This year’s festival journeys across waters both real and imagined — from childhood shores and ancestral migrations to Schubert’s flowing streams and the inner storms of the human spirit.
Music, words and movement come together in a series of programmes exploring the sea as landscape, metaphor and memory.
Artistic director Natalie Clein has chosen this theme because the sea connects and separates, carries memory and myth, and reflects the depths within us.
She has gathered a fantastic group of internationally renowned musicians to come and make music in Purbeck this year, including Dame Imogen Cooper on piano, cellist Adrian Brendel, star duet harpist Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain on fiddle and violin, as well as dancer Selene Muñoz back by popular demand and Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud who is returning with his family, we’re delighted that Alma, Hector and Franz will once more play in Purbeck.

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September

Concert 1
Across the Sea

7:30pm
Priory Church of Lady St Mary, Wareham

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September

Concert 2
Still Waters

11:00am
Saint Peter’s Church, Church Knowle

Concert 3
At the Water’s Edge

5:00pm
The Mowlem, Swanage

Concert 4
The Flowing Brook

7:30pm
Priory Church of Lady St Mary, Wareham

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September

Concert 5
Currents

11:00am
St Nicholas’ Church, Studland

Concert 6
Cello Masterclass with Natalie Clein

2:00pm
The Mowlem, Swanage

Concert 7
The Storm Within

7:30pm
Priory Church of Lady St Mary, Wareham

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September

Concert 8
Everlasting Tides

11:30am
St James’ Church, Kingston

Concert 8
Songs of the Shore – Family Concert

2:30pm
The Mowlem, Swanage

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Prices £40 / £30 / £25
Discounts £15 / £10 / £5 (students, universal credit, disability & carers)
Free entry to 25 year old and under
Full access Festival Pass available

WHO IS PICMF

Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival is an exciting artistic development curated by Natalie Clein and her fellow musician friends. The Festival takes place every year at the end of summer in the beautiful surroundings of Purbeck in Dorset in historic locations, churches, unusual sites and schools.

Our artistic director invites exceptional musicians, actors and lecturers from both home and abroad to make music with her in the intimate venues which the extraordinary Isle of Purbeck offers. The Festival has been growing since 2009 when we started under the umbrella of the Purbeck Art Weeks. This evolved into an annual event which brings together international stars and an enthusiastic audience.

Festival’s mission is also to nurture young talents. Every year, events for young musicians, families and children’s concerts are planned with the aim of reaching out into the broader community.

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