MRF Festival came to Winchester!
Sunday April 19th at The Nutshell, Kings Walk.
There were...
SPRING STRINGS 
and
Contemporary Things














Members of London Chamber Ensemble Quartet, mentors,
trustees, and award-holders. 

Featuring...
- 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, Shore by Simon Speare and alumnus Joe Jolliffe.
Benjamin Britten's 'Old Joe has Gone Fishing' and
'Sumer is Icumen in'  by Alison Willis.
The grand finale - was 'Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs' by Vaughan Williams for voices 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.