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Proud to be Birmingham's orchestra. A family of incredible musicians, choirs and youth ensembles making music that matters to our city and beyond.
Birmingham, UK
Joined July 2010
Find your happy place in our most joyful season yet, as we invite you to join us for spirit lifting, roof raising, toe tapping musical experiences. So, take your seat, forget the world for a while and fill up with glorious live music. Sound good? .
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🎉 Congratulations, and many happy returns, to our Royal Patron Prince Edward!.
🎉 Wishing the new Duke of Edinburgh a very Happy Birthday today!. The King has conferred the Dukedom of Edinburgh upon his brother, Prince Edward, on his 59th birthday. 🔗
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We are devastated at what the recently announced city council cuts could mean for the people of Birmingham and for the culture sector in this city. We urgently need creative solutions towards continued investment in the arts. Read our collective statement:
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Hey you FINAL FANTASY fans 👋 We have a very special treat for you! Voice actor @The_Ben_Starr will be joining us on stage in June and answering your questions at Final Symphony II: Music from FINAL FANTASY! .
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.@yamakazu_takt is having a great time serenading passengers on the CBSO tram this morning as part of #CBSOInTheCity! . Thanks to @WMmetro for having us. We're around until lunchtime today and then back again on Thursday. 🚋. See all this week's events at:
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Happy New Year, from all of us here at the CBSO🌟 We hope your year is filled with the joy and positive energy that @yamakazu_takt is channelling as he conducts Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade🎶
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The CBSO is delighted to have been awarded £843,000 from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. ‘We can now get back – in a Covid-compliant way – to our mission of providing great music to the widest possible audience.’ Stephen Maddock, Chief Executive of CBSO.#HereForCulture
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It has been an unforgettable night performing Orff’s Carmina Burana at @bbcproms with @yamakazu_takt .✨. It was a night of epic choral music as we were joined on stage by the CBSO Choruses, the University of Birmingham Voices, and our wonderful soloists!. #BBCProms
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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. Share your favourite CBSO memories! Tag us and use the hashtag #cbso100.
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We are the CBSO Chorus and in solidarity with our singing colleagues… DON’T SCRAP THE BBC SINGERS!.@BBCSingers #BBCSingers
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Delighted to announce Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla will join us as Music Director from Sept 2016
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Delighted to announce today that our Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla has extended her contract for a further two years until summer 2021
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Hope you enjoyed Day 7 of our Advent Calendar earlier!.We have a little extra festive moment for you this evening, courtesy of our Principal Guest Conductor @yamakazu_takt 🎹 This is 'Serenade' by Maki Ueda.
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It's been a tough week for everyone in Birmingham, but our back to back concerts with Kazuki Yamada, Alice Sara Ott and Maria Dueñas have been an incredible reminder of the joy that music brings to our community. 📷 Hannah Blake-Fathers
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Yesterday we were joined by @SeongJinCho for an incredible performance at Bunkyo Civic Hall! We’re looking forward to performing with Seong-Jin again tonight at the amazing Suntory Hall in Tokyo✨ #CBSOinJapan.
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has today announced that it will make up to 5,000 free tickets available to NHS workers, once concerts resume following the coronavirus pandemic. Find out more and register your interest here: #NHSThankYou
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Wishing a very happy birthday to our Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Kazuki Yamada🤩 These clips perfectly encapsulate the joy that Kazuki brings to the CBSO every single day!
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We are pleased to share this lovely news from our Music Director Mirga
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We are thrilled to have won the coveted @GramophoneMag Recording of the Year award for our debut recording with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla on @DGclassics of Weinberg’s Symphonies Nos 2 & 21, with @GidonKremer and @KremerataBaltic. Listen here: .#GramoAwards
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At @IshikawaONGAKU it is tradition that the conductor helps to serve the drinks for audiences during the interval. During today’s concert @yamakazu_takt took part in this tradition and said hello to our wonderful audience!☕️🎶
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Yesterday we had the privilege of performing at the incredible Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama @yokohamammh🤩 Today we're enjoying a free day to explore the city before heading to Kanazawa tomorrow to perform at @IshikawaONGAKU #CBSOinJapan
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Get ready for 2023-24: CBSO Remastered – we’re back with a bang and a bold new look. Turn up for an epic new season of music. From classics to crowd pleasers, symphonies to soundtracks, heavy metal to smash hits. Birmingham, let’s make some noise!.
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Today, we're joining @aborchestras and organisations across the country to launch a national celebration of classical music. Here's a piece that brings us joy, what's yours?. #MusicThatMovesYou. 🎵 Dvořák, Carnival Overture conducted by @yamakazu_takt
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Huge congratulations to CBSO's Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla who has been named Conductor of the Year at this year‘s #OpusKlassik awards. The Opus Klassik is Germany’s most prestigious classical music prize and honours outstanding artists and recordings.
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CBSO are delighted that @THSHBirmingham have been awarded £2.53 million from the government’s #CultureRecoveryFund. We’re thrilled to announce that we can now return to Symphony Hall for a series of socially-distanced concerts in less than two weeks’ time. #HereForCulture.
