Last minute Christmas presents…….
BPO perform the 1812 Overture – No. 1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame

Come and join us on Sunday afternoon to enjoy one of the nation’s favourite works, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Earlier this year, the 1812 Overture was voted as the UK’s No. 1 work in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame 2018. The overture will be followed by Khachaturian’s delightful suite from Masquerade and …
Orchestra of the Year, 2018

The Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra has won the title, Birmingham Orchestra of the Year 2018 in the What’s On Birmingham Readers’ Awards. Chair John Franklin and Principal Clarinet Alastair Moseley accepted the award on behalf of the orchestra at a ceremony this week. https://www.facebook.com/WhatsOnBirmingham/videos/2052455948104832/
Wagner, Bruckner and Wagner Tubas

The BPO will be performing some rarely played music and will feature some rarely heard instruments in two concerts in June 2017. Wagner’s tender and peaceful symphonic poem, Siegfried Idyll, has only been performed by the BPO on one previous occasion, 60 years ago in 1957. Our performance of Bruckner’s …
Battle of the Somme
In 2006, The Imperial War Museum commissioned Laura Rossi to score a film for the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. During 2016-17, the music, together with the film are being shown and performed at various venues around the country. The Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra will be taking part in a …
BPO Concerto Prize Winner 2017

Congratulations to violinist Chu-Yu Yang whose performance of Korngold’s Violin Concerto was awarded the top prize in the BPO Concerto Competition Final on Sunday 7 May. The photograph shows (from left to right), Julian Lloyd-Webber, Principal of the Birmingham Conservatoire, Stephen Maddock, Chief Executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony …
Concerto Prize Finalist Domonkos Csabay

Hungarian pianist Domonkos Csabay graduated in 2014 from the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. In 2015 he received the scholarship of the Josef Weingarten Trust and started a personal study programme at Birmingham Conservatoire under John Thwaites and Pascal Nemirovski. He has played in masterclasses with artists such as Boris …
Concerto Prize Finalist Chu-Yu Yang
Concerto Prize Finalist Yu-Syuan Li

Taiwanese flautist Yu-Syuan Li completed her undergraduate studies at University of Taipei with Sabina Shu-Chun Chiang, and is currently studying for a Master’s degree at Birmingham Conservatoire under Jonathan Rimmer. Yu-Syuan began by playing the piano first then took up the flute at age 11, from which moment she decided …