Ludlow Arts: Classical
2024-25 Season
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Wednesday 19 March 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Kyan Quartet
Works by Haydn, Shostakovich, Sofia Gubaidulina and Debussy.
Established in 2020, the award-winning Kyan Quartet brings together four exceptional musicians from the United Kingdom, the United States, China, and France. ...read more...
Tickets £20 from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE. Offer: book all three Wednesday Concerts for £50!
Friday 11 — Sunday 13 April 2025
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Ludlow English Song Weekend
Iain Burnside: Artistic Director
Ludlow's festival of song with three days of concerts and events featuring the very best classical artists from the UK and around the world.
Full programme and ticketing information is now available HERE.
Wednesday 23 April 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Lumas Winds
Works by Glinka, Bach, Amy Beach, Endre Szervánszky, Shostakovich, Timothy Jackson. Luciano Berio and Lalo Schifrin.
Lumas Winds are an exciting young quintet who have put together for us a programme of highly entertaining music. ...read more...
Tickets £20 from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE. Offer: book all three Wednesday Concerts for £50!
Saturday 17 May 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Ludlow Orchestra
Works by Dvořák, Prokifiev, Walton and Tchaikovsky.
Four fabulous works make up this great programme from the Ludlow Orchestra. Following recent performances at St. Laurence's with both the Ludlow Orchestra and the Brodsky Quartet, violinist Gina McCormack makes a welcome return ...read more...
Tickets, £15, (u19 free) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office soon.
Wednesday 21 — Sunday 25 May 2025
St Laurence, Ludlow and Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Ludlow Piano Festival
Classical concerts here in adjacent panels. For other events see LPF website. Full programme and ticketing informationHERE.
Thursday 22 May 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Peter Donohoe, piano
Works by Chopin, Grieg and Busoni
Over forty years, Peter has gained international renown as one of the foremost pianists of our time : now he comes to Ludlow to play music by arguably the greatest ever composer for the piano. A double dose of genius! ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Friday 23 May 2025
2:00pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Benjamin Frith and Heidi Rolfe, piano duet
Holst's The Planets
After their scintillating performance of Scheherezade last year, the pair return with a rarely-heard piano duet arrangement of Holst's ever-popular Planets Suite: it promises to be another unmissable, tour de force. ...read more...
Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Friday 23 May 2025
4:30pm
Palmers Hall, Ludlow College
Jonathan Powell, piano
From Pole to Pole
Works by Maria Szymanowska, Chopin, Paderewski and Szymanowski.
A fascinating afternoon of music from some lesser-known Polish composers and still a little something from their inspirational compatriot, Fryderyk Chopin. ...read more...
Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Friday 23 May 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Alim Beisembayev, piano
Works by Scarlatti, Ravel, Liszt, Ligeti, Eleanor Alberga, and Debussy.
This very special evening promises to be a real pianistic firework display from one of the most talked about and sought-after young pianists in the world.
The first time I heard him on Radio 3, I was stopped in my tracks by the sheer beauty of his playing. Alistair McGowan ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Saturday 24 May 2025
2:30pm
Palmers Hall, Ludlow College
Clare Hammond, piano
Works by Cécile Chaminade, Germaine Tailleferre, Mel Bonis, Doreen Carwithen, Hélène de Montgeroult and Clara Schumann.
Respected worldwide for her searching programmes, Clare plays music exclusively by female composers such as those in today''s programme who are starting to receive the air-time and gain the reputation that they deserve. ...read more...
Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Saturday 24 May 2025
6:00pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Joanna MacGregor, piano
Works by Glass, Rameau, Couperin, Liszt and Mussorgsky
The impossibly-stylish Joanna thrilled us here at our closing concert in 2023. She will no doubt do so again with a typically quixotic and eclectic programme including music by Glass, Rameau, Couperin, Liszt and the atmospheric Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Sunday 25 May 2025
2:00pm
Palmers Hall, Ludlow College
Mario Bobotsov, piano
Young Artist Recital
Works by Beethoven, Franck and Rachmaninov.
A masterclass participant here last year and now completing his studies, Mario is being much talked about and today brings us Rachmaninov and other delights. ...read more...
Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.