Presteigne Festival | 21-25 August 2025 The Presteigne Festival's advocacy for contemporary music and living composers continues unabated this year. We celebrate the music of composer-in-residence Eleanor Alberga, and also mark Edward Gregson's 80th birthday year. In addition there is a brilliant array of new works from Kerensa Briggs, James Francis Brown, Martin Butler, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, David Matthews, Tayla-Leigh Payne - Composer, Huw Watkins, James B Wilson and Derri Joseph Lewis. See the full line-up here: https://presteignefestival.com/events/presteigne-festival-2025/ (fb)

We’re very pleased and hugely grateful to announce that the Presteigne Festival's Composer Development programme continues to be part of the PRS Foundation's Talent Development Network supported by PPL. The TDN will enable us to extend our important 'Evolve' and 'Emerge' schemes, and also supports our brand new 'Compose for' programme. 'Compose for' affords 6 early-career composers a commission and the opportunity to be mentored by leading instrumentalists and composers over a period of six months. Music creators to have been commissioned by the Presteigne Festival's Composer Development programme include Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, Sarah Jenkins, James B Wilson, Tayla-Leigh Payne - Composer, Elif Karlidag, Joseph Graydon, David McGregor, Lowri Mair Jones, Luke Harrison and Lucy Holmes. (fb)