All Concerts & Events

Month

Britten Sinfonia Academy: Project One

Stapleford Bury St Edmunds

06 Oct - 14 Oct 2018

Project One: Exploring Different Genres and improvisation Much of this year’s repertoire will explore musical traditions from different cultures.

Alice Through the Looking Glass – Family Concert

Beverley

01 Nov 2018

What’s through the looking glass? Discover an array of colourful characters in Looking Glass Land – from the terrifying Jabberwocky and the dim witted Tweedledee and Tweedledum to the warring White and Red kings and queens.

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

Peterborough

06 Nov 2018

Britten Sinfonia pair up with some of Peterborough’s young musicians in a unique mentoring project inspired by the world of video games.

The Last Letter

Norwich London Saffron Walden

08 Nov - 10 Nov 2018

To commemorate the end of the Great War, Britten Sinfonia premiere a new arrangement of Nico Muhly’s poignant The Last Letter as part of a compelling and dramatic evening of music and words.

At Lunch One 2018-19

Cambridge London Norwich

20 Nov - 23 Nov 2018

Tenor Mark Padmore is joined by principals of Britten Sinfonia for the premiere of a new song cycle by Luke Styles, former Young Composer-in-Residence at Glyndebourne.

Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Mark Padmore

Bury St Edmunds

26 Nov 2018

Celebrated tenor, Mark Padmore, joins Britten Sinfonia with a programme that features some of the most beautiful English music for voice and orchestra.

Handel’s Messiah

Amsterdam London Saffron Walden

17 Dec - 22 Dec 2018

Britten Sinfonia are joined by a scintillating line-up of some of the UK’s finest singers for a festive performance of Handel’s thrilling and jubilant Messiah.

Britten Sinfonia Academy: Project Two

Saffron Walden

05 Jan - 19 Jan 2019

Project Two: Sir Mark Elder Sir Mark Elder will be conducting Britten Sinfonia on a tour of Mahler and Brahms concerts in early 2019.

Elder conducts Mahler & Brahms

London Saffron Walden Norwich

17 Jan - 19 Jan 2019

Brahms as Brahms wished it to be heard: Sir Mark Elder joins Britten Sinfonia for the second instalment of their Brahms Symphony Cycle, paired with Mahler songs and Britten’s last completed orchestral work.

At Lunch Two 2018-19

Cambridge London Norwich

12 Feb - 15 Feb 2019

Edmund Finnis’ music displays a fascination with sound and melodic patterns, and his new piano trio promises to offer intrigue during Britten Sinfonia’s second lunchtime concert of the series.

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

22 Mar - 26 Mar 2019

This Scottish folk-inspired concert features works by 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.

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.

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)

London

21 May 2019

A game of musical chairs plus a short but inventive symphony all bought together with a jubilant and joyous close, Britten Sinfonia’s Beethoven Cycle continues with Symphonies No.

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.

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.