flat major sonata, READ MORE >

It was only a few weeks before he died aged 31 in November 1828, that Schubert completed his last instrumental work, the Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960. In a change of programme to Event 3 of York Chamber Music Festival, Katya Apekisheva will perform Schubert's B flat major sonata, with its effo...

14/07/2023

Elgar and Vaughan Williams
Elgar (1857 – 1934) and Vaughan Williams (1872 -1958) both endured long musical apprenticeships, doggedly determined to discover the destiny that they both seemed to know intuitively lay dormant in their deep mind - READ MORE

Elgar and Vaughan Williams both endured long musical apprenticeships and transformed the the future of English classical music.

16/06/2023

The best known masterpiece from Richard Strauss’s extraordinary ‘Indian summer’, the Four Last Songs were composed in 1948, a year before he died at the age of 85. Before that, however, came the strings only melodic outpouring of Metamorphosen, an unbroken heart-rending strand of lyricism which spans 25 minutes and in some ways surpasses the song cycle in intensity. Metamorphosen was written during the savage endgame to... READ MORE

Metamorphosen was written during the savage endgame to the Second World War when death and destruction were all around him; much of Germany lay in ruins and it is this context that haunts the music.

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Welcome to the York Chamber Music Festival. The festival aims to bring some of the UK’s best chamber musicians to York with the specific aim of involving York’s young musicians and giving them an opportunity not only to hear these players but to talk and work with them in masterclasses. All these events are open for everyone to enjoy. The cost of entrance has been kept down thanks to generous donations from local sponsors keen to see York’s young people engage with ‘new generation’ chamber musicians. We are basing our programme around core repertoire but have included some lesser known works because, whether young or older, we want to stimulate peoples’ curiosity and imagination. I do hope you will support this new initiative in the musical life of York and enjoy what we have to offer. Tim Lowe (Artistic Director)