Carlos Acosta is the world’s favourite dancer and On Before, which sees him dance a full-length show again, is a homage to his late mother and the most personal work he has ever created.

On Before embodies Carlos’ astonishing dance vision and features collaborations with major UK and international dance makers, Russell Maliphant, Kim Brandstrup, Will Tuckett, Raul Reinoso, Yury Yanowsky, Miguel Altunaga as well as Carlos’ own choreography.

In a framework created by Carlos, On Before tells the story of a doomed relationship between a man and a woman, set to a diverse musical repertoire ranging from Handel to Cuban contemporary composer Omar Puente and culminating in a moving finale featuring a live choir performing Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium.

Originally conceived in 2010, Carlos is revisiting this extraordinary show and returning to dance it again for a short regional tour as theatres across the UK re-open their doors again. For 2024 Carlos Acosta will dance alongside Laura Rodriguez, an original member of his own company, Acosta Danza, which he founded in Cuba in 2015.

Carlos Acosta is the world’s favourite dancer and On Before, which sees him dance a full-length show again, is a homage to his late mother and the most personal work he has ever created.

On Before embodies Carlos’ astonishing dance vision and features collaborations with major UK and international dance makers, Russell Maliphant, Kim Brandstrup, Will Tuckett, Raul Reinoso, Yury Yanowsky, Miguel Altunaga as well as Carlos’ own choreography.

In a framework created by Carlos, On Before tells the story of a doomed relationship between a man and a woman, set to a diverse musical repertoire ranging from Handel to Cuban contemporary composer Omar Puente and culminating in a moving finale featuring a live choir performing Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium.

Originally conceived in 2010, Carlos is revisiting this extraordinary show and returning to dance it again for a short regional tour as theatres across the UK re-open their doors again. For 2024 Carlos Acosta will dance alongside Laura Rodriguez, an original member of his own company, Acosta Danza, which he founded in Cuba in 2015.

EX CATHEDRA Choir

Jeffrey Skidmore conductor

Martha McLorinan mezzo soprano

James Robinson tenor

Simone Rebello bells

Powerful, passionate, hypnotic – in a time of turmoil and amid the shock of war, Rachmaninoff turned to the choral heritage he held dear, and created one of the most awe-inspiring vocal masterpieces.

Immerse yourself in its luminous choral tapestry, mesmeric melodies and some of the lowest notes you’ll ever hear sung. No wonder it is beloved by audiences and singers alike.

Once again this year, Mogens Dahl Kammerkor hosts the opening concert at the Copenhagen Light Festival on the occasion of Midwinter, February 2, also known as Candlemas after the Latin term for Candle Mass, Missa Candelarum.

Light is also the focal point for the evening’s premiere, “Light, oh light,” by the Swedish composer Per Gunnar Petersson, with lyrics by the Indian Nobel laureate and mystic Tagore.

Music by the Swedish composer Per Gunnar Petersson has frequently appeared on the Chamber Choir’s programs in recent years, leading to a closer collaboration. He has been appointed the choir’s new Composer in Residence, and this work for choir and organ is his first in this capacity.

From 2014 until his death in 2019, the also Swedish Sven-David Sandström served as the Composer in Residence for the Chamber Choir, composing several significant works for them. One of these, the choral suite “Hvor er så dejligt som din klode” (Where is as lovely as your globe), will also be performed during the concert.

The concert features another premiere: a new piece for clarinet, harmonica, and choir by the Danish harmonica player and composer Mathias Heise.

The concert begins with a small evocative piece of contemporary Swedish choral music by Gabriella Gullin, “Tyst är det rum” (Silent is the room).

These contemporary works are juxtaposed with two older choral pieces from the Renaissance by Claudio Monteverdi and Cristóbal de Morales, and additionally, music by Stravinsky: “Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet,” performed by Jonas Frølund.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Six centuries of spellbinding music for Advent and Christmas. Sit back, relax and feel the magical Christmas spirit! An afternoon of the most beautiful choral music performed by 16 singers of Recordare Chamber Choir, the world-class choral group from London.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Ex Cathedra will envelop you with a spellbinding sequence of seasonal favourites, little-known gems, and inspirational new music. Add a selection of readings that capture the mystery - and humour - of Christmas, and you won’t want to miss these popular, atmospheric concerts.

Brahms: Liebeslieder Walzer for choir and piano duet

Part songs by Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann

Conductor: Steven Grahl

Piano: Sam Mitchell and Gavin Roberts

When Brahms moved to Vienna, he poured out his hopes and dreams to the rhythm of a waltz. His bittersweet Lieberslieder Walzer are the singing, swinging heart of a concert that positively glows with romance, as the University of Oxford’s premier chamber choir Schola Cantorum explores the private, intensely poetic musical world of the two people who meant more to Brahms than anyone else: Robert and Clara Schumann.

