Welcome to the Shrewsbury International Recital Series website. Each year, we invite young international classical musicians to perform paid recitals to help their early careers. We have been greatly helped in this by the Keyboard Trust, particularly Christopher Axworthy, who represents this fine organisation that supports the most accomplished young classical pianists by arranging concert performances throughout the world.
Past performers in Shrewsbury include some of the most promising and talented young pianists in the world, including Anna Fedorova, Elisabeth Brauss, Daniel Lebhardt, Dinara Klinton, Nikita Lukinov, Shunta Morimoto, Milda Daunoraite, Pietro Fresa, Maria Linares, Matthew McLachlan and Mariam Batsashvili. Most of the performances take place in one of the beautiful historic churches in Shrewsbury. In 2026 the series has moved to The Church of St Mary the Virgin in the centre of Shrewsbury to help fund the purchase of a brand new Kawai GX5 piano, which has been donated to the church. St Mary’s is the oldest and most beautiful church in the historic town and dates back to the Saxon era. The church is famed for its stained glass collection and fabulous acoustics. The new grand piano was christened by the world-famous pianist Mariam Batsashvili on May 23rd 2026 in a sublime performance of music by Mozart, Schubert, Chopin and Brahms.
Shrewsbury is a beautiful old medieval town and our audience is knowledgable and generous in its welcome to brilliant musicians. The support our audience provides enables us to pay reasonable fees to our artists, and we aim to treat them as musical royalty, which, of course, they are. We stand in admiration of their talent, hard work and dedication in doing justice to the great composers. We are a not-for-profit organisation run by volunteers and if any profit is made, it is currently donated to the fund for the new piano.
