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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The CBSO in Hamburg
On Tour
Elbphilharmonie
The CBSO in Hamburg
On Tour
Elbphilharmonie
The CBSO in Cologne
On Tour
Cologne PhilharmonieThe CBSO in Baden-Baden
On Tour
Festspielhaus
The Thrill of the New
Symphony Hall, BirminghamAre you bewitched, bothered or bewildered when you listen to contemporary music?
Lauren Zhang plays Ravel
Centre Stage
CBSO Centre, Birmingham“A total phenomenon” was how one critic described the Birmingham-born teenage piano virtuoso Lauren Zhang when she won BBC Young Musician in 2018.
Saint Saëns: Organ Symphony - CBSO Benevolent Fund Concert
Symphony Hall, BirminghamThere’s nothing quite like hearing Saint-Saëns’ Third Symphony played live.
Bruch’s Violin Concerto
Symphony Hall, BirminghamThe air shimmers, a horn calls, and like a window opening onto an endless vista, Anton Bruckner begins his “Romantic” Symphony.
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Centre Stage
CBSO Centre, BirminghamMax Bruch wrote the world’s best-loved violin concerto, so you’d expect his string chamber music to be rather good.
Dvořák’s Seventh
Symphony Hall, BirminghamFor some, it’s the roar of a nation awakening to freedom; to others, it’s a life-and-death drama.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Friday Night Classics
Symphony Hall, BirminghamFrom Jesus Christ Superstar to Starlight Express, Evita to Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber has singlehandedly reinvented the musical – and given us …
CBSO Youth Orchestra: The Rite of Spring
Youth Orchestra
Symphony Hall, BirminghamBack in 1913, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was so revolutionary that orchestras struggled to play it – and audiences rioted at the sound.
Mendelssohn’s Elijah
Symphony Hall, Birmingham“Is not His word like a fire?” Felix Mendelssohn was a friend of Queen Victoria, but there’s absolutely nothing Victorian about his “Elijah” – and when it was …
Capriccio Espagnol
Symphony Hall, BirminghamThe CBSO’s Assistant Conductor Jaume Santonja Espinós has become a firm favourite here in Birmingham, and when we asked him to choose his own concert, he went …
The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Family
Symphony Hall, BirminghamSo what exactly is an orchestra? Why is the piccolo so small? Why are the double basses so big? And what is a xylophone supposed to sound like anyway?