Artistic Director Guy Johnston

Hatfield House Music Festival (10 – 13 October) explores Musical Time Travel as its 2024 theme, reflecting how on one hand everything we hear has a time and a place, whilst also celebrating how the greatest music also manages to be timeless and belong everywhere. The venue itself resonates with history of course, and so has worked its magic as a marvellous time machine, inspiring many of the musical choices.

The 2024 artist line-up includes newcomers to Hatfield alongside old friends: the Bechstein Piano Trio, the Consone Quartet, Magnus Johnston, Maggie Cole, Gwilym Simcock, Emma Rawicz, Victor Maslov, Max Baillie, Brett Dean, Recordare, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Claire Booth, Ensemble 360, Merryweather Theatre and students from the Purcell School. This wonderful line-up of performers will transport audiences through the ages from Dowland to a world premiere of a new Handel/Beethoven/Hendrix commission arranged by Simon Parkin and back to Brahms, pausing en route to commemorate some significant anniversaries: Fauré, Schoenberg, the BBC New Generation Artists.

Over the past 12 years the Festival has welcomed performers such as the Navarra Quartet, pianists Tom Poster, Kathryn Stott and Melvyn Tan, Nicholas Daniel oboe, Alison Balsom trumpet, Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello, Lucy Crowe soprano, Rachel Podger baroque violin, James Gilchrist tenor, The Sixteen, the Aurora Orchestra and VOCES8, all to perform in the beautiful surroundings of Hatfield House.