Debussy's Deux Arabesques are early works, composed in the late 1880s. Huw Watkins is playing them at Folkestone New Music St Leonards Church, Hythe 7.30pm Thursday 11 June

Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen consists of thirteen character pieces that evoke the world of childhood through the lens of adult memory. Schumann described the work as “recollections of an older person for older people.” Huw Watkins (piano) St Leonards Church, Hythe 7.30pm Thursday 11 June

John Woolrich Pianobooks 1 and 6 'They are wind chimes, brought to life by mysterious currents, and listeners find their own feelings echoed in the sounds.' (Independent) Huw Watkins (piano) Folkestone New Music St Leonards Church, Hythe 7.30pm Thursday 11 June photo: Chelsey Browne

Ravel: Prélude Ravel: Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn Ravel: A la manière de Borodine Ravel: A la manière de Chabrier Stravinsky: Tango Stravinsky: Ragtime Huw Watkins (piano) Folkestone New Music St Leonards Church, Hythe 7.30pm Thursday 11 June

The central melody of Oliver Knussen's Ophelia’s Last Dance dates back to 1974... Decades later, after the death of his wife Sue in 2003, the melody resurfaced for him as a memory-object associated with happier times. Huw Watkins (piano) Folkestone New Music St Leonards Church Hythe 7.30pm 11 June

Huw Watkins' 'Prayer' was written in memory of the German pianist Lars Vogt. You can hear the composer himself perform it at Folkestone New Music St Leonards Church, Hythe 7.30pm Thursday 11 June

Debussy and Stravinsky (photographed by Satie) Debussy 2 Arabesques Stravinsky Tango Stravinsky Ragtime Huw Watkins (piano) Folkestone New Music St Leonards Church, Hythe 7.30pm Thursday 11 June

Andrew Watts sings two of Joseph Howard's songs, 'So they gave me opium' and 'Wax and Wail', at Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 28 May Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone

Michael Tippett: Songs for Ariel Andrew Watts (countertenor) and Gavin Roberts (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 28 May Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone

Judith Weir's songs 'The Voice of Desire' are conversations between humans and birds where the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint than their human hearers. Andrew Watts (countertenor) & Gavin Roberts (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 28 May Holy Trinity Church Folkestone

H.K.Gruber’s Three Single Songs combine cabaret, expressionism, Viennese irony and blowing smoke rings. you can hear them, sung by Andrew Watts with Gavin Roberts at Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 28 May Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone

Thea Musgrave Thea wrote the aria, 'Orlando’s return to London….as a WOMAN)', specially for Andrew Watts. Andrew Watts (countertenor) and Gavin Roberts (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Thursday 28 May Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone

Joseph Havlat is playing Thomas Adès's Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel at Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone still from Luis Buñuel: The Exterminating Angel (1962)

Mark-Anthony Turnage at the Grand, Folkestone on 7 December 2023. Anna Hashimoto is playing Mark's 'Leap' for clarinet at the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Howard Skempton Rainbow Canon played by Ellie Blamires (flute), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet), Joseph Havlat (piano), Alessandro Ruisi (violin), Adrian Bradbury (cello) Catch played by the Sacconi Quartet Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Ellie Blamires and Colin Matthews at the Grand in Folkestone, September 2023. Ellie is playing Brett Dean's Notes from the Twittersphere, for piccolo Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

John Woolrich: In the mirrors of asleep '... broken music of whispers, ticking clocks, brooding chords and silences.' Ellie Blamires, Anna Hashimoto, Joseph Havlat, Alessandro Ruisi, Adrian Bradbury Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Brett Dean performing at the Grand, Folkestone, December 2025. Ellie Blamires is playing Brett Dean's piccolo piece, Notes from the Twittersphere at Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Hans Abrahamsen and Philip Cashian at the Grand in Folkestone, 13 March 2025. The cellist Adrian Bradbury is playing Hans Abrahamsen's Hymne at the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Michael Finnissy and John Woolrich at the Grand, Folkestone, November 2025. Joseph Havlat is playing Michael's 'How dear to me' at Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Colin Matthews and Harrison Birtwistle Harrison Birtwistle: Ookooing Bird for piano Colin Matthews: Gavotte and Berceuse Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

May Hands is showing three pieces at the Grand in Folkestone. 14-17 May The Grand, Folkestone Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music May Hands: Autumn’s Necklace (2024)

Joseph Havlat: Tangle-fragment (first performance) Joseph Havlat's new piece evokes the inhospitable surrounds of the Styx river in southwest Tasmania. Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Tansy Davies: Keeper of the Air Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) and Joseph Havlat (piano) Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone photo: Chelsey Browne

Louise Drewett: Isola Joseph Havlat (piano) Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone photo: Chelsey Browne

Dominic Muldowney at the Grand, Folkestone You can hear his Pierrot Pirouettes at Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music 6pm Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone

