Chamber music in the heart of the Wairarapa
Next festival: 20–27 September 2026
10 events celebrating our 10th year
Music and poetry
Join us for our first collaboration with Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival
Saturday 9 May 2.30pm–3.25pm, Featherston School Hall
Composer Eve de Castro Robinson and poet Nick Ascroft premier a stunning new work for voice and percussion and talk to Dave Armstrong about how they created this new work.
Our 2026 programme
We’ll announce the programme for our 2026 Festival on 4 May. As well as the usual 4 concerts over the weekend of 25-27 September, there will be some new and celebratory events in the week leading up to our final weekend.
Join our mailing list to be the first to find out and get earlybird ticket discounts from 1 June.
New Festival recordings
We’re excited to let you know that SOUNZ and RNZ Concert have released recordings from our 2025 and 2023 Festivals: 2 works by Louise Webster, Piwakaka for solo violin and her commissioned piano quartet shifting worlds; and Anthony Ritchie’s Farewell for bassoon and string quartet.
Links to come