It owed this performance to the CBSO’s assistant conductor Alpesh Chauhan and principal cello Eduardo Vassallo (pictured below right) – the central panel of a fascinatingly conceived programme that ...

Even by Simon Holt's idiosyncratic standards, the inspiration for his new percussion concerto, A Table of Noises, given its outstanding premiere by Colin Currie with Martyn Brabbins conducting the ...

A NEW work by Tansy Davies will receive its world premier at Birmingham's Symphony Hall this Sunday when it is performed by the CBSO Youth Orchestra. Streamlines will be played as part of a programme ...

Double basses quiver and swirl on a note so murky it is hard to hear the pitch. A lone trumpet ascends in a three-note sunrise through an octave, followed by a cataclysm of thundering drumbeats. Add ...

Whispered, shouted, chanted and yes, occasionally sung, by a chorus comprising the CBSO chorus, a professional chamber choir and two children’s choirs, the text is apparently not intended to be fully ...

Birmingham’s iconic orchestra has helped set up an academy to put music back in the heart of English schools, in a national first. The UK’s first state school to be established in collaboration with ...