Updated 18 February 2025

Header photo: Alasdair Beatson

Ensemble Hesperi took Bridport, Ilminster and Crewkerne by storm – full houses and enthusiastic audiences. Thank you to them all.

Alasdair Beatson joins us from 14-15 March. He came to play for us in 2007 and has been a regular visitor ever since. He is also one of our patrons so we are delighted that he can be with us this year to help us celebrate 20 seasons of wonderful music.

Booking for tours will start 2 months before the tour begins.

Clicking on BOOK TICKETS above will take you to all the concerts in 2025. You can also can see a list of who is coming this season by clicking on – 2025

The concert Programme for the whole season will be on sale at each venue. It contains notes written for these concerts by Anthony Friend, Mary-Jannet Leith and Victoria Couper. It also includes biographies of the performers. It costs £8 and can be paid for by card or cash.

You can download the Brochure 2025 here.

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News – please check for information about our artists. The latest item is about Fenella Humphreys and Adrian Sutton’s new concerto written for her.

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Bridport Arts Centre – please note that bookings for Bridport go through their booking arrangements. All the concert tours go to Bridport.

Ticket prices: £20 for evening concerts – £16 for the morning concerts in Bridport.

Tickets for Alasdair Beatson‘s tour are £25 for Ilminster and Crewkerne and £18 for Bridport. We will be celebrating our 20th season while Alasdair is with us.

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2019, 2020, 2020 Online, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Seasons – you can see the list of performers for each year under our News section.

Archived concerts from 2006 when the concert series began – if you go to Concerts by date, scroll down to Previous concerts, this will take you back to earlier seasons.

Under Concerts by venue you will find venues where we have held concerts in the past as well as those we go to currently. In 2025 we will be visiting Bridport (all tours), Ilminster (all tours), and Crewkerne (all tours).

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Concerts in the West was launched in 2006. We aim to bring talented young professional musicians to small, intimate venues in the West Country, in areas that may not have easy access to music of this quality. Short intensive tours, lasting a few days, are arranged mainly in Dorset and Somerset.

We feel privileged to hear music performed to such a high standard. The repertoire is enormously varied and gives local audiences a wonderful opportunity to hear both familiar and unusual works for voice and instrument in many combinations.

Alasdair Beatson
piano
14 — 15 March 2025