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2023-24 Season – Our 6th and final concert of the Season Concert,  at Theatre by the Lake on June 12th 7.30pm – Songs of Summer Love – A Wild Arts Opera Evening, with music selected and arranged by Orlando Jopling and story and direction by James Hurley. A truly operatic extravaganza:  Leonora and her long-term partner, Taddeo, are […]

 The 2nd concert of our mini Autumn/Winter season, given by Lara Melda, piano, was an absorbing and thrilling evening (see The Concert Reviews Page), and we look forward to hearing Imogen Cooper in the New Year. In February our soon to-be-announced Spring/Summer season of 3 concerts will begin, ending with a glorious evening of opera

On October 28th The Alkyona String Quartet opened our 2023-24 season with a really inspiring concert of Purcell, Haydn, Britten and two new works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Jessie Montgomery.  The audience loved it! See the review page for a review of this concert. The next concert in this series will be given on November

Good news! The 2023-24 season will begin on Saturday October 28th at St. John’s Church Keswick. Before the concert at 6pm we will hold the AGM for 2022-23 to which all Members are warmly invited.   The Alkyona String Quartet’s concert will include music by Haydn, Purcell and Britten. Our Steinway piano will be heard

The 3 last concerts of the 2022-2023 season were at Theatre by the Lake on March 14th – Bella Tromba – 5 trombones, May 9th, the Brompton String Quartet and June 6th, PIVA the Renaissance Collective in their programme Measure for Measure – see the review page for more details. As last year, our attempts

Our spring/summer 2023 season continues at Theatre by the Lake. The next concert is: Tuesday May 9th   7.30pm    The Brompton String Quartet The  Brompton Quartet was the winner of the St. Martin-in-the Fields Chamber Music Competition 2019 and is an up and coming ensemble known for its engaging and dynamic performances. The group is made

After our successful autumn/winter series of 4 concerts at St. John’s Church Keswick, the second half of the 2022-23 season began on February 14th at Theatre by the Lake with an unusual ensemble – violin and guitar. Harriet Mackenzie (violin) a multi-faceted virtuoso with “captivating, searing intensity and full of panache” (The Strad) and James

Keswick Music Society can now announce the new 2022-23 season, a season of two halves. Under their new arrangements, the Theatre by the Lake cannot give us our usual range of dates and days of the week from September to April, so we will hold the concerts in the first part of our season at

 On May 14th, we were back at Theatre by the Lake, with our first concert there since 2020! This was a magical evening: a succession of wonderful arias by composers from Purcell to Sondheim, chosen to tell a complex operatic story of love, dance, loss and harmony and performed by world-class singers with a virtuosic string