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As we celebrate our centenary, we’d love to hear what the orchestra means to you. Share your stories about special CBSO moments with us.

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Forward: 100 Years of the CBSO

Our Centenary Book, ‘Forward: 100 Years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’ by Richard Bratby is now available for purchase!

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Book Now for the 2019-20 Season

Public booking is now open for our 2019-20 concert season - the first of two seasons celebrating our Centenary in 2020

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Meet the people behind the music - find out more about the CBSO's world-class musicians.

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  • 200219 200220 Respighi Roman Trilogy.

    Respighi’s Roman Trilogy

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    Symphony Hall, Birmingham

    ​The rustling of pine-needles, the splashing of fountains, the shouts and songs of carnival season: in Rome, everything seems to make music.

  • 200221 Sounds Of The 1920S.

    Sounds of the 1920s

    Friday Night Classics

    Symphony Hall, Birmingham

    The Roaring Twenties: the decade of flappers, cocktails, and the Charleston, when the whole world danced to the wild new rhythms of jazz.

  • 200223 Cbso Youth Orchestra Elgar Symphony No 1.

    CBSO Youth Orchestra: Elgar’s Symphony No. 1

    Youth Orchestra

    Symphony Hall, Birmingham

    ​“A massive hope in the future” – that was how Elgar described the message of his First Symphony, and when it was premiered in 1908, the audience leapt up and …