Elgar Festival 2025: Sat 24th May – Sun 1st June
Building on the success of previous years, the 2025 Festival themed ‘Celebrate with Elgar’ will run from Saturday 24th May to Sunday 1st June and promises 9 days packed with events that do just that! We’ll celebrate great music-making, our natural environment, young musicians, diversity, the music of today as well as music of the past, historic buildings, community and participation.
Highlights include Elgar’s Symphony No. 2 and John Ireland’s thrilling oratorio ‘These Things Shall Be’ performed by world-renowned English Symphony Orchestra and joined by the 2025 festival chorus on Sat 31 May in Worcester Cathedral. There are further performances by English String and Chamber Orchestras, recitals by world renowned performers Raphael Wallfisch, David Briggs and April Fredrick, several participatory events including ‘Come and Play Elgar 1’ and a Young Singers Masterclass. The ever-popular family concert returns hosted by Classic FM’s Zeb Soanes including the winning pieces of our Young Composers’ Competition, and we celebrate the work and 70th birthday of Worcester’s finest living composer Ian Venables.
There are several free events, relaxed concerts, an exhibition, choral events, a film screening, Q and As, a guided walk, a new performance partnership with students from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and a Club Elgar event.
Elgar really is for everyone!