Book tickets for Concerts in the West
How it works: Please click on BOOK TICKETS. This will take you to the Concerts calendar. Click to choose a concert. This will take you to the details of the tour. Scroll to the bottom of the page to choose your ticket type. Continue to payment by credit card. Your ticket confirmation will be sent by email. For Bridport please go the Booking information. For more information, please go to How to Book
Updated 14 October 2024
Header photo: Hilary Cronin & Asako Ogawa – 4 October 2024 – Ilminster Arts Centre
Thank you to Hilary Cronin and Asako Ogawa who gave us three beautiful and exciting recitals last weekend.
From 15-16 November we welcome the Berkeley Ensemble for the final tour in the 2024 season. This established group will include the much-loved Schubert Octet in their programme in Ilminster and Crewkerne.
In order to see ALL the concerts in 2024 please go to BOOK TICKETS at the top of this page. You will find information about the musicians and their programmes. Please note that tickets for Bridport should be booked via their box office. Details are shown on the Booking Info pages. Also CinW Online booking stops at 5.30pm on the day of the 7.30pm concert.
You can see who is coming next season and details are now available – 2025
We will have a break during December and January but will start again with Ensemble Hesperi on 14 February.
To return to this Home page click on the Concerts in the West logo at the top of any page.
Booking is open for the 2024 season. Booking will open for the February 2025 tour on 6 January.
You can download the brochure for 2024 below.
Bridport Arts Centre – please note that bookings for Bridport go through their booking arrangements. All the concert tours go to Bridport.
Ticket prices: £18 for evening and afternoon concerts – £14 for the morning concerts in Bridport.
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 2024 we will be visiting Bridport (all tours), Ilminster (all tours), Crewkerne (all tours), Shaftesbury (April and July) and Pendomer (September).
2019, 2020, 2020 Online, 2021, 2022 and 2023 Seasons – you can see the list of performers for each year under our News section.
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.
Berkeley Ensemble – 15 – 16 November
Sophie Mather, violin
Francesca Baritt, violin
Dan Shilladay, violin
Gemma Wareham, cello
Martin Ludenbach, double bass
John Slack, clarinet
Andrew Watson, bassoon
Paul Cott, horn
News
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Fenella Humphreys premiers Adrian Sutton’s Violin Concerto
Adrian Sutton’s Violin Concerto – the outstanding new recording is available to buy now! Following a devastating cancer diagnosis in September 2022, Adrian Sutton, composer of the music for War … Read more
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Riccardo Pes – Music and Nature
Riccardo has received a grant from the Arts Council for a project in the North West Highlands Geopark in Scotland. From the 27th of September to the 20th of October … Read more
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Sir Neville Marriner’s special day
On Monday 15 April BBC Radio 3 paid a special tribute to Sir Neville Marriner by devoting the whole day to his life in music, culminating in a broadcast concert … Read more
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Celebrating Sir Neville Marriner
Monday 15 April 2024 https://www.asmf.org/whats-on/marriner100-celebrating-sir-neville-marriner/ Sir Neville Marriner was our Founder Patron and was a very good friend and support. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields celebrates Sir … Read more
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Nicholas McCarthy at the QEH
Nicholas, who performed for us in 2016 and 2020, had a wonderful reception at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 24 March.
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A new addition to the Perks family
Many congratulations to Ayaka and Oscar Perks on the birth of Haruki. Oscar was hoping to get through his tour with us in mid-February before his son made his entrance. … Read more