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Annual Festival 2026
This year's Festival came to Winchester!
April 19th, The Nutshell, Kings Walk.
There were...
SPRING STRINGS
and
CONTEMPORARY THINGS

Members of London Chamber Ensemble Quartet, mentors,
trustees, and award-holders.
Featuring on the day were...
- new works for string quartet by our 2026 award-holders
Ernest, Immy, Matthew & Tasha
- contemporary works from LCEQ's upcoming recording,
- performances by our festival choir and string ensemble, workshopped 'from scratch' during the day, including:
Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings, new works for strings by Simon Speare and alumnus Joe Jolliffe,
Benjamin Britten's 'Old Joe has Gone Fishing'
'Sumer is Icumen in' by Alison Willis.
The grand finale: - 'Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs' by Vaughan Williams was for choir and string quartet.




The Festival culminates MRF's annual programme of events,the aims of which are to not only support and nurture young composers but to bring playing, singing and listening to contemporary music to a wider, non-specialist audience.
Patrons:

Fundraising:
GRATEFUL THANKS to Winchester Community Choir for selecting MRF as the receiving charity from their 20th anniversary concert, New Hall, Winchester, December 16th.


Back in September...
Our intrepid cyclists rose to the challenge
an impressive sum was raised.
Take a look at the updates on Crowdfunder...
Thanks to all our supporters!