Welcome to “TBS”! We run chamber music concerts in Farnham with top professional musicians. All our concerts are open to the public and you can register to attend from this website. We are a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Entrance to our concerts is FREE and our concerts are funded primarily through retiring collections and donations. We especially welcome young people and their attendance is supported by CAVATINA.
Conservatoire Concerts in Godalming, which used to be part of TBS, is now a separate charity, see conservatoireconcerts.org.uk , as is Farnham Sinfonia see www.farnhamsinfonia.org.uk
The original Tilford Bach Society, with its current Music Director Adrian Butterfield, runs the Tilford Bach Festival and is a separate charity.
Musicians: Please read: A word to our musicians
Please always check the website shortly before the concert in case of any last minute changes beyond our control.
Our Next Concert at the Spire Church
Please note that PER HOUR evening parking charges have been introduced Mon-Sat in Central and South Street car parks, but not in Waggon Yard
Spire Church, South Street, Farnham, GU9 7QU
4-00 pm Sunday 3 May
Elisabeth Tsai – piano
Programme
Mozart: Sonata in A minor K.310
Schubert: Sonata in G D.984
Pianist Elisabeth Tsai is gaining recognition for her interpretations of the German Classical and Romantic repertoire. As an adolescent, she received top awards in various competitions and performed throughout the United States, but in recent years, her endeavours have been more repertoire-focused, with recitals featuring the last three Beethoven sonatas and the Brahms last four opuses for solo piano.
Elisabeth has been awarded the first prize ex aequo at the 2024 Brahms International Piano Competition Detmold and third prize at the 2026 Takamatsu International Piano Competition, in addition to winning the 2026 Cambridge
International Piano Competition, the 2026 BPSE Beethoven Intercollegiate Competition and the 2025 Piano Texas Concerto Competition. Recent seasons have included solo, chamber, and concerto performances around the UK, US, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Japan. As an avid chamber musician, she frequently performs in duo and trio settings in the UK and abroad; she was a Fellow at the 2024 Norfolk/Yale Chamber Music Festival and was invited to the Smithsonian Chamber Society in 2023 to perform Beethoven piano trios on historical instruments.
Elisabeth currently receives mentorship from Ronan O’Hora and Richard Goode and is completing her Artist Diploma studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, having received a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Music under Boris Berman. She has played to artists such as Peter Serkin, Robert Levin, Imogen Cooper, Paul Lewis, and Till Fellner and is currently engaged in a longterm project of completing and performing the thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas and the five Beethoven cello sonatas.
Please register to attend. It helps us to plan and we can contact you in case of any last minute problems. Please note that we do not request any payments associated with registration and if you receive such a request it will be a scam and should be ignored.
Entry is free but there will be a retiring collection at each concert with a suggested minimum donation of £15-00 per adult from those who can afford it. Donations are not expected for children & students or from parents who are bringing young children. Music lovers who are unable to make a donation are still most welcome. We want to make quality music accessible to all especially to families with children who are our next generation audiences.
The following links are provided for anyone who prefers not to donate by cash at the concert or who wishes to make an additional ad hoc donation.
Donate £5 Donate £10 Donate £20 Donate £30 Donate £40 Donate £50 Donate £100
If you do not wish to use Paypal please post a cheque payable to “Tilford Bach Society CIO” to TBS, 1 Adams Drive, Fleet GU51 3DZ or make a transfer to Tilford Bach Society CIO Account at Lloyds 38264060 Sort Code 30-90-89. Please put “Farnham” in the reference box.
Please click HERE to sign a Gift Aid Form increasing the value of your gift by 25%, if you have not already done so. The forms are valid for ALL Farnham and Godalming concerts, including the Sinfonia, and need to be completed only once as they remain valid until you tell us to stop using them.
2026 Future Concerts
7-30pm Saturday 16 May
Simorre String Quartet
Haydn, Goldmark, Beethoven
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4-00pm Sunday 31 May
David Pinoit – cello & Ben Schoeman – piano
Bach, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff
Other concerts
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Donations to support Farnham Concerts
The following links are provided for anyone who prefers not to donate by cash at the concert or who wishes to make an additional ad hoc donation.
Donate £5 Donate £10 Donate £20 Donate £30 Donate £40 Donate £50 Donate £100
If you do not wish to use Paypal please post a cheque payable to “Tilford Bach Society CIO” to TBS, 1 Adams Drive, Fleet GU51 3DZ or make a transfer to Tilford Bach Society CIO Account at Lloyds 38264060 Sort Code 30-90-89. Please put “Farnham” in the reference box.
Please click HERE to sign a Gift Aid Form increasing the value of your gift by 25%, if you have not already done so. The forms are valid for ALL Farnham and Godalming concerts, including the Sinfonia, and need to be completed only once as they remain valid until you tell us to stop using them.
Next Godalming Conservatoire Concert
See their website: www.conservatoireconcerts.org.uk
Major Sponsors
We are hugely grateful to our major sponsors:
