Thaxted Festival 2025 Events

2025 Season Launch! Join us for drinks and nibbles, beautiful arias and musical interludes from Wild Arts Opera, as well as insights into our ambitious and entertaining 2025 summer season from the Thaxted Festival team.

To open our 2025 summer season,our Orchestra-in-Residence join with rising-star violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux in Beethoven’s monumental and game-changing violin concerto.

Local community choirs, including the Thaxted Singers, will join to showcase their current repertoires. No charge and no reservations.

A rich selection of works from composers from the golden age of mid-twentieth-century popular song, when Noël Coward was popular in the US and a part of this creative circle.

The Doric String Quartet have become firmly established on the classical music scene. Here they perform works central to the string quartet repertoire.

In this film, set in a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva.

This recital consists of songs which deal with father-son relationships by composers ranging from Robert Schumann and Gabriel Fauré through to Victoria Wood and André Previn.

Alexander Chance is widely regarded as a leader among the recent generation of British countertenors whose operatic career now flourishes alongside an acclaimed solo career.

A private view at this delightful public gallery, with its showcase of work by the ‘Bardfield Artists’ from the mid-twentieth century.

This concert brings together rising-star artists who are set to have stellar careers - Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Jonathan Leibovitz and Jonathan Ware.

Join special tours for Festival-goers to learn all about the ongoing work to restore Thaxted’s historic windmill, including the traditional skills needed for the restoration.

Thomas Trotter is one of Britain’s most widely admired musicians and we welcome him to play Thaxted Church’s Lincoln Organ, a rare example of an early Georgian organ.

Prepare for a breathtaking evening of scintillating tango as this virtuoso quintet bring the sound of South America to Thaxted Festival.

We are pleased to revive a tradition from earlier Festivals of presenting a choral sung Mass in Thaxted Church within the regular Sunday service.

Neil Balfour, baritone; Christopher Pulleyn, piano. ‘An intimate look at love and how it can feel so unique for different people, cultures, genders, sexualities and neurodivergences’.

We are privileged to welcome First-prize winner, 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko to Thaxted Festival amidst his busy schedule.

The Gesualdo Six is an award-winning British vocal ensemble comprising some of the UK’s finest consort singers, directed by Owain Park.

Rob Burton is featured as a Classic FM ‘Star of Tomorrow’ and we are delighted to welcome him back to Thaxted, along with richly-talented Mark Rogers on piano.

Tonight's programme by Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman reveals the hugely expressive range of the cello repertoire with three works from the early twentieth century.

Step into Thaxted’s hidden histories, with expert guide Ken Baker. If you enjoy Thaxted by day, you’ll be fascinated by the stories that unfold after dark.

Our special train will take you to a secret glade where you will disembark and listen to a wide range of songs, from old favourites to Disney, with the Haverhill Youth and Community Band.

James Vivian, Director of Music; Luke Bond, organ. Tonight’s performance features the rich tradition of English song as championed by English composers of the 20th century.

Expect an evening of blues in all styles, from low-down gut-bucket to sophisticated blues-ballad, all played with the group’s trademark heartfelt passion and intensity.

Join special tours for Festival-goers to learn all about the ongoing work to restore Thaxted’s historic windmill, including the traditional skills needed for the restoration.

Based in Essex, Wild Arts takes world class performances to beautiful places in the UK and Europe, and we are delighted to welcome them back to Thaxted in 2025!

Our season is brought to a close in a feast of Baroque works featuring the string players of our Orchestra-in-Residence, the London Mozart Players.

Programmes for individual concerts will be on sale at our events. If you are attending several concerts, why not purchase our Season Programme Voucher for just £15, which will entitle you to one programme for each of the concerts you attend?