At Lunch Four 2016-17

A programme performed by the young musicians of Britten Sinfonia Academy, featuring the world premiere of a new work by Elena Langer.

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Custard the Dragon: Key Stage 1 Tour

Peterborough

06 Jul 2017

A cat…a mouse…a dog…a house. A pirate…a dragon and adventure! An interactive concert experience for key stages 1 & 2, Custard the Dragon, is based on Ogden Nash’s poem, The Tale of Custard the Dragon, and has been created just for children.

Britten Sinfonia Academy Course 6

08 Jul - 09 Jul 2017

In six intensive courses across the season, the talented young musicians in Britten Sinfonia Academy (BSA) explore different aspects of repertoire, performance and musical leadership for which our parent orchestra is renowned.

At Lunch Four 2016-17

Norwich Cambridge

13 Jul - 14 Jul 2017

A programme performed by the young musicians of Britten Sinfonia Academy, featuring the world premiere of a new work by Elena Langer.

Britten Sinfonia Academy at Walthamstow Garden Party

Walthamstow

15 Jul 2017

After their main stage performance at our John Adams concert, the Barbican team have invited BSA back to perform at their annual community festival in Waltham Forest.

Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason: Music for Sólaris

London

29 Jul 2017

Britten Sinfonia join forces with composers and producers Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason in a performance of their music for Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi classic Sólaris, accompanied by video manipulations by Brian Eno and Nick Roberton.

BBC Prom 41: Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar

London

15 Aug 2017

Blending Glass’s American Minimalism with traditional Hindustani classical music, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar joins Britten Sinfonia for the first complete live performance of Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar’s 1964 concept album Passages in this Late Night Prom.

This is Rattle: Helen Grime

London

20 Sep 2017

The British composer Helen Grime celebrates Sir Simon Rattle’s arrival with a personally-curated programme of her own music and its inspirations.

Elder conducts Brahms

London Saffron Walden

09 Nov - 10 Nov 2017

Brahms’s First Symphony, one of the greatest of all Romantic symphonies, was first performed with considerably smaller musical forces than we are used to hearing today.

At Lunch One 2017-18

London

17 Nov 2017

Nik Bärtsch’s music was praised by The New York Times for blending ‘post-modernism with a precision groove honed in the spirit of James Brown’.

King’s College Choir: Chichester Psalms

London Saffron Walden

02 Dec - 16 Feb 2018

Written in 1965, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, with its brass, harps and exquisite solo for boy treble, provides an exhilarating invocation of the composer’s hopes for brotherhood and peace, sentiments mirrored by Vaughan Williams impassioned Dona nobis pacem.

At Lunch Two 2017-18

London

24 Jan 2018

Leo Chadburn’s new work for piano trio and electronics is set amongst chamber repertoire both new and old.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Paris

03 Feb 2018

Who among us doesn’t remember Psycho’s famous shower scene? Norman Bates’ (Anthony Perkins) knife pounds to the rhythm of the string dissonances imagined by Bernard Hermmann.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Paris

04 Feb 2018

The distinct pleasure of watching one of Hitchcock’s major films is doubled with the addition of hearing Bernard Herrmann’s score live by Britten Sinfonia.

Jeremy Denk

London

27 Feb 2018

From its opening clarinet glissando Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue has become synonymous with 1920’s America and its popularity continues to this day.

Easter Voices

London

28 Mar 2018

The talents of the acclaimed Britten Sinfonia Voices, conducted by Eamonn Dougan, are showcased in a special Easter concert featuring two masses written 170 years apart.

At Lunch Three 2017-18

London

18 Apr 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Caroline Shaw’s new work is premiered in the third At Lunch concert of the season.

Beethoven Symphony Cycle (No’s 4 & 5)

Saffron Walden London

19 May - 22 May 2018

Thomas Adès and Britten Sinfonia’s journey through Beethoven’s Symphonies reaches the half-way point with the perennially popular, vivacious Symphony No 5 and the subdued, poignant Symphony No 4.

Beethoven Symphony Cycle (No 6)

Saffron Walden London

20 May - 24 May 2018

Beethoven takes inspiration from nature, allowing his imagination to range vividly across the Austrian countryside in his thrilling, intricate “Pastoral” symphony.

Adès, Barry, Beethoven – chamber music

London

23 May 2018

Volatile substances: Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia mix the music of Beethoven and Gerald Barry.