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Community Schools

Schools' Showcase: New Sounds

Join us as we uncover new sounds created by Peterborough secondary school pupils

Peterborough

22 Oct 2024

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Schools' Showcase: New Sounds
Concerts

Magnum Opus Composer Showcase 2024

Three new chamber concertos by composers whose careers are just taking off, performed by Britten Sinfonia and soloists Rakhi Singh (violin), Alexandra Achillea Pouta (mezzo soprano), and Imogen Whitehead (trumpet).

London

2 Nov 2024

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Magnum Opus Composer Showcase 2024
Community Schools

Schools' Showcase: Recomposed with Thetford Academy & King Edward VI School

Join us for a musical exploration of reinvention

Bury St Edmunds

5 Nov 2024

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Schools' Showcase: Recomposed with Thetford Academy & King Edward VI School
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Max Richter's Vivaldi Recomposed

Max Richter's The New Four Seasons: Vivaldi Recomposed is a thrilling and hypnotic way to hear Vivaldi's genius with fresh ears, seemingly taking us up into the cosmos to look down on the piece and the world from above.

Suffolk, Norwich, Kent

5 Nov - 7 Nov 2024

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Max Richter's Vivaldi Recomposed

Cambridge Music Festival: Mozart Requiem

Britten Sinfonia and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, join together to perform Mozart's iconic Requiem.

Cambridge

15 Nov 2024

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Cambridge Music Festival: Mozart Requiem
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Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio and Britten Sinfonia

A giant of the jazz improv world, Tim Garland brings together his eclectically-minded trio and Britten Sinfonia for the most ambitious project of his stellar career, at the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Kent, London, Cambridge

16 Nov - 20 Nov 2024

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Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio and Britten Sinfonia
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Britten Saint Nicholas

Britten Sinfonia and Saffron Walden Choral Society perform a programme of 20th century British music.

Saffron Walden

23 Nov 2024

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Britten Saint Nicholas
Schools

Schools' KS1 concert: The Robot and the Bluebird

A wonderful and interactive live orchestral experience for Key Stage 1 pupils and their teachers.

Cambridge, Saffron Walden, Suffolk

25 Nov - 27 Nov 2024

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Schools' KS1 concert: The Robot and the Bluebird
Concerts

Lisa O'Neill with Britten Sinfonia: Symphony for the Cold Moon

The compelling folk singer-songwriter Lisa O'Neill joins Britten Sinfonia in a performance of her songs orchestrated by Terry Edwards.

London

11 Dec 2024

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Lisa O'Neill with Britten Sinfonia: Symphony for the Cold Moon
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Chris Thile and Special Guest with Britten Sinfonia

Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter and composer Chris Thile is described by The Guardian as “that rare being: an all-round musician who can settle into any style, from bluegrass to classical.”

Bristol, London

22 Jan - 23 Jan 2025

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Chris Thile and Special Guest with Britten Sinfonia
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Pärt 90 : Shostakovich 50

A programme that cuts to the essence of Dmitri Shostakovich, who died 50 years ago in 2025, and Arvo Pärt, who will be 90. One of them a Soviet composer to the end, the other brought up in the USSR but an exile from Estonia in Berlin from 1980 to 2010.

Norwich, Suffolk

13 Feb - 14 Feb 2025

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Pärt 90 : Shostakovich 50
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BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong at Merton College, Oxford

The launch of Britten Sinfonia's 2025 residency at Merton College, Oxford.

Oxford

26 Feb 2025

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BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong at Merton College, Oxford
Concerts

Surround Sound Playlist

You’re lying or sitting in a cathedral, looking up at the soaring arches and beautiful ceiling above.

Essex, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough

19 Mar - 22 Mar 2025

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Surround Sound Playlist
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1945: A Kind of Haunting

80 years after the end of WWII, we hear musical responses from then and now.

London, West Midlands, Saffron Walden

25 Mar - 28 Mar 2025

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1945: A Kind of Haunting
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St John Passion

Bach’s passiontide masterpiece at Merton College, Oxford.

Oxford

13 Apr 2025

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St John Passion
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Messiaen's Et exspecto

Nicholas Daniel conducts Britten Sinfonia and Sinfonia Smith Square in Messiaen's monumental Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

London

30 Apr 2025

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Messiaen's Et exspecto
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Britten Sinfonia with Imogen Whitehead

Britten Sinfonia’s Principal Trumpet Imogen Whitehead is the soloist in Hummel’s beloved concerto.

Norwich, Saffron Walden

24 May - 26 May 2025

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Britten Sinfonia with Imogen Whitehead