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Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe in rehearsal with Esa-Pekka Salonen! 🩰🎶 To celebrate Maurice Ravel's 151st birthday today, we're sharing a rehearsal extract from one of our favourite moments in 'Daphnis and Chloe', performed last week with Conductor Laureate @esapekkasalonen at the Royal Festival Hall in London. #Ravel #Philharmonia #DaphnisAndChloe #Ballet #Orchestra

Esa-Pekka returns for Daphnis and Chloé - plus a UK premiere from Víkingur Ólafsson! ✨ Last night at the Royal Festival Hall, we were thrilled to welcome back our Conductor Laureate @esapekkasalonen for Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé with the Philharmonia Chorus, alongside @VikingurMusic as our Featured Artist in the UK premiere of 'After the Fall' by John Adams. Here are a few of our favourite moments from the night 📸 Let us know if you were there in the comments below! 👇 📸: Marc Gascoigne #Philharmonia80

On Thursday 12 March 2026, we'll be at @southbankcentre's Queen Elizabeth Hall for the #RPSAwards, a celebration of UK classical music-making - with special guests, inspirational stories, live music, and tickets from £10 (plus venue fees) available via: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/rps_mus…

Last Saturday (1/11): premiere of Scenes from Imoinda by @OdalineMartinez, plus works by Price, Britten, Coleridge-Taylor and Smyth. Next Saturday (15/11): second performance of Scenes from Imoinda plus pieces by @DameEthelSmyth and others. Further info: tickettailor.com/events/univers…

FELA SOWANDE (1905–1987, a prominent Nigerian musician, composer, organist, and educator, widely regarded as the “father of modern Nigerian art music”, his works effectively blending Western classical techniques with traditional African, particularly Yoruba, melodies and rhythms.

The RPS Ambache Fund offers grants of up to £5,000 for UK music-makers looking to centre historic women composers in their programming, and connect audiences to their extraordinary music worth hearing. Find out more and apply by 31 March: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/news…

Brass quintets aged 18-30 can apply to take part in the Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition @pjibec, 13-18 July 2026 at @BirmCons. With prizes of up to £6,000, find out more and apply by 1 March 2026 here: pjbe.org

Trying out one of the QEH (@southbankcentre) pianos with the piece that demands the most from it - Ravel’s Scarbo, a fiendish creature flitting through darkness and moonlight, its shadow growing, taunting, vanishing. A nightmare brought to life at the keys.

🎉🎶 Release day 🎶🎉 John Ireland’s Piano Works out now on Resonus Classics! 🎧 Listen here orcd.co/qy6jx75 Thank you @resonusclassics for taking this on, @JIrelandtrust for your continued support! 🙏

CCG has been in the studio this week for three days of sessions for our next @SteveReich record on #ColinCurrieRecords Due to be released in the spring, the album complies the composer’s works for sextet forces, including the mighty ‘Double Sextet’ seen in soundcheck below ⬇️

Dancing into the Bank Holiday weekend on Gambian rhythms. ✨🎶Tunde Jegede & the African Classical Music Ensemble | The African Concert Series at Wigmore Hall 2025

DEADLINE EXTENDED to 15 June 2025 for NYJC’s inspirational 2025 Composition Summer School at @benendenschool, Kent, on 7-12 August! For young creatives aged 14-18, this a unique opportunity to take your music making to the next level. Apply now: nationalyouthjazz.co.uk/composition-su…

For our followers in 🇯🇵 😃 We have a new @Kickstarter plan featuring signed scores by @SteveReich as part of the available rewards 😀 Thank you to our amazing audience 🙏 We hope to see you again soon! @reichCCGtokyo #TokyoOperaCity 🔗 ⬇️ kickstarter.com/projects/sexte…

Happy birthday to Ella Fitzgerald! She was an a jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella. One of the finest female jazz vocalists of all time.

Dizzy Gillespie playing pool.

Join us in Bradford! Hope to see you there! @shivafeshareki #SarahAngliss @Gavin_Bryars @edjmckeon @UKRI_News @GoldsmithsMusic @dBAudioProduk @MediaMuseum #newclassical #minialistmusic #postminimalism

Guesting w/ superb singer-songwriter #MarcinaArnold - album launch of “Evolution” #JazzCafePosk 14.3.25. Doors 7pm Line-up incls E Appapoulay, A Zaitz, M B Edwards, B Wallen, T Mires, J Baird and P Russell #Evolution @tweetonlondon #LondonJazz @posklondon jazzcafeposk.org/event/marcina-…

Icebreaker : Performing new works by Shiva Feshareki, Sarah Angliss, & Gavin Bryars Sat 15th Mar National Science & Media Museum Bradford BD1 1NQ 18:45 Doors 19:00 Start Tix & Info: bit.ly/IceTimeLoops

A composition of mine I performed with Zoe Rahman (piano) at the 2024 Whittington Music Festival. Eternal - featuring Distant Lamentations of Jeremiah by Rowland Sutherland youtu.be/XmEVjJN21Yk?fe… via @YouTube