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  Think Local, Go Global

  Chipping Campden Music Festival celebrates twenty-fifth anniversary with a magnificent fortnight of concerts (10 – 22 May 2027)

  Compelling programme includes performances by Sir András Schiff, Steven Osborne, Steven Isserlis, Julian Bliss, Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Ex Cathedra, BBC Singers and Leonkoro String Quartet

  Festival to stage three silver jubilee concerts by the Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra, including Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto with Steven Osborne, Saint-Saëns’ two cello concertos with Steven Isserlis, and Brahms’ Violin Concerto with Aleksey Semenenko

  16 Sep 2026

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  Tradition Refreshed

  Stanislav Kochanovsky leads the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover on a five-concert UK tour (12-16 October 2026) and in special projects in the orchestra’s home city

  Conductor’s guest appearances include high-profile debuts with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (8 November 2026) and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (12 February 2027)

  Kochanovsky makes his twelfth return to the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for a three-concert Rachmaninov Festival in Rome and subsequent tour to Verona, Rimini and Bratislava

  16 Jul 2026

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  Hanoverian Ambassadors

  NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover makes a welcome return to the UK this autumn for a five-concert tour with Chief Conductor, Stanislav Kochanovsky

  Tour itinerary comprises dates in Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, London and Basingstoke (Monday 12 to Friday 16 October)

  Ingrid Fliter and Nikolai Lugansky join as soloists respectively in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Rachmaninov’s youthful Piano Concerto No.1

  17 Jun 2026