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Thaxted Festival 2026

Our summer 2025 season is now over. We’d like to thank all our audiences, artists and volunteers who made our season such a success, in the warmest of weather over four glorious summer weekends in June and July. 2026 will mark the fortieth anniversary year of Thaxted Festival in its modern form. We’ll be holding our Autumn Recital later in 2025, and in early in 2026 we will hold our annual Launch Reception, with full details of our 2026 programme alongside tempting musical interludes.

Don’t forget that members of our Thaxted Music Lovers supporters scheme enjoy advance information and priority booking for our summer events. You can enrol or renew membership for 2026 from early in the year. Stay up to date with all our events through our website and email newsletters.

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“The whole Thaxted Festival Team are brilliant, making everyone feel welcome, and the whole atmosphere is light-hearted and enjoyable.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer

“[The Tippett Quartet] concert as part of the 2023 Thaxted Festival revealed a group of musicians of profound interpretative depth, and capable of traversing a wide range of repertoire.”
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer

“A positively life-enhancing performance of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love in English with reduced ensemble by Wild Arts…”
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer

“The performance was a joy … and the quartet brought out its sense of both structural and linear perfection.” Holst’s Phantasy Quartet Op 36 performed by the Tippett Quartet.
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer

“The Tippett Quartet and Emma Abbate have performed Schumann’s Piano Quintet together many times. On this occasion they combined flawless execution with instinctive – and utterly engaging – musicianship.”
Claire Seymour, in Seen and Heard International.

“…this was a wonderfully enjoyable and engaging performance that really punched above its weight. The audience in Thaxted clearly loved it and were fully engaged, whilst this experienced reviewer was carried away as well.”
Wild Art’s production of The Elixir of Love, reviewed by Robert Hugill in Planet Hugill

“I think Gustav is smiling down to see how his memory and that of his best friend and colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams are honoured by the expertly played pieces they both composed.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer

“It's always the variety and quality which keeps me coming back.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer

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