ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields returns to Winona in 2026 for the Minnesota Beethoven Festival.

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields returns to Winona in 2026 for the Minnesota Beethoven Festival.

ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

ASMF musicians create music with service users at The Connection at St Martin’s

ASMF on tour in Dubrovnik, Rheingau and Meckpomm

ASMF on tour in Dubrovnik, Rheingau and Meckpomm

ASMF on tour in Dubrovnik, Rheingau and Meckpomm

ASMF on tour in Dubrovnik, Rheingau and Meckpomm

Join Tinklings at the Lamb and Flag Pub in Oxford for a children’s String Quartet performance following the adventure of Freddo the Frog!

ASMF on tour in Dubrovnik, Rheingau and Meckpomm

ASMF on tour in Dubrovnik, Rheingau and Meckpomm

ASMF on tour in Dubrovnik, Rheingau and Meckpomm

“They say the Beethoven Violin Concerto takes time to love – it isn’t always a young violinist’s first infatuation. But even at eighteen, it was, for me, the ultimate ideal: a marriage of compositional perfection and devastating beauty.” – Stella Chen

Gramophone Young Artist of the Year 2023, violinist Stella Chen, joins the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to perform one of the greatest violin concertos of the nineteenth century. From the opening drumbeats, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto unfolds into a journey from wind chorales to warm string chords and orchestral climaxes, all woven together by Chen’s lyrical and expressive violin playing. Her recent recording of the concerto with ASMF showcases her clarity and poetic intensity, capturing both the work’s grandeur and its intimate lyricism. 
 

After the interval, Caroline Shaw’s Punctum reaches across the centuries for inspiration from J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion, drawing us into a musical conversation between the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and the great Baroque master, whose music was admired by both Beethoven and Mozart. 
 

Mozart Symphony No. 39, the first of Mozart’s final three symphonies, brings this season-opening concert to its conclusion. In the key of E-flat major – shared with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Shaw’s Punctum – the symphony omits oboes and features clarinets and shows the influence from Haydn in its mischievous final movement.

ASMF strings perform live alongside a screening of Brassed Off, in collaboration with Grimethorpe Colliery Band. The performance brings together orchestral brass forces in a large-scale presentation of the film’s celebrated score. 

Join St Martin’s Voices and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, under director Andrew Earis, for an enchanting evening of Christmas music. Sing along to beloved carols such as O Holy Night, In the Bleak Mid-Winter, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, and enjoy a sparkling programme of orchestral favourites and exquisite choral carols. 

American pianist and composer Conrad Tao joins the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for a programme that explores innovation and individuality across American and Classical traditions. 

“The kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music”– New York Magazine

Pioneering composer Ruth Crawford Seeger opens the concert with Music for Small Orchestra, a work of striking originality whose bold textures and concentrated forms continue to sound ahead of their time.  

At the centre of the programme, Tao performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23, its lyrical poise and inward expressive world offering a compelling contrast. He also presents the world premiere of a new commission written for ASMF, bringing his dual perspective as composer and performer to the fore. 

This concert closes with Copland’s Appalachian Spring, performed in its original chamber version, a work shaped by American folk traditions, evoking a landscape of wide-open spaces and hard-won joy, and one of the most enduring ballet scores in the orchestral repertoire. 

Academy of St Martin in the Fields and St Martin’s Voices join forces to perform Bach’s sacred masterpiece. The St John Passion is an iconic musical retelling of the Easter story, featuring Bach’s vocal and instrumental writing at its most dramatic and poignant. 

Grammy Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in an all-Italian and Russian programme united by passionate lyricism. 

After the mournfully melodic opening of Puccini’s elegy The Chrysanthemums, written on the death of a friend and anticipating the operatic voice that would make him famous, we move to the fireworks of Paganini’s Violin Concerto No.4, performed in a new orchestration for chamber orchestra, highlighting the musical interplay between Hadelich’s virtuoso violin and the musicians of the orchestra. Hadelich has made the rediscovery of neglected masterworks a hallmark of his career, and this concerto is exactly that: Paganini delivering brilliance, drama, and moments of unexpected tenderness.

The evening concludes with Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, performed in its orchestral version. One of his most joyful and expansive works for strings, it combines rich textures with infectious energy, bringing the concert to a vibrant close.