We are so pleased to announce that Lucy Galliard currently at CBSO will be joining Sinfonia Viva as our new Chief Executive.

Lucy will join in January 2022 at the start of our 40th anniversary year, helping lead the orchestra into our next exciting chapter!

What’s it like having live CBSO concerts back at THSH? ‘Amazing’, ‘wonderful’, ‘fabulous’, ‘delightful’, ‘refreshing’, & ‘beautiful’ but don’t just take our word for it, here’s what the audience had to say.
cbso.co.uk/whats-on

over forty wonderul Tenors and Basses, and nearly seventy gorg Sops and Altos at tonight’s zoom rehearsal! we will be back together again (in-person) one day ✨ thank you so much for for your incredible and continued commitment 💘 CBSO Chorus

(2/2) Or use these links to take you straight to where you want to go!
📖 Early Years: Musical Storytimes: cbso.co.uk/education/earl…
🦖 KS1: Dinosaur Disco: cbso.co.uk/ks1-hybrid-sch…
🔐 KS2: The CBSO Escape Room Challenge: cbso.co.uk/ks2-hybrid-sch…

(1/2) We’re thrilled to be back in schools playing live for the first time since March 2020! 🤩 !
We've been jumping around to Vivaldi, Stravinsky & Bach and we reckon our Dino Disco is knocking it out of the (Jurassic) park.
Book a show for your school: cbso.co.uk/education

Hang on to your hats, tickets for live concerts go on sale at 10am! cbso.co.uk/whats-on
THSH

It's been fantastic to be able to welcome back some of our Children & Youth Choruses this eve to their 1st in-person rehearsal since 09.03.20 (!) with other members singing along on Zoom. Big thanks to conductors Ula Weber (CC), Julian Wilkins (YC) & James Keefe on the 🎹. 🙌👏

Happy birthday to us! On 10 November 1920 Sir Edward Elgar conducted the City of Birmingham Orchestra in its first symphonic concert – and the future CBSO took its first step onto the world stage.
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<Breathes huge sigh of relief>

Right, time for some concerts - restrictions permitting.

We are thrilled to have won the coveted Gramophone Recording of the Year award for our debut recording with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla on Deutsche Grammophon (DG) of Weinberg’s Symphonies Nos 2 & 21, with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica.

Listen here: dg.lnk.to/MirgaWeinberg
#GramoAwards

Hands up 🙌 who has seen our 100th Birthday Celebration with Sir Simon Rattle, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Roopa Panesar and Adrian Lester?

Watch CBSO’s 100th Birthday Celebration here: youtu.be/emZua--3eIs (LINK IN BIO)

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happy 100th birthday to the glorious City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, you beauty ! WHAT A CONCERT #cbso100 🎉🥳💥

What a fantastic concert! Happy 100th Birthday to the incredible City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra! Can’t wait until we can sing along again #cbso100 🎉

Watch our Centenary concert at home from 7pm TONIGHT!

Help us celebrate our 100th birthday by tuning in to our digital concert at home and share your photos using #cbso100

YouTube: bit.ly/3bq1TQM
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Following the latest government guidance the CBSO has decided to suspend concerts, public events and learning and participatory activities until at least mid-April, and to keep subsequent events under constant review.

More information: bit.ly/2xaTYqr

WOW... such a privilege & pleasure to be part of tonight’s #SensualDebussy #DebussyFestival 🌊 alongside fabulous #MirgaGražinytėTyla CBSO #IlseEerens Aga Mikolaj + College of Arts+Law Uni of Birmingham Singers 😀 Big thanks Julian Wilkins Helen Abbott @mrkeefoid for preparing us 👍

Today was pretty special. The Uni of Birmingham University Singers on stage at Symphony Hall conjuring up wonders for #DebussyFestival CBSO with Simon Carrington. Gorgeous sounds & good French diction to boot! A privilege to work with them.

An honour tonight to be involved with CBSO Chorus 900th concert. And in Symphony Hall with the amazing CBSO - brilliant team of soloists (thank you Fflur, Oliver, Leigh and Freddy) with a simply superb choir and orchestra! One to treasure for ever.

Oh my, O Fortuna, what a thrilling, dramatic, super energetic performance of Orff's Carmina Burana from CBSO / CBSO Chorus with @Batonflipper Amazing diction through all those wild tongue twisters, and scintillating sound vibrating through your soles to your soul! #Happy900th

A fabulous concert tonight, full of wonderful Bernstein! Thank you John Wilson, @JulianOvenden, Kim Criswell, David Seadon-Young, @MatSeadonYoung, Scarlett Strallen, Jack North, @NadimNaaman and of course the brilliant Uni of Birmingham Voices - an amazing evening!