MRF Festival 2026 presents: Come & Sing – Come & Play
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Sunday 19th April 2026
£6.25-£12.50
12-7:30pm
“A huge ‘thank you’ for a truly amazing evening...”
For the first year since its launch in 2014, our Annual Festival will be in Winchester. Featuring will be London Contemporary Ensemble Quartet: Madeleine Mitchell & Gordon MacKay - violins, Bridget Carey - viola, Joseph Spooner - cello. String quartet of outstanding and experienced British chamber musicians was formed in 2019.
The 18.30 concert will include music from their up-coming release, and new pieces for String Quartet by our 4 award-holders: Ernest , Immy, Tasha & Matthew.
Also in the concert will be performances of contemporary pieces workshopped earlier in the day in our...
Come & Sing, Come & Play!!
String players are invited to join theFestival String Ensemble, led by LCEQ, pieces to include Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings, and new work for strings, specially written for the Festival by Simon Speare - composer-mentor, and by MRF alumnus Joe Jolliffe.
Singers are invited to join the Festival Choir - exploring rounds and canons and to work up contemporary pieces, by composers including Benjamin Britten and Dr Alison Willis - composer-mentor.
The Finale will be for choir and strings, by Vaugham Williams.
Workshops for singers and string players will start around 12noon.