Town Hall, Symphony Hall
Classic FM and Symphony Hall have been partners since 2002, sharing a vision to create new audiences for classical music.
Each season, Classic FM selects highlights from the Birmingham International Concert Season, the largest international season of visiting classical musicians and orchestras outside London. The concerts take place at Birmingham's two premier venues - the world-renowned Symphony Hall, and Town Hall, believed to be Europe's oldest purpose built concert hall. Town Hall celebrates its 175th anniversary in October 2009 having re-opened two years ago after a £35m renovation (funded by Birmingham City Council, Heritage Lottery Fund and European Regional Development Fund). The two venues are managed jointly and between them host around 600 concerts and events every year.
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General booking for Birmingham International Concert Season 2010/11 opens on 3 June.
Highlights of the season include:
• Major UK premiere of Philharmonia’s Tristan und Isolde with video art by Bill Viola
• The Planets: An HD Odyssey (European premiere) - NASA’s latest images projected on a giant screen
• 3D glasses for the audience in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
• Thomas Adès conducts In Seven Days with visuals from Tal Rosner
• James MacMillan Day including new Oboe Concerto (world premiere)
• Birmingham Mahler Cycle – a joint series with the CBSO includes Simon Rattle conducting Das Lied von der Erde on Symphony Hall’s 20th birthday
• Opera North begins four year Ring Cycle with Das Rheingold
• Purcell Perspectives mini-series
• Recitals by Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl, Mitsuko Uchida, Freddy Kempf and the Takács Quartet
• Superb international orchestras and soloists
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Town Hall & Symphony Hall Box Office: 0121 780 3333
Birmingham International Concert Season 2009/10
In 2009/10 the flagship series presents over 30 concerts at Town Hall and Symphony Hall.
Over the course of the season, Birmingham welcomes a host of internationally renowned musicians including the combined forces of the Mariinsky Theatre and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Staatskapelle Berlin with Daniel Barenboim, and Riccardo Muti conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Concerto soloists include pianists Murray Perahia and Simon Trpčeski, trumpeter Hugh Masekela and violinists Joshua Bell and Nicola Benedetti. An impressive line-up of celebrity recitalists and chamber musicians includes the soprano Renée Fleming, baritone Sir Willard White, tenor Ian Bostridge, pianists Lang Lang and Emanuel Ax, City Organist Thomas Trotter and Sir James Galway. There are visits by the Czech Philharmonic and Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, and period performance ensembles Amsterdam Baroque Soloists, the Academy of Ancient Music and Ex Cathedra.
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