The Classic FM Concert Series at The Sage Gateshead
Join the Northern Sinfonia, Classic FM's orchestra in the North East for a delightful series of concerts in The Sage Gateshead, featuring many of the masterworks that appear in regularly in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
These concerts are about great music brilliantly played and are suitable for anyone new or relatively new to classical concert attendance through to those classical enthusiasts who just want to experience their favourite pieces live.
All concerts take place in Hall One of The Sage Gateshead, and begin at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
Tickets : E: £7.50, D: £15, C/B: £21.50 & A: £26.50 Concessions and Flexi-buy apply
Classic FM Offer
You can get 2 tickets for the price of 1 for any of the concerts remaining in the series if you book before the end of the year. So bring your friends and family along to hear some of the most beautiful, intense, spiritual and uplifting music ever written, played with a new energy and rapture by the musicians of Northern Sinfonia. Tickets also make great Christmas presents!
To take up your 2 for 1 offer just call Ticket Office on 0191 443 4661 and quote '2for1'.
All tickets must be booked in one transaction on or before Saturday 31st December. Cheapest tickets are free. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer.
Details of the remaining concerts are below.
Thursday 1st December
Northern Sinfonia
Thomas Zehetmair: Conductor
Schubert: Symphony no.3, in D
Schubert: Symphony no.4, in C minor ‘Tragic’
Beethoven: Symphony no.5 in C minor
Saturday 28th January
Northern Sinfonia
Stephen Cleobury: Conductor
Mhairi Lawson: Soprano
Anne Marie Gibbons: Mezzo soprano
Northern Sinfonia Chorus
Vivaldi: L’Estro Armonico: Concerto for Four Violins in E minor
Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus HOF: 16
Pachelbel: Canon
Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Vivaldi: Ostro Picta, Armata Spina
Vivaldi: Gloria
Friday 17th February
Northern Sinfonia
Ainars Rubikis: Conductor
Guy Johnston: Cello (winner of BBC Young Musician 2000)
Grieg: Two Elegaic Melodies
Arvo Pärt: These Words
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Brahms: Symphony no.2 in D
Thursday 1st March
Northern Sinfonia
Bradley Creswick: Director/Violin
Michael Gerrard: Viola
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat
Mozart: Symphony no.39 in E flat
Friday 6th April
Northern Sinfonia
Mario Venzago: Conductor
Jack Liebeck: Violin
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture ‘Fingal’s Cave’
Bruch: Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor
Beethoven: Symphony no.3 in E flat ‘Eroica’
Sunday 6th May
Northern Sinfonia
Christian Vasquez: Conductor
Jean-Frederic Neuburger: Piano
Richard Martin: Trumpet
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony HOF: 285
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto no.1 HOF: 292
Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Bizet: Symphony no.1 in C
