MRF Festival '26
Sun 19 Apr
|The Nutshell
SPRING STRINGS and CONTEMPORARY THINGS Come & Sing, Come & Play, or join the audience.
Time & Location
19 Apr 2026, 12:00 – 19:30
The Nutshell, 15, Kings Walk, Winchester SO23 8AF, UK
About the Event
For the first year since it's launch in 2014, our Annual Festival will be in Winchester. Featuring will be London Contemporary Ensemble Quartet: Madeleine Mitchell & Gordon MacKay - violins, Bridget Carey - viola, Joseph Spooner - cello.
The 18.30 concert will include music from their up-coming release, and new pieces for String Quartet by our 4 award-holders: Ernest , Immy, Tasha & Matthew.
Also in the concert will be performances of contemporary pieces workshopped earlier in the day in our...
Come & Sing, Come & Play!!
String players are invited to join the Festival String Ensemble, led by LCEQ, pieces to include Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings, and a new work for strings, specially written for the Festival by MRF alumnus Joe Joliffe.
Instrumentalists are invited to join a Flexible Ensemble, Singers are invited to join the Festival Choir - to work up contemporary pieces to be announced.
Tickets
Festival Audience
This ticket entitles you to join the Festival Concert audience from 6.30pm. Bar open from 6pm.
£12.50
Goes on sale
28 Feb, 10:00
Sing/play - 18+ non-student
This ticket entitles you, age 18+, non-student, to participate in MRF Festival '26, to sing in the Festival Choir and / or play in the Flexible Ensemble and / or the String Ensemble to perform in the early evening concert. Workshops from 12.00 - timetable TBC.
£12.50
Goes on sale
28 Feb, 10:00
Sing/play - 16+ student
This ticket entitles you, age 16+, to participate in MRF Festival '26, to sing in the Festival Choir and / or play in the Flexible Ensemble and / or the String Ensemble to perform in the early evening concert. Workshops from 12.00 - timetable TBC.
£6.25
Goes on sale
28 Feb, 10:00
Sing/play - under 16
As you are under 16, you must be ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT to use this ticket. This ticket entitles you, under age 16, accompanied by an adult, to participate in MRF Festival '26, to sing in the Festival Choir and / or play in the Flexible Ensemble and / or the String Ensemble to perform in the early evening concert. Workshops from 12.00 - timetable TBC.
£6.25
Goes on sale
28 Feb, 10:00
MRF personnel ONLY
Award-holders / mentors / trustees / patrons.
£0.00
Goes on sale
28 Feb, 10:00