Bath Mozartfest to return this November

As the leaves turn to gold and fall, and there is a chill in the air, music lovers’ thoughts turn to Bath’s annual Mozartfest.

After recent editions were held in neighbouring towns, borrowed venues, or livestreamed, with shortened programmes and socially distanced performances, Bath Mozartfest has unveiled its 2022 programme. This year, the event is back at beautiful venues in its home city, but, above all, welcoming world-class musicians for nine fabulous days of live music-making. Mozartfest is thrilled to be back to normal, and the team hopes you will be able to join in this November for the 32nd annual event. 

Programmed by Amelia Freeman, fifteen concerts will take place over nine days, given by internationally acclaimed musicians including the Takács Quartet, the Nash Ensemble, the Teyber Trio, the Pavel Haas Quartet, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Jennifer Pike and pianist Simon Trpčeski.

As always, the music of W.A. Mozart is at the heart of Bath Mozartfest but it also ranges widely beyond, this year Harry Christophers’ fine choral ensemble, The Sixteen, present a programme of Henry Purcell’s music in Bath’s newly refurbished Abbey. The Cardinall’s Musick brings a celebration of Mendelssohn, and Roderick Williams marks the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams in his concert. Bath’s art-deco Forum is the venue for the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s closing concert. Sir Stephen Hough will play Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, in a popular programme conducted by Kevin John Edusei, the German-Ghanaian Chief Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra.