The Hallé announces 2022/23 Bridgewater Hall season
From September 2022 to June 2023, the orchestra will feature a rich and diverse mix of music and artists with programmes to delight, inspire, illuminate and surprise.
16 May 2022
Sir Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Photo The Hallé
Under its Music Director, Sir Mark Elder, the Hallé has entered a new golden era, marked by imaginatively themed programming and the successful launch of its own record label. The Hallé have received awards from BBC Music Magazine Gramophone magazine and in 2018 they won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Classical Music for their performance of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the BBC Philharmonic.
The orchestra's 2021/22 season at The Bridgewater Hall opens with a trio of popular symphonies conducted by Sir Mark Elder: Sibelius's Symphony No.2, Elgar's Symphony No.1, which the orchestra premiered in 1908, and Brahms's Symphony No.3. Some of the concerts will be filmed for future online broadcast following the success of the orchestra's Winter and Summer digital concerts. A new lunchtime Chamber Music Series at the award-winning Hallé St Peter’s includes Benjamin Grosvenor performing the Schumann Piano Quintet alongside Hallé principal players.
In the 2020/21 season the orchestra launched a critically-acclaimed series of nine online concerts, filmed at The Bridgewater Hall and Hallé St Peter's, which included world premieres by composers Hannah Kendall and Huw Watkins, as well as a staged production of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale.
The first edition of the Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition took place in February 2020 at Hallé St Peter’s, with Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarova winning a two-year position as the orchestra's Assistant Conductor, now extended until 2023.
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From September 2022 to June 2023, the orchestra will feature a rich and diverse mix of music and artists with programmes to delight, inspire, illuminate and surprise.
16 May 2022
The competition will take place over three days in March 2023, culminating with the final on Tuesday 14 March at the Bridgewater Hall.
29 Apr 2022
The Hallé is delighted to announce that this year’s winner of The Terence Judd-Hallé Award is Italian-born pianist Alexander Gadjiev.
4 Apr 2022
22 Nov 2021
The Hallé has just launched its Bridgewater Hall Autumn and Christmas 2021 seasons with an inspirational collection of masterpieces and stellar guest artists and composers.
18 Aug 2021
The orchestra will return to perform to live audiences as part of its Summer Season (3 June - 22 July 2021)
27 Apr 2021
The orchestra's online Winter Season resumes on 18 March 2021
9 Mar 2021
Guest stars include Lemn Sissay and Guy Garvey
15 Dec 2020
Orchestra announces Digital Winter Season with nine online concerts (3 December 2020-25 March 2021)
17 Nov 2020
David Butcher is to become the Hallé’s new Chief Executive, following the retirement of John Summers this July.
27 Feb 2020
Lazarova will be appointed the Hallé’s 8th Assistant Conductor
24 Feb 2020
On 20 November 2019, the new £6.6 million three-storey extension at Hallé St Peter’s, The Oglesby Centre, will open. The Centre adds new facilities to the existing Grade II listed church.
19 Nov 2019
The Hallé are pleased to announce that Ryan Wigglesworth will be the orchestra’s Artist in Association for three seasons starting immediately. This appointment follows on from his tenure as Principal Guest Conductor (2015-2019).
28 Oct 2019
The Hallé announce their 2019/20 season which includes a Beethoven symphony cycle shared with the BBC Philharmonic to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven, a residency with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and two performances of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (28 & 30 May 2020).
7 May 2019
The Hallé is pleased to announce the launch of an international conductors competition with Siemens AG, a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality and reliability for more than 170 years.
21 Mar 2019