Tuesday 14 July 2026 at 7.30pm

The Adderbury Ensemble was formed in 1986 by a number of Britain’s finest young musicians and has grown from concerts organised in the beautiful village of Adderbury in North Oxfordshire. The Ensemble has helped to establish the now famous Oxford Coffee Concerts and the Music in Adderbury series. It also has a regular summer series of its own in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.

The group has given numerous performances throughout Great Britain Europe and the USA, establishing itself as one of the finest chamber groups in the country. The newspapers have said, “living in Adderbury must be like living in Salzburg or Bayreuth”, and described the ensemble’s performances as exceptional, sumptuous, thunderous and refinement matched with gusto and panache. The Ensemble is a flexible group, giving performances mainly of chamber music as well as augmenting to play the symphonies and concertos of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn and even Brahms without a conductor. In 2012 the Ensemble gave a series of complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycles including one at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford. They have also recorded for CD and film.