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  • Join the 2025 Festival Team
  • 2025 Summer Festival is here!
  • Vacancies: Production Coordinator
  • Vacancies: Marketing & Development Manager
  • Pianist Steven Osborne OBE becomes President
🎻 Strings Showcase: A Festival Celebration of t 🎻 Strings Showcase: A Festival Celebration of the Quartet
🗓️ 5–8 August 2025
📍 Hawkshead • Grange • Cark

From intimate churches to grand historic estates, this summer's festival is rich with exceptional string quartets- and it all starts with our Showcase concert at Hawkshead Parish Church (Tue 5 Aug, 2PM), featuring the rising stars of the Sintra and Dovestone Quartets, our two resident ensembles.

✨ The @sintra.quartet continue their exploration of rich chamber repertoire at Victoria Hall (Thu 7 Aug, 11:30AM), including meditative Haydn, impassioned Beethoven, and Britten's witty caricatures of old friends.

🌿 Then don’t miss a magical double-bill at Holker Hall & Gardens (Fri 8 Aug, 11AM & 12:30PM) as the @dovestonequartet return for their final festival appearance. Your ticket includes access to the beautiful gardens- a perfect pairing of music and nature.

🎟️ Tickets via the link in our bio - discover the future of chamber music in unforgettable settings.

#StringQuartet #ChamberMusicLive #SintraQuartet #DovestoneQuartet #LakeDistrictMusic #FestivalHighlight #HawksheadConcert #VictoriaHall #HolkerHall #LiveClassical #NextGenClassical #LinkInBio
Behind the scenes 🎬... Last week we spoke to th Behind the scenes 🎬...
Last week we spoke to the brilliant percussionist, local lad @paddydaviesmusic  just before he took to the stage at Victoria Hall — and what a finale to our Spring Series it was lighting up the hall with rhythm, energy, and pure joy 🥁✨ Thank you Paddy! 

Our Spring Series may be over, but the music carries on... We’re back 1–10 August for our Lake District Summer Music Festival, featuring world-class acts in some of the most stunning venues across the Lakes.

🎟️ Tickets are available now at ldsm.org.uk Be sure to reserve now...some events are almost sold out! 

See, hear, Experience.

#LDSM2025 #SummerFestival #LiveMusic #LakeDistrictEvents #PaddieDavies #Victoriahall #PercussionPower #BehindTheScenes #ClassicalMusicFestival #FestivalCountdown
🎻 Novo String Quartet at Hawkshead Parish Churc 🎻 Novo String Quartet at Hawkshead Parish Church
🗓️ Tuesday, 5 August 2025
🕢 7:30 PM

Fresh from being named BBC New Generation Artists (2025–27), the @novoquartet arrive in Hawkshead as one of Europe’s most exciting young ensembles.

🎶 Don’t miss this powerful evening of chamber music from international stars on the rise.

📍 Hawkshead Parish Church
🎟️ Tickets via the link in our bio – early booking recommended!

#NovoQuartet #BBCNewGenerationArtists #LiveChamberMusic #HawksheadConcert #Shostakovich #BeethovenQuartets #FestivalHighlight #LakeDistrictMusic #NextGenClassical #UnmissableMusic #LinkInBio
🥁 Community Drumming Workshop at The Coro, Ulve 🥁 Community Drumming Workshop at The Coro, Ulverston
🗓️ Friday, 1 August 2025
🕥 10:30 AM

Never played an instrument before? Perfect. 🎶

Kick off our 40th anniversary Summer Festival with a bang at this high-energy, feel-good drumming workshop led by the electrifying Drum Nation—a samba powerhouse known for turning total beginners into a vibrant percussion band in just 90 minutes!

🌟 Inclusive, uplifting, and full of carnival spirit, this is your chance to grab some sticks, feel the rhythm, and make some serious noise—no experience needed, just enthusiasm.

📍 The Coro Ulverston 
🎟️ Free but limited capacity – sign up via the link in our bio!

#DrumNation #CommunityDrumming #UlverstonEvents #FestivalKickoff #SambaWorkshop #MakeSomeNoise #LakeDistrictMusic #FeelTheRhythm #InclusiveMusic #CarnivalEnergy #LinkInBio
🌍 Elements: Kantos Chamber Choir at Kendal Pari 🌍 Elements: Kantos Chamber Choir at Kendal Parish Church
🗓️ Saturday, 9 August 2025
🕒 3:00 PM

Experience the raw beauty of nature through music as the brilliant @kantoschoir  brings the elements to life in this evocative afternoon performance.

🔥🌊💨🌱 Earth, Air, Water, Fire—this powerful programme weaves together poetry, prose, and sublime choral soundscapes in a celebration of the natural world. “This is the planet on which we live; the world. It is everything that we are.”

📍 Kendal Parish Church 
🎟️ Book now via the link in our bio – breathe it all in.

#KantosChoir #ChoralMusicLive #ElementsConcert #KendalConcert #LakeDistrictMusic #EarthAirWaterFire #VoicesOfNature #FestivalHighlight #LiveClassical #ChamberChoir #LinkInBio
🎶 Mikeleiz–Zucchi Duo at St Oswald’s Church 🎶 Mikeleiz–Zucchi Duo at St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere
🗓️ Monday, 4 August 2025
🕚 11:00 AM

A standout hit of our Spring Series, the @mz.duo return with a thrilling new programme of vividly reimagined works—brought to life through dazzling improvisation and fearless creativity.

✨ In celebration of our 40th anniversary, the duo unveils a special new arrangement of Grieg’s beloved Holberg Suite, blending classical finesse with unexpected twists and bold musical storytelling. Expect energy, elegance, and surprises at every turn.

📍 St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere 
🎟️ Tickets via the link in our bio – don’t miss this exhilarating morning concert in one of the Lakes’ most iconic settings.

#MZDuo #LiveClassical #GrasmereConcert #HolbergSuite #ImprovisedClassics #FestivalHighlight #ChamberMusicRedefined #LakeDistrictMusic #MorningConcert #UnmissableMusic #LinkInBio

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