Hatfield House Music Festival

Support the Festival

This is a unique opportunity to be involved in, and associated with, the birth of a prestigious new festival which will provide great music performed by internationally renowned musicians in the historic and beautiful setting of Hatfield House.

We are grateful to the Marquess of Salisbury for agreeing to be patron of the festival. The artistic director is Hertfordshire-born Guy Johnston, previous winner of the BBC Musician of the Year competition and now internationally renowned cellist and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. He will open the festival in a concert given together with the Navarra Quartet in The Old Palace.

Subsequent concerts to be held in the beautiful and rarely accessible Marble Hall (by kind permission of the Marquess of Salisbury) and in St Etheldreda's Church will feature members of the Aronowitz Ensemble, the violinists Jack Liebeck and Esther Hoppe, pianist Alasdair Beatson, viola player Tim Boulton and soprano Sophie Daneman.

The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers, return to Hatfield House, following their sold-out and much acclaimed concert last year, to give the final concert of the festival in The Old Palace.

Corporate and Private Sponsors will benefit from promotional opportunities and free tickets to selected concerts for employees or clients.

We are looking for supporters at all levels, from sponsoring an event or the whole festival to making a donation or becoming a friend.

How you can help

Listening to great music performed by great musicians in a magnificent setting is an unforgettable experience. This is a rare and very special opportunity to contribute to such an event, and indeed to be involved in its inception.

Friends of the Festival: suggested donation £20

Support the festival by becoming a Friend. You will receive a range of benefits:

• Advance notice of programme and preferential ticket booking
• Opportunities to meet the artists
• Friends' event

Individual sponsor: from £150

• VIP complimentary tickets for chosen event/s according to the level of support
• Attend the Sponsors' Special Event
• Opportunities to meet the artists
• Listed in the programme

Sponsor a concert from £600

• VIP complimentary tickets for the concert and the Sponsors' Special Event
• Opportunities to meet the artists and for corporate or private entertaining
• Acknowledgment and/or advertisement on the performance programme and website

Sponsorship in kind

We are looking for individuals and organisations who are able to offer services to support the festival at all levels: accommodation and sustenance for musicians, flowers for the stage, ushers.

Make a donation

Donations received by cheque payable to Hatfield House Chamber Music festival, bank transfer to sort code 60-24-77 account 20114680, will be gratefully received and acknowledged.

Place an advertisement in the Festival Programme

Advertising rates (pdf). 

We anticipate a total audience for all concerts at 2,000, a programme print run of 600 A4 full colour 32-page. Rates start at £70 for a quarter page through £100 haf page to £350 for the back outside cover.