City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra News

FRESH from sold out concert halls in London, Manchester and across the world, players from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra are eagerly awaiting the return of flamboyant conductor Carl Davis who brings his Wild West show to Birmingham for the first time on November 20.

Conductor Ilan Volkov was at the helm when Unsuk Chin's cello concerto was acclaimed at last year's Proms, and his affinity for her detailed style was evident as he directed the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK premiere of Chin's 2008 work for orchestra, RocanA .

NOVEMBER 5 certainly went off with a bang for Millfields First School pupils, when they were treated to performances by professional musicians from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra .

THE next concert in the Assembly Rooms' classical season sees the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra visit Derby.

THE City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is set to open its Malvern Theatres 2009/2010 residency tomorrow .

Whether your taste runs to cinema, theatre or concerts, a night out can be expensive.

This was a programme unlike any other, with a concerto each for oboe and contrabassoon, along with Berio's virtuoso Sequenza XII for solo bassoon, and was perhaps explained by Birmingham's hosting of the International Double Reed Society's conference.

AN audience at Studley High School enjoyed a virtuoso performance by the Leo Quarter, four highly talented string musicians from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, this month.