Bath Mozartfest runs 13 to 21 November: 17 events, seats from £12, under-16s free with an adult. Every date, time, venue and programme, and what is selling.

Bath Mozartfest 2026 runs from Friday 13 to Saturday 21 November. There are 17 events over nine days, most of them at St Mary’s Church, Bathwick, with lunchtime recitals at the Guildhall, a choral concert in Bath Abbey, one afternoon at Wiltshire Music Centre and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at The Forum to close. General booking opened on 3 August and everything is on sale through Bath Box Office (Bath Mozartfest).

The concert most people will want is on Thursday 19 November: Dame Imogen Cooper’s last concert in Bath before she steps away from the concert platform in February 2027. The festival’s own advice on it is “Book your tickets early!”

Prices, discounts and fees

Evening concerts at St Mary’s are £20, £32 or £42 a seat. Lunchtime and morning concerts are cheaper: £18, £23 or £31 at the Guildhall, and £18, £28 or £38 for the two Saturday morning concerts. The LPO finale runs from £19 to £51. On top of the ticket price, Bath Box Office charges £1.50 per order, not per ticket, which is why the festival’s own pages quote “from £21.50” and “from £19.50”.

The discounts are generous and worth knowing before you book (booking information):

  • Under-16s go free, up to two with each full-price ticket, with limited availability. It applies automatically when you add the under-16 ticket.
  • Ages 16 to 20 and students with a valid card pay half the full price, with proof of eligibility.
  • A registered disabled visitor who needs an essential companion gets one free companion ticket.
  • Book both Nash Ensemble concerts on the opening night and you save £5.

Tickets cannot be refunded. If a concert sells out, the box office will try to resell returns, with a £2 charge per ticket if it succeeds. Doors open 30 minutes before each concert, and latecomers wait for a suitable pause. The printed festival programme is £8.

Every event, day by day

Times and programmes are from each concert’s page on the festival’s site, checked on 29 September 2026.

Friday 13 November

  • Nash Ensemble, 7pm to about 8.30pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Mozart’s Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor and String Quintet No 6 in E flat, with Strauss’s Prelude to Capriccio and Wagner’s Träume. Artistic director Adrian Brendel plays cello. £20, £32, £42 (MF1).
  • Nash Ensemble late concert, 9.30pm to about 10.30pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Mozart’s Divertimento in E flat K 563 for string trio. Unreserved seating, £20 (MF2).

Saturday 14 November

  • Anthony Marwood, violin, and Aleksander Madžar, piano, 11.30am to about 1.15pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Violin sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven (the Spring) and Prokofiev, with Ravel’s Berceuse. £18, £28, £38 (MF3).
  • Choir of Bath Abbey and the Mozartfest Ensemble, 7pm to about 8.45pm, Bath Abbey. Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Haydn’s Little Organ Mass, Mozart’s Ave verum corpus and Te Deum, with Taverner and Britten. Huw Williams conducts; the soprano is Bath-born Ruth Williams, a former Abbey chorister. £18, £27, £37, £47 (MF4).

Sunday 15 November

  • Education Project with Bath Phil, 4.30pm to about 5.15pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. About 30 pupils from Hayesfield School perform a new piece made with the Mozartfest Ensemble and Bath Phil. Free, but you need a ticket; unreserved seating, donations welcome (MF5).
  • I, Clara, 6pm to about 7.20pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Clara Schumann’s life in her own words, narrated by Dame Harriet Walter, with Lucy Parham playing music by Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Chopin. £20, £32, £42 (MF6).

Monday 16 November

  • Junyan Chen, piano, 1pm to about 2.10pm, the Guildhall. The 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition second prize winner plays Chick Corea, Bartók, Unsuk Chin and Brahms’s Piano Sonata No 2. £18, £23, £31 (MF7).
  • Leonkoro String Quartet, 7.30pm to about 9.20pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Beethoven Op 18 No 4, Shostakovich’s Quartet No 8 and Schubert’s Rosamunde. £20, £32, £42 (MF8).