Platinum Consort, described by BBC Radio 3 as a ‘vocal supergroup’, returns to St John’s Smith Square for their third annual performance of Handel’s most beloved masterpiece, Messiah. Conductor Scott Inglis-Kidger uniquely combines Platinum’s top class professional consort singers and choristers, recreating the sound-world of the first performances in Dublin and London. With soloists stepping out from the choir and Platinum’s newly formed period instrument orchestra, Platinum 415, this performance will prove to be the Messiah of the season.

Come with Instruments of Time and Truth and the Oxford Consort of Voices on a trip to 18th-century Bohemia (present-day Czechia) as we bring to light brilliant works by a trio of composers who deserve to be much better known: Franz Brenda, Johann Baptist Wanhal, and Jan Dismas Zelenka, whose Requiem in D Minor forms the centrepiece of this concert. Conducted by Edward Higginbottom.

The Mogens Dahl Kammerkor perform a programme of music dedicated to the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe.

Australian pianist Sam Mitchell is pioneering the frontier of contemporary piano. An artist committed to the thoughtful intersection of classical music and technology, this programme highlights humorous, though-provoking, and hypnotising combinations of music and screen.  Featuring the music Connor D’Netto, Piers Connor Kennedy, and Madeleine Cocolas culminating in John Adams’ Phrygian Gates, the programme is bound to captivate and challenge both the piano aficionado and those who have never been to a piano recital alike.

Powerful, passionate, hypnotic – in a time of turmoil and amid the shock of war, Rachmaninoff turned to the choral heritage he held dear, and created one of the most awe-inspiring vocal masterpieces.

Immerse yourself in its luminous choral tapestry, mesmeric melodies and some of the lowest notes you’ll ever hear sung. No wonder it is beloved by audiences and singers alike.

Jeffrey Skidmore writes:

"Our autumn season starts with Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, his most-loved work using orthodox chants from the Znamenny tradition, Greece and poignantly from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Recent discoveries from the original 1915 poster inform our performance."

Mogens Dahl Kammerkor, Mathias Reumert Group, and Jonas Frølund perform music by Purcell, Per Nørgård, Stravinsky, Takemitsu and Wilhelm Stemhammer.

One Equal Music performs a program of French masterpieces by Fauré, Poulenc, Messiaen and Vierne.

On Saturday 24th and Thursday 29th June, the Clerks of the world-renowned Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, are presenting two joyful concerts in the Cathedral to celebrate end of the choir’s year and the start of the summer.

With polyphonic favourites by Byrd and Gibbons, new works by Nico Muhly, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Joanna Marsh, Judith Weir, and Piers Connor Kennedy, arrangements of beloved folksongs, and more, there’s something for everyone.

Unwind and enjoy an evening of enchanting music from across the ages. As daylight slowly fades to dusk, and candles glow in the twilight, join us for a magical programme that welcomes the return of summer and celebrates birdsong, holidays, sea and sunshine.

Expect glorious choral classics, little-known gems, stunning new music and some fun, plus readings that capture the season, as we journey from the promise of a new dawn to the serenity of sunset.

Join us at Radley College for a day of inspiring music, all raising money for local charities Headway and Oxfordshire Mind. I will be performing Graham Fitkin’s wonderful Sciosophy for four people at two pianos, hosting a recital given by my students, and leading a rendition of Terry Riley’s seminal masterpiece, In C.

On Saturday 24th and Thursday 29th June, the Clerks of the world-renowned Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, are presenting two joyful concerts in the Cathedral to celebrate end of the choir’s year and the start of the summer.

With polyphonic favourites by Byrd and Gibbons, new works by Nico Muhly, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Joanna Marsh, Judith Weir, and Piers Connor Kennedy, arrangements of beloved folksongs, and more, there’s something for everyone.

Unwind and enjoy an evening of enchanting music from across the ages. As daylight slowly fades to dusk, and candles glow in the twilight, join us for a magical programme that welcomes the return of summer and celebrates birdsong, holidays, sea and sunshine.

Expect glorious choral classics, little-known gems, stunning new music and some fun, plus readings that capture the season, as we journey from the promise of a new dawn to the serenity of sunset.

Unwind and enjoy an evening of enchanting music from across the ages. As daylight slowly fades to dusk, and candles glow in the twilight, join us for a magical programme that welcomes the return of summer and celebrates birdsong, holidays, sea and sunshine.

Expect glorious choral classics, little-known gems, stunning new music and some fun, plus readings that capture the season, as we journey from the promise of a new dawn to the serenity of sunset.

In this programme The Delius Singers trace the development of music for Orthodox Christian rituals from the 10th Century to the present day. We start with the earliest sources of Znamenny chant, a style which developed from Byzantine chant in various centres across the Orthodox world, including Galicia, Kiev, Valaam, and Moscow. We show some of the earliest examples of singing different lines together in polyphony - a style which can sound remarkable to modern ears - and spend the central section of the programme demonstrating the extraordinary flowering of choral settings in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are some famous Russian composers amongst this group, including Glinka, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov, but also many gems by lesser known composers in other Orthodox traditions.

Performing Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the CBSO Chorus in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.