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Happy 60th birthday to our Patron, The Duke of Edinburgh! @RoyalFamily . We recently spent two days with His Royal Highness, celebrating the arts sector in Birmingham and the positive impact that it has on the people of the city. Here are some highlights from the visit.
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Wishing a very happy birthday to our Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor designate Kazuki Yamada🎉 Share your favourite Kazuki concert with us in the replies!
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The most joyful performance of Bizet's Farandole you'll ever see🤩 #CBSOonTour.Our amazing Chief Conductor @yamakazu_takt sharing chocolates with the musicians during an encore at Queen Elizabeth Hall in Antwerp🍫🎶
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Happy Birthday to the force of nature Sir Simon Rattle 🎉.From 1980 to 1998 Sir Simon Rattle led the CBSO as principal conductor, artistic adviser, and as music director, and what a legacy he has left behind! 👏
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🎈 What an incredible week it's been! We've welcomed our new Chief Conductor Kazuki Yamada and our new Chief Executive Emma Stenning, we've launched our new brand and our 23-24 Season, and we celebrated in style with Carmina Burana conducted by Kazuki!.#CBSOMakeSomeNoise
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Special doesn't even come close to describing tonight. The wonderful Sir Simon Rattle returned to a packed Symphony Hall and, together with our family of CBSO Choruses and guest artists, well and truly brought home the sheer joy of music. Thank you for an unforgettable night ❤️
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We’re delighted to announce we’ve won this year’s #Orchestral Gramophone award for our recording of Weinberg’s Symphonies Nos 2 & 21 with @GidonKremer and @KremerataBaltic led by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, released on @DGclassics!. #GramoAwards .@GramophoneMag
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Wonderful Elgar from @ShekuKM and @LudovicMorlot tonight @edintfest - a delight to perform with you! 🙌
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Let there be music!. With the sonorous chord of E flat major that begins Beethoven’s Septet, we have the first live music heard at CBSO Centre since early March. This week’s Covid-compliant rehearsals & performances by two small ensembles will be made available later this summer
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At our first concert of the 22-23 Season, we took a moment to reflect on recent historical events by performing the National Anthem. Conducted by Kazuki Yamada. @yamakazu_takt
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After 9 months away, the CBSO Chorus returned to Symphony Hall last night to perform the music that would have been our Christmas concert. We had no audience, but to end this year singing together in our home concert hall is the best Christmas present we could have hoped for!
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Our wonderful Music Director @yamakazu_takt debuts with the @chicagosymphony this week. ♥ Let's send him some love from across the pond!
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"Heartbreakingly beautiful in every sense." - Thomas Henderson, Director. 📸 Madam Butterfly, Symphony Hall - 29 June 2024. @penepatitenor @yamakazu_takt @makimori_sop
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We are delighted to announce that Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla will extend her commitment to the orchestra.
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Ever wondered what conductors do just before they go on stage for a concert? We sent out ‘Kazuki Cam’ backstage to find out. 🎬
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🎶 Yesterday, we spanned aeons and worlds in an epic musical adventure bringing the powerful soundtracks of FINAL FANTASY V, VIII, IX, and XIII to life. @MischaCheung @vgmconcerts @The_Ben_Starr 🌟. #CBSO #FinalFantasy #GamingSoundtracks #Orchestra #Birmingham
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33 years ago today we performed the very first concert in Symphony Hall with Sir Simon Rattle! Were you in the audience? 🎶 @BMusic_Ltd
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Culture matters to everyone at the CBSO. It brings joy and energy to our organisation, our audiences, and our city. We are proud to be part of a deeply collaborative, brilliantly ambitious sector that fills Birmingham with creativity and inspiration, day in day out.
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🫶 @Cath_Arlidge chats with @yamakazu_takt on stage at @kumamotokengeki ahead of our first concert in Japan!.#CBSOinJapan
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The applause kept coming long after the concert finished in Hyogo! Thank you, you made us feel so special! ありがとう！🥰
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Happy birthday @yamakazu_takt!.お誕生日おめでとうございます。.The whole CBSO family wishes you a happy and healthy year ahead.
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It’s been 10 years since our last performance of Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, but it was certainly worth the wait. Huge congratulations and thanks to all of our performers, including our family of choruses & guest choruses #BaltimoreChoralArts and @unibirmingham Voices!
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The CBSO is delighted to announce that – subject to the continued successful rollout of the government’s roadmap – it is planning to give live concerts for socially-distanced audiences at Symphony Hall each Wednesday from 19 May-7 July.
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Rehearsals are underway at @RoyalAlbertHall as we get ready for our first night at the @bbcproms 2023✨ #BBCProms
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We caught up with @NickyBenedetti in her dressing room, straight after she came offstage at Symphony Hall with conductor Klaus Mäkelä and @TheCBSO . Nicola shares her thoughts about Birmingham's thriving classical music audiences and the unique sound of the CBSO.
