About the Chipping Campden Music Festival
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Music Education
As a charity, the festival is seriously committed to music education.
In addition to the festival lunchtime concerts, we run workshops and regular coaching sessions in local schools given by experienced practitioners.
The ‘Chipping Campden Festival Academy’ orchestra, formed in 2008, has become an extremely significant part of the festival.
The Academy is formed a new every year (although many of the professionals are regular members). Each desk has an advanced conservatoire student or recent graduate playing alongside an experienced Professional. This gives the young artists an invaluable insight into what playing in a professional orchestra really entails.
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Community Choir
Our community choir is known as the Festival Chorus. If you are interested in joining, please email the Music Director Charles Matthews .
There are no auditions for the choir; all are welcome. They rehearse on Wednesday evenings during school term times and give three public concerts each year, usually with professional ensembles and soloists.
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The 2027 Festival will run from 10th – 22nd May
Artists invited to perform include
Julian Bliss, Mary Bevan, Junyan Chen, Irène Duval
Ex Cathedra, Steven Isserlis, Leonkoro Quartet, Joseph Middleton
Steven Osborne, Sir András Schiff, Aleksey Semenenko
Connie Shih, Nicky Spence, Stephen Waarts
Full details of the programmes and how to book will be published here in Autumn 2026
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