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Chipping Campden Music Festival celebrates twenty-fifth anniversary with a magnificent fortnight of concerts (10 – 22 May 2027)

Compelling programme includes performances by Sir András Schiff, Steven Osborne, Steven Isserlis, Julian Bliss, Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Ex Cathedra, BBC Singers and Leonkoro String Quartet

Festival to stage three silver jubilee concerts by the Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra, including Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto with Steven Osborne, Saint-Saëns’ two cello concertos with Steven Isserlis, and Brahms’ Violin Concerto with Aleksey Semenenko

Stanislav Kochanovsky leads the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover on a five-concert UK tour (12-16 October 2026) and in special projects in the orchestra’s home city

Conductor’s guest appearances include high-profile debuts with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (8 November 2026) and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (12 February 2027)

Kochanovsky makes his twelfth return to the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for a three-concert Rachmaninov Festival in Rome and subsequent tour to Verona, Rimini and Bratislava

NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover makes a welcome return to the UK this autumn for a five-concert tour with Chief Conductor, Stanislav Kochanovsky

Tour itinerary comprises dates in Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, London and Basingstoke (Monday 12 to Friday 16 October)

Ingrid Fliter and Nikolai Lugansky join as soloists respectively in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Rachmaninov’s youthful Piano Concerto No.1

The 2026 BBC Proms season presents a rich and varied programme of music, bringing together world-renowned orchestras, choirs, conductors, and soloists for the eight-week summer festival of daily classical music at London’s Royal Albert Hall and venues across the UK.

This year's Proms lineup includes concerts from two VBPR clients: Sakari Oramo, Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Hallé orchestra, under the baton of Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong.

Sakari Oramo trains his focus on firmly established international guest conducting relationships throughout the 2026-27 season

Conductor’s carefully constructed schedule includes world premiere of Brett Dean’s Phantoms and Sibelius with the Berliner Philharmoniker, revival of music by Heidi Sundblad-Halme, Busoni’s Piano Concerto in Hamburg, Bacewicz and Nielsen in Stockholm and concert performances of Berg’s Lulu in Cologne

Sakari Oramo combines symphonic landmarks by Britten, Brahms, Debussy, Dvořák, Mahler, Shostakovich and Stravinsky with revelatory companion pieces at this year’s BBC Proms and throughout the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s 2026-27 season.

Conductor’s repertoire explorations include the world premiere of Gwilym Simcock’s Triple Concerto, the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen Suite, Anders Hillborg’s Viola Concerto, and a rare outing for Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht

Oramo’s seventh time conducting the Last Night of the Proms with Yuja Wang and Nicky Spence as soloists.

Finnish/American conductor, Aku Sorensen, impressed the five-strong panel at the final with his outstanding conducting ability and excellent communication with the orchestra. More than 200 conductors applied to take part, and eight semi-finalists were selected for the competition days on 29 and 30 March. Presented by BBC Radio 3’s Tom McKinney, the final on 31 March was a public concert at The Bridgewater Hall in which the finalists were put through their paces in front of an enthusiastic live audience.

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is delighted to announce the appointment of Tabita Berglund as its Chief Conductor. She begins her official tenure in August 2026 as Chief Conductor Designate, before assuming the post of Chief Conductor in August 2027. Berglund, who succeeds Edward Gardner, becomes the first Norwegian conductor to take charge of the Bergen Philharmonic since Karsten Andersen’s long relationship with the orchestra ended in 1985, and the first Norwegian female chief conductor of a major Norwegian symphony orchestra. She will conduct the orchestra in 10-12 programmes each season, lead them on international tours and add new recordings to the award-winning discography. Her initial tenure is set to run until July 2031.