Welcome to the Tilford Bach Festival website

The Tilford Bach Festival is an annual celebration of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.We are proud that in 2025 we will be celebrating our 73rd anniversary, and that our orchestra in residence – the London Handel Players under our Musical Director, Adrian Butterfield – is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Our aim has always been to attract the very best of British and international musicians and performers while also promoting young talent at the start their music careers.

The festival is traditionally held in All Saint’s Tilford, a beautiful Victorian church set on the village green and cricket ground in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the Surrey and Hampshire border. It has a unique and relaxed atmosphere where we encourage performers to meet and mix with the audience during intervals and after each concert or recital.

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Food and drink are to be found at the local pub and café on the other side of the green, and walks along the river a few yards away, or in the areas used in films such as Gladiator, Robin Hood and Skyfall nearby, so those of a more adventurous nature can stretch their legs before coming to the festival.


2025 Tilford Bach Festival – June 6th to 8th

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Information on the 2025 Festival is now available on the programme page.Tickets will go on sale around three months before the start of the festival.


Message from Ben Cahill-Nichols, vicar of All Saints Church, Tilford:


As a special, new feature of the Bach Festival, we will be holding a special service at All Saints Church, Tilford, on Sunday 8th June at 10 a.m.. We are delighted that, as well as welcoming friends from across our wider church benefice of The Bourne, we will be led in worship by the Toronto University Choir performing later at the 5 p.m. Bach Festival concert. All are most welcome to join us for this special choral service

Sponsorship and donations

The Tilford Bach Festival is a unique and very personal event and our church, although beautiful, is small and therefore ticket sales will never be sufficient to cover costs.We rely on sponsorship to secure the very highest quality programme possible each festival. To those already supporting the festival - a very big thank you as without you, we would not be here!


TO MAKE A DONATION, PLEASE CLICK HERE.


If you would like to donate or be a sponsor and you are a UK taxpayer, then the value of your gift will be increased by 25% under the Gift Aid scheme at no extra cost to you.


TO BECOME A SPONSOR FOR A MOVEMENT, PERFORMANCE, OR IN GENERAL, PLEASE CONTACT info@tilfordbachfestival.com
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