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17Jan

King Edwards Schools

Dates
Friday 17 January 2025 (13:10-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Join King Edward's and King Edward VI High School for Girls for their annual Barber Lunchtime Concert.
24Jan

Will Duerden - double bass | Svitlana Kosenko - piano

Dates
Friday 24 January 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Double bassist Will Duerden is joined by pianist Svitlana Kosenko to present a mesmerising programme.
31Jan

Jason Lewis - trumpet | James Keefe - piano

Dates
Friday 31 January 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
CBSO principal trumpet player Jason Lewis makes his Barber Concerts debut with duo partner James Keefe.
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7Feb

Songs of Love and Dances of Death - Lecture Recital

Dates
Friday 7 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Kenneth Hamilton returns to the Elgar Concert Hall to offer another instalment of his perennially popular lecture-recitals.
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12Feb

James Ehnes Piano Quartet

Dates
Wednesday 12 February 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
A Barber Evening Concert featuring world-class chamber music from Canadian violinist James Ehnes, alongside Inon Barnatan (piano), Raphael Bell (cello), and Jonathan Vinocour (viola).
14Feb

The Queen's Six - Mapping the Stars

Dates
Friday 14 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The Queen's Six will be performing their new programme, Mapping the Stars.
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15Feb

BEASTdome: IKO concert with Gerriet Sharma

Dates
Saturday 15 February 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
Gerriet Sharma will present a workshop and concert on the ground breaking IKO icosahedral loudspeaker.
21Feb

Frederick Long - bass-baritone | Sholto Kynoch - piano

Dates
Friday 21 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Bass-baritone Frederick Long leads the battle of a man against the elements, with poetry and music exploring his relationship with the natural world, and with his own nature itself.
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22Feb

New Music Ensemble

Dates
Saturday 22 February 2025 (19:30-21:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University New Music Ensemble welcomes Suzie Purkis as reciter for this performance of William Walton's Façade.
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23Feb

Baroque-Classical Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 23 February 2025 (15:00-16:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Baroque music fans are in for a treat as we present the rarely performed 'Concerto for Four Harpsichords' by J.S. Bach.
26Feb

My Iris

Dates
Wednesday 26 February 2025 (17:00-19:00)
Location
The Foyer, Bramall Music Building
Description
Dedicated to exploration and adroit writing, saxophonist Trish Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression and group interplay.
28Feb

The Well Gardened Mind

Dates
Friday 28 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This delightful collection of piano music intertwines with spoken texts from Dr Sue Stuart-Smith's book, 'The Well Gardened Mind'.
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1Mar

Trueform Projects Archives Live

Dates
Saturday 1 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
A night of immersion and discovery that brings the story of the East in West Archive to life.
7Mar

Lecture Recital - Earth and Air and Rain

Dates
Friday 7 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Award-winning pianist Ceri Owen presents a lecture-recital with baritone Dominic Sedgwick.
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8Mar

University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir

Dates
Saturday 8 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)
Location
Lichfield Cathedral
Description
Join the University Liturgical Choir and Dr Paul Rodmell as they perform Evensong in the splendour of Lichfield Cathedral.
14Mar

Chaos String Quartet

Dates
Friday 14 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The Chaos String Quartet join us for their Barber Concerts debut as BBC New Generation Artists.
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15Mar

BBC Singers feat. Birmingham University Singers

Dates
Saturday 15 March 2025 (18:30-20:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
We welcome the BBC Singers for an eclectic Barber Evening Concert of choral music, with guest appearance from Birmingham University Singers.
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16Mar

Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir

Dates
Sunday 16 March 2025 (15:00-16:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Music Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir bring together musicians from across campus for an afternoon of light entertainment.
21Mar

Adam Heron - piano

Dates
Friday 21 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
A Barber Lunchtime Concert with the BBC Young Musician 2018 piano finalist, Adam Heron.
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21Mar

University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs

Dates
Friday 21 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs come together for this uplifting concert in the Elgar Concert Hall.
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22Mar

Wind Band and Saxophone Choir

Dates
Saturday 22 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir present an eclectic concert.
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23Mar

Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 23 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra treat us to some fabulous music.
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26Mar

Britten Sinfonia

Dates
Wednesday 26 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
We welcome Britten Sinfonia to the Elgar Concert Hall for the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's 'A Kind of Haunting' for baritone, two narrators, and string orchestra, along with other orchestral works.
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27Mar

University Vocal Consort

Dates
Thursday 27 March 2025 (18:30-19:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
Talented final-year choral conducting student, Jessica Duckworth takes to the podium with the University Vocal Consort to present a short recital.
28Mar

Heartstrings

Dates
Friday 28 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This programme takes the golden age of lutesong as its basis with works of Dowland, Campion, Strozzi and Monteverdi.
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28Mar

The Music of Binney and Holland - University Jazz Orchestra

Dates
Friday 28 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Jazz Orchestra and their director Jonathan Silk turn to two artists from either side of the Atlantic for this performance in the Elgar Concert Hall.
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29Mar

Circlesong - University Chorus and Upper Voices

Dates
Saturday 29 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Chorus and Upper Voices choir join forces to perform Bob Chilcott's musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America.
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30Mar

The Planets - Philharmonic Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 30 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Philharmonic Orchestra present Gustav Holst's iconic The Planets alongside Haydn's London Symphony.
4Apr

Njioma Chinyere Grevious - violin | Joseph Havlat - piano

Dates
Friday 4 April 2025 (13:00-13:50)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
Violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious and her duo partner Joseph Havlat perform music from the collaboratively written 'FAE Sonata'.
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4Apr

University Camerata

Dates
Friday 4 April 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This recital from University Camerata features talented choral singers from across the University under the direction of two members of the 2024/25 MA Choral Conducting cohort.
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7May

Brautigam/Hoppe/Poltéra Trio

Dates
Wednesday 7 May 2025 (19:30-21:30)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music Building
Description
This internationally acclaimed, all-star trio give the final Barber Evening concert of the 24/25 season.
21Jun

125 Anniversary Concert

Dates
Saturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)
Location
Green Heart
Description
Join us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe.
21Jun

125 Anniversary Concert

Dates
Saturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)
Location
Green Heart
Description
Join us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe.