Thaxted Festival

Thaxted Festival 2025

Our 2025 summer season will run from Friday 20 June until Sunday 13 July, with performances by world-leading artists across orchestral, chamber, vocal, choral, blues, tango - and more! All in the beautiful surroundings of Thaxted, its spacious Parish Church and the delightful United Reformed Church.

Come and get a taste of summer at our Launch Event on Sunday 9 March at 3.00pm in Thaxted Parish Church. There will be performances by exciting young company Wild Arts, with previews of our summer opera Eugene Onegin, as well as other opera favourites.

Hear from our Festival team about our full summer programme, including the range of Festival Extra events. Tickets for our Launch Event go on general sale on 2 January. Click here for details and booking.

Thaxted Music Lovers give vital support to the Festival, and receive priority booking and other benefits throughout the year. Click here for details. General booking for our summer 2025 season opens on 31 March.

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“[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

“2 terrific concerts I heard with London Mozart Players.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer

“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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