The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, celebrating its 15th anniversary, takes us on a special journey across "Across Mountains and Valleys" in five concerts featuring music written by some of our most intrepid musical explorers. Music that looks back to its national roots as well as being inspired by travel and adventure.

Once again we will be joined by some of the most celebrated musicians performing in the world today, including:

Artistic Director Lawrence Power (viola/violin), Vilde Frang (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Benjamin Marquise-Gilmore (violin), Timothy Ridout (viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), John Myerscough (cello).

The Festival, which was hailed by The Guardian newspaper as “One of the top ten classical music events of 2021” was the creation of Founder and Artistic Director, violist Lawrence Power.

Lawrence Power was recently feted by the New York Times as "A Musician on a mission to make us pay attention to the viola…. Power is redefining what the viola can do" .

He makes time in his incredibly busy career as an international soloist to return to the area where he was born and brought up to present three days of the most fantastic chamber music.

Tickets may be purchased for each of the 5 concerts.

Friday and Saturday daytime concerts £18
Thursday and Friday evening concerts £22
Saturday evening concert £25

Students: £5 for any concert, Under-18s: Free with a paying adult
Festival pass for all 5 Festival concerts: £95

Concert #1           Thursday 18 September at 7.30
                                    “FROM MY LIFE”

Enesco - Concertpiece for Viola/Piano
Smetana - String Quartet No.1
(From my Life)

INTERVAL

Bartok - Duos for 2 Violins
Suk - Piano Quintet Op 8

Benjamin Marquise-Gilmore
Annabelle Meare
Lawrence Power
John Myerscough
Simon Crawford-Phillips

Concert #2           Friday 19 September  at 1 pm
                                    “REDISCOVERED PLACES”

Bacewicz             Quartet for 4 Violins
Rachmaninov       Romance 6 hands
Ades                   Lieux Retrouvés” (fields)
Vaughan Williams Studies on English Folksong
Brahms               Clarinet Trio Op 114


Benjamin Marquise Gilmore
Charlotte Spruit
Annabelle Meare
Lawrence Power
Nicolas Altstaedt
Gabriel Power
Simon Crawford-Phillips

Concert #3           Friday 19September at 7.30

                                    “NIGHT MUSIC”

Boccherini             Night Music of the Streets of Madrid
Shostakovich         Seven Romances on poems by Blok Op127
                  INTERVAL
Biber                      Sonata Representativa
Dvorak                   Piano Quintet No.1 Op 5

Lawrence Power
Benjamin Marquise-Gilmore
Charlotte Spruit
Annabelle Meare
Nicolas Altstaedt
John Myerscough
Sergio Bucheli

Concert #4           Saturday 20th at 11 am

                                    “GRAND BALLET”

Westhoff              Violin Sonata No.2
Marais                 Tourbillon / Grand Ballet
Barrière                Sonata for 2 Cellos
Stravinsky             Divertimento

Lawrence Power
Charlotte Spruit
Nicolas Altstaedt
Simon Crawford-Phillips
John Myerscough
Sergio Bucheli

Concert #5           Saturday 20September at 8 pm

                                    “CHAMBER LAB’’

Biber                      Partita 7 for 2 Viola d’Amores
Brahms                   Sextet Op 18.
                  INTERVAL
Part 2:
A unique musical experiment:
Music by Haydn, Veress, Kate Bush, Arensky, Kodaly, Klein, Bach, Kopachinskaya and much more!

Vilde Frang
Annabelle Meare
Charlotte Spruit
Lawrence Power
Timothy Ridout
Nicolas Altstaedt
John Myerscough
Sergio Bucheli