Birmingham
Music Festival
- 10 and 11 October 2026 -
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 2026
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The 2026 Festival will soon be open for entries - check back in March.
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You can become Festival's Supporter.
PHOTOS
To see pictures from our Festival in October 2025 and from the Winners' Concert in July 2025 check our Facebook page
LATEST NEWS: MARGARET FINGERHUT
Our President Margaret Fingerhut MBE has now released a new CD Ukraine - A Piano Portrait on SOMM. It is already being hailed as “unmissable” in Gramophone
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Our 84th Birmingham Music Festival will soon open for entries.
We have made changes to classes 17 and 18, so please make sure to read the new Syllabus carefully. The fundamental structure of the Festival remains intact and we hope that you welcome the changes that we have made.
We are delighted to welcome David Quigley and Caroline Rae, two widely respected adjudicators whose insight and constructive comments are always greatly valued. As adjudicators of an international standard, they bring a level of expertise and perspective we are sure you will appreciate and enjoy.
As ever we must advise you to enter early. Every year we close early and have to reject entries as we become full. Indeed, some classes, especially the junior ones, may be closed before other classes as we reach our physical capacity in the music theatres.
We are looking forward to seeing you and hearing you play in October 2026!
Olga
Olga Maleva
Chairman
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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.
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