The Festival website now has details of all this year's events. Check it out at www.little-missenden.org and please share! We'll feature performances by @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social @horatioclare.bsky.social @zebsoanes.com @drkkennedy.bsky.social @inecho.bsky.social Booking opens on 24th August

Tour Britain and Ireland in music and poetry with @stmartinsvoices.bsky.social and @zebsoanes.com October 9th, Little Missenden. Details at www.little-missenden.org/st-martins-v... Bookings open 24th August.

Award-winning folk singing trio, Lady Maisery will be at Little Missenden Festival on 8th Oct. Tickets on sale from 24th August from www.little-missenden.org #folkmusic #vocal Please share!

This year's festival has several treats for piano lovers. We look forward to welcoming Clare Hammond @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social (Oct 4) and Kate Ryder (Oct 7) who will perform John Cage's Sonatas & Interludes on a prepared piano. Full details soon on our website. Photo: Sophie di Martino.

Q: What links Franz Joseph Haydn and Mark-Anthony Turnage? A: Their works are being performed on 6th October by the Kleio String Quartet at Little Missenden!

Join us on 4th October at 3pm to hear Clare Hammond play works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Gershwin and Michael Betteridge. Full details coming soon on the festival website @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social @mbetteridge.bsky.social

Our Festival isn't only about great music: on 3rd October, Nicholas Flory is giving a preview of the forthcoming National Gallery exhibition of Van Eyck portraits (Nov 26-April 27). Check our website for details.

This year's festival (2-11 Oct) starts with a new work by Emma-Ruth Richards performed by soprano Jennifer France and pianist Lana Bode. Check our website for more details www.little-missenden.org Tickets available from mid-August

We were treated to a wonderful recital by soprano Ariana Ricci and pianist Jorn Quirijnen last night hosted by Earl Howe at Penn House. Just one of the perks of being a Friend of the Festival (another being priority booking). Check the website for a link to join the Friends. www.little-missenden.org

Make sure you've marked your diary for 2-11 October. The full programme will be announced soon but highlights include Clare Hammond, Lady Maisery and the Kleio Quartet. @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social www.little-missenden.org

Celebrating the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach today. This year's festival will include performances of his glorious 'cello suites on Baroque, modern classical, and Hardanger 'cello. Here's a clip showing their versatility (maybe next year we'll get a nyckelharpa?!) youtu.be/BD6-M_fXTxE?...

Bach 'Air' with Scandinavian Folk instruments, LODESTAR TRIO: Rydvall / Mjelva / Baillie

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Check our website for the first details of this year's festival www.little-missenden.org We are excited to welcome artists including @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social and the Kleio Quartet

Bring music into children's lives! We need someone to coordinate our school workshops next year. They take place in February with a concert in March in Great Missenden. You'll liaise with 3 schools and book the musicians. Details from contact@little-missenden.org Please pass on

Little Missenden Festival funds music workshops for Year 2s at 3 state primary schools led by inspirational composer John Webb. Everyone had such fun today!

Cheer up! It's Mozart's birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayM... This is surely a reason to smile

Happy Birthday from Mozart • Werner Elmker piano improvisation [HQ]

YouTube video by Werner Elmker

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Final day!

Patrick Allies@patrickallies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Amazingly our @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social fundraiser has made it past £10k. We're now at 82% of our target and would be very grateful for any support. All pledges are doubled by Creative Scotland until tomorrow morning. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

The news is depressing, the weather is horrible, so cheer yourself up by looking forward to this year's festival (2-11 Oct). If you pass this on to people who might be interested we guarantee a warm fuzzy feeling for doing something positive! www.little-missenden.org/our-story.html

Here's an easy New Year's Resolution: mark your calendar for the 2026 Little Missenden Festival 2-11 October

We're looking forward to welcoming @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social to Little Missenden this evening. There are just 4 seats left! Book at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Siglo de Oro@siglodeorovocal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We asked the team to describe our festive programme Hey for Christmas in a single word!

Coming up this week! We're reviving our popular programme Hey for Christmas. The concept is an imagined 17th-century family Christmas in London, with carols, folks songs, ballads and broadsides. Oxford on Thurs, @ltmsdnfest.bsky.social on Friday and NW1 on Saturday. More info: siglodeoro.co.uk

There are just a few tickets left for our concert on 5 Dec when @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social recreate a 17th century Christmas. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Not long now… 🎄🎶 More details on our website.

Don't miss the final weekend of the Festival. Tickets still available for Galliard Ensemble (Fri Oct 10), Chelys Viol Consort (Sun Oct 12), and Emily MacGregor (Sat Oct 11). NB the @stileantico.co.uk concert on Saturday evening is sold out. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

You really can get close to the music at Little Missenden Festival. The Gould Piano Trio's cellist, Richard Lester suggested someone in the front row might be able to scratch his nose during their lively performance of Haydn, Rebecca Clarke and Schubert last night! Photograph: Robert Piwko

Once again, the Festival has given us music ranging from Monteverdi to jazz and an art lecture. Don't miss the rest. Details at www.little-missenden.org Thanks to the Monteverdi String Band, Piatti Quartet, @piattiquartet.bsky.social Zoe Rahman. Pics by Robert Piwko

The church is ready to welcome you to Little Missenden Festival which starts tonight!

The festival starts today! The Stile Antico concert on 11th October is now sold out but seats are available for many other exciting concerts and talks. Details and tickets at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

You don't only get amazing music at our Festival, the Piatti Quartet @piattiquartet.bsky.social weave together poetry inspired by the British countryside with music by composers including Vaughan Williams and Thomas Adès on Sunday October 5th. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Little Missenden Festival starts on Friday! We are excited to welcome an array of performers including @rebecaomordia.bsky.social @stileantico.co.uk Full details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Can you help encourage the musicians of the future? Little Missenden Festival urgently needs a volunteer to coordinate the workshops we hold at 3 primary schools in Buckinghamshire in January and February each year. Please email contact@little-missenden.org for details. This is an unpaid position.