What’s On
2019-20 Concert Season
Our 2019-20 concert season is the first of two very special Centenary seasons for us. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating our 100th birthday as we not only honour our past, but create the music of the future.
2018-19 Concert Season
From blockbuster, licensed-to-thrill movie music to spectacular symphonies, and from classical concertos to classic pop songs, there's a world-class musical experience for everyone in the 2018-19 season...
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Youth Orchestra Academy
Youth Orchestra
Town Hall, BirminghamThe energy of these unstoppable young musicians is matched only by the inspiring power of Shostakovich and Dvořák, in a performance like no other!
Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar’s Cello Concerto
Symphony Hall, BirminghamWhen Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla recorded Shostakovich together, it became one of the best-selling classical recordings this century.
The CBSO at the BBC Proms
On Tour
Royal Albert HallThe CBSO and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla celebrate the centenary of Mieczysław Weinberg – the man Shostakovich hailed as ‘one of the most outstanding …
Mirga conducts Mahler’s Fourth
Symphony Hall, BirminghamMahler’s Fourth Symphony is quiet by his standards – but it still aims at the stars, and it ends with an utterly unexpected vision of heaven.
The CBSO in Villach
On Tour
Villach Congress Centre
The CBSO in Grafenegg
On Tour
Castle Concert Hall, Grafenegg
The CBSO in Grafenegg
On Tour
Castle Concert Hall, Grafenegg
The CBSO at Rheingau Music Festival
On Tour
Kloster EberbachThe CBSO will perform at the closing concert of the summer festival
Last Night of the Rotary Proms 2019
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Purcell and Tchaikovsky
Centre Stage
CBSO Centre, BirminghamWhen Tchaikovsky travelled to Italy he let his hair down – and ever note of his Souvenir de Florence simply bursts with melody, joy and life-affirming …
A Child of our Time
Symphony Hall, Birmingham“The world turns on its dark side…” As war loomed in Europe, Michael Tippett took a single, brutal instance of man’s inhumanity to man, and created a plea for a …
Sheku plays Elgar
Symphony Hall, BirminghamFrom the royal court of 17th century England to the New Mexico desert; from the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral to the Sussex Downs.
Alison Balsom plays Musgrave
Symphony Hall, BirminghamLove, war and a destiny stronger than either: Walton’s Troilus and Cressida is British music at its most sensuous – and sensational.
The CBSO in Dortmund
On Tour
Konzerthaus, Dortmund
The CBSO in Hamburg
On Tour
Elbphilharmonie