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Pioneering new music group Explore Ensemble performs a dazzling selection of original pieces by RCM composers.

Enjoy polished chamber performances in the midst of a beautiful collection of historic artefacts and instruments.

Faculty Showcase: Oboe

Clarinettist Anthony McGill collaborates with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and stars of the next generation from Guildhall School, as he closes his Milton Court residency.

RCM Junior Department Baroque and recorder ensembles present works by a range of composers.

These impressive young musicians display their technical skills performing with period bows and on the RCM's superb Kennedy-Mietke harpsichord.

⭐ Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in London. Discover the music of Bollywood and Tollywood on Strings at Southwark Cathedral under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons is an intimate, immersive concert featuring fresh arrangements of the most cherished songs from the Stardew Valley soundtrack, performed by a live chamber orchestra.

The wood-panelled Parliament Chamber of Inner Temple is an exquisite salon for chamber music.

Period musicians from the Royal College of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music collaborate in exquisite chamber works by two significant French female composers of the Baroque and Romantic eras.

• Mahler Piano Quartet A minor
• Schnittke Piano Quartet (based on a fragment by Gustav Mahler)
• Catoire Piano Quartet A minor, Op. 31

We return to the famous Fiddler’s Elbow appropriately enough with a mix of music by Purcell for violins, viola da gamba and harpsichord put together by Matthew Truscott (violin) and Steven Devine (harpsichord).

Programme to include works by Brahms, Koetsier and Zequinha Abreu, and chamber items for brass quintet and trumpet quartet

James Lisney’s …petits concerts take their title from the annual series of recitals given by Charles Alkan at the Erard Showroom in Paris during the 1870s.

The Benyounes Trio is a newly formed ensemble made up of three of the UK’s most versatile and experienced chamber musicians.

• Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello, M.73
• Peter Fribbins ‘Softly, in the dusk’
• Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

⭐ Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in London. Discover the music of Bollywood and Tollywood on Strings at Southwark Cathedral under the gentle glow of candlelight.

‘A committed and accomplished performance from Benedetti, whose playing combines soaring lyrical sweetness with muscular confidence’ The Guardian

Lumas Winds is a dynamic, young chamber ensemble based in London. Winners of the 71st Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Prize in 2023, Lumas are committed ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of repertoire that it offers.

The award-winning Kleio Quartet presents a dynamic programme of contrasts. The heart of the programme is Wynton Marsalis’ ‘At the Octoroon Balls’, a fusion of jazz and classical chamber music.

After 25 years of solid jazz promoting in the basement bar at The Spice of Life Soho, nurturing upcoming talents as well as established masters of the music, the SpiceJazz Team are excited to relocate their acclaimed operation to the well-appointed and stylish music room of Crazy Coqs.

The London-based Paddington Trio returns to Conway Hall, inviting everyone into their living room of musical discovery and shared love for chamber music.

Ensemble V was formed to record the Piano Quintet of the British composer Kenneth V. Jones – and they take their name from his middle initial!

In his first concert as the English Chamber Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, Roberto Forés Veses conducts a programme inspired by Mozart’s time in Paris.

ENCORE members: £5 off top-price

The Trinity Laban Carne Trust Chamber Competition celebrates the incredible wealth of chamber music happening at London's creative conservatoire.

Come and enjoy a diverse programme celebrating all things violin, drawing on works from Fenella Humphreys' brand new album Prism on Rubicon Classics.