The Conservatoire Chamber Music Festival – February 13th. to 18th., opens with the Hepplewhite Trio, junior fellows at the Conservatoire.

This is followed by a week of many Chamber Music delights, culminating with a performance by the Conservatoire Tutors Ensemble:

Nathaniel Vallois - violin
Robin Ireland - viola
John Todd - cello
Richard Lewis - double bass

Robert Markham piano and John McCabe piano join forces to play the Schubert  Fantasy in C for violin and piano D934, Britten  Lachrymae for viola and piano, McCabe  Berceuse (1st. performance of a BCMS Commission), the BCMS  Composition Prize (1st. performance of the 2011 winning work) played by the recently formed Poggi String Quartet and ending with Schubert  Piano Quintet in A D667 (The Trout).

For further details of the Chamber Music Week go to the Conservatoire web site.

The BCMS Birmingham Conservatoire Sylvia Cleaver Chamber Music Competition Prize competition takes place on February 15th. at 7p.m.

To be held in the Rehearsal Hall at the Conservatoire. This is an opportunity to hear fine playing by students taking their first steps into the world of professional performance.


The very last Summer Concert and Buffet will be held in the Birmingham Medical Institute on Friday 15th. June at 7p.m.

Tickets include wine and buffet are £18.00. If you've not been to one of our Summer Buffet Concerts before, you won't get another chance, buy your tickets Now! ….........

Birmingham Chamber Music Society recitals are held in the Adrian Boult Hall at the Birmingham Conservatoire BCU .


The BCMS is extremely grateful for recent financial support.

The BCMS is grateful for the generous support provided by Birmingham City Council towards our recent Gala Concert and the Grimmitt Trust, the Douglas Turner Trust, the GJW Turner Trust and the Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust towards our 60th Anniversary Jubilee Season 2011/2012. We also are greatly indebted to the RVW Trust for its support for the John McCabe commission