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MRF Festival '26

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The Nutshell

SPRING STRINGS and CONTEMPORARY THINGS Come & Sing, Come & Play, or join the audience. #MRFFestival26

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MRF Festival '26
MRF Festival '26

Time & Location

19 Apr 2026, 12:00 – 19:30

The Nutshell, 15, Kings Walk, Winchester SO23 8AF, UK

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About the Event



For the first year since it's 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.

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 the Festival 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…


Tickets

  • Festival Audience

    This ticket entitles you to join the Festival Concert audience from 6.30pm. Bar open from 6pm.

    £12.50

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  • Festival Audience 16+ student

    This ticket entitles you to join the Festival Concert audience from 6.30pm.

    £6.25

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  • Singer/strings 18+ non-student

    This ticket entitles you, age 18+, non-student, to participate in MRF Festival '26, to sing in the Festival Choir and / or play in the Flexible Ensemble and / or the String Ensemble to perform in the early evening concert. Workshops from 12.00 - timetable TBC.

    £12.50

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  • Singer/strings 16+ student

    This ticket entitles you, age 16+, to participate in MRF Festival '26, to sing in the Festival Choir and / or play in the String Ensemble to perform in the early evening concert. Workshops from 12.00 - timetable TBC.

    £6.25

    Sale ended

  • Singer/strings - aged 14 to 16

    As you are under 16, you must be ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT to use this ticket. This ticket entitles you, under age 16, accompanied by an adult, to participate in MRF Festival '26, to sing in the Festival Choir and / or play in the String Ensemble to perform in the early evening concert. Workshops from 12.00 - timetable TBC.

    £6.25

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  • MRF personnel ONLY

    Award-holders / composer-alumnus / mentors / trustees / patrons / Winchester Cathedral youth Choir

    £0.00

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