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The keyboard and part of the lid of an antique harpsichord

Artistic Temperaments Festival 2025

Dates: Friday 14 February 2025 13:00 - Sunday 16 February 2025 15:00

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.

Find out more about Artistic Temperaments

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Need to know

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)