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We hold five chamber music concerts a year in Berkhamsted and organise excursions to concerts at London venues. Our events can be booked online or through the contact details below. Berkhamsted concert tickets are available at the door.

Updates:

An audience that braved the rigours of Storm Darragh on Saturday 7 December were richly rewarded with a beautifully balanced programme of piano trios spanning three centuries.  Mozart’s lively Trio in B Flat Major was at the start of the process of liberating the three instruments from the roles they had historically fulfilled and provided greater opportunities for the violinist to shine.  Beethoven’s highly varied Ghost trio in D Major, with its wonderfully mysterious slow movement, written twenty years later, shows how far this process had advanced, with virtuosic, solo roles for all three instruments.  Moving just over one hundred years on from that, Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor written immediately prior to the start of the First World War, inhabits a quite different world and makes extreme demands on all three players both together and in highly exposed and deeply expressive solo roles.  At times it approaches a near symphonic density of texture without, in a performance as brilliantly clear as this one, losing any of its fine detail.  The Minerva Piano Trio played this highly varied repertoire with impressive technical skill and deep emotional commitment.  Ravel’s technically demanding but emotionally very direct music made a huge impression on the audience and was the most emotionally satisfying performance that I have witnessed in a long time.

Our season continues after Christmas on 15 February with the cellist Maxim Calver sponsored by the Countess of Munster Trust.

We are sorry to note the passing of Liz Wood in the past week. Liz was for several years a member of the Committee and her talents in flower arranging added to the colour of our stage.

Updated 8 December 2024

Berkhamsted Music Festival Violin

Season 2024-25


Concert
Photo Credit: Matthew Johnson

Maxim Calver

Saturday February 15th 2025
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
Calver held the room with the elegance of his technique, overall sound and natural poeticism’ Charlotte Gardner – Strad Magazine
Concert

Fitzroy Quartet

Saturday March 15th 2025
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
“engaging and responsive to the emotional worlds of each piece in turn”

Season 2025-26


Concert
Photo Credit: Marco Borggreve

Marmen Quartet

Saturday October 11th 2025
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
“Performing is all about communication. It’s telling a story and I feel the Marmen are dedicated to this ideal.” Peter Cropper
Concert
Photo Credit: Ian Dingle

Eblana String Trio

Saturday November 8th 2025
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
“…the late, mercurial, if elliptical, String Trio, a sort of 12-tone divertimento, was brilliantly undertaken by the Eblana String Trio.” Sunday Times
Concert

Marsyas Trio

Saturday December 6th 2025
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
“Thanks to the sensitive and musical playing of pianist Olga Stezhko…we were able to enjoy the ravishing sound of Helen Vidovich’s flute in its lowest register and the velvet tone of Val Welbanks’ cello …” Charles Dobson, Skipton Music
Concert
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Artist sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

Saturday February 14th 2026
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
Concert featuring an artist sponsored by the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme.
Concert
Photo Credit: Sophie Williams

Kleio Quartet

Saturday March 14th 2026
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
"A wonderfully dedicated group of musicians who bring assuredness and freshness to everything they play" Alina Ibragimova

Our Berkhamsted venue

Berkhamsted Civic Centre

There is limited parking on the High Street. Parking in the two pay-and-display car parks is free after 6 pm. The closest car park to the concert venues is behind Tesco. Berkhamsted Civic Centre 161-163 High Street BERKHAMSTED HP4 3HB

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