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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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  • Podcasts
  • Tea with Netty

Tea with Netty #35: Annette, Rachel and Steven Isserlis

Friday 9 December 2022

In this Christmas special, we have not one, not two but three of the Isserlis siblings who take a trip down memory lane and talk about their musical upbringings.
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  • OAE Musicians
  • Podcasts
  • Tea with Netty

Tea with Netty #36: OAE's Principal Timpanist Adrian Bending

Friday 13 January 2023

Kicking off the first Tea with Netty in 2023, OAE's Principal Timpanist Adrian Bending joins Netty for a chat in our bustling residency at Acland Burghley School.
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  • Bach the Universe and Everything
  • Interview

A Fascination with the Stars: Q&A with Stuart Clark

Friday 30 September 2022

The writer and guest speaker at our first Bach, the Universe and Everything event of 2022/23 talks Star Wars, the connectons between astronony and music, and his love of music from Bach to Xanadu.
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  • Composers

Storm and Stress

Thursday 29 September 2022

We take a look beneath the tumultuous surface of Haydn's Symphony No. 44 and the so-called 'Nelson' Mass.
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  • OAE Musicians

Introducing our new principal clarinet... Katherine Spencer

Thursday 28 July 2022

We are delighted to announce that Katherine Spencer has been appointed as our new principal clarinet.
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  • Composers
  • Playlists

The C90: Sound the Trumpets!

Friday 16 September 2022

10 September marked Henry Purcell’s birthday (roughly). So we've decided to celebrate this greatest of English composers with a playlist.
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  • Composers
  • OAE Musicians

From ancient ballads: putting Coleridge and Purcell together

Tuesday 27 September 2022

Katharina Spreckelsen explains why we've put together a composer and a poet who live over a hundred years apart.
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  • Acland Burghley
  • Supporters

Dreamchasing Foundation to support Young Producers programme

Tuesday 7 February 2023

Find out how we're powering up our mentoring programme with support from F1 legend Ron Dennis’ charity.
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  • Composers

Angels and monsters: a life singing Handel

Monday 30 January 2023

Ian Bostridge introduces the very personal selection of arias for our Handel Around the World concert.
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  • Composers

Journey's End

Friday 3 March 2023

We explore how travel may have inspired a composer more usually renowned for staying at home.

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