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!

The 2022 Birmingham Music Festival will take place on
15 and 16 October 2022

The Ruddock Performing Arts Centre at King Edward’s Schools

Edgbaston Park Road

Edgbaston

Birmingham

B15 2UA

After our successful covid-restricted Festival in 2021, I now welcome you to the 2022 Festival.

At this stage we are planning that there will be no covid restrictions and that we can return to full capacity this year. Of course nobody knows what will happen, so please do check back from time to time just in case we have to amend our plans. Should we have to make changes due to covid which result in a lack of performance, anyone entering and not performing will receive a full refund.

We have made some changes to our syllabus, including creating new French and Virtuoso classes. And are pleased to welcome back two of our most popular adjudicators, Kathryn Page and Julian Hellaby

As always, we expect to be full before our official deadline of 31 July, so to be sure of your place I recommend that you enter early.

I am very pleased to welcome a new member of our Committee, Heng-Ching Fang, a local music teacher known as Ching. She is looking forward very much to contributing to the continuing success of the BMF.

Finally I hope that you are all enjoy the summer rather better than most of us did in the last two years, and I look forward to seeing you all again, and hopefully some new faces too, in October.

In the meantime please continue to stay safe.
Richard

Richard Abel
Chairman

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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Festival 2022

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CLASS UPDATE

Class 7 - Grades Four and Five - Open

We regret that this class is now closed for further entries as its physical capacity limit has been reached.

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Many organisations have reported income shortages in the Covid crisis, and the BMF is no different. We have a number of ways you can help us:

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We will acknowledge your funding support to our operations in future years in our Festival programme.

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Thanks to all those of you who decide to help us.