For more than 40 years Shropshire Music Trust has presented an annual programme of concerts from September to June, ranging from the Renaissance period, through baroque, classical, romantic and modern, taking in jazz, folk and world music along the way. See below for details of our 2026-27 season. Alongside that, we are developing a varied programme of outreach projects with particular emphasis on musical education for children.
Devine intervention reimagines the classics
We owe much of our sense of what the late eighteenth century sounded like to a peripatetic organist from Shrewsbury. Charles Burney, who in the early 1770s travelled through France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, a composer more jobbing than great and too often unfairly consigned to a footnote. But he listened, he asked questions of the European music scene, and he wrote it all down: the instruments in the room, the manner of the players, the...
Volunteers are at the heart of everything we do at Shropshire Music Trust, helping us bring world-class music to audiences across the county. 
