Artistic Temperaments Festival 2025 at Turner Sims

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Join us for a three-day keyboard instrument festival, presented in association with the University of Southampton Music Department.

Now in its third year, Artistic Temperaments celebrates music performances on beautiful antique instruments. We showcase the Music Department's remarkable collection of keyboard instruments, from the 1770s to the present day.

Hear favourite pieces as you've never heard them before.

Friday 14 February

1pm – {Love} Songs without Words (Free but ticketed)
2pm – 7pm – Try the Pianos (Ticketed)
7.30pm – Jupiter Ensemble (Ticketed)

Saturday 15 February

9.30am – 11am – Try the Pianos (Ticketed)
11am – Dave Townsend and the English Concertina (Ticketed)
12pm – 3pm – Try the Pianos (Ticketed)
2pm – Baroque Workshop (Free)
4pm – 7pm – Try the Pianos (Ticketed)
4.30pm – Cesar Hernandez: Temperaments and tuning techniques (Ticketed)
7.30pm – re:invention performed by Apollo's Cabinet (Ticketed)

Sunday 16 February

10.30am – David Owen Norris lecture-recital: Mendelssohn's Hairpins in the Songs Without Words (Free)
3pm – From the Desk of Jane Austen including The Songs of Harriett Abrams (Free but ticketed)