We are delighted to learn that the unmissable MAYFIELD FESTIVAL 2026 is back from Sunday the 26th of April, Tickets are already selling fast (see booking details below and website for full programme details).
Proceedings get underway with one of the showpiece events of the whole festival. The Mayfield Festival Choir and Mayfield Baroque Orchestra, under the baton of the festival’s Artistic Director Jeremy Summerly, will be giving a performance of Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt.
As Jeremy Summerly writes in his programme notes:
“Israel in Egypt is one of the most original and ambitious oratorios of the Baroque era . . . Through vivid choral writing and bold musical imagery, Handel transforms biblical narrative into powerful sonic drama”.
Full details of all events are available online at https://mayfieldfestival.co.uk
Baroque treasures continue the following day with a concert by Red Priest. These four supremely talented musicians have won plaudits the world over for both the virtuosity of their playing and the dynamism and interpretive flair of their performance of baroque repertoire and the Mayfield Festival is indeed fortunate to have them in its line-up for this year. The concert will include works by Bach, Corelli and Vivaldi. Other highlights of this year’s festival include a return by the ever-popular Oz Clarke (this time recalling his pre-wine expert days as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company), Australian pianist Joseph Havlat giving a recital built around works by Robert Schumann, a second visit by The London Community Gospel Choir, the masters of the music of the interwar years The Pasadena Roof Orchestra (SEE PHOTO IN OUR BANNER ABOVE) and, for the closing concert of the festival on the 10th of May, a performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto (and for those of a certain generation this will no doubt bring to mind an image of Andre Previn and Eric Morecambe!). Moreover, for music lovers who prefer their choral performances to be unaccompanied, Jeremy Summerly has prepared a veritable feast for the ears on Monday the 4th of May. Two of the great works of Renaissance polyphony – Tallis’s Spem in Allium and Striggio’s Ecce Beatum Lucem – will be sung ‘in the round’ (the manner in which they were written to be performed) as part of a concert that also features works by Christopher Tye, John Tavener and David Bednall and the world premiere of a choral work by local composer Clemmie Dawson (a former member of St Dunstan’s Parish Church Choir).
Full details of all events are available online at https://mayfieldfestival.co.uk
Tickets can be purchased in the following ways:
ONLINE
Visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/mayfieldfestival. TicketSource has a secure payment facility for debit and credit cards. A booking fee applies. If requesting TicketSource to post tickets a £2.50 postal service fee is also applied.
TELEPHONE
Call TicketSource on 0333 666 3366 quoting ‘Mayfield Festival’. Payment by credit or debit card (please note that payments are completed using a secure payment link sent to the customer by email or SMS and so a smartphone, tablet or computer is required). Lines are open 9am-7pm Monday to Friday and from 9am-5pm on Saturday. A booking fee applies. If requesting TicketSource to post tickets a £2.50 postal service fee is also applied.
IN PERSON
Sew Inspired, Tandridge House, High Street, Mayfield, TN20 6AL (shop opening hours only). Credit and debit cards, cash or cheque.