Winter season will include 23 concerts

The season will be spread across three series – International String Quartets in Leamington, Early Music in Warwick and in the new year, Music in the Round in Warwick.

The last has three Family Concerts and before that in the Autumn, there are four one-offs in different venues.

Leamington music’s Festival director Richard Phillips said: “Warwick and Leamington have been major centres for chamber music and early music since the 1980s and Leamington Music continues to give the area a high national profile in these fields.

“We make the most of some outstanding venues - foreign string quartets claim the Pump Room is only equalled by London’s Wigmore Hall, St Mary’s church in Warwick provides the right acoustic and atmosphere for music from many past centuries and the Bridge House Theatre has the necessary resonance that many theatre buildings lack and is always a pleasure to be in.”

The monthly Friday night series of International String Quartets at the Pump Rooms opens next month with the Henschel Quartet from Munich, one of Germany’s leading ensembles.

Three British groups, the Maggini Quartet, the Revolutionary Drawing Room and the Carducci Quartet follow and the season ends with the Skampa Quartet from the Czech Republic and the Brentano Quartet from the USA.

The monthly Tuesday night series of Early Music concerts at St Mary’s church in Warwick will include the return of Stile Antico, the award winning vocal ensemble which has appeared in this area every year since 2006, with a programme of Tudor masterpieces called The Rose in Flower.

The Music in the Round Sunday afternoon season at the Bridge House Theatre in Warwick opens in January when the Heath String Quartet returns, having given a very successful concert this year in the Leamington series, one of three recorded by BBC Radio 3 earlier this year.

During the Autumn, there are four concerts which cover a range of music-making.

The Aquinas Piano Trio makes its debut in this are in the annual concert given at the Kingsley School hall.

Fine Arts Brass will bring a lighter programme to the Spa Centre Studio.

The fourth Leamington Music Prize was awarded earlier this year to the Hepplewhite Piano Trio and the Taiwanese pianist Chuen-An Chern and they will give a concert in the Bridge House Theatre in November.

Ex Cathedra returns for one of its legendary Christmas Concerts by Candlelight at Holy Trinity church, Leamington, in December.

For more information about any of the concerts in the season and for tickets contact the Bridge House Theatre box office on 776438 or visit www.bridgehousetheatre.co.uk.