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.
We look forward to seeing you at the Festival!
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"
FESTIVAL UPDATE - ENTRIES
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Due to unprecedented demand, especially for our junior age classes, we have had to close the Festival classes to new entries.
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We are really looking forward to an exciting Festival and seeing you there!
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You may still order a Programme or become Festival's Supporter.
SUMMER CONCERT 2025
To see pictures from our Winners' Concert which took place in July 2025 and presented winners of Festival 2024 and to read about our winners' music success stories please check our Facebook page
LATEST NEWS: MARGARET FINGERHUT
We are delighted to announce that our President Margaret Fingerhut MBE has recently released a new CD, Ukraine - A Piano Portrait.
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Registration in the 83rd Birmingham Music Festival is now closed. Due to overwhelming demand, we have now reached full capacity and have closed registration well ahead of the original deadline. We are grateful for the enthusiastic response and look forward to welcoming all registered participants in October. If you were unable to register, we hope to see you next year.
We welcome two popular adjudicators: Caroline Clemmow and Murray McLachlan. Both can be relied upon to give perceptive and helpful comments in their adjudications.
I look forward to seeing you and hearing your performance in October. You are still welcome to order a programme, which we will post to your home, and to support the Festival either as an Individual or Business Supporter. All supporters will be acknowledged with a special "Thank You" in our printed programme. Full details are available in the descriptions of the Supporter options via the 'Enter the Festival' button.
Olga
Olga Maleva
Chairman
