Guildhall Chamber Music Festival 2025
Guildhall School presents the 2025 Chamber Music Festival
Guildhall School’s Chamber Music Festival returns for a weekend of inspiring performances from 14–16 March 2025.
Student-professor collaborations in the superb acoustics of the Milton Court Concert Hall bring together talented Guildhall students and world-renowned chamber professors in works ranging from Haydn and Brahms to Sally Beamish, Stravinsky and Takemitsu.
Rising stars the Elmore Quartet, our Hans Keller Chamber Fellows, open the festival, and the Saturday Student Showcase features an abundance of talented current student groups - from string quartets to brass quintets.
Scroll down to find out more about this year's events.
Chamber Music Festival events
Friday 14 March
Chamber Music Festival: Elmore Quartet Rush Hour Concert
Milton Court Concert Hall, 6pm
Imogen Holst, Britten
Free, no tickets required
Milton Court Concert Hall, 7.30pm
Bacewicz, Bruch, Haydn, Takemitsu, Turina
Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions)*
Saturday 15 March
Silk Street Music Hall, 7pm
Barber, Debussy, Guillermo Lago, Bacewicz, Bozza, Shostakovich, Elgar
Free, no tickets required
Sunday 16 March
Milton Court Concert Hall, 2.30pm
Brahms, Sally Beamish and Dohnányi
Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions)*
Masterclass with Jacqueline Ross
Silk Street Lecture Recital Room, 4.45pm
Guildhall School professor Jacqueline Ross leads a masterclass exploring Beethoven's chamber music.
Free, no tickets required
Milton Court Concert Hall, 7pm
Stamitz, Fauré, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich
Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions)*
*Chamber Festival ticketed concerts multi-buy offer:
Book 2 concerts for a 10% discount
Book 3 concerts for a 20% discount
Tickets for the three main Festival concerts in Milton Court Concert Hall cost £10 (£5 concessions). A multi-buy offer is available.
Other festival events are free, no tickets required - just turn up!
Milton Court Concert Hall, Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London EC2Y 9BH
Silk Street Music Hall & Lecture Recital Room, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DT
Find out more about how to get to Guildhall School on our Visiting Guildhall School webpage
Chamber Music Festival brochure
Download a PDF brochure showing details of all the exciting events taking place in this year's festival
Q&A with Matthew Jones, Head of Chamber Music
"The excitement every year is seeing what happens in the process between the professors and the students during the Milton Court concerts ... It’s wonderful to hear the fruits of that intensive burst of labour".
Before this year's festival begins, we caught up with Matthew Jones, Head of Chamber Music and Professor of Viola at Guildhall School, to find out more about what we can expect from this weekend of inspiring performances.
Chamber Music Festival
Explore our Chamber Music Festival events.
Multi-buy offer
Chamber Festival ticketed concerts multi-buy offer:
Book 2 concerts for a 10% discount
Book 3 concerts for a 20% discount
Add multiple Chamber Festival concerts to your basket at barbican.org.uk and the discount will automatically be applied.
Collaboration Concert
Sunday Afternoon Concert
Festival Finale
No ticket is required for free Chamber Festival events - just turn up!