Here below are the concert listings with the opportunity to purchase tickets through paypal. You don’t need a paypal account; but just your debit card details. You should receive a confirmation email after purchasing which will confirm that we will have your details at the door. No need to take further action!

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Alternatively you can email us the concerts you would like to attend and send payment by cheque or bank transfer.

lewes chamber music festival

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Sort Code: 30-65-37

Email address: box-office@leweschambermusicfestival.com

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We are very pleased to offer FREE TICKETS to those under 30yrs old - please email the box-office to reserve your seat!

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5. FESTIVAL GALA CONCERT

Join us for our Festival Gala concert! This year rising star tenor Laurence Kilsby performs Benjamin Britten’s “Les Illuminations” with all the Festival string players. With its double interval and plentiful refreshments the Gala Concert has become a Festival favourite…

Kurtág - Hommage à R Schumann Trio for piano clarinet and viola Op.15d

Schumann - Märchenerzählungen (Fairytale) for Piano clarinet and viola Op.132

Kurtág - Signs, Games and Messages for solo viola

Schumann - 6 pieces in canonic form Op.56 (arr.Kirchner)

Janáček - String Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’

Britten  - Les Illuminations Op.18 for voice and string ensemble - Laurence Kilsby, tenor

Saturday, June 13, 2026
18.00pm
Trinity Church, St John Sub Castro (map)

6. coffee concert

The coffee concert features music with Bohemian roots…most notably Ligeti’s extraordinary Horn Trio. Ligeti and Kurtág, met in Budapest, in 1945 having both crossed from their native Romania, in order to study with Bartok. Although Bartok never made it back to Budapest (dying that year) the two composers became lifelong friends, despite them choosing very different paths.

Pejacevic - Impromptu Op.9 for piano quartet

Martinu - Sonata No.2 H.286 for cello and piano

Ligeti - Horn Trio “Hommage à Brahms”t

Sunday, June 14, 2026
Coffee* from 10:30am, Concert: 11:00am
Trinity Church, St John Sub Castro (map)

*free coffee for ticket holders from 10:30am

7. Festival Finale!

Kurtág - Jatékok for four hands (extracts)

Bartok - Duos (selection for various instruments)

Brahms - String Sextet No.2 in G major Op.36

Anton Webern - Movement for String Trio ‘Ruhig Fliessend’

Schumann  - Piano Quartet in E flat Op.47

Sunday, June 14, 2026
16.00pm  
Trinity Church, St John Sub Castro (map)

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Entry to all 7 concerts

If you purchase a Festival Pass and are not planning to come to all of the concerts please let the box-office know in advance which ones you are missing Thank you very much

Entry to 4 concerts

When buying a majority pass please email
 box-office@leweschambermusicfestival.com  
immediately stating exactly which concerts you wish to attend