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.
2026 Future Concerts at the Spire Church
South Street, Farnham, GU9 7QU
3-00 pm, Sunday 25 October NB: 3pm!!
Piano solo – duo – trio
Yuri Zhislin, Katya Apekisheva, Bart LaFollette
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Piano Sonata op.49, no.2 in G major – Anya Zhislin
Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
Silent Woods – Bartholomew LaFollette & Katya Apekisheva
Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 (Dumky Trio)
Yuri Zhislin (violin) enjoys an active and versatile career as a violinist and violist, working as a soloist, chamber musician, arranger, conductor, and teacher. Based in London since 1991, he has performed as a soloist with major orchestras across the UK, Europe, South America, and Australia.
In 1993, Yuri won the title of BBC Radio 2 Young Musician. He maintains an ongoing recording collaboration with Orchid Classics, both as a soloist and as Artistic Director of Camerata Tchaikovsky. Since 2003, he has been a Professor at the Royal College of Music in London.
Born in Philadelphia, Bartholomew LaFollette (cello) has lived in Britain since the age of 13. He trained at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and later the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His career was launched by YCAT and he was awarded The Arts Club’s and Decca Records’ inaugural Classical Music Award. He also received the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Ardán Award.
He made his BBC Philharmonic debut at 6 hours’ notice with a live radio broadcast of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. He was Artist in Residence at London’s Conway Hall for the 2025-26 Season and is Artistic Director of the Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival in Wimbledon. His latest disc of mid-century Soviet masterworks by Kabalevsky, Terterian and Prokofiev with celebrated pianist Caroline Palmer will be released on Chandos in August 2027.
Born in Moscow, into a family of musicians, Katya Apekisheva (piano) attended the Gnessin Music School for exceptionally gifted children making her stage debut at the age of 12. She continued her studies in Jerusalem at the Rubin Music Academy and later at the Royal College of Music in London. She went on to be a Prizewinner of the Leeds International Piano competition and has gone on to enjoy a career performing with many of the world’s leading orchestras,
Her recordings have received awards from Gramophone Magazine’s Editor, International Piano Magazine and Classical Brit and been Classic FM’s CD of the week. She has a successful piano duo partnership with Charles Owen, performing regularly at festivals worldwide. Together they are co-Artistic Directors of the London Piano Festival which began in 2016.
Anya Zhislin (piano) was born into a musical family in 2014 and began playing the violin and piano at the age of four. Since then, she has enjoyed performing in London, as well as in Spain, France and Cyprus, and has shared the stage with her parents on several occasions.
She is currently studying at the London Rachmaninov Academy.
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 £10-00 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.
Future concerts at the Spire Church
3-00pm Sunday 8 November NB: 3pm!
Sasha Grynyuk – piano
Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata
—————-
3-00pm Sunday 22 November
Max Mostovetski – piano
—————-
7-30pm Tuesday 15 December
Baroque Christmas Concert
2027
3-00pm Sunday 03 January
Daniel Hill – piano
—————-
3-00pm Sunday 10 January
Reuben Anelay – trumpet & Dafydd Chapman – piano
—————-
3-00pm Sunday 24 January
Piano Trio Bohemo
—————-
3-00pm Sunday 7 February
Phil Hopkins – harmonica & John Lenehan – piano
—————-
7-30pm Saturday 20 February
Matteo Cimatti – violin & Francesco Granata – piano
—————-
3-00pm Sunday 7 March
Cristian Sandrin – piano
—————-
4-00pm Sunday 4 April
Renata Konyicska – piano
—————-
4-00pm Sunday 18 April
Mishka Rushdie Momen – piano
—————-
7-30pm Saturday 24 April
Kosta Popovic – cello & Sofia Sacco – piano
—————-
4-00pm Sunday 9 May
Daniel Hill – piano & Chameleon Wind Quartet
—————-
7-30pm Saturday 5 June
Vida Guitar Quartet led by Amanda Cook
========================
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
Please ignore text below
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
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.
Major Sponsors
We are hugely grateful to our major sponsors:
