Opening Night Concert: London Mozart Players

Friday 20 June 7.30pm

Images © Kaupo Kikkas

Jonathan Bloxham, conductor / Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, violin

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major – ‘Jupiter’

To open our 2025 summer season we welcome back the full forces of our Orchestra-in-Residence, the London Mozart Players, who join with rising-star violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux in Beethoven’s monumental and game-changing violin concerto. Charlotte has been part of Thaxted Festival’s Developing Artists Programme over recent years, and we are delighted to feature her as the soloist in this central and challenging work of the violin repertoire. Mozart’s uplifting overture to The Marriage of Figaro opens the concert, which ends with the joyful ‘Jupiter’– his last, and probably his most popular symphony.

Experience the excitement of a major orchestra and virtuoso soloist in the magnificent acoustics of Thaxted Parish Church, with these popular and accessible works from the classical repertoire. Find out more about Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux here: ycat.co.uk/charlotte-saluste-bridoux

During the festival, members of London Mozart Players will be working with pupils from Thaxted Primary School and other local schools to enable the children to develop and perform their own pieces of music. Thaxted Festival is very grateful for the funding support it has received from a number of sources, including local charities, to support this education programme.

‘Salouste-Bridoux [brings] lyrical flow and tonal beauty to even the most complex passages of multiple-stopping.’ Tim Homfray, The Strad review of Charlotte’s debut solo album, ‘Ostinata’.

This concert is supported by a generous donation from Gareth and Pauline Stainer in memory of John R Stainer OBE, organist and composer, who was Registrar of the Royal College of Music from 1959 to 1976. The concert is produced in association with Orchestras Live.

Venue: Thaxted Parish Church
Tickets: £44*, £40, £34, £26, £16. Age 30 and under: £10; age 18 and under: £5.
*Premium seating in centre front rows.