“It is with a full-heart that I am announcing the launch of the Malvern Chamber Music Festival in 2026. This year, we take our first major leap in showcasing the incredible breadth and scope of the British chamber music repertoire in the heart of Elgar-country. The MCMF will take place at the iconic Great Malvern Priory and will feature some of our most beloved pieces, including works by Frank Bridge and Charles Stanford.

With this being our inaugural Festival, we have decided to showcase several early works from each respective composer by way of threading together an overall theme of new beginnings. Particular highlights will include Elgar’s ‘Three Movements for Piano Trio’, Debussy’s charming salon Piano Trio, Beethoven’s glorious String Trio Op. 9, No. 1 in G major and a selection Frank Bridge’s most adored works, including the heroic Violin Sonata of 1904, the brooding Cello Sonata and, most excitingly of all, his sweeping and rhapsodic ‘Phantasie’ Piano Trio and Piano Quartet; we are thrilled to be bringing these masterpieces to Malvern, some of which perhaps even for the very first time.

You are warmly invited to join us and we look forward to welcoming you.”

Charlie Brookes - Artistic Director