BMCS PROGRAMME
2026 has been an exciting your for BMCS with well attended concerts in Butlers Marston Church, including a thrilling BMCS Young Musician of the Year platform.
2027 - we will post the 2027 programme here once it has been confirmed.
Each concert is also posted on the calendar
A SHORT HISTORY of THE
Butlers Marston Concert Society (BMCS)
bringing world class music to Butlers Marston
Originally conceived in 2008 by Lynn Arnold, Butlers Marston Concert Society gave it's inaugural concert in August 2009. Being in rural Warwickshire, the first challenge was to obtain a piano... Many may have been daunted by this initial obstacle, but not Lynn! Incredibly her dreams were answered when an anonymous benefactor came forward and offered £2250 to cover the cost of a piano and its removal. Thank you! Following this wonderful act of anonymous generosity,
for which the Butlers Marston Concert Society are extremely grateful (actually over the moon!), a fine Yamaha U3 piano has been duly installed in the church, and Lynn’s idea for a series of first class concerts has become a reality.
The concert society has taken various guises: in the "early years", six chamber music concerts a year were given - always with the warm, inviting atmosphere of Butlers Marston village, and with the churchyard lit up by fairy lights. Subsequently, BMCS became an annual festival for two years, and now we average around three or four concerts a year. All the concerts are well attended; programmes are approachable, varied and aim to promote lesser known and/or contemporary works, often inlcuding British music.
The magical fairy lights still illuminate the churchyard!
A LITTLE ABOUT BMCS FOUNDER
Lynn Arnold
An advocate of British music, Lynn is well known for her collaborative musicianship, distinguished by her ‘glorious pianism’ (MusicWeb International) and performs frequently as chamber musician, soloist and accompanist. Lynn was the Founder Director of the Butlers Marston Concert Society in 2009; since then she and the Society have brought outstanding chamber music to rural and online audiences.
A founding member of the Warwick Piano Trio, the Arnold Ensemble and the piano duet "Four Hands" with Charles Matthews, Lynn also plays with artists including Francesca Barritt, Bozidar Vukotic and the Tippett Quartet. Lynn has now recorded eleven albums to much acclaim, as part of “Four Hands”, with violists Peter Mallinson & Matthias Weisner, and with the Tippett Quartet for Albion records, Convivium Records, Dutton Epoch, Meridian Records and Toccata Classics.
An alumna of Cambridge University where she held a celebrated Instrumental Award, Lynn won much recognition in various competitions during her subsequent study at the Royal Academy of Music, not least the prestigious Sir Henry Richardson Award from the Musicians Benevolent Fund. A former Park Lane Group Young Artist.
Lynn teaches a select number of pupils privately, some of whom have gone on to hold careers in music. A member of the ABRSM grade examining panel, Lynn is on the staff of the Royal Academy of Music, Junior Department and has coached chamber music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
YOUNG MUSICIANS’ PLATFORM 2026
This was a wonderful evening where a packed church was treated to outstanding music performed by our young finalists.
Do enter next year!
The 2026 finalists in Butlers Marston Church with Paul Harris, adjudicator and Lynn Arnold.
