CLASSICAL CONCERTS & OPERA IN LIVERPOOL
CLASSICAL CONCERTS & OPERA IN LIVERPOOL
Most Popular Classical Concerts & Opera in Liverpool
Stevens & Pound - The Silent Planet
Thursday 4 July 2024
Award-winning BBC Radio 3 Presenter, Manchester-based percussionist Delia Stevens and three-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year nominee, Will Pound, one of the finest harmonica and melodeon players of his generation, present an un...
For You Blue: Celebrating The Beatles Greatest Hits 1967-1970
Friday 5 July 2024
Following on from two hugely successful collaborations (And in The End and It was 50 years ago today), The Bootleg Beatles and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra are coming together again. Their latest venture is a 50th anniversar...
Youth Company Festival: Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Brass Band
Saturday 6 - Saturday 20 July 2024
Now entering their third year as a band, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Brass Band continue to excite and inspire the next generation of the North West's young brass players. Under the baton of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's section...
Youth Company Festival: Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir
Sunday 14 July 2024
Continue Youth Company's choral celebration with Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir's final performance of the year. The flagship choir of Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company, hear Liverpool's finest young voices join together in song, led...
The Ayoub Sisters
Saturday 20 July 2024
Spotted by Mark Ronson to record a cover of 'Uptown Funk' at Abbey Road, the talented Scottish-Egyptian multi-instrumentalist sisters, Sarah and Laura Ayoub, perform their own arrangements of classical and pop tracks alongside newly compose...
Mary Lattimore
Tuesday 3 September 2024
Mary Lattimore is an American classically trained harpist based in Los Angeles, California. In addition to her experimental solo work and collaborations with fellow Philadelphia musician Jeff Zeigler, she has performed with prominent indie ...
Leeds International Piano Competition Recital I
Monday 23 September 2024
A showcase piano recital from the third prize winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition. Details to be announced after the Competition final in September 2024. ...
Leeds International Piano Competition Recital II
Tuesday 24 September 2024
A showcase piano recital from the second prize winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition. Details to be announced after the Competition final in September 2024. ...
Serenades
Thursday 26 - Sunday 29 September 2024
A tortured genius, Brahms was known for his serious and sombre style, but here we see a different side to the composer, as we're treated to the whimsical and sun-drenched Serenade No.2. And, rumour has it we can thank Brahms for another ...
Under-5s Concert: Seeing Sounds
Wednesday 2 October 2024
Bring your musical paint to create a masterpiece alongside presenter/producer Claire Henry and musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Watch as an artwork inspired by the music is brought to life before your eyes, explori...
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Live in Concert
Friday 11 October 2024
Continuing on from last year's 50th anniversary celebrations of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the multi-million-selling and multi-award-winning progressive rock album will be performed live in concert across the UK in 2024. Tubular Be...
London Concertante - A Night at the Opera
Saturday 12 October 2024
London Concertante present a sensational evening at the opera with an array of the finest opera arias and overtures, including works from Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, and Mozart - some of the best from Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, The Bar...
Liverpool Wind Collective
Monday 14 October 2024
There's nothing to match the colours of a woodwind ensemble - put four terrific wind players together and it's like opening a musical paintbox! Four of the Orchestra's own woodwind superstars travel from swinging London to the jungles of Br...
Season Opening Concert
Thursday 17 - Sunday 20 October 2024
Let's begin at the beginning - with the sound of silence. That's how the young Gustav Mahler launched his First Symphony, and there's no more thrilling way to open the new season: this is music of breathless beauty and youthful passion, gri...
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Live In Concert
Friday 18 October 2024
Continuing on from last year's 50th anniversary celebrations of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the multi-million-selling and multi-award-winning progressive rock album will be performed live in concert across the UK in 2024. Tubular Be...
The Rock Orchestra by Candlelight
Saturday 19 October 2024
Featuring the classical reimaginings of a 13-piece Chamber Orchestra, guests will be able to re-live and experience some of the most well-known and well-loved Rock & Metal songs from the last 40 years, including the likes of Metallica, Led ...