Tuesday 17 November

  • Hugo Svedberg, cello, and Tim Horton, piano, 1pm to about 2pm, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon. Handel, Beethoven and Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata, with Adrian Brendel joining for the Handel. £12, £16, £20. A return coach from central Bath is £12 a head and lunch at the centre at noon is £14; both must be booked in advance (MF9).
  • Paul Lewis, piano, 7.30pm to about 9.30pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Mozart’s sonatas K 570 and K 333 either side of Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke and Chopin. £20, £32, £42 (MF10).

Wednesday 18 November

  • A 100th birthday portrait of György Kurtág, 1pm to about 2pm, the Guildhall. Students of the Royal Academy of Music with Adrian Brendel and Joseph Havlat. £18, £23, £31 (MF11).
  • Viviane Hagner, Adrian Brendel and Till Fellner, 7.30pm to about 9.30pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Liszt’s Orpheus arranged by Saint-Saëns, Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata and a Haydn piano trio. £20, £32, £42 (MF12).

Thursday 19 November

  • Samrat Majumder, guitar, 1pm to about 2pm, the Guildhall. Sor, including his airs from The Magic Flute, Regondi and Schubert songs arranged for guitar. £18, £23, £31 (MF13).
  • Imogen Cooper: A Life in Music, 7pm to about 9.30pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, de Falla and Sondheim, opening with a conversation about her career. She is joined by Till Fellner, the tenor Mark Padmore, Katharine Gowers, Henning Kraggerud, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Adrian Brendel. £20, £32, £42 (MF14).
  • Bath Mozartfest Supper, from 9.30pm, The Bird, opposite St Mary’s. A main course, sweet things and wine. £55 a head, concert not included (MF14A).

Friday 20 November

  • Modigliani Quartet, 7.30pm to about 9.15pm, St Mary’s Bathwick. Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, Debussy’s String Quartet and Franck’s String Quartet in D. £20, £32, £42 (MF15).

Saturday 21 November

  • BBC New Generation Artists, 11.30am to about 1.15pm, the Guildhall. The Astatine Piano Trio with the violist Eivind Ringstad: Beethoven, Britten’s Lachrymae and Dvořák’s Piano Quartet No 2. BBC Radio 3 is recording it. £18, £28, £38 (MF16).
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra, 7pm to about 9pm, The Forum. Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No 3, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 22 with Till Fellner, and Brahms’s Symphony No 2, conducted by Adam Hickox. £19, £24, £31, £41, £51, which includes the Forum’s £1 restoration levy. A champagne reception in the Forum ballroom before the concert and in the interval is £25 a head (MF17).

What is selling

Bath Box Office’s ticketing system gives seat counts for its unreserved and smaller venues. On 29 September:

  • Hugo Svedberg at Wiltshire Music Centre had 22 of 301 seats left, and the coach from Bath had 14 of 30 places.
  • The Mozartfest Supper had 46 of 80 places left, and the LPO champagne reception 45 of 60.
  • At the Guildhall, the BBC New Generation Artists concert had 73 of 300 seats left, Samrat Majumder 122, Junyan Chen 150 and the Kurtág portrait 168.
  • The late-night Nash Ensemble concert had 377 of 450 unreserved seats left.

The system does not publish counts for the reserved seating at St Mary’s, the Abbey or The Forum, so for Imogen Cooper, Paul Lewis and the LPO the only way to see what is left is the seat map when you book.

Getting to St Mary’s Bathwick

St Mary’s is about a 12-minute walk from the city centre, and the festival says it is served by the U1, U2 and U3 buses. The festival says there is some on-street parking close by, free after 7pm, and that the Holburne Museum car park opens to concertgoers until 30 minutes after evening concerts end, which is the easiest option on a November night. For concerts at St Mary’s only, the box office hires out cushions at £2 each per concert. Our parking in Bath page has the council car park tariffs, and Bath roadworks and travel carries anything shut on the way in.

Bath Box Office is at The Forum, BA1 1UG, and on 01225 463362, 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. For more of what is on in the city that month, see what’s on in Bath.

Every date, time, programme and price above was taken from Bath Mozartfest’s own concert pages and Bath Box Office on 29 September 2026. Availability only goes down; check before you travel.