Shropshire: Classical
2025-2026 Season
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Thursday 4 December 2025
7:00pm
St Chad, Shrewsbury
Ex-Cathedra
A beautiful, candlelit celebration for the festive season from one of the UK's most renowned choirs.
Ex Cathedra’s annual pre-Christmas concert has become a cornerstone of Shrewsbury's musical calendar, proferring a feast of seasonal favourites both traditional and modern, together with a menu of inspiring readings, all served up by gentle candlelight. ...read more...
Tickets, £25 and £22 (under-18s and full-time students £12 and £11) HERE
Saturday 6 December 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Handel in Italy
Works by Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Lotti and Corelli performed by Ludlow Choral Society and Ludlow Camerata.
Ludlow Choral Society’s December concert will take us to Italy, the birthplace of opera and oratorio, and back to the 18th Century. Handel, probably best known for Messiah, and other Baroque composers were drawn there in the early years of the century. ...read more...
Tickets £18 (18s and under free) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms HERE or at the door.
Sunday 14 December 2025
4:00pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Cinderella and other pantomime stories
Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra
Works by Tchaikovsky, Rupert Cole, Nielsen and Prokofiev.
A lovely programme of music inspired by pantomime stories. Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Suite is music from the score of his famous ballet. Rupert Cole's 2023 composition Resonant Tale is music from the soundtrack of the PlayDate game of the same name. ...read more...
Tickets: £18; (under-25s: £8) available from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office and online HERE
Saturday 20 December 2025
7:30pm
St Chad, Shrewsbury
Handel: Messiah
Experience the timeless majesty of Handel’s Messiah! Join us for a stirring performance of soaring choruses, exquisite solos, and radiant orchestration. Let the music uplift your spirit, celebrate the season, and move your heart. A breathtaking musical journey not to be missed! ...read more...
Tickets: £20.00 (students, under-18s and unwaged free) are available onlne HERE, from choir members or at the door.
Sunday 11 January 2026
3:00pm
Festival Drayton Centre
Tāla Tarang
The dynamic pairing of tabla maestro Mendi Singh and harp virtuoso Eleanor Turner creates an electrifying fusion of rhythmic grooves and intricate melodies. ...read more...
Tickets: £16.00 (Friends of Festival Drayton Centre £13.50, u18 £5.00) from Festival Drayton Centre box office HERE
Wednesday 14 January 2026
6:45pm
4 venues - see below
La Traviata
streamed live from the the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
At one of her lavish parties, celebrated Parisan courtesan Violetta is introduced to Alfredo Germont. The two fall madly in love, and though hesitant to leave behind her life of luxury and freedom, Violetta follows her heart.
More information and tickets:
Ludlow Assembly Rooms HERE
Festival Drayton Centre HERE
The Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury HERE
Recorded streaming:
Sunday 18 January at 2:00pm
SpArc Theatre, Bishop's Castle HERE
Friday 30 January 2026
7:00pm
St Chad, Shrewsbury
Polina Osetinskaya, piano
Works by Bach, Bach-Busoni and Rachmaninov.
Polina Osetinskaya is one of the most distinctive pianists of her generation, renowned for her poetic intensity, intellectual refinement, and boldly curated recital programs. Born in 1975, she was recognized as a prodigy almost immediately ...read more...
Note the changed details for this concert
Tickets, £25 and £22 (under-18s and full-time students £12 and £11) HERE
Saturday 7 February 2026
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Edge Chamber Choir
Details to be announced when available.
Sunday 8 February 2026
3:00pm
Festival Drayton Centre
Caroline Taylor, soprano,
James Atkinson, baritone
Hamish Brown, piano
Songs, duets and arias by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Finzi, Quilter, Mozart, Bizet and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Welcoming the arrival of Spring in Song ...read more...
Tickets: £16.00 (Friends of Festival Drayton Centre £13.50, u18 £5.00) from Festival Drayton Centre box office HERE
Thursday 12 February 2026
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Ludlow Thursday Concert
Gerard Flotats, cello and Julian Chan, piano
Works by Cassadó, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Brahms and Messiaen.
The Catalan cellist, Gerard Flotats and the Malaysian-born pianist, Julian Chan are rising stars on concert platforms everywhere. Their carefully compiled programme brings together five works ...read more...
Tickets £22.00 (u18 £7.00) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office and HERE
Sunday 22 February 2026
3:00pm
Maidment Building, Shrewsbury School
Acoustic Triangle
Acoustic Triangle's music contains a wide variety of influences – from ancient themes and folk styles through impressionism and the jazz era to the avant-garde – and blurs the perceived boundaries between genres. ...read more...
Tickets: £18.00; (under-18s £9.00) HERE
Friday 6 March 2026
7:30pm
Maidment Building, Shrewsbury School
Carducci String Quartet
Works by Mozart, Glass and Shostakovich
In addition to one of Mozart's most famous quartets, the Carduccis will focus on two composers with whom they've become inextricably associated: the Soviet master Dmitri Shostakovich and the American Minimalist Philip Glass. ...read more...
Tickets: £18.00; (under-18s £9.00) HERE
Sunday 8 March 2025
3:00pm
Festival Drayton Centre
Nikita Lukinov and friends
Works by Babajanian, Beethoven and Grieg
Nikita’s outstanding performance in Shropshire last spring was followed by multiple live and studio recordings on BBC Radio After extensive touring north of the border, he has marked himself out as one of the most exciting pianists based in Scotland. ...read more...
Tickets: £16.00 (Friends of Festival Drayton Centre £13.50, u18 £5.00) from Festival Drayton Centre box office HERE
Concert supported by Shropshire Music Trust
Thursday 12 March 2026
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Ludlow Thursday Concert
London Chamber Ensemble Trio
Works by John Ireland, Clara Schumann and Brahms.
This is the second of two concerts this season by the London Chamber Ensemble both with programmes including neglected works by British composers, as well as concert hall favourites. ...read more...
Tickets £22.00 (u18 £7.00) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office and HERE
Tuesday 31 March 2026
5:15pm
2 venues - see below
Wagner's Siegfried
streamed live from the Royal Opera House, Covent garden.
Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber.
More information and tickets:
Ludlow Assembly Rooms HERE
The Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury HERE
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 April 2026
Ludlow English Song Weekend
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
St Laurence, Ludlow
11 concerts and other events
Welcome to the Ludlow English Song Weekend – one of the world’s most compact music festivals, and definitely, we like to think, the friendliest. I believe that in Ludlow we have found the dream location for a few days of top class music.
More information and tickets HERE and from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office