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SUMMARY:INTESA DUO – viols & voice
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR INTESA DUO\n  \n‘Voices of San Lazzaro’ \nIntesa is a duo for voice and viol formed by Lucine Musaelian and Nathan Giorgetti in 2023 at the Royal Academy of Music. The ensemble’s name\, an Italian word meaning ‘understanding’ or ‘meeting of minds’\, reflects the collaborative ethos at the heart of their work. Their programmes place folk and early music repertoire side by side\, bringing together European and Armenian traditions through narrative and self-accompanied performance. \nFor their Festival debut\, they reference the Armenian monastery\, San Lazzaro degli Armeni\, in the Venetian lagoon\, where (since 1717) monks and scholars have gathered to preserve the traditions of early Christianity and chant. \nTheir Voices of San Lazzaro programme explores the union of Armenian and Italian traditions\, weaving together a story of Armenian faith and a female story of musical prowess in the Italian courts\, featuring works by the Caccini sisters\, Barbara Strozzi\, and Monteverdi alongside the Armenian ashugh tradition of storytelling through song. \nTickets are available per concert\, as an evening season pass (including 4 evening concerts) or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \nEVENING PASS\n  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/intense-duo/
LOCATION:The Hub at St Mary’s\, Market Square\, Lichfield\, WS13 6LG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261002T140000
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SUMMARY:TOHI HARADA – guitar
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR TOHI HARADA\n  \nYoung Artist Series \nJapanese guitarist\, Tohi Harada\, is studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London supported by a generous scholarship\, and is the recipient of many prizes at international competitions. \nHe took up the guitar at the age of 3\, and during his childhood in Japan\, he won first place in more than ten junior competitions. In 2019\, he was awarded 1st Prize at the East End International Guitar Competition in Japan\, which led to the opportunity to release his first debut album ‘To-i’ in 2020\, which received a special ‘Recording Prize.’ \nAlready much in demand for his rich musical style in Japan\, here and abroad\, Tohi appears with us courtesy of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme. \nHis programme today features an eclectic mix of works\, including pieces by Dowland\, Walton and J.S. Bach. \nTickets are available per concert or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/tohi-harada-guitar/
LOCATION:Wade Street Church\, Wade Street\, Lichfield\, Staffordshire\, WS13 6HL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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SUMMARY:THE PADDINGTON TRIO
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR THE PADDINGTON TRIO\n  \n‘To an Old Friend’ \nOur newest Festival Associate Artists\, the Paddington Trio\, make their third visit to the Festival\, after stunning previous performances at our 2024 Chamber Festival and 2025 Summer Festival. \n‘Music can take you anywhere when played like this’ The Guardian \nMuch like the famous bear\, Finnish violinist Tuulia Hero\, Irish cellist Patrick Moriarty\, and American pianist Stephanie Tang first came together at Paddington Station and made London their home. From the start they achieved a meteoric rise\, emerging as First Prize recipients of two prestigious London chamber music competitions: the 70th Royal Over-Seas League Competition and the Parkhouse Award at Wigmore Hall. \nTheir programme To an Old Friend features works that have been ‘dedicated’ to friends and artists\, by Pärt and Shostakovich\, together with a new commission from locally-born composer\, Mark Boden\, and culminates in Tchaikovsky’s great Piano Trio in A minor\, Op. 50 written in memory ‘of a great artist\, Nikolai Rubinstein’. \nTickets are available per concert\, as an evening season pass (including 4 evening concerts) or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \nEVENING PASS\n  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/the-paddington-trio-3/
LOCATION:The Hub at St Mary’s\, Market Square\, Lichfield\, WS13 6LG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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SUMMARY:RYAN ZHU – piano
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR RYAN ZHU\n  \nHastings International Piano Competition winner 2026 \nAs part of a new collaboration between the Hastings International Piano Competition and the Festival\, the HIPC 2026 1st prize winner\, Canadian pianist Ryan Zhu\, makes a Lichfield debut. \nA recent graduate of the Juilliard School in New York\, and currently studying for a Master’s at Yale\, Ryan is without doubt a pianist to watch. \nHaving reached the semi-finals of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition\, in Hastings he also took away the Orchestra Prize and the Audience Prize\, and has already recently made his London debut at the Wigmore Hall. \nHis programme this afternoon will include works by Schumann\, Beethoven Sonata in F minor\, Op. 2\, No. 1 and Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini\, Op. 35. \nTickets are available per concert or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \n  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/ryan-zhu/
LOCATION:The Hub at St Mary’s\, Market Square\, Lichfield\, WS13 6LG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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SUMMARY:CLARE HAMMOND - piano
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR CLARE HAMMOND\n  \n‘a pianist of extraordinary gifts’ Gramophone \nClare Hammond returns to Lichfield once again for a programme full of flare and fire. Recognised for her imaginative playing and communicative performance style\, Clare is an established recording artist\, prize-winner and worldwide recitalist. Her notable appearances include those at the BBC Proms and she has appeared as concerto soloist with BBC NOW\, London Philharmonic\, BBC Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras. \nClare recently founded the Gloucestershire Piano Trust to support her ongoing work in schools and prisons\, which reaches around 4\,000 schoolchildren and 300 prisoners each year. Her recital this evening features a short work that was co-created by prisoners at HMP Oakwood and composer Michael Betteridge. A short documentary about this project\, Internal Victories\, will be shown ahead of Clare’s performance\, starting at 7pm. \nClare also plays Rachmaninoff Etudes-Tableaux\, Op. 33\, works by Chopin and Janacek\, and finishes with virtuosic arrangements of pieces by Gershwin as well as Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite. \nTickets are available per concert\, as an evening season pass (including 4 evening concerts) or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \nEVENING PASS\n  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/clare-hammond/
LOCATION:The Hub at St Mary’s\, Market Square\, Lichfield\, WS13 6LG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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SUMMARY:CHAMELEON QUARTET – wind quartet
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR CHAMELEON QUARTET\n  \nChameleon Quartet are a prize-winning\, versatile woodwind ensemble with a mission to share music with audiences far and wide. Their performances feature an impressive array of up to 13 woodwind instruments split between only four members\, with the Quartet seamlessly transitioning between them to showcase the diversity of the woodwind family. \nChameleon are winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Henderson Award\, 2023\, and are Live Music Now artists specialising in SEND and primary school engagement. They were recipients of the RPS Enterprise Fund for ‘Virtually Live’ in 2021\, a concert series driven by a passion for connecting with their audience through conversation and\ninteraction. Their performing and engagement projects work in tandem\, with a firm belief that every piece of music can be understood and enjoyed by anyone. Their Chamber Weekend programme will feature music by Saint–Saëns\, Dvorak\, Amy Beach and J.S. Bach. \nTickets are available per concert or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \n  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/chameleon-quartet/
LOCATION:The Hub at St Mary’s\, Market Square\, Lichfield\, WS13 6LG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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SUMMARY:REGENCY QUARTET – string quartet
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR REGENCY QUARTET\n  \nYoung Artist Series \nWinners of the 2025 Royal Over-Seas League Strings and Keyboard Ensembles Prize and Kirckman Concert Society Young Artists 2025/26\, the Regency String Quartet was formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021 and comprises of scholars at London conservatoires. Led by Mabelle Park pictured\, the Quartet has been generously supported by the Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training Scheme from 2021-2024 through the Royal Academy of Music\, and they appear today as part of the Festival’s long standing collaboration with the Royal Over-Seas League in London. \nThe Quartet have performed at Wigmore Hall\, Kings Place and Conway Hall\, and have given recitals at St George’s Bristol\, the Mill Hill Music Festival\, St James’s Piccadilly\, the Royal Academy of Music and the Young Artists’ Platform in London. \nThis weekend sees the ensemble’s Festival debut and their programme will feature Haydn String Quartet in B minor\, Op. 33\, No. 1\, Ravel String Quartet in F major and Webern Langsamer Satz. \nTickets are available per concert or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \n  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/regency-quartet-string-quartet/
LOCATION:The Hub at St Mary’s\, Market Square\, Lichfield\, WS13 6LG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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SUMMARY:Aaron Azunda Akugbo & Ryan Corbett- trumpet and accordian
