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From our UK regional touring to our work here with the students of Acland Burghley School, we’re always striving to keep music alive and accessible for all. We are redefining what it means to be an orchestra in the 2020s – and can’t do it without your support. Find out the ways that you can support and become a part of this story below.

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London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Girl from Arles

Fri 9 – Sat 10 Oct 2026

Unrequited love and melodrama collide to make L’Arlésienne a must watch season opener. Propelled by Bizet’s intensely passionate music, conducted by Mark Elder, with all the on stage action in a new translation by Jeremy Sams.
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A photo of the Royal Albert Hall from Hyde Park.

London, Royal Albert Hall

Nelson Mass at the BBC Proms

Sun 9 Aug 2026

A musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna. Peter Whelan directs Haydn's late masterpiece.
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London, Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall

A Viennese House Party

Thu 28 Jan 2027

Lights up on four friends who get together to play string quartets (wild boys!). History remembers two of them as the greatest composers who ever lived - but who are the other two?
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