• “The reasons for Britten Sinfonia’s incremental rise in the past 20 years are various, but among them are a commitment to interesting programmes and the assiduous building of relationships”

  Financial Times

• “The playing was marked by the kind of luminous and infectious beauty that only comes from a true marriage of mastery and love”

  The Guardian

• “The UK’s most consistently dynamic chamber ensemble”

  The New Statesman

• “I haven’t heard a chamber orchestra performing with such extrovert character and unflagging energy for years.”

  The Times

• “But as always with this orchestra there was more to savour than just stellar perfomance. The programme was ingeniously shaped.”

  The Daily Telegraph, Ivan Hewett

Cambridge and Norwich 2012-13 series

Tickets are now on sale for our new season concerts in Cambridge and Norwich

Ranging across 700 years of music, the season includes diverse works from Beethoven, Perotin, John Adams, Britten, Purcell, Bach and Pēteris Vasks, alongside new works from Alissa Firsova, James MacMillan, Nico Muhly, Ēriks Ešenvalds and Gerald Barry.  

Regular collaborators Pekka Kuusisto and Alina Ibragimova, pianist Angela Hewitt, tenor Mark Padmore and percussionist Colin Currie return throughout the season, and we welcome new Britten Sinfonia collaborators including leading mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.

Britten Sinfonia continues its committment to supporting new talent with the launch of OPUS 2013 - a project with Wigmore Hall offering unpublished composers the chance to receive a commission for a new work to be premiered as part of Britten Sinfonia's At Lunch series in 2013.

For family audiences Britten Sinfonia and presenter Hannah Conway bring popular children's book Mr Big to the Cambridge concert stage for our all-new interactive family concerts, featuring live illustrations from the author Ed Vere.

The season launches in October with Britten Sinfonia's 20th birthday concert showcasing the orchestra, present and future.

View our concert brochures
Our 2012-13 brochures for Cambridge and Norwich, as well as our Barbican concerts can viewed here

2012-13 projects
Britten Sinfonia 20th Birthday Concert
Alice Coote sings Phaedra
Angela Hewitt directs Beethoven
Baltic Nights with Alina Ibragimova
Adams and Muhly

2012-13 At Lunch concerts
At Lunch 1
At Lunch 2
At Lunch 3
At Lunch 4

2012-13 Family and Creative Learning concerts
Mr Big Family Concert
Cambridge University Composers' Workshop
 

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