Lynda Weiss, Chairman

Iain Ledingham,


Artistic Director and Founder

Welcome to the Amersham Festival of Music website.

2012 is our thirtieth year, and to celebrate this we will have two performances of Mozart’s opera, The Marriage of Figaro. This will be performed by some excellent young soloists accompanied by The Amersham Festival Chamber Orchestra (AFCO) under the baton of our founder and Artistic Director, Iain Ledingham.

Our Study Day this year is entitled “Debussy at 150” and presented by the pianist and teacher Roy Howat, who gave us a popular study day on Chopin a few years ago.

At St James’ Church Centre we will have a wonderful evening with Harry the Piano, BBC Radio 2’s ’Musical Sensation’.

On Tuesday 1st May we will be visited by the early music group Joglaresa for an evening of medieval music.

The Chenies Manor dinner and concert will take place this year on 24th April. We will enjoy a glass of champagne with canapés in this beautiful setting, then sit back and enjoy the brother and sister Duo Alfageme playing music for clarinet and piano.

Our masterclass this year is for recorder players, and will be given by Philip Thorby on Sunday afternoon, 15th April.

Each year we give a platform to highly talented young musicians. It is on Sunday afternoon 22nd April and should not be missed. A concert for children is a week later on the 29th April entitled "Sunday String Spectacular".

Our choral concert will be the ever-popular Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the South Bucks Choral Society and AFCO, and finally we have a Wind and Piano Chamber concert with AFCO soloists and Iain Ledingham.

We do hope you find plenty to tempt you, and look forward to welcoming you to the Festival.

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