PENARTH Chamber Music Festival 2026 will take place in the town from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28, June.

Venues include Penarth Pier Pavilion, All Saints Church, Turner House and the Windsor Gardens Bandstand.

Now in its 12th year the Festival has a blockbuster programme this summer.

Schubert's epic Octet is the centrepiece, alongside the colourful and virtuosic Octet by Jurg Widmann. Festival Patron Rebecca Evans CBE will sing the iridescent Berlioz Les Nuits d'Eté in a new arrangement for string sextet by David Matthews. Rebecca is also our guest in the Festival 'Flat Holm Island Discs;' talking us through her life and career illustrated by her significant pieces performed live by the festival musicians.

Piano quintets by Franck, Fauré and Brahms, Martinů's hilarious Revue de Cuisine, Bach's uplifting Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 and Beethoven's late, great String Quartet op.131, as well as the groundbreaking Different Trains by Steve Reich are other highlights of the diverse and thrilling programme.

There will be workshops, a relaxed concert, a family concert, Young Musicians Showcases, and a Musical Families lunchtime concert where the rising stars of the Broman Crawford-Phillips and Neary-Adams families play with their musician parents.

Organisers are delighted to welcome Patrick Rimes back for an evening of traditional Welsh folk music with Angharad Jenkins and a masterclass for local folk musicians.

And the Promenade Concert returns this year with three short concerts that will happen simultaneously in three separate venues, at 2.30pm on Sunday 28 June.

Like last year, the idea is that you literally promenade (it's a very gentle stroll!) from venue to venue to hear all three.

A festival spokesperson said: "There are three different routes so you can start at any of the venues, and a guide will show you the way. This is a great concert for newcomers to chamber music - the Promenade Concert is like a musical 'taster menu,' and this year we are offering it as a Pay What You Can ticket.

"We are so looking forward to welcoming these extraordinary musicians including Malin Broman, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Amy Norrington, Benjamin Frith, Mia Cooper, Tom Dunn, Alice Neary, David Adams, Robert Plane to Penarth and sharing this wonderful music with you."