Marcel Becker double bass and David Dear piano
Monday 21 October 2024
The double bass might be the largest of string instruments, but it has the soul of a great singer. In the hands of the Orchestra's principal bass Marcel Becker it'll stretch its wings in music by Handel, Bruch - the passionate Kol Nidr...
The Phil Shotton Big Band
Monday 21 October 2024
Saxophonist, woodwind player and bandleader, Phil Shotton returns with his Big Bandto pay tribute to the music of the Swing Era clarinetist, Benny Goodman. Phil takes to the stage as clarinet soloist with a full set of brand new bespoke ar...
London Concertante - Bond by Candlelight
Saturday 26 October 2024
Get ready for a showdown and indulge in the ultimate luxury for any James Bond fan as live orchestra London Concertante announces their thrilling new classical music concert 'Bond by Candlelight: Music from James Bond Movies.' Join the...
The Planets
Saturday 26 October 2024
So you think you know British music? Everyone loves Jupiter from Holst's The Planets, but tonight you'll hear so much more as Principal Guest Conductor Andrew Manze takes the Orchestra on a voyage to infinity and beyond. We'll join William ...
Chilingirian Quartet
Sunday 27 October 2024
Four wonderful musicians; one extraordinary sound: there's a reason why the Chilingirian String Quartet is a legend and this great British string quartet has been astonishing audiences for over fifty years. Today they play three solid gold ...
Il Divo
Monday 28 October 2024
Prepare to be swept away by the powerful voices of Il Divo as the globally renowned classical crossover vocal group embark on a brand-new UK tour. Since 2004, Urs Buhler (tenor) of Switzerland, Sebastien Izambard (tenor) of France, David Mi...
Sunday Afternoon Mozart
Sunday 3 November 2024
Sibelius got caught in fog on the boat to England, and those mists of sound swirl around the melodies of his bracing Third Symphony. Mozart wrote his Ninth Piano Concerto to showcase his own youthful talents: he can't be here, sadly, but An...
Rachmaninov's Symphony No.2
Thursday 7 November 2024
Imagine the ultimate Romantic symphony: brooding passions, crashing storms and huge, blissful melodies that seem to unfurl without end. You're thinking of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, the glorious climax of a concert that begins with Anna...
Sir Bryn in Belshazzar's Feast
Saturday 9 November 2024
October 1931: William Walton takes a huge choir and a giant orchestra, adds a couple of brass bands, and blasts British music sky-high. Belshazzar's Feast is big, brassy, and utterly outrageous - now add the one and only Sir Bryn Terfel, an...
The Music of Hans Zimmer vs John Williams
Sunday 10 November 2024
An epic concert celebrating the very best epic scores from two of the greatest film composers of all time. Includes music from: GladiatorSupermanMan of SteelHarry PotterInceptionJurassic ParkThe Dark Knight RisesPirates of the CaribbeanHook...
An American in Paris
Thursday 14 November 2024
Danny Elfman is a legend of movie music, the man whose scores for Batman and Edward Scissorhands fused rock 'n' roll with orchestral technicolour to dazzling effect. His Percussion Concerto is a gripping way to get to know Colin Currie - as...
Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestras
Sunday 17 November 2024
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra oboist and former member of the Merseyside Youth Orchestra, Ruth Davies, takes to the stage as soloist for Cimarosa's Oboe Concerto alongside the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. In the first h...
Ensemble 10:10
Wednesday 20 November 2024 - Saturday 26 April 2025
Samy Moussa has burst onto the music scene winning plaudits for his compositions and his conducting alike. For his Ensemble 10:10 debut, he brings compelling composers rarely heard on these shores - Jacques Hetu (from Canada) and David Diam...
Aled Jones
Wednesday 20 November 2024
Prepare to hear the original, classical crossover star as you've never heard him before. He was the boy treble who captivated the world with his angelic voice, selling over seven million albums. His recording of Walking in the Air, from ...
