What’s on this 2025-26 season
Blackburn Theatre, Prestfelde School, Shrewsbury. NB: No parking at the school for this event. Please see full details.
Established by award-winning British composer, violinist and teach Christian Garrick, the electrifying 4-piece Budapest Café Orchestra plays gypsy and folk-flavoured music, including traditional Balkan, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian tunes, with jazz nuances and following their own unique arrangements. Specialists of the ‘distilled concerto’, they artfully rework masterpieces by the greats of the Romantic era. Not so much a band name as a whole genre of its own!
£18
Children and full-time students: £9
The Budapest Café Orchestra are Christian Garrick (violin, darbuka), Eddie Hession (button accordion), Kelvin Cantlon (double bass) and Adrian Zolotuhin (saz, guitar, balalaika, domra).
PARKING
There is no parking available at Prestfelde School for the concert, other than for disabled audience members with a valid blue badge displayed.
Please use the public Shirehall Overflow Carpark (SY2 6NS) on the London Road (less than a two minute walk away from the school). The entrance to the car park is directly opposite Warner Furnishings, which is next to the White Horse Pub.
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Please do not try to park in the carpark in front of the school on London Road as this is closed to concert goers, due to a school event.
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St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
For their final concert of the 2025-26 season, the Carduccis are joined by the young international star pianist Simon Callaghan. Simon played with the Carduccis in our 2023-24 season and their wonderful performance prompted a standing ovation.
Tickets £18
Children and full-time students: £9
Pianist Simon Callaghan performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, in parallel with a highly successful career as a recording artist, as well as being Professor of Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music.
The Carducci String Quartet is internationally acclaimed as one of the most accomplished and versatile ensembles of today.
Matthew Denton, violin
Michelle Fleming, violin
Eoin Schmidt-Martin, viola
Emma Denton, cello
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St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
Ex Cathedra will celebrate the tercentenary of Dr Charles Burney's birth with a programme of European music of his time (1726-1814). The concert, which starts at 7.30pm, will be preceded at 6.30pm by a 30-minute conversation about Dr Burney with Ex Cathedra’s director, Jeffrey Skidmore.
£22
Children and full-time students: £11
Dr Charles Burney was born in Shrewsbury in 1726 and attended Shrewsbury School. His brother James was organist at St Mary’s in the town, where the young Charles received much of his early musical training. At the request of Dr Thomas Arne, Charles began his musical career in London. In the 1770s, he undertook two lengthy tours of France, Germany and Italy. He met Mozart twice and was a close friend of Joseph Haydn. His writings provide some of the clearest portraits of life in 18th-century England and Europe, as he remained at the heart of cultural life until his death in 1814.
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