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"
CLASSES UPDATE
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All Open classes are now minimum of Grade 5 standard
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We have added more composers to Classes 14 (Baroque Masters) and 17 (Romantic Connections) - please check out!
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The Grade classes are very popular, followed by the Age classes - please enter soon!
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The Open Recital class has no more than 10 places so please enter early.
5 July 2025, Friends Meeting House Bournville - watch performances by 2024 Festival's winners!
To see pictures from Festival 2024 and Summer Concert 2024 please check our Facebook page
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN
The 83rd Birmingham Music Festival is now open for entries.
We have made a few detailed changes to our entry pages, so please take care to read them as a few things are different from prior years. Overall, the fundamental structure remains intact, and I hope that you welcome the changes that we have made.
We welcome two popular adjudicators: Caroline Clemmow and Murray McLachlan. Both can be relied upon to give perceptive and helpful comments in their adjudications.
As always, we expect that many classes will close before the official closing date of 31 July as we become full. Please don't wait too long if you wish to enter.
I look forward to seeing you and hearing you play in October!
Olga
Olga Maleva
Chairman
