Maidenhead Music Society

Maidenhead Music Society furthers the development of music in the Maidenhead area by presenting a series of concerts each year.

For more than sixty years, Maidenhead Music Society has played a key part in bringing classical music to Maidenhead's doorstep. Not to speak of its proven ability to spot a galaxy of rising talent: Thomas Allen at 24, a young Julian Bream and James Galway, and most astonishing of all, a sixteen year old cellist called Jacqueline du Pré!

Established stars have featured too: Tasmin Little, John Lill, Freddy Kempf, Joanna MacGregor, the Medici, Endellion, Coull and Brodsky Quartets, the Nash and Melos Ensembles – too many names to mention.

Each year Maidenhead Music Society promotes an enticing series of six professional concerts which offer a well-balanced range of repertoire, plus a grand Celebrity Concert in June. The Concert Secretary and his Sub-Committee, themselves talented players in local groups, use skill and experience to seek out the best talent, and the best value. A particular commitment of the Society is to provide strong audiences for developing young artists, who we hope with support will grow into the big names of the future.

Since 2000, the home of Maidenhead Music Society has been the Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, an ideal venue for the concert series, and a place in which the artists say they love playing. As well as a fine acoustic and a quite outstanding Steinway, it offers excellent social facilities.

The Society is run by a commitee comprised of the following members:

Sir Nicholas Winton - President

Rudi Sheldon - Chairman
Ian Wyatt - Treasurer
Mavis Gregson - Secretary
Ady Sheldon - Assistant Secretary
Brian Johnson - Concert Secretary
Phillip Ratcliffe
Eleanor Griffiths
Deborah Behrman

You can see a copy of our constitution by clicking on this link. MMS Constitution.pdf

Registered Charity No 287794

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