From June to August 2025, Timothy Ridout brought his signature artistry and expressive depth to some of the most prestigious festivals, captivating audiences with both solo and chamber performances. 

He began the summer in Switzerland at Solsberg Festival, performing works by Brahms with Vilde Frang, Hana Chang, Lawrence Power, Sol Gabetta, and Victor Julien-Laferrière, before heading to Ryedale Festival in Yorkshire as Artist-in-Residence, highlights included Brahms with the Castalian Quartet, Beethoven with Tim Trio, J.S.Bach’s Suites, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Maria Włoszczowska and Royal Northern Sinfonia, and ending with a brand new orchestration of Philip Wilby’s Bliss Concerto with Opera North.

A regular visitor of the Verbier Festival, he collaborated this year with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Janine Jansen, Klaus Mäkelä, Mao Fujita and many others in a programme of Prokofiev, Brahms, Schoenberg, and Saint-Saëns.

He then travelled to Canada to play at Lanaudière Festival and played Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Veronika Eberle and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal with conductor Kent Nagano.

In Norway’s final Rosendal Festival, he performed works by Vaughan Williams, Clarke, Vierne, Mendelssohn with Yulianna Avdeeva, James Baillieu, Johan Dalene and Julia Hagen amongst others. He also played a rendition of Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata with Leif Ove Andsnes.

​“With ten concerts, including over 50 works, it is only possible to pinpoint a few highlights, the first of which has to be Timothy Ridout and Andsnes’ incredibly intense performance of Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata (50 years to the very day since the composer’s death). Ridout’s taut, passionate playing drew out every note, yet his crying solo, as if from a distance, at the opening of the finale was achingly impressive.”

***** Backtrack, August 2025

In Germany’s Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, he joined Anastasia Kobekina for Bartók’s Romanian Dances, Glazunov’s String Quintet, Bartok’s Piano Quintet, and more.

He closes the summer returning to Salzburg Festival with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with Mozarteum Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Manze.