Bath Mozartfest 2025

2025 is the 35^th anniversary year of Bath Mozartfest, and it will also be the final festival programmed by the peerless Amelia Freedman, CBE, FRAM, its artistic director for more than thirty years, who sadly died in July.

Amelia’s final programme is as inspiring and invigorating as ever, brimming with musical delights new and familiar.  This year there are Bath debuts for the Schumann Quartet, who open the festival, with Mozart of course; the Consone Quartet; the Carducci String Quartet and the Castalian String Quartet.

The Hallé orchestra returns to Bath with Sir Mark Elder, now its Conductor Emeritus, and a programme featuring music from Sibelius and Dvorák, plus Dame Imogen Cooper playing Mozart’s final, beautifully poetic, Piano Concerto No 27.

The Nash Ensemble, the group that Amelia founded sixty years ago, has long been a Bath favourite and will make its 2025 Mozartfest appearance with a programme ranging from Mozart via Mendelssohn to Ralph Vaughan Williams.

This wide-ranging 9-day, 15 concert festival with Mozart at its heart perfectly illustrates Amelia’s extraordinary gift for creative programming, always appealing but gently encouraging audiences to broaden their musical horizons. She will be much missed by Bath audiences.

Bath Mozartfest 2025 will end, appropriately, with Mozart’s Great C minor Mass in Bath Abbey, with La Nuova Musica conducted by David Bates, and then a celebratory dinner to honour Amelia Freedman (Nov 1940-July 2025) and this remarkable festival and its enduring success to which she contributed so much.

You can find full programme details at bathmozartfest.org

Image shows  the Schumann Quartet, who will be giving the opening concert of this year’s Bath Mozartfest