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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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  • 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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  • Composers
  • History and Theory of Music

Assembling the Mass in B Minor

Thursday 16 March 2023

In her second blog, Joanna Wyld puts together the pieces of the jigsaw that were to become the magnificent Mass in B Minor we know today.
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  • Composers
  • History and Theory of Music

Bach's Mass in B Minor in New Colours

Friday 17 March 2023

In a blog taken from the notes to accompany his 2013 recording of the Mass in B Minor, Václav Luks writes about how he sought to strip away decades and centuries of performance traditions to rediscover the work for himself.
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  • Artists
  • Rising Stars

Introducing our next Rising Stars of the Enlightenment

Friday 31 March 2023

We're thrilled to welcome our new cohort of six singers joining our Rising Stars of the Enlightenment scheme.
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  • Composers

Beginnings and endings.

Tuesday 25 April 2023

How we chose the music for our 2023/24 season. More importantly, how do we decide what order to put it in?
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  • Acland Burghley
  • Education

17,967 reasons to be cheerful

Wednesday 25 October 2023

We’ve just released our 2022/23 ‘Annual Review’ of our Education work. Discover the impact we’ve been having from Durham to Plymouth.
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  • Acland Burghley
  • Education

The Fairy Queen: Three Wishes, County Durham Residency

Friday 7 March 2025

‘I will remember this forever’ – Year 3 pupil
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  • Acland Burghley
  • Education

When it's good to be loud!

Tuesday 26 November 2024

We’ve just released our 2023/24 ‘Annual Review’ of our Education work. Discover the impact we’ve been having from Durham to Plymouth.
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  • Composers

THE LIGHT OF SPAIN

Thursday 5 October 2023

Find out more about Cristobal de Morales, whose motets we will be exploring in our 2023/24 season of Bach, the Universe and Everything.

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