Birmingham
Music Festival
- 11 and 12 October 2025 -
WELCOME TO THE BMF
The Birmingham Music Festival is one of Britain's leading piano competitions.
We welcome entrants of all ages and all abilities from enthusiastic beginners and gifted amateurs to veteran competitors.
We have a fantastic venue: The Ruddock Performing Arts Centre at King Edward’s Schools, the BMF offers high quality grand pianos in both of our performance theatres and adjudicators to match.
We think the Birmingham Music Festival offers the very best in amateur music making.
Looking for more information about the 2025 Birmingham Music Festival?
Please check back in March 2025.
To see pictures from Festival 2024 and
Summer Concert 2024 please check our Facebook page
Summer Concert 2025:
5 July 2025, Friends Meeting House Bournville
featuring performances by 2024 Festival's winners
The 2025 Birmingham Music Festival will take place on
11 and 12 October 2025
at
The Ruddock Performing Arts Centre at King Edward’s Schools
Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2UD
LATEST NEWS:
MBE FOR MARGARET FINGERHUT
Our Aim:
"The object of the Festival is to advance, encourage and foster the art of music making by holding and promoting an annual competitive festival of public performances, recitals and concerts"
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We are delighted to announce that our President Margaret Fingerhut has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List 2024 for Services to Music and Charitable Fundraising. Congratulations, Margaret!
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Our 2024 Festival was an outstanding success, with a record number of entries, particularly reflecting a surge in age and grade class entries.
Our festival is not just a place to showcase your own achievements but also to learn from other players and adjudicators.
Next year's Festival will be on 11 & 12 October 2025. We will release the syllabus and open for entries in early March 2025, so please do check back then.
As always, we expect that many classes will close before the official closing date of 31 July as we become full. Please don't wait too long if you wish to enter.
Olga Maleva
Chairman
SUPPORT THE BMF
The BMF is a registered charity and relies on external funding to provide our annual Festival.
Please help by making a donation if you can.
This is how you can help us:
MAKE A DONATION TO THE BMF
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We will acknowledge your funding support to our operations in future years
in our Festival programme.
Thanks to all who decide to help us.