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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
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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
