Concerts & Events

Adam Hickox leaning on a wall and looking up at the camera
Concert

Bedford: Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Brahms

Adam Hickox – conductor
Alim Beisembayev – piano

  • Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
  • Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
  • Brahms Symphony No. 1
Bedford Corn Exchange

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

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Virtual Reality experience

Play along: Virtual Orchestra

Clore Ballroom, RFH, Level 2

More info No ticket required
Woman in long red dress with a red flower in her hair, posing as if dancing and holding a cocktail glass in her hand. The worlds 'La Traviata' are designed onto the image.
Opera

Garsington Opera: La traviata

Douglas Boyd – conductor
Tess Jackson – conductor (24 June & 9 July)
Louisa Muller – director
Garsington Opera Chorus

Violetta Valéry – Madison Leonard
Alfredo Germont – Oleksiy Palchykov
Giorgio Germont – Roland Wood
Gastone de Letorières – Sam Harris
Barond Douphol – Chuma Sijeqa
Doctor Grenvil – Henry Waddington, Thomas D. Hopkinson (24 June, 9, 11, 20 July)
Annina – Mathilda Bryngelsson
Flora Bervoix – Alexandria Moon
Marchese d’Obigny – Sam Young
Giuseppe – Matthew Sotillo-Cooke
Messenger – Peter Lidbetter
Flora’s servant – Sisa Mjekula

  • Verdi La traviata
Garsington Opera

The back of a woman in ballgown attire and hat, with the words 'Der Rosenkavalier' designed onto the image
Opera

Garsington Opera: Der Rosenkavalier

Finnegan Downie Dear – conductor
Bruno Ravella – director
Garsington Opera Chorus
Garsington Opera Children’s Chorus

The Marschallin – Matilda Sterby
Baron Ochs – Andreas Bauer Kanabas (Martin Winkler 25, 27 & 29 June)
Octavian – Niamh O’Sullivan
Sophie von Faninal – Soraya Mafi
Herr von Faninal – Ben McAteer
Marianne Leitmetzerin – Gweneth Ann Rand
Valzacchi – Robert Murray
Annina – Siân Griffiths
An Italian tenor – Egor Zhuravskii
A commissar of police – Simon Wilding
The Marschallin’s major-domo – SangEup Son
Three noble daughters – Ana-Carmen Balestra, Llinos Haf Jones, Clover Kayne
A milliner – Ceferina Penny
An animal seller – Rhys Meilyr
Faninal’s major-domo – Alfred Mitchell
An innkeeper – Tomos Owen Jones
Boots – Seán Purtnell
Leopold – Samuel Collins-Webb
Cupid – Kamari-J’siah Robinson
Lackeys – Stephen Walker, Joe Matt Murphy, Benedict Munden, Ambrose Connolly
Waiters – Matthew Sotillo-Cooke, Rhys Meilyr, Sam Youg, Joshua McCullough

  • Strauss Der Rosenkavalier
Garsington Opera

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Family concert

Family Concert: Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

Tama Matheson – narrator
Philharmonia cello octet

  • Birchall Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
St Paul's Church, Bedford

Benjamin Grosvenor standing behind a piano, looking up and to the side and smiling
Friends event

Open Rehearsal in Leicester: Santtu and Benjamin Grosvenor in a Strauss extravaganza

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor – piano

  • Strauss Don Juan
  • Strauss Rondo Burleske
  • Strauss Symphonia Domestica
  • Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (first sequence)
De Montfort Hall

Benjamin Grosvenor standing behind a piano, looking up and to the side and smiling
Concert

Leicester: Santtu and Benjamin Grosvenor in a Strauss extravaganza

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor – piano

  • Strauss Don Juan
  • Strauss Rondo Burleske
  • Strauss Symphonia Domestica
  • Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (first sequence)
De Montfort Hall

Benjamin Grosvenor sat at the piano, facing the camera
Concert

Basingstoke: Santtu and Benjamin Grosvenor in a Strauss extravaganza

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor  
Benjamin Grosvenor – piano  

  • Strauss Don Juan
  • Strauss Rondo Burleske
  • Strauss Symphonia Domestica
  • Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (first sequence)

Benjamin Grosvenor standing by a piano
Concert

Santtu conducts a Strauss extravaganza

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor – piano

  • Strauss Don Juan
  • Strauss Burleske
  • Strauss Symphonia Domestica
  • Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (first sequence)
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Pavilion of Garsington Opera as audience members are leaving.
Friends event

Philharmonia Patrons trip to La traviata at Garsington Opera

Tess Jackson – conductor
Louisa Muller – director
Madison Leonard – Violetta Valéry
Oleksiy Palchykov – Aldfredo Germont
Roland Wood – Giorgio Germont
Sam Harris – Gastone
Chuma Sijeqa – Baron Douphol
Thomas D Hopkinson – Doctor Grenvil

  • Verdi La traviata

A main crouching with his feet in an open brown bag. He iswearing a white shirt, brown trousers, brown waistcoat, black bow tie and brown hat. He is holding a cup and saucer, and the words 'The Importance of Being Earnest' are designed onto the image
Opera

Garsington Opera: The Importance of Being Earnest

Douglas Boyd – conductor
Jack Furness – director

John Worthing – Zahid Siddiqui
Algernon Moncrieff – Seán Boylan
Cecily Cardew – Jennifer France
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax – Holly Brown
Miss Prism – Susan Bickley
Lady Bracknell – Henry Waddington
Lane/Merriman – Peter Lidbetter

  • Barry The Importance of Being Earnest
Garsington Opera

View of the whole church from the back of the choir and orchestra.
Friends event

Philharmonia supporters trip: the opening weekend of The Three Choirs Festival 2026

Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Adrian Partington
VOCES8
Roderick Williams OBE
Ex Cathedra
Jeffrey Skidmore

Three Choirs Festival

Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Belshazzar's Feast

Adrian Partington – conductor
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Higgins Fanfare Americana (UK premiere)
  • Elgar Symphony No. 1
  • Walton Belshazzar's Feast
Gloucester Cathedral

Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Glagolitic Mass

Adrian Partington – conductor
Katelyn Emerson – organ
Rachel Nicholls – soprano
Hilary Summers – contralto
Gwyn Hughes Jones – tenor
Ashley Riches – bass
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Elgar Overture, Cockaigne
  • Poulenc Organ Concerto
  • Janáček Glagolitic Mass
Gloucester Cathedral

Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Songs of the Sea

Martyn Brabbins – conductor
Roderick Williams – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir

  • Mendelssohn Overture, The Hebrides
  • Wood Never weather-beaten sail
  • Elgar Sea Pictures
  • Sumsion They that go down to the sea in ships
  • McDowall Ave Maris Stella
  • Stanford Songs of the Fleet
Gloucester Cathedral