Mayfield Festival

09/09/2026

🎶 25 or under? Experience live classical music for just £5.

At Mayfield Festival, we want to make great live music accessible to the next generation of concertgoers.

If you’re aged 25 or under, you can choose ANY available seat for just £5. Whether you already love classical music or have never experienced a live orchestra before, this is a wonderful opportunity to give it a try.

Our next concert is Shadows & Light: Mendelssohn & Beethoven, featuring the Barbican Sinfonia, conductor Jack Gonzalez-Harding and violinist Alexandra Peel.

📅 Sunday 20 September 2026
🕢 7.30pm
📍 St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield

🎟️ 25 and under: £5 for ANY available seat

Come and experience the excitement of a live orchestra in the beautiful surroundings of St Dunstan’s.

Tickets available now from TicketSource.
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06/09/2026

We are delighted to welcome Jack Gonzalez-Harding back to Mayfield on Sunday 20 September to conduct the Barbican Sinfonia at St Dunstan’s Church.

Jack is Conducting Fellow of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and has worked as an assistant conductor to Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder and Thomas Adès, with orchestras including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The evening opens with Mendelssohn’s atmospheric Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) before rising violinist Alexandra Peel joins the orchestra for Mendelssohn’s much-loved Violin Concerto in E minor.

After the interval, Jack conducts Beethoven’s exhilarating Symphony No. 4 – a work full of energy, wit and joy.

📅 Sunday 20 September 2026
🕢 7.30pm
📍 St Dunstan’s Church, Mayfield

🎟 Tickets: £35, £15 and £7.50
£5 for those aged 25 and under – any seat

Tickets are on sale now:
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25/08/2026

Join us for an evening of Mendelssohn and Beethoven with the Barbican Sinfonia, conducted by Jack Gonzalez-Harding.

The programme takes us from the dramatic Scottish coastline that inspired Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) to one of the most loved violin concertos in the repertoire, with performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor.

Following the interval, the and bring the evening to a close with Beethoven's energetic and joyful Symphony no. 4 in B flat major.

*Sunday 20 September 2026 7.30pm
*St Dunstan's Church, Mayfield
*Tickets: £35 | £15 | £7.50 25 and under: £5 for any seat

Tickets are on sale now through our website: www.mayfieldfestival.co.uk

05/06/2026

08/05/2026

🎹✨ We are delighted to see Xu Peng featured as soloist in this exciting performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto at the Mayfield Festival

Xu Peng was the Piano Section Winner and Overall Winner of the
Tunbridge Wells International Music Competition, and it is wonderful to see his musical career continuing to flourish following his outstanding success at

Audiences at the competition will remember his remarkable artistry, musical maturity and captivating performances throughout the Finals in 2024🎹

We wish Xu every success for what promises to be a magnificent concert 👏

30/04/2026

TONIGHT!! Thursday 30 April 2026, 7.30pm: THE OLD MAID & THE THIEF
*St. Dunstan's Church, High Street, Mayfield, East Sussex
*£17.50, £7.50, £5 (25 and under: £5 any seat)

Gian Carlo Menotti's sparkling one-act radio opera The Old Maid and The Thief forms the centrepiece of an evening of American music curated by musicians of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Written as the first opera specifically for radio in 1939, this witty tale of small-town intrigue, gossip and deception is paired with Barber's radiant Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Gershwin's Three Preludes for Piano and more to complete an evening of transatlantic mid-century elegance and charm.

The conductor for this performance, Tom Hawkey-Soar, is a musician with deep roots in Mayfield. He began his musical life aged seven as a chorister at St Dunstan's Church and was a long-time member of the Mayfield Band.

This concert is kindly sponsored by Tester & Jones of Crowborough.

Tickets on the door.

30/04/2026

Monday night's Shakespeare and Song event with Oz Clarke, generously sponsored by , saw the concert hall at filled with everyone enjoying wonderful music from .irving and whilst drinking b**r. What a winning combination!

28/04/2026

Red Priest captivated a packed church last night with their sheer brilliance. What a gig! We hope they'll be back next time..

28/04/2026

The Mayfield Festival Choir with The Mayfield Baroque Orchestra, delivered an outstanding opening concert of Handel's Israel in Egypt last night, setting the tone for what promises to be an excellent two weeks ahead.

Many thanks to the wonderful soloists, Aneska Diament, Natalka Pasicznyk, Alexandria Moon, Francis Melville, Gabriel Tufail-Smith and Ed Birchinall. To the orchestra, brilliantly led by George Clifford and of course to Jeremy Summerly.

You can hear the Mayfield Festival Choir again in the closing concert on Sunday 10th May where they will be singing Hubert Parry's Blest Pair of Sirens. www.mayfieldfestival.co.uk