Music in Country Churches is set to begin its 2025 concert season with a visit to Chedworth, with two concerts in St Andrew's Church on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May 2025.
Running since 1989, with King Charles III as an enthusiastic patron, Music in Country Churches has regularly visited Gloucestershire and raised funds to help maintain church buildings.
Concertgoers can soak up the culture as they have the opportunity to hear repertoire by Heitor Villas-Lobos, G. F. Handel, Ernő Dohnányi, Jean-Philippe Rameau and many more — all within the beautiful atmosphere and surrounds of the church.
Musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama at St Andrew's
Friday 23 May 2025
Promising to be an exciting evening of scintillating music making by the next generation of classical musicians, the first evening welcomes rising stars Meg Davies on clarinet and Katie Bartels on flute, each having won a performance prize from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
They will be joined by pianist Catherine Milledge to play an exciting programme that includes compositions by Villa-Lobos, Gershwin, Milhaud, and more — assuring you that the musical future is in good hands.
Ensemble Molière: The Dancing Star at St Andrew's
Saturday 24 May 2025
Selected as the first ever Baroque ensemble to be BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists in 2021, London-based Ensemble Molière have gained a reputation as an established early music collective, specialising in French Baroque from the late 17th and 18th centuries.
In the evening's programme, The Dancing Star, the group will perform a score centred around Marie Sallé, one of the first female choreographers. Concertgoers will also have the opportunity to hear extracts from Handel’s 'Terpsicore' which Sallé danced to on the London stage, alongside pieces by Rameau and Rebel to which she famously danced in Paris and Versailles.
Tickets can be booked online in advance via musicincountrychurches.org.uk/tickets.
