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Your guide to the best classical, new and experimental music concerts happening around the UK, as well as arts networking events and meet-ups, musical plays, training opportunities, and anything else that looks interesting. Join our mailing list to receive updates.
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Trombonist Peter Moore is joined by mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley and pianist Michael McHale to perform their own arrangement of music by Schumann, Schubert and more, followed by a set of lighter works by Novello, Kurt Weil, and Manning Sherwin.
Celebrating Pierre Boulez and his influences, in the composer’s centenary year: his beloved Debussy, alongside three intriguing world premieres.
A rare opportunity to experience this 1920s classic silent comedy film with a live score, 100 years on from its original release.
Icons of the film music world Caroline Dale and Gavin Greenaway present music from Gladiator, The Mission and Atonement alongside Greenaway’s new compositions for cello and piano.
Critically acclaimed composer, Rushil Ranjan, partners with veena and vocal virtuoso, Abi Sampa, and the pioneering Manchester Camerata for Māyā, an orchestral exploration of Carnatic music.
Join City of London Sinfonia and science communicator Dr Simon Clark on a journey across the globe from pole to pole.
Eight musicians from countries and cultures across the world collaborate for a concert on the theme of ‘Oceans’.
An opera in three acts prefaced with immersive installations and pre-show performances.
A two-day celebration of three Wigmore Associate Artists and their colleagues, all leading exponents of the Indian classical tradition.
A day devoted to celebrating music and musicians from Africa, as well those of African heritage.
Kick-start your evening with a Half Six Fix concert. One piece in a 60-minute concert, introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.
Kantos Chamber Choir delves into the might and majesty of the deep blue sea, exploring its depths, unravelling its mysteries and succumbing to its power.
Castle of Our Skins is a Boston-based group that celebrates Black artistry through music.
Kick-start your evening with a Half Six Fix concert. One piece in a 60-minute concert, introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.
Award-winning orchestra Manchester Camerata takes you on a beautiful, intimate, and reflective musical and cinematic experience.
A performance that charts the course of true love, with fresh perspectives on LGBTQ+ lives and lovers.
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Vocal and instrumental music by Salomone Rossi and his contemporaries.
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A 21st-century response to a classical masterpiece that blends the sounds and feelings of the Caribbean population in Britain.
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A 21st-century response to a classical masterpiece that blends the sounds and feelings of the Caribbean population in Britain.
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South African and European traditions meet in the transformative music of Abel Selaocoe.
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Joyful prayers, lamenting solo songs, and passionate madrigals will be sung in Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and English.
Allow us to transport you to the Jewish Quarter of 17th-century Mantua, Italy for an immersive, black tie evening held within the stunning Great Hall of The Vache Manor House.
A workshop for able instrumentalists and singers who are keen to develop their creative skills. Today’s workshop, led by Dr Jonathan James, is inspired by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
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A performance of the Ligeti Quartet’s new album Nuc, providing a survey of Anna Meredith’s career to date, heard through her original works for string quartet.
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A workshop for able instrumentalists and singers who are keen to develop their creative skills. Today’s workshop, led by Dr Jonathan James, is inspired by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
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The Opera Story presents a new opera by emerging talent and RPS Award winner Dani Howard, based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s groundbreaking 1892 feminist short novel ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, and directed by Amy Lane.
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Mantawoman, alter ego of yangqin extraordinaire Reylon Yount, premieres her musical extravaganza about the heartbreaking beauty of change.
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Applicants are invited to compose a choral work in response to Gerald Finzi's Lo, the full, final sacrifice. The competition offers a top prize of £2,500 and the opportunity for the winner to have their work recorded on film with the internationally renowned Choir of Trinity College Cambridge.
Des Oliver explores the influences and provocateurs that have shaped his music, from the radical artistry of Julius Eastman to the teaching and mentorship of composers Steve Martland and Dominique Le Gendre.
One orchestra, twelve notes, infinite possibilities.
Enter the kaleidoscopic world of Scriabin, as we recreate his Prometheus, complete with the colours he saw when he heard different sounds (by lighting designer Simon Bennison).
