Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Our Cake Concerts are dementia-friendly – but open to all – and being held in the daytime makes them accessible for people who might find it harder to attend an evening concert. Not only does the BSO’s Teatime Trio play well-known classics, but the music is served alongside tea and cake.

Music is known to connect us with each other as well as with past experiences. It’...

5,275 Key Stage 2 Pupils joined us at Lighthouse, Poole – and a further 9,749 joined across the country online – to learn more about symphonic music and the human voice. The concerts delve into how vocalists and orchestras work together to tell stories in opera, theatre and the contemporary world.

Presented by an award-winning composer...

Roddy has performed several times during the past year and kicked off the season with Zemlinsky’s epic Lyric Symphony in October, before returning for a moving recital of English songs inspired by Schubert’s Winterreise in April.

And he managed to cram quite a lot into his final week as Artist-in-Residence this month…

On Tuesday 12 May, he vis...

Each week, we lead a range of events to promote health and wellbeing in our local communities. Here’s a snapshot of what’s taking place over the coming days…

Led by our brilliant and unique team of BSO Associate and Young Associate musicians, who...

We’re igniting a two-year celebration of Beethoven – led by our Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth – ahead of the 200-year anniversary of the genius composer’s death in 2027. Beethoven changed music more than any other composer and in doing so profoundly ...