Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra

23/03/2026

08/11/2025

Wishing all contestants good luck for the competition!

🎵 Chipping Campden Rotary Club – Young Musician Final 2025
Tuesday 11th November 2025 | 6:00pm
📍 Cidermill Theatre, Chipping Campden

Come and support the wonderful young musicians of the Campden area for an inspiring evening of music-making at the Chipping Campden Rotary Club – Young Musician Final. 🎻🎤

Enjoy performances from talented vocalists and instrumentalists, ranging from classical to jazz, as they compete for a place in the next stage of this prestigious National Competition.

It’s an evening filled with local talent, passion and musical excellence - a chance to celebrate the next generation of performers! 🌟

🎟️ Join us and show your support for our incredible young musicians.

👉 https://cidermilltheatre-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173669630/events/428751122/seats?zone=Auditorium

09/10/2025

APPLY NOW! Next course 17-23 May 2026

Calling all music conservatorie students!!

Applications are now being accepted for our next course. Would you like to perform 3 orchestral concerts at next year's Chipping Campden Music Festival with the likes of Marc-André Hamelin, Jess Gillam, and Ruth Rogers?

Click on the link below for more information on the course and how to apply.

Application deadline is the 30th November 2025.

The Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra, formed in 2008, has become an extremely significant part of the Music Festival. The CCFAO is formed anew every year (although many of the professionals are regular members) and each desk has an advanced conservatoire student or recent graduate playing...

24/05/2025

What an INCREDIBLE orchestra we have formed this year. So quick to gel, so easy to blend and balance, so quick to the helm. It’s been such a joy to hear the orchestra blossom through the week and we can’t believe there is only one concert left. If you don’t have a ticket for tonight watch the festival website for returns. Thank you everyone for all your hard work.

19/01/2025

And we’re off! Today was the first of 6 days of auditions for this year’s course 18-24 May 2025 at the Chipping Campden Music FestivalFirst class French horn, trumpet and trombone, auditions. Thank you Royal Academy of Music. Every single candidate is worthy of a place but we can’t invite them all. An incredibly inspiring day but this means there are some very difficult decisions for our panellists Thomas Hull and Oliver Preece.

28/11/2024

Only a few days left to apply! Applications close this Saturday the 30th November! Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to come and perform at the wonderful Chipping Campden Music Festival. See below for application details.

The Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra, formed in 2008, has become an extremely significant part of the Music Festival. The CCFAO is formed anew every year (although many of the professionals are regular members) and each desk has an advanced conservatoire student or recent graduate playing...

10/10/2024

APPLY NOW FOR OUR NEXT COURSE
18th - 24th May 2025
Click this link for information about the course and how to apply
https://www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/music/orchestra

The CCFAO will perform 3 concerts at the Chipping Campden May Festivals on the 20th, 22nd and 24th May 2025, with soloists Steven Isserlis, Imogen Cooper, Anthony Robb, and Charlie Lovell-Jones. Symphonic work by Mozart, Beethoven Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvorak and a world premiere by Roderick Williams.

We will hold auditions in January 2025 in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, and Glasgow.

Suitable for advanced conservatoire level musicians, post-Grad or recent graduates. Successful candidate will receive a bursary of £450

Application deadline is 30th November 2024

Guildhall School of Music & Drama Royal Academy of Music Royal College of Music Trinity Laban Royal Birmingham Conservatoire RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru

The Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra, formed in 2008, has become an extremely significant part of the Music Festival. The CCFAO is formed anew every year (although many of the professionals are regular members) and each desk has an advanced conservatoire student or recent graduate playing...

10/06/2024

Here is another picture of Tim Watts in action in Chipping Campden. We will miss you Tim.