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. It has received awards from BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone magazines, and in 2022 it won a South Bank Sky Arts Award for its performance of Huw Watkins’s Second Symphony, which the orchestra commissioned and premiered as part of its 2021 online season, having already won the same prize in 2018 for its performance of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the BBC Philharmonic.
The orchestra's 2022/23 season at The Bridgewater Hall opens with a performance conducted by the orchestra's Assistant Conductor Delyana Lazarova and featuring Artist in Residence Dobrinka Tabakova's Concerto for Cello and Strings alongside Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6. Highlights include Sir Mark Elder performing Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Huw Watkins's Symphony No.2, with the season ending with Elgar's three oratorios performed as a trilogy. Following a sell-out season at Hallé St Peter’s in Ancoats, the Hallé Chamber series will return for eight more concerts featuring Hallé musicians and special guest artists.
In March 2023 the second edition of the Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition will see emerging conductors compete for a two-year post as Assistant Conductor of the Hallé, with the final round taking place at the Bridgewater Hall and open to the public for the first time.
For information on the orchestra's recordings on the Hallé CD label
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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