EVENTS
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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St John Passion
Bach’s passiontide masterpiece at Merton College, Oxford.
Oxford
13 Apr 2025
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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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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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