Danny Elfman's Music from the Films of Tim Burton
Saturday 23 November 2024
A magical celebration of one of cinema's most inventive duos. Tim Burton's films conjure up captivating worlds, and the incredible musical imagination of Danny Elfman brings those stories to life. Outrageously tuneful, deliciously dark or j...
The Holiday In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
Saturday 30 November 2024
The beloved Christmas film The Holiday will be presented live in concert this winter, featuring its magical musical score performed live to the film by a full concert orchestra. A Universal Pictures production, The Holiday stars Cameron...
Mozart's Oboe Concerto
Sunday 1 December 2024
December's drawing in on Merseyside, but here at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall it's summer all over again! Mendelssohn's heart turned somersaults when he arrived in the sunshine of Italy, but today his Italian symphony is just the starting po...
Love Actually In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
Monday 2 December 2024
Directed by Richard Curtis and originally released in cinemas in 2003, Love Actually tells ten separate yet interweaving stories of love around Christmas time. The film features an all-star ensemble cast, including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson...
Love Actually In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
Monday 2 December 2024
Directed by Richard Curtis and originally released in cinemas in 2003, Love Actually tells ten separate yet interweaving stories of love around Christmas time. The film features an all-star ensemble cast, including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson...
Equilibrium Advent
Monday 2 December 2024
There's no limit to the stories that can be told by a string quartet. The Equilibrium Quartet, four members of the Orchestra who aim to re-balance inequality in music, present a chamber concert with a fascinating difference. They'll per...
Astles & The Balloon Moon Orchestra
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Liverpool-based singer-songwriters Astles and Abby Meysenburg host the fifth edition of their annual Christmas show in the Music Room. Joined by an array of friends, musicians and creatives, Astles will also re-assemble the full Balloon Moo...
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1
Thursday 5 December 2024
With some concerts it's hard to say which bit we're looking forward to the most! There's never a dull moment when pianist Simon Trpceski is in town: we love him, you love him, and we can't wait to hear him bring all his charisma and flair t...
London Concertante - Viennese Christmas Spectacular
Friday 6 December 2024
Tchaikovsky's elegant Nutcracker Suite leads on from Brahms' serious Hungarian Dance No.5, before Strauss II introduces us to the boundless exuberance of the Polish March in his Trisch-Trasch Polka. In the concert's penultimate work Tchaiko...
Russell Watson
Saturday 14 December 2024
As a child Russell Watson could always carry a tune, but he never dreamed he'd become an opera singer. Today, he's counted among the world's finest classical voices. Born and raised in Salford, Watson worked an array of jobs and started sin...
The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Sunday 12 January 2025
The sensational Glenn Miller Orchestra swings you back in time playing Glenn Miller's own arrangements of favourite wartime chart toppers and hits from the forties directed by legendary band leader Ray McVay. Featuring: Pennsylvania 6-5000,...
Grosvenor String Quartet
Monday 27 January 2025
Music is better than words, and Shostakovich's string quartets are like the secret diary of a genius. The Grosvenor Quartet steps into his imagination today - and explores the passionate world of Osvaldo Golijov. ...
Billy Lockett
Friday 7 February 2025
Northampton piano man has been playlisted on Radio 1, supported Lewis Capaldi, Electric Light Orchestra, Birdy, Lana del Rey and KT Tunstall, and performed on Made In Chelsea, James Corden's Late Late Show. He has written, recorded, perform...
Billy Lockett
Friday 7 February 2025
Northampton piano man has been playlisted on Radio 1, supported Lewis Capaldi, Electric Light Orchestra, Birdy, Lana del Rey and KT Tunstall, and performed on Made In Chelsea, James Corden's Late Late Show. He has written, recorded, perform...
Avatar - The Last Airbender in Concert
Monday 10 February 2025
Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert presents a live orchestral rendition of the series' iconic soundtrack, paired with a two-hour special recap of the animated series' three seasons displayed on a full-size cinema screen. The projection ...
