Cambridge Summer Music festival artists unveiled
The Cambridge Summer Music festival 2025, for which the Cambridge Independent is a sponsor, has launched and will run throughout the month of July.
The programme is available at cambridgesummermusic.com/csm-festival-2025/ and tickets are on sale now.
Genres represented include opera, chamber music, orchestral and choral concerts, jazz, song recitals and more – not to mention the ever-popular Sounds Green in the Botanic Garden.
Cambridge Summer Music is the only music promoter in Cambridge to offer a major four-week classical music festival.
Festival director Ben Johnson said: “Once again, I’m thrilled to say that July is Cambridge Summer Music month.
“We welcome to the city musicians of the highest international standing in some of Cambridge’s most beautiful venues.
“Our ever popular partnership with the Cambridge University Botanic Garden begins our 2025 events.
“Other familiar favourites return this year. Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous opera, comes to Childerley Hall, the Gabrieli Consort and Players perform Haydn’s The Seasons in the splendour of Ely Cathedral, and the fabulous Martin James Bartlett joins us once again.
“We will also welcome the Nash Ensemble, who celebrate their 60th birthday with a very special concert of chamber music.
“We are delighted to present two of Benjamin Britten’s finest works – Peter Grimes is performed by the Cambridge Philharmonic and British Youth Opera, and the Southrepps Music Festival bring a staging of the hauntingly beautiful church parable, Curlew River.
“Also important to mention is a new collaboration with British Youth Opera and we are very pleased to be presenting an unprecedented number of concerts by the most exciting musicians of the next generation, a cause that is very close to all our hearts at Cambridge Summer Music.
“Another new relationship begins with the Kathleen Ferrier Awards, whose 2024 winner will perform with us.
“We also continue to work with the Young Classical Artists Trust, Cambridge Camerata, Cambridge Youth Music, and I myself will be working with young singers in our masterclass.
“In our final week, the brilliant pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris gives the first Cambridge Summer Music Lecture, telling us about – and performing – his completion of Elgar’s Piano Concerto.
“Our finale will feature an outstanding group of singers and musicians to perform Rossini’s hugely popular Petite Messe Solennelle, an event not to be missed.”
