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7.30pmFriday 05 June

Birmingham Pride 2009 - A Celebration of Music

CBSO Centre, Birmingham. +44 (0)121 767 4050

Handel, Vivaldi, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Tallis

We offer a selection of beautiful, Classical music in celebration of Birmingham's LGBT Pride 2009. Here are some of the world's most famous pieces from the choral, operatic and instrumental...

7.00pmSaturday 06 June

SHOSTAKOVICH'S FIFTH

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Storgårds, Hannigan

Mahler, Britten, Shostakovich

Three composers on a learning curve. Shostakovich's epic Symphony is a powerful music portrait of a great artist learning the hard way about tyranny. Composed at the height of Stalin's...

1.10pmWednesday 10 June

CENTRE STAGE

CBSO Centre, Birmingham. +44 (0)121 767 4050

CBSO Cellos

Cellos Across the Ocean!

Back by popular demand, another chance to relax with the uniquely sensuous sound of 8 cellos in close harmony. This time, they tackle a programme with a transatlantic theme...

8.00pmFriday 12 June

Birmingham Jazz

CBSO Centre, Birmingham. +44 (0)121 767 4050

Outhouse Quartet with Hilmar Jensson

OUTHOUSE QUARTET WITH HILMAR JENSSON Outhouse Quartet is one of the most enterprising young British groups and a key member of London's Loop Collective. They have shown great initiative in...

7.30pmSaturday 13 June

80th ANNIVERSARY OF MALVERN FESTIVALS

Forum Theatre, Malvern. 01684 892277

Seal, Johnston

Mendelssohn, Elgar, Beethoven

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3.00pmSunday 14 June

CENTRE STAGE

CBSO Centre, Birmingham. +44 (0)121 767 4050

The Berkley Street Dance Orchestra

The Great American Songbook

THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK Vintage danceband favourites from the 30s and 40s. From Duke Ellington and Harold Arlen to Cole Porter, Gershwin, and Irving Berlin, enjoy some of the greatest...

6.00pmSunday 14 June

CBYV 10th ANNIVERSARY ROCK & POP CONCERT

Birmingham Town Hall.

CBYV, Lawrence, Watkiss

Rock & Pop Concert

As one of the centrepieces of its 10th anniversary celebrations, City of Birmingham Young Voices, the CBSO's community youth choir, brings its annual Rock & Pop Concert to Town Hall....

2.15pmWednesday 17 June

TCHAIKOVSKY'S LITTLE RUSSIAN

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Nelsons, Dutch, Spence

Tchaikovsky, Britten

After Hamlet in November, Andris Nelsons offers us another of Tchaikovsky's responses to Shakespeare, a passionate fantasy overture based on the kind of story of doomed love to which the...

7.30pmThursday 18 June

TCHAIKOVSKY'S LITTLE RUSSIAN

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Nelsons, Dutch, Spence

Tchaikovsky, Britten

After Hamlet in November, Andris Nelsons offers us another of Tchaikovsky's responses to Shakespeare, a passionate fantasy overture based on the kind of story of doomed love to which the...

11.30amFriday 19 June

SCHOOLS CONCERT: ROMEO AND JULIET

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Nelsons, Pearson

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's tragic love-story inspired many composers as well as young imaginations! Today's concert specially devised for Key Stage 2 children (Years 3 & 4) features Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture 'Romeo and...

1.30pmFriday 19 June

SCHOOLS CONCERT: ROMEO AND JULIET

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Nelsons, Pearson

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's tragic love-story inspired many composers as well as young imaginations! Today's concert specially devised for Key Stage 2 children (Years 3 & 4) features Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture 'Romeo and...

7.30pmSaturday 20 June

CBSO & KATHERINE JENKINS

National Indoor Arena. 0121 767 4560

Inglis, Jenkins

Shostakovich, Morricone, Rossini, Mozart, Rota, Borodin, Puccini

This single performance brings Katherine Jenkins together with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and is part of the celebrations surrounding the 100th Rotary International Convention taking place in the...

11.00amSunday 21 June

NOTELETS: MUSIC FOR THE SCREEN

CBSO Centre, Birmingham. +44 (0)121 767 4050

CBSO Players

Music for the Screen - a mini concert for 3-5 year olds and their families

All your favourite tunes from children's television and film. Free Craft Workshops 1 hour before each show ...

2.00pmSunday 21 June

NOTELETS: MUSIC FOR THE SCREEN

CBSO Centre, Birmingham. +44 (0)121 767 4050

CBSO Players

Music for the Screen

All your favourite tunes from children's television and film. Free Craft Workshops 1 hour before each show. ...

7.30pmWednesday 24 June

A HERO'S LIFE

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Nelsons, Booth, Summers, Lyon, Broadbent, CBSC

Haydn, Strauss

To close his first season, Andris Nelsons returns to his love of Richard Strauss, with the epic, semi-autobiographical tone poem in which the composer charts his marriage, his battles with...

7.00pmSaturday 27 June

A HERO'S LIFE

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Nelsons, Booth, Summers, Lyon, Broadbent, CBSC

Haydn, Strauss

To close his first season, Andris Nelsons returns to his love of Richard Strauss, with the epic, semi-autobiographical tone poem in which the composer charts his marriage, his battles with...

7.30pmTuesday 30 June

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Symphony Hall, Birmingham. +44 (0)121-780 3333

Søndergård, Zupancic

Sibelius, Nielsen, Dvořák

The brilliant young Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård, making his second visit to the CBSO, brings with him the charming Flute Concerto by his compatriot Carl Nielsen, for which he will...