Quick Book
Our 'Quick Book' feature is designed to make booking simpler and faster for anyone booking multiple concerts for the 2026-27 Season at Symphony Hall and Town Hall. Please note, not all concerts listed below are eligible for the multi-buy discount.
Making your booking as a CBSO Member:
- To book your tickets, simply select the first concert you'd like to attend from the list below.
- You will then need to log-in to your B:Music account to access priority booking (or enter the code if you have one). Click 'book now' and then the words 'log in' to access your account.
- Next choose the seats you'd like for your first concert and then click 'continue browsing'.
- You will be directed back to the list of concerts and have the option to add the same seats straight to your basket, or choose alternative seats.
- Once you've selected all of the concerts you wish to attend, you can check out as usual.
- B:Music offers Ticket Protection to protect your transaction through the provider Ticket Plan. This can be added to your tickets before you check out. More information can be found on the B:Music website.
All purchases are made through B:Music's Box Office.
Booking Dates
Thursday 7 May
Symphony Circle, Benefactors
Monday 11 May
Overture Circle, Concerto Circle, London Circle
Thursday 14 May
Patron, Silver Patron, Gold Patron
Monday 18 May
Friend, Gold Friend, Group Bookings
Wednesday 20 May
General Booking
List of Events

Kazuki conducts Mahler's 2nd Symphony
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Mahler, Symphony No.2 (Resurrection) (87mins)
Performers

Kazuki Yamada
Conductor
Eleanor Lyons
Soprano
Jess Dandy
Contralto
CBSO Chorus

Kazuki conducts Grieg's Piano Concerto
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Bax, Tintagel (16mins)
- Grieg, Piano Concerto (30mins)
- Anna Clyne, Restless Oceans (5mins)
- Debussy, La mer (25mins)
Performers

Elgar's Enigma Variations
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Britten, Simple Symphony (18mins)
- Gwilym Simcock, Triple Concerto (25mins)
- Elgar, Enigma Variations (33mins)
Performers

Stephanie Childress
Conductor
Jess Gillam
Saxophone
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Cello
Ben Goldscheider
Horn
Gwilym Simcock
Orchestral Piano

Sibelius' 5th Symphony
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Brahms, Piano Concerto No.1 (47mins)
- Sibelius, Symphony No.5 (32mins)
Performers

Thomas Dausgaard
Conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor
Piano

Symphonie Fantastique
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (10mins)
- Gipps, Wind Sinfonietta (13mins)
- Debussy, Rhapsody for Cor Anglais and Orchestra (11mins)
- Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique (50mins)
Performers

François Leleux
Conductor/Cor Anglais

Family Concert: Halloween Spooktacular
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Programme to include:
- Jaws and Ghostbusters (main themes), 'Golden' from KPop Demon Hunters, and a selection of suitably spooky music by Mussorgsky, Grieg, Saint-Saëns and Anna Clyne.
Performers

Ellie Slorach
Conductor
Jane Wright
Presenter
CBSO Children's Chorus

Bruckner's 7th Symphony
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No.1 (22mins)
- Bruckner, Symphony No.7 (64mins)
Performers

Ilan Volkov
Conductor
Ilya Gringolts
Violin

Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Town Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Beethoven, Leonore Overture No.2 (15mins)
- Beethoven, Egmont Overture (9mins)
- Beethoven, Corolian Overture (9mins)
- Beethoven, Violin Concerto (42mins)
Performers

Elgar's Cello Concerto
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Weinberg, Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes (12mins)
- Elgar, Cello Concerto (30mins)
- Shostakovich, Symphony No.10 (57mins)
Performers

Joshua Weilerstein
Conductor
Alisa Weilerstein
Cello

Kazuki conducts The Nutcrackers
Town Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Tchaikovsky, Selection from The Nutcracker (57mins)
- Bernstein, Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (9mins)
- Ellington, The Nutcracker Suite (30mins)
Performers

Kazuki conducts The Nutcrackers
Town Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Tchaikovsky, Selection from The Nutcracker (57mins)
- Bernstein, Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (9mins)
- Ellington, The Nutcracker Suite (30mins)
Performers

CBSO Christmas Party
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Programme to include:
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), Santa Claus is Coming to Town, White Christmas, I'll be Home for Christmas, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Winter Wonderland, All I Want for Christmas is You and more!
Performers

Stephen Bell
Conductor
Jess Gillam
Presenter
Sumudu Jayatilaka
Vocalist
Tom Solomon
Vocalist
CBSO Chorus

CBSO Youth Chorus

CBSO Children's Chorus

CBSO Choral Christmas
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Programme to include:
- Carol of the Bells, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, In the Bleak Midwinter, O Holy Night, Once in Royal David's City and more.

Viennese New Year
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Programme to include:
- Light Cavalry Overture, The Blue Danube, Thunder and Lightning, Chit-chat Polka, Roses from the South, Auld Lang Syne and more.
Performers

Tess Jackson
Conductor
Ailish Tynan
Soprano

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Coleridge-Taylor, Ballade (12mins)
- Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto (28mins)
- Sibelius, Symphony No.2 (45mins)
Performers

Thomas Søndergård
Conductor
Alina Ibragimova
Violin

50 Years of Star Wars
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- John Williams, 20th Century Fox Fanfare (1mins)
- John Williams, Main Title (6mins)
- John Williams, The Phantom Menace: The Flag Parade (3mins)
- John Williams, Anakin's Theme (3mins)
- John Williams, Duel Of The Fates (4mins)
- John Williams, Attack Of The Clones: Across The Stars (4mins)
- John Williams, Revenge Of The Sith: Battle Of The Heroes (4mins)
- John Williams, A New Hope: Here They Come! (2mins)
- John Williams, Princess Leia's Theme (7mins)
- John Williams, The Empire Strikes Back: The Asteroid Field (4mins)
- John Williams, Yoda's Theme (4mins)
- John Williams, Return Of The Jedi: Parade Of The Ewoks (4mins)
- John Williams, Luke And Leia (5mins)
- John Williams, The Forest Battle (5mins)
- John Williams, The Force Awakens: March Of The Resistance (3mins)
- John Williams, Rey's Theme (4mins)
- John Williams, Scherzo For X-Wings (3mins)
- John Williams, The Jedi Steps And Finale (8mins)
- John Williams, The Last Jedi: The Rebellion Is Reborn (4mins)
Performers

Michael Seal
Conductor
Zeb Soanes
Presenter

The CBSO & The Orchestral Qawwali Project
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Performers

Melvin Tay
Conductor
Rushil Ranjan
Composer/Arranger/Piano
Abi Sampa
Lead Vocalist
The Orchestral Qawwali Project

Dvořák’s 7th Symphony
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Janáček, Taras Bulba (20mins)
- Anna Clyne, Glasslands (25mins)
- Dvořák, Symphony No.7 (35mins)
Performers

Alpesh Chauhan
Conductor
Jess Gillam
Saxophone

A Celebration of Quincy Jones
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Programme to include...
- The Color Purple, They Call Me Mr Tibbs, The Italian Job, Sanford and Son, Ironside, Austin Powers, Roots Mural, The Wiz, The Deadly Affair, The Getaway, The Pawnbroker, The Anderson Tapes, The Lost Man and In the Heat of the Night.
Performers

Jules Buckley
Conductor

Kazuki conducts Beethoven's Eroica
Symphony Hall, BirminghamProgramme info
Full programme
- Beethoven, Symphony No.1 (26mins)
- Beethoven, Symphony No.2 (32mins)
- Beethoven, Symphony No.3 (Eroica) (47mins)
Performers



