Hastings Chamber Music Festival

28/10/2025

What a weekend!

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who performed, listened, supported, funded, and helped make this festival so special.

From first note to final applause, it’s been a celebration of music, ideas, and connection.

We’re already looking forward to what comes next.

📷 1, 2 & 5 Peter Mould | Stage Snaps

Kino-Teatr Rautio Piano TrioSally Beamish Music Continuo Foundation Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea Apollo's Cabinet The Hermes Experiment

26/10/2025

The tide turns. Our final day begins.

We close the festival with an afternoon concert at 3pm from the Rautio Piano Trio and Oliver Beamish, blending music and narration in Echoes of the Sea and Soul.

Composer Sally Beamish also joins us in conversation as part of the performance. A fabulous chance to hear how ideas, stories and sound come together.

There’s still time for you to join us for some music, words and reflection.

📅 Sun 26 Oct, 3PM - Kino-Teatr
🎻 Rautio Piano Trio - ‘Echoes of the Sea and Soul’
💬 Tickets include ‘Artists in Conversation’, a talk and Q & A with Composer Sally Beamish Music and musicians from Rautio Piano Trio

Tickets available on the door and via our website: https://hemf.co.uk/festival-2025/

25/10/2025

Every new piece begins as an idea, a question, a sound in someone’s imagination.

Today, Composer Orlando Gough joins us for Apollo’s Cabinet concert: Elements. It’s a special chance to experience their new work live, then hear the stories and ideas behind it.

Music, conversation, connection.

Drop in to Christ Church St Leonards anytime between 3-5pm to hear the musicians’ final preparations.

Catch the concert and conversations at 7pm.

Tickets available on the door.

With thanks to Continuo Foundation for their generous support.

Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea

24/10/2025

Yesterday really set the tone; music, ideas and connection.

Thank you to everyone who made our opening day so special.

Today we continue with conversation and discovery: a talk on climate and music, and the first performance outside London of Tree, the stunning new album from The Hermes Experiment, fresh from its ★★★★★ Guardian review.

See you there?

📅 Fri 24 Oct, 7PM - Kino-Teatr
🎻 The Hermes Experiment - ‘Tree’
💬 Tickets include ‘Music & Climate Science’ A panel discussion between Climate Scientist (LSE) and the musicians from The Hermes Experiment.

📅 Sat 25 Oct, 7PM - Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea
Associated FREE EVENT: Open rehearsal 3-5, no need to book
🎻 Apollo's Cabinet - ‘Elements’
💬 Tickets include ‘Artists in Conversation’, a talk and Q & A with Composer Orlando Gough and musicians from Apollo's Cabinet.

📅 Sun 26 Oct, 3PM - Kino-Teatr
🎻 Rautio Piano Trio - ‘Echoes of the Sea and Soul’
💬 Tickets include ‘Artists in Conversation’, a talk and Q & A with Composer Sally Beamish Music and musicians from Rautio Piano Trio

Tickets available on the door and via our website: https://hemf.co.uk/festival-2025/

23/10/2025

It begins today.

Music, ideas, and conversations shared across a weekend of discovery.

Drop into an open rehearsal this afternoon, or join us tonight as Felix Ensemble open the festival with Metamorphoses & Resilience.

We can’t wait to welcome you!

📅 Thurs 23 Oct, 7PM - Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea
Associated FREE EVENT: Open rehearsal 3-5, no need to book
🎻 Felix Ensemble - ‘Metamorphoses & Resilience’

📅 Fri 24 Oct, 7PM - Kino-Teatr
🎻 The Hermes Experiment - ‘Tree’
💬 Tickets include ‘Music & Climate Science’ A panel discussion between Climate Scientist (LSE) and the musicians from The Hermes Experiment.

📅 Sat 25 Oct, 7PM - Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea
Associated FREE EVENT: Open rehearsal 3-5, no need to book
🎻 Apollo's Cabinet - ‘Elements’
💬 Tickets include ‘Artists in Conversation’, a talk and Q & A with Composer Orlando Gough and musicians from Apollo's Cabinet.

📅 Sun 26 Oct, 3PM - Kino-Teatr
🎻 Rautio Piano Trio - ‘Echoes of the Sea and Soul’
💬 Tickets include ‘Artists in Conversation’, a talk and Q & A with Composer Sally Beamish Music and musicians from Rautio Piano Trio

Tickets available on the door and via our website: https://hemf.co.uk/festival-2025/

22/10/2025

As an island nation it's no wonder we're so fascinated by the sea.

The Rautio Piano Trio with narrator Oliver Beamish explore journeys, storms, and moments of stillness in their concert: Echoes of the Sea and Soul.

Come and hear this Passacaglia & Fugue in C min BWV 582 by Bach in full alongside
Sally Beamish ‘Seafarer’ (2000)
and Beethoven ‘Kakadu’ Variations Op. 121a

Live, Sunday, 3pm at Kino-Teatr

Tickets available via the link in our bio Hastings Chamber Music Festival

21/10/2025

Ever wondered what goes on before the concert begins?

Join us for free open rehearsals at Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea on Thursday and Saturday, 3–5PM for a rare chance to watch festival artists shape their performances, refine details, and bring new music to life.

Come and go as you like, listen in, and see how sound takes shape.

All welcome, no ticket needed.

19/10/2025

So many voices. So much imagination.
The Hermes Experiment’s new album Tree featuring music by Abel Selaocoe - Artist Page, Hannah Peel, Laura Moody and Errollyn Wallen and more is being premiered in London RIGHT NOW!!

The album already got a five star review The Guardian. And it's our turn to host these gorgeous musicians next week!

Join us to be among the first to hear it live:
Christ Church on Sat 25 Oct, 7PM

Tickets available via the link in our bio Hastings Chamber Music Festival

Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea
The Hermes Experiment

16/10/2025

to last year’s opening night: Felix Ensemble opening HCMF with music that shimmered, surprised and set the tone for an unforgettable weekend.

Next Thursday, they’re back to start HCMF 2025 with Metamorphoses & Resilience. It’s a programme of transformation, beauty and hope.

Join us for the first notes of the festival and feel the energy build all over again.
We can’t wait to welcome you back.

🎻 Felix Ensemble: ‘Metamorphoses & Resilience’
📅 Thurs 23 Oct, 7PM Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea
Tickets via the link in our website: https://hemf.co.uk/festival-2025/

15/10/2025

14/10/2025

Do you wish you felt more hopeful about our climate?

We know it’s hard:
927 species are already extinct; we’ve lost 84 of those in the last 50 years. And with 2°C of global warming, extinction risk could double.

BUT the UK has already cut emissions by 54% since 1990 and aims for 68% by 2030.
There’s still time to turn the story around.

Join us for Music & Climate Science: a conversation with Frank Venmans about the science, the stories, and the music of our changing world. And stay for The Hermes Experiment’s concert, ‘Tree’.

The Hermes Experiment : ‘Tree’
Fri 24 Oct, 7PM Kino-Teatr

Tickets available online and on the door: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kinoteatr/t-qjlrovp

With thanks to Transition Town Hastings for their continued support.