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR AARON AZUNDA AKUGBO & RYAN CORBETT\n  \nTwo former Festival Young Artists – and fellows Scots! – combine for an exciting evening of original works and transcriptions\, as trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo and classical accordionist Ryan Corbett return to Lichfield for a dazzling programme that spans the centuries. \nBoth are now established soloists – Ryan is a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and Classic FM Rising Star; Aaron is also a leading exponent of his instrument and regularly freelances in the principal chairs of some of the most prestigious orchestras in the UK including the Philharmonia\, BBC Philharmonic\, BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. \nTo close our Chamber Music weekend\, they will bring us a touch of folk\, baroque music from Venice’s Marcello\, a flavour of France from Fauré\, and a taste of South America from the ever-popular Argentinian tango maestro\, Piazzolla. \nTickets are available per concert\, as an evening season pass (including 4 evening concerts) or for the full weekend (including all 8 concerts) .  \nEVENING PASS\n  \nWEEKEND PASS\nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/aaron-azumnda-akugbo-and-ryan-corbett/
LOCATION:The Hub at St Mary’s\, Market Square\, Lichfield\, WS13 6LG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Chamber
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SUMMARY:Black Dyke Band - Christmas Concert
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR BLACK DYKE BAND\n  \nIf you’re looking for something to warm the pre-Christmas cockles of your heart\, look no further than the world-renowned Black Dyke Band’s visit to the Festival as part of our 2026 Christmas celebrations! \nPlaying a selection of traditional brass band and Christmas favourites\, the glorious surroundings of Lichfield Cathedral will be filled with the Black Dyke Band’s unique sound\, as the 13-time European Champion winners\, 30-time British Open 1st prize winners and 24-time National Champions of Great Britain make a welcome return to Lichfield. \nWith a history dating back to 1816\, this exceptional ensemble (under long-standing Music Director\, Professor Nicholas Childs)  has rightfully earned its place as a standout in the realm of brass bands. Renowned for its exceptional musicality\, the Black Dyke Band holds the distinction of being the most recorded band in the world\, with over 370 recordings (currently!) to its name. \n  \n \n  \nBOOK TICKETS FOR BLACK DYKE BAND\n  \nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 21st July | Silver/Bronze – 28th July | General Booking Opens – 4th August \nAccess \nLevel access is available via the West End entrance.  Detailed access information is available on the cathedral website here Accessibility at Lichfield Cathedral. Designated seats have been allocated for wheelchair users and companions; please telephone the box office to book these.
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/black-dyke-band-christmas-concert/
LOCATION:Lichfield Cathedral\, 19A The Close\, Lichfield\, Staffordshire\, WS13 7LD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Christmas
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SUMMARY:Ex Cathedra - Christmas Music
DESCRIPTION:BOOK TICKETS FOR EX CATHEDRA CHRISTMAS MUSIC\n  \nStep out of the winter rush and into the still\, warm glow of candlelight. Ex Cathedra’s much-loved concerts offer beautiful seasonal music\, a sprinkling of favourite carols\, and readings to make you smile and reflect\, all revealing the quiet magic of Christmas. Encounter the mystery as well as the merriment. Once experienced\, they’re never forgotten. \n“a phenomenal feat of musicianship” (New Yorker) \nEX CATHEDRA\nJeffrey Skidmore conductor \nNicholas Wearne organ \nThe running time is approx. 2 hours 10 minutes\, including interval. Refreshments will be available to purchase during the interval. \nThis concert is co-presented by Ex Cathedra and Lichfield Festival. \nEarly booking is advised to avoid disappointment. \nLFF Priority Booking Opens: Platinum/Founder/Millennium/Gold – 1st June | Silver/Bronze: 8th June | General Booking Opens: 15th June \nPrice bands : £42 / £36 / £30.50 / £25 / £18 \nAccess \nEveryone is welcome at Ex Cathedra’s concerts\, and the choir is committed to doing all it can to ensure you have a great experience. \nLevel access is available via the West End entrance.  Detailed access information is available on the cathedral website here Accessibility at Lichfield Cathedral. Designated seats have been allocated for wheelchair users and companions; please telephone the box office to book these. \nEach half of this concert will be performed as an uninterrupted sequence\, and the atmosphere will be quiet and still for extended periods.  Audiences usually reserve applause for the end of each half.  If you have any questions\, please contact Ex Cathedra or Lichfield Festival\, we are happy to help. \nBOOK TICKETS FOR EX CATHEDRA CHRISTMAS MUSIC
URL:https://lichfieldfestival.org/event/ex-cathedra-christmas-2026/
LOCATION:Lichfield Cathedral\, 19A The Close\, Lichfield\, Staffordshire\, WS13 7LD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Christmas,Classical
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