All Concerts & Events

Month

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.

At Lunch Three 2018-19

Cambridge London

26 Mar - 27 Mar 2019

This Scottish folk-inspired concert features works by Sir James MacMillan, Peter Maxwell Davies and a new work by Robert Singer, the winner of Britten Sinfonia’s OPUS2018 competition for unpublished composers will also receive its world premiere, the composer having been mentored by James MacMillan.

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.

ROSL Rush Hour Concert

02 Apr 2019

Britten Sinfonia performs at the Rush Hour Concert Series at Royal Over-Seas League. Take shelter from the rush hour in Royal Over-Seas League’s Princess Alexandra Hall.

A Sheen of Dew on Flowers

London

11 Apr 2019

Celebrating the bi-centenary of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s birth, Britten Sinfonia and Independent Opera present the first public performance of Joby Talbot’s new cantata, A Sheen of Dew on Flowers.

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 thrilling Viola Concerto featuring one of today’s foremost violists, Lawrence Power, 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.

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.

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

23 Oct 2019

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

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.

Britten Sinfonia with Benjamin Grosvenor

London

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.

Curlew River

London

26 Mar 2020

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

St Matthew Passion

London

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

14 May 2020

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