All Concerts & Events

Month

Beethoven Symphony Cycle (No. 9)

London

26 May 2019

Britten Sinfonia’s Beethoven Symphony Cycle, conducted by Thomas Adès, concludes with Beethoven’s mighty ‘choral’ symphony and Gerald Barry’s feverish The Eternal Recurrence.

Donizetti’s Il Paria with Opera Rara

London

08 Jun 2019

A rare chance to hear Il Paria, one of Donizetti’s most innovative and daring scores, conducted by Sir Mark Elder with Britten Sinfonia.

Nevill Holt Opera: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Market Harborough

12 Jun - 16 Jun 2019

A lovers tiff between fairy-king Oberon and his queen Tytania leads to a night of mistaken identities, confused lovers and alarming transformations.

Concert to Mark the Retirement of Stephen Cleobury

Cambridge

28 Jun 2019

Concerts at King’s celebrates Stephen Cleobury’s unprecedented 37-year tenure at the College with an evening of beloved English music, performed by artists and ensembles with whom the outgoing Director of Music has had particularly long-standing creative partnerships.

Britten Sinfonia Academy: Project Four

29 Jun - 07 Jul 2019

This project will focus on Britten Sinfonia Academy’s programme for their performance in Britten Sinfonia’s award-winning concert series ‘At Lunch’, including the first rehearsals of the Academy’s new commission from Josephine Stephenson.

Folk Like Us – Daylight Music

London

13 Jul 2019

Britten Sinfonia Academy makes its debut performance at the popular Daylight Music Series in Union Chapel, alongside folk duo Stick in the Wheel.

At Lunch Four 2018-19

Cambridge Norwich

16 Jul - 18 Jul 2019

The talented young musicians of Britten Sinfonia Academy take centre stage in this lunchtime concert. The programme will feature a new work, Writhen, for chamber orchestra by gifted young composer, Josephine Stephenson.

Serenading Lincs: Grimsby Minster

Grimsby

20 Jul 2019

As part of the continuation of Britten Sinfonia and Mark Padmore’s series ‘Serenading Lincs’, the orchestra are joined by the choir of Grimsby Minster with young singers and performers from DRET academy schools across Lincolnshire in a celebration of quintessentially English music and verse exploring one of Britten’s lesser-known works, The Company of Heaven, alongside the works of his forefathers and contemporaries Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi.

BBC Prom 37: The Childhood of Christ

London

14 Aug 2019

Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé continue the BBC Proms’ series marking 150 years since the death of Hector Berlioz with the composer’s vividly dramatic oratorio The Childhood of Christ.

BBC Prom 52: Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky & Ryan Wigglesworth

London

28 Aug 2019

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Britten Sinfonia in a concert of musical homages. Arranging four pieces by Mozart in his Suite No.

Refugee

London

20 Sep 2019

The incomparable tenor Allan Clayton joins Britten Sinfonia and guest conductor Andrew Gourlay for the UK premiere of Refugee, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new song cycle.

At Lunch One with Mahan Esfahani

Cambridge Norwich

01 Oct - 04 Oct 2019

Celebrated harpsichordist and regular collaborator with Britten Sinfonia Mahan Esfahani joins principal players in the first concert of Britten Sinfonia’s annual At Lunch series.

Le grand inconnu with The Sixteen

London

14 Oct 2019

Few living composers communicate with the emotional directness of James MacMillan, and the opportunity to hear two substantial new works in one concert is genuinely rare.

Steve Reich/Gerhard Richter

London Saffron Walden

23 Oct - 24 Oct 2019

Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter – two giants of contemporary culture – come together in a major new collaboration.

Eight Seasons

Norwich

25 Oct 2019

A dazzling evening of Baroque music that grooves and Argentinian tangos flushed with 18th-century flair: Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Gould offer an effervescent concert that juxtaposes Vivaldi’s radiant Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) with Astor Piazzolla’s sultry Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires).

Ada Lovelace: Imagining the Analytical Engine

London

02 Nov 2019

An uncompromising musical tribute to a woman who united the worlds of 19th-century romanticism and cutting-edge science – Ada Lovelace: thinker, computer pioneer and enchantress of numbers.

Stabat Mater with The Sixteen

New York

07 Nov 2019

Sir James MacMillan, the preeminent Scottish composer of our time, draws upon his Celtic heritage and Catholic faith for revelatory choral works that tap into our universal humanity.

Benjamin Grosvenor & Thomas Gould

Norwich

12 Nov 2019

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been described as “one in a million…several million” by The Independent, and as “a keyboard visionary” by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Britten Sinfonia with Benjamin Grosvenor

Saffron Walden London

24 Nov - 26 Nov 2019

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and Britten Sinfonia Leader Thomas Gould join forces for a vividly contrasting programme of chamber music from Bach to the 21st century.

At Lunch Two with Freya Waley-Cohen

Cambridge Norwich

21 Jan - 24 Jan 2020

A performance featuring music by the award-winning young composer Freya Waley-Cohen, including her arrangement of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, settings of five of emotive poems by the influential German Romantic author whose poetry was a huge influence on Mahler’s composition.

Curlew River

London Norwich Saffron Walden

26 Mar - 28 Mar 2020

Inspired by Japanese Noh theatre, Benjamin Britten’s church parable is a once heard, never forgotten work.

St Matthew Passion

Norwich London

09 Apr - 10 Apr 2020

One of Bach’s greatest works: urgent, committed and impassioned, with a stellar cast led by Nicholas Mulroy.

Britten Sinfonia with Alison Balsom

London Saffron Walden

14 May - 16 May 2020

Superstar Alison Balsom performs a virtuosic programme of music from Purcell to Birtwistle via Scarlatti, celebrating the remarkable voice of the trumpet.

At Lunch Three with Iestyn Davies

Cambridge Norwich

23 Jun - 26 Jun 2020

A very special programme of music featuring the incomparable countertenor Iestyn Davies, performing a programme of music composed and arranged by Tim Watts, taking scores by composers including Purcell, Ivor Gurney and Hugo Wolf.

At Lunch Four with Britten Sinfonia Academy

Norwich Cambridge

16 Jul - 17 Jul 2020

Britten Sinfonia’s ensemble for talented musicians aged 13-18 takes centre stage for this performance.