Bringing the BEST to Wimbledonwe need your help

The Trustees of the Wimbledon International Music Festival hope you are as excited as we are about the wonderful programme that our Founder and Director, Anthony Wilkinson, has put together for our 2023 Festival this November. As always since our founding in 2009, we will have the unique pleasure of seeing and hearing world class performers here at our venues in Wimbledon.

Julian Marland Trustee

For this to continue in future years, we really need to ask for your help. As with most classical music concerts, the price of the tickets only covers around half of the full costs the Festival incurs and so we always rely on the generosity of our donors, sponsors, patrons and friends, as well as, historically, grants from the Arts Council, to allow us to continue the high quality of performance to which we aspire. And as you will be aware, the future of live classical music has never been under more threat. Just as music finances have been recovering from the effects of the pandemic, many ensembles, particularly those based in London and the South East, have been hit by severe cuts in funding from the Arts Council and other public bodies. Now more than ever, those of us who love live classical music need to support artists and ensembles, and charities like the Wimbledon International Music Festival, which provide them with a platform for their talents.

This year, we have a particular reason to ask for your help. Since our founding, our most generous and long-standing supporter has been the Wimbledon-based Tertis Foundation, named for the famous British violist, Lionel Tertis, in whose memory we have a viola concert every year. The Tertis Trustees have now decided that time has come to wind up the Foundation and have expressed a willingness to make the Festival a beneficiary of a substantial sum in recognition of our longstanding partnership. The Foundation would like to help us ensure the future financial health of the Festival by giving this as a restricted capital sum which they would expect us to preserve for the long-term. The Tertis Trustees are also giving this in the expectation that Festival raises significantly more than we have raised historically from donors and sponsors.

These two factors, the possible decrease of future Arts Council funding, and the need to respond to the Tertis Foundation’s challenge, means that we are asking you to consider giving generously, and increasing your contribution if you already support us. As trustee with particular responsibility for fundraising, I would be delighted to discuss this with you in more detail at any time. Many thanks!

FAMILY CONCERT with PRISM Ensemble

HANDEL: ISRAEL IN EGYPT Academy Choir, Academy Baroque Players

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

GLORIES OF ENGLISH SONG

VIENNA TO HOLLYWOOD Tippett Quartet

INTERNATIONAL PIANO RECITAL Sofya Gulyak

JUILLIARD QUARTET Two Last Quartets

JUILLIARD QUARTET Cavatina

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: MORNINGSIDE PIANO TRIO

FRI 17 TUE 21

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: ASHLEY WASS, piano

MON 13

THE VIRTUOSO ACCORDION

Samuel Telari

FRI 17

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL SHOWCASE

WED 22

THE FORGOTTEN SCARLATTI

The Armonico Consort

TUE 14

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: THE MELIORA COLLECTIVE Meera Maharaj, flute

SAT 18

MOZART’S GREATEST WIND MUSIC Wigmore Soloists

THU 23

LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY

Roderick Williams, baritone

Iain Burnside, piano

CHOOI BROTHERS

Nikki & Timothy Chooi, violins

Clayton Stephenson, piano

LUNARIS: Violin and Recorder

Virtuosi take a journey through The FOUR PHASES of the MOON

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: THE COZZALANI VESPERS OF 1650

We thank all our Sponsors and Funders for their generous support