
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 2024 Birmingham Music Festival?
Please check back in the new year or fill in the form below to be added to our mailing list:
The 2024 Birmingham Music Festival will take place on
12 and 13 October 2024
at
The Ruddock Performing Arts Centre at King Edward’s Schools
Edgbaston Park Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2UA
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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Our 2024 Festival was an outstanding success, with a record number of entries, particularly reflecting a surge in age and grade class entries.
Some of these youngsters are astonishingly good technical and musical players already, reflecting the efforts of the amazing teachers that we have locally.
All performers learn such a lot at our Festival, not only from their own performances but by listening to the performances and adjudications of other players.
Next year's Festival will be on 12 & 13 October. We will release the syllabus and open for entries in early March 2024, so please do check back then.
As always, we expect to close classes before the official closure date as we are always full, so please don't wait too long if you wish to enter.
Richard Abel
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:
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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.