The Llantwit Major Chamber Music Festival, founded in 2019 by local Welsh cellist Ben Tarlton, aims to present accessible and outstanding live classical music concerts to the community of Llantwit Major and inspire the next generation of young music lovers. Our vision is increasingly attracting local enthusiasm and the response we have received from our audience is showing that we are providing a source of comfort and well-being to those we reach through live music, making a memorable and sometimes profound impact to people’s lives. 
 
We believe that sharing and displaying the passion for classical music needs to stretch beyond our Festival’s concerts and into local schools and care homes in order to reach a wider and more diverse range of the community to further normalise classical music listening.

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Thanks to the generous support of the Waterloo Foundation, we have been bringing the musicians who are at the heart of our Festival, into local schools and care homes where we have provided experiences to those who are not able to easily access live music. We have seen from our concerts that in-person live performances can truly help the mental well-being of others as well as promote inner peace, empathy and kindness to those reached, which is why we are inspired to bring this directly to other areas of the local community outside our main concerts. 
 

Over the past two years, we have visited the following schools and carehomes:

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-St Illtud's Primary School, Llantwit Major

-Ysgol Gymraeg Dewi Sant, Llantwit Major 

-St Mary Church, Llanfair Primary School 

-Wick Primary School 

-Ysgol y Ddraig, Llantwit Major

-Southway Care Home, Cowbridge

-Milsom House nursing home, St Athan 

-Crawshay Court Sheltered housing, Llantwit Major

We are passionate about making a positive impact to the community by enabling live music making to be a more integral part of local society and creating an opportunity to inspire and empower the next generation of creative individuals.

 

We are incredibly grateful to the Waterloo Foundation for their support in our work in the community.