Morgan Hayes: Folkestone Doubles Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone photo: Chelsey Browne

David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92

Isabella Gellis: Bowed and Blowed 'For two bowing instruments (violin, cello), and one blowing instrument (clarinet).' Anna Hashimoto, Alessandro Ruisi and Adrian Bradbury Sacconi Chamber Music Festival/Folkestone New Music Thursday 14 May The Grand, Folkestone photo: Chelsey Browne

Thomas Adès performing for Folkestone New Music at the Grand, Folkestone, April 2026. Photo by Manuel Vason @ Studio Radar

Caspar David Friedrich: The Monk by the Sea Thomas Adès is playing Haydn's Variations in F minor at Folkestone New Music According to Charles Rosen, in this work Haydn ‘reaches a level of emotional expression that anticipates Beethoven’. 7.30pm Saturday 18 April The Grand, Folkestone

Thomas Adès is playing Bartók's Piano Sonata at Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Saturday 18 April The Grand, Folkestone

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 30, Op109 'His music is transcendent. He’s always pushing against the sky, reinventing the universe.' (Thomas Adès) Thomas Adès (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Saturday 18 April The Grand, Folkestone

Thomas Adès: Blanca Variations The Variations appear in Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, based on the film by Luis Buñuel, where they are performed by Blanca Delgado, a famous pianist... Thomas Adès (piano) 7.30pm Saturday 18 April The Grand, Folkestone still from Buñuel: The Exterminating Angel

Janáček's piano piece 'In tears' is a recollection of the death of the composer’s daughter Olga: ‘Perhaps you will sense weeping in it … the premonition of certain death.’ In tears (On an Overgrown Path) Thomas Adès (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Saturday 18 April The Grand, Folkestone

Albrecht Dürer: Melencolia 1 François Couperin: Les Regrets Thomas Adès (piano) Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Saturday 18 April The Grand, Folkestone

Paul Hoskins conducting the Purcell School Orchestra Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone March 2026 Photo by Manuel Vason @ Studio Radar

Tim Long is in conversation with Jonathan Watkins 5pm Sunday 29 March Kollectiv 69 The Old High St, Folkestone CT20 1RN Tim Long: Sculpture, ceramics and drawings Kollectiv, 27 March- 12 April

Thomas Adès is playing music by Haydn, Janáček, Bartók, Beethoven, Couperin, Stravinsky and himself Folkestone New Music 7.30pm Saturday 18 April The Grand, Folkestone Photo by Chelsey Browne: Thomas Adès at the Grand, Folkestone, May 2024.

STRAVINSKY Dumbarton Oaks Purcell School Orchestra/Paul Hoskins 6.30pm Wednesday 25 March Serenade in A Thomas Adès (piano) 7.30pm Saturday 18 April Folkestone New Music The Grand, Folkestone

Purcell School Orchestra/Paul Hoskins Bartók: Divertimento Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks The Purcell School is Britain’s oldest music school and one of the world’s leading centres for musical education. 6.30pm Wednesday 25 March The Grand, Folkestone

Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes An illustrated lecture by Deborah Howard and Malcolm Longair 7pm Thursday 12 March The Grand, Folkestone

Harrison Birtwistle and Donald Mcleod in Harry's garden in Wiltshire. Donald Mcleod is talking about the composers he has interviewed for Composer of the Week at 7pm Thursday 5 March Kollectiv, Folkestone

Tim Long: Sculpture, ceramics and drawings 27 March- 12 April Kollectiv 69 The Old High Street, Folkestone CT20 1RN

Morton Feldman's Spring of Chosroes is being played by Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) at Folkestone New Music 7.00pm Thursday 26 February The Grand, Folkestone

Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes An illustrated lecture by Deborah Howard and Malcolm Longair Folkestone New Music 7pm Thursday March 12 The Grand, Folkestone

Bryn Harrison: I-V, for piano Piano Set (six miniatures) A Coiled Form, for violin Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) 7.00pm Thursday 26 February The Grand, Folkestone

Donald Macleod has presented BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week since 1999. By 2023 Donald had presented 950 series of the programme. In this event he will talk about his broadcasting career and particularly about the many composers he has interviewed. 7pm Thursday 5 March Kollectiv, Folkestone

Cassandra Miller “the complexity and richness of her finest work… does indeed allow us to hear and feel in new ways” – Tempo For Mira, for violin Sinner, don’t let this harvest pass, for piano Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) 7.00pm Thursday 26 February The Grand, Folkestone

The Spring of Chosroes was a sumptuous carpet, woven with silk, gold, silver and rare stones, reputed to have been made for the Sassanian King Chosroes I. Morton Feldman Spring of Chosroes Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) 7.00pm Thursday 26 February The Grand, Folkestone