All Concerts & Events

Month

The Library presents… Samba Drumming Workshops

Saint Ives March

19 Feb - 20 Feb 2019

Led by Britten Sinfonia’s Tim Gunnell, try out a range of drums, bells and whistles, explore samba rhythms, experiment with group call and response, and even learn to dance AND play at the same time!

Twilight at the Museums

Cambridge

20 Feb 2019

Twilight at the Museums is a free night of exploration for families, where museums and collections across the city turn down the lights and open their doors for after-hours fun.

Musika-Musica Festival: Copland, Vaughan Williams and Elgar

Bilbao

02 Mar 2019

Britten Sinfonia perform music by Copland, Vaughan Williams and Elgar at Bilbao’s Musika-Musica Festival 2019.

Musika-Musica Festival: Copland and Britten

Bilbao

02 Mar 2019

Britten Sinfonia perform Copland’s Concerto for Clarinet & Strings, and Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge at Bilbao’s Musika-Musica Festival 2019.

Musika-Musica Festival: Britten and Bridge

Bilbao

03 Mar 2019

Britten Sinfonia perform Britten’s Les Illuminations and Frank Bridge’s Suite for String Orchestra at the 2019 Musika-Musica Festival in Bilbao.

Tune in to Access

London

16 Mar 2019

Britten Sinfonia takes part in Tune in to Access on 16 March – a celebratory day of performances and participation exploring accessibility, technology and the arts to mark Disabled Access Day at the Barbican Centre.

Brad Mehldau – Piano Concerto

London

16 Mar 2019

One of the great improvisers of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau premieres a new piano concerto, commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and the Barbican.

At Lunch Three 2018-19

Norwich Cambridge London

22 Mar - 27 Mar 2019

This Scottish folk-inspired concert features works by Sir James MacMillan and Peter Maxwell Davies, including the first live performance of MacMillan’s Hirta, an arrangement of a folk song from St Kilda.

Britten Sinfonia Academy: Project Three

Cambridge

23 Mar - 31 Mar 2019

Project Three: Museum Residency/Chamber groups BSA has a longstanding partnership with The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and we will continue this with a unique collaboration in March 2019.

Stories of the Museums Trail

Cambridge

31 Mar 2019

Join us for a family-friendly musical tour across the Fitzwilliam Museum, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and Museum of Zoology, with stories and music from cultures across the world performed by Britten Sinfonia Academy.

A Sheen of Dew on Flowers

London

11 Apr 2019

The first public performance of Joby Talbot’s new cantata, commissioned by Independent Opera, which sets love poetry from across the ages.

Seven Last Words from the Cross – Holy Week Festival

London

19 Apr 2019

Tenebrae and Britten Sinfonia collaborate for the first time for an absorbing and moving concert experience.

Fauré Requiem

Snape

20 Apr 2019

Fauré’s Requiem favours serenity, joy and liberation over the dread and terror employed by most composers in settings of the Mass of the Dead.

Britten Sinfonia Academy: Project Four

05 May - 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.

Beethoven Symphony Cycle (Nos 7 & 8)

Saffron Walden London

18 May - 21 May 2019

A game of musical chairs plus a short but inventive symphony all brought together with a jubilant and joyous close.

Brighton Festival with Thomas Adès

20 May 2019

Britten Sinfonia make a return to Brighton Festival with a concert reprising the first year of their critically acclaimed Beethoven Symphony Cycle with renowned composer and conductor Thomas Adès.

Four Quartets

London

22 May - 25 May 2019

Published 75 years ago, Four Quartets is considered the crowning achievement of TS Eliot’s career as a poet.

Beethoven Symphony Cycle (No. 9)

Norwich London

25 May - 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.

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 for chamber orchestra and electronics by gifted young composer, Josephine Stephenson.

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.