Surrey Hills International Music Festival 2025

6-17 MAY 2025

The Surrey Hills International Music Festival returns for a 16th season with another exciting and varied programme. Highlights include the Festival debut of international choral sensation VOCES8 as well as a solo recital by 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition winner Alim Beisembayev, playing Chopin, Liszt and Ravel. Musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, NY join us for two concerts – romantic chamber music and a programme of Baroque brilliance including two of Bach’s Brandenburg concertos and the Double Violin Concerto. Talks and walks in the Surrey countryside complete the line-up in a whole host of beautiful venues in this big, little Festival in the Hills!

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Programme of Events in 2025

Tickets available from Tuesday 7 January 2025: go to https://tickets.shimf.co.uk

Tuesday 6 May
Young and Emerging Artists Concert with guided walk and talk by Katy Hamilton
West Horsley Place, 10.30am walk, 12.30pm talk and concert

Thursday 8 May
Alim Beisembayev (2021 Leeds Piano Competition winner), solo piano
Chopin Preludes and works by Scarlatti, Ravel and Liszt

The Menuhin Hall, Stoke d’Abernon, 7.30pm

Saturday 10 May
VOCES8: Twenty!
20 Songs from 20 years of VOCES8, including Allegri Miserere, Elgar Lux Aeterna (Nimrod) and other choral works from across the centuries

Holy Trinity Guildford, 7.30pm

Monday 12 May
Menuhin Students Concert with guided walk
St Michael’s Church Betchworth, 10.30am walk, 12.30pm concert

Thursday 15 May
The Late Romantics
Musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York; Sitkovetsky Trio

Barber Adagio for strings; Chaminade Piano Trio No.2; Wagner Albumblatt (Romance); Strauss Metamorphosen

The Menuhin Hall, Stoke d’Abernon, 7.30pm (talk at 6.30pm)

Saturday 17 May
Baroque Virtuoso
Including Bach Brandenburg Concerti Nos 4 & 5, Vivaldi Cello Concerto, Bach Double Concerto for two violins

St Martin’s Church, Dorking, 7.30pm