Welcome to the Winchester Summer Music Course website.
It is with regret that the current organisers of this course have decided they can no longer continue to run Winchester Summer Music.
If you were looking for an opportunity to play chamber music, small group or large,
strings, wind or mixed, you have come to the right place.
Winchester Summer Music offered an outstanding opportunity for amateur players of strings, woodwind, horn and piano to enjoy chamber music with expert coaching in a uniquely friendly and encouraging environment, together with opportunities for orchestral and concerto playing.
The course had a particularly welcoming and happy atmosphere; many participants return each year to make music, to meet old friends, and make new ones, and to enjoy a week spent in and around the glorious city of Winchester. The course regularly attracted over 50 musicians of different instruments, standards, ages and backgrounds with a love of music in common. Although most players return each year, first timers were always welcome in all instrumental sections.
There were fewer than 50 applications in 2023 which did not allow for a viable course.