Martinborough Music Festival
20–27 September 2026
Chamber music in the heart of South Wairarapa
Our wonderful 2025 festival has ended and our artists (below) delivered four magnificent concerts.
It’s now time to put next year’s dates in your diary.
It’s our 10th year in 2026 and we’ll be celebrating with extra events starting on 20 September.
The usual Festival concerts take place over the weekend 25–27 September.
In the meantime …
Join us for a session at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival – Saturday 9 May at 2.30pm. This is our first collaboration with this fabulous Wairarapa celebration of books and words. We’re excited to present a new work by composer Eve de Castro Robinson and poet Nick Ascroft for voice and percussion – with fabulous musicians, Barbara Paterson (soprano) and Yoshi Tsuruta (marimba/percussion). Dave Armstrong, a fine purveyor of words and music himself and brother of our esteemed Artistic Director Donald Armstrong, will talk to Nick and Eve about how they created this new work.
Book tickets and find out more
There are loads of intriguing and entertaining events during the whole weekend of the Booktown Festival (9 and 10 May).
We’ll be announcing the Martinborough Music Festival 2026 programme on 4 May. Watch this space.
'Four concerts ... selling out the local town hall with enticing programmes of chamber works, traditional and contemporary, played by both young and seasoned musicians working together.'
Elizabeth Kerr in Five Lines May, 2024
'Here was a festival of chamber music made in heaven … '
Lindis Taylor, Middle C, September 2019
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Join the mailing list to find out more about the 2026 Festival and all the exciting extra events we are planning. You’ll also qualify for earlybird ticket discounts for our festival weekend from 25-27 September 2026.