PROGRAMME 2025
17th WIMBLEDON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Priority booking opens for Benefactors on 14th June, and for Friends on 21st June. General Box Office opens 28th June. If you would like to book your tickets at the earliest opportunity, please consider becoming a Benefactor or Friend of WIMF – contact Nicky.Back@wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk
HAMMERKLAVIER
Boris Giltburg, piano in Beethoven piano sonatas
Saturday 1 November, 19:30
Auditorium, Wimbledon High School
STAN & MABEL AND THE RACE FOR SPACE
Family concert with the London Mozart Players
Sunday 2 November, 12:00 & 15:00
Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library
LONGING AND LIGHT
Sacconi Quartet & Anthony Friend, clarinet in Blackford, Ravel & Brahms
Monday 3 November 19:30
Auditorium, Wimbledon High School
I GOT RHYTHM
Imogen Whitehead, trumpet & Patrick Milne, piano in a delightfully varied programme
Wednesday 5 November 14:30
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
FLOWING FORMS
Goldberg Variations with Jonathan Ferrucci, piano and Matthew Johnson, photographer
Thursday 6 November 19:30
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
THE NIGHT SHIFT
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment brings Baroque chamber music to pubs, where it was first performed
Friday 7 November 20:00
The Old Frizzle, The Broadway
REQUIEM
Academy Choir & London Mozart Players in John Tavener & Fauré’s Requiem
Saturday 8 November 20:00
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
SCHOOLS' CONCERT
Merton Music Foundation presents: Stringfever
Tuesday 11 November 10:30 & 13:45
New Wimbledon Theatre, The Broadway
DIFFERENT TRAINS
Tom Service (BBC Radio 3) & The Solem Quartet present Steve Reich’s Different Trains
Tuesday 11 November 19:30
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
A POET'S LOVE
Helen Charlston & Sholto Kynoch in Schumann’s Dichterliebe
Wednesday 12 November 14:30
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
CELLAR SOUNDS
French wine and music with harpist Oliver Wass
Wednesday 12 November 19:30
Friarwood Fine Wines, Wimbledon Village
LUMIÈRE
Laura van der Heijden, cello & Jâms Coleman, piano in French music from the Belle Époque
Thursday 13 November 19:30
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
JAZZ EVENING: EFFRA
Jazz with the Misha Mullov-Abbado Group
Friday 14 November 20:00
Upper Hall, Sacred Heart Church
BAROQUEBUSTERS
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in an innovative ‘Baroquebusters’ recital
Saturday 15 November 19:30
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
CELLAR SOUNDS
Spanish wine and music with guitarist Jack Hancher
Tuesday 18 November 19:30
Friarwood Fine Wines, Wimbledon Village
POET OF THE PIANO
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano in Chopin and French Baroque
Wednesday 19 November 19:30
Auditorium, Wimbledon High School
PLAYFEST
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Thursday 20 November PM/EVE
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
CANTATA
Max Barley, director, Julia Doyle, soprano and Florian Störtz, baritone in beloved Bach Cantatas
Friday 21 November 14:30
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill
TERTIS MEMORIAL CONCERT
The Philharmonia under Robin O’Neill with soloist Timothy Ridout, celebrating Ravel’s 150th birthday
Saturday 22 November 19:30
Auditorium, Wimbledon High School
