Extraordinary music in extraordinary spaces.

Since 1945, Cheltenham Music Festival has been a home for extraordinary music. Its 80th year in 2025 was a landmark season of celebration, and in 2026 the Festival looks ahead – championing world-class performers and bold new voices in Cheltenham’s most beautiful spaces.

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Festival dates: 3 – 11 July 2026

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FREE - Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 July
Sat 4 Jul, 9am
Free
Fancy some Mozart with your mocha, cocktails with your crotchets or a beer with a side of Beethoven?
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Aurora Orchestra and Benjamin Grosvenor
Fri 3 Jul, 7pm
Cheltenham Town Hall
£48, £38, £28, £18, £12
“I’ve never seen an orchestra take so much ownership over a performance” was Bachtrack’s response to Aurora Orchestra’s 2016 Proms performance of Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ from memory. There’s an infectious freedom and energy to Aurora’s…
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Mariam Batsashvili
Sat 4 Jul, 11am
Pittville Pump Room
£32, £26, £18
Since making waves with her winning performances at two of the world’s top piano competitions, Mariam Batsashvili’s name has been indelibly linked with one of the greatest virtuosos of all: Franz Liszt. Here she celebrates 140 years since…
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Za Górami
Sat 4 Jul, 3.30pm
Pittville Pump Room
£24, £20, £14
Vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki, pianist Fred Thomas and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado present a rare alchemy, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free-flowing interplay and fluid structures. Inhabiting their own…
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Dudù Kouate and Shunya
Sat 4 Jul, 5pm
DEYA Swamp
£24
Due to popular demand, we've added another performance... Renowned for his mastery of pan-African traditional instruments, many of which he creates himself, Dudù Kouate journeys through his cultural influences in this rare duo appearance…
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Pre-concert Talk: Mahler
Sat 4 Jul, 5.45pm
Tewkesbury Abbey
£5
Following his wonderfully informative and engaging talks in 2025, Professor of Composition at the University of Bristol John Pickard, returns to delve deeper into the world of Mahler. In this illustrated introduction to Das klagende Lied,…
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