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New Season starts now! 🎉.Right now the Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, and Kazuki Yamada are taking to the stage for the first concert in a season full of classics, crowd-pleasers, symphonies and soundtracks.
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Exciting news! Emma Stenning joins us as our new Chief Executive on 3 April 23. Passionate about making classical music accessible to all, she'll work alongside new Chief Conductor Kazuki Yamada to continue our artistic excellence and sense of adventure! .
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🤩 It's CBSO Team Cello backstage at the @RoyalAlbertHall!.Well done guys, you smashed it! .@bbcproms
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Yes, it's #StarWarsDay but more importantly, it's OUR SEASON LAUNCH DAY! .🎶 Feel the force of a new full Season of music coming your way! 👇.
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We are very saddened to hear of the death yesterday of the great Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons, beloved teacher of our former Music Director Andris Nelsons and one of the greatest interpreters of the last 40 years. RIP.
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Thank you to everyone who came to see us tonight @bbcproms @RoyalAlbertHall & to our soloists @ElenaUrioste & @bengoldscheider & huge congratulations to the one & only @yamakazu_takt on his Proms debut. Bravo!
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Very special to have a winner of @BBCYoungMus from Birmingham, in our wonderful home @THSHBirmingham. Congratulations to Lauren, and well done to Maxim & Rob for their brilliant performances too.
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✨It's almost time for our final performance of the tour! #CBSOinJapan. Last night we enjoyed our final concert in Tokyo with @yamakazu_takt and Daishin Kashimoto! Now onto our final concert of the tour in Nagoya👉
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Great news - we are delighted to announce that @educationgovuk has today approved funding for the @ShirelandCAT CBSO School in Sandwell
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What a joy to be joined by @annalapwood for our annual Choral Christmas concerts✨🎶🤩.
A glorious few days in Birmingham with the @TheCBSO - what an organ. Here’s a little clip from Jonathan Scott’s Christmas Celebration - a very good core workout…! Rather fun having 1/2 the orchestra joining in on sleigh bells for this bit in the concert 😍
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Going for gold in their joint debut - Perry shares the podium with the wonderful Kazuki Yamada at the @bbcproms! #Birmingham2022 #BBCProms
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RIP Sir Neville Marriner. A great man, a wonderful musician and founder of one of our finest orchestras. He leaves an extraordinary legacy.
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Wonderful news for the CBSO family - in the New Year Honours list, our cellist Jackie Tyler has been awarded an MBE for Services to Music and to Music Education in Birmingham. Congratulations Jackie!
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Christmas has come early! Look at our gorgeous new timpani that have arrived at the CBSO Centre today! All beautifully engineered by Aehnelt Perkussion. We can't wait for you to hear them!
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CBSO’s 100th Birthday Celebration.SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2020, 7pm. Featuring @SirSimonRattle, @AdrianLester, @ShekuKM, @RoopaPanesar. FIND OUT MORE: #cbso100
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We are very excited about Mahler's Symphony of a 1000 at the weekend which is now totally sold out! 😮. We last performed this iconic piece in 2010 - check out the image below, can you spot anyone you know?
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🤩 When Nicky met Kazuki!. Thank you for joining us in a full Symphony Hall for our first concert of the season. 👋 See you at the next one on Saturday!. 📸 Nicola Benedetti and Kazuki Yamada. Photo credit: Andrew Fox
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☝️ Fancy having a go at conducting a full orchestra?. If you’re passing through New Street Station on Fri 30 Aug, you could have the chance to conduct the CBSO! All you need to do is come along and look out for people wearing CBSO t-shirts 👀.
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Last night our wonderful orchestra kicked off a Season of Joy with a triumphant performance of Beethoven's Symphony No.9, with Music Director Kazuki Yamada at the helm. Not an empty seat in the house, the concert brought audiences to their feet in a standing ovation! 👏
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Here we go. Heading into the @RoyalAlbertHall for rehearsals ahead of our performance at the @bbcproms with @ElenaUrioste, @bengoldscheider and @yamakazu_takt tonight!
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"it was impossible not to be impressed." The Guardian on Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand. The reviews are in! Relive the power of Mahler's Symphony No. 8.
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It was an honour to have been part of this discussion yesterday talking about making music more inclusive, with HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and inspiring representatives from across the industry!.
It was a wonderful day at RBC yesterday as we welcomed our patron HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The Duke met with Principal Stephen Maddock OBE, BCU Vice Chancellor Professor David Mba as well as representatives from leading institutions to discuss making music more inclusive.
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We are CBSO SO Vocal, and in solidarity with our singing colleagues. don't scrap the BBC Singers!.@BBCSingers #BBCSingers
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It’s only taken 23 years, but @stephenm68 has finally made his conducting debut with the orchestra. 👏
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The CBSO family are deeply saddened to hear that the soprano Erin Wall has died at the cruelly young age of 44. Erin sang many times with us, including the memorable 50th anniversary War Requiem from Coventry, and most recently she led the line in Mahler 8 in January. RIP Erin
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- "The lengthy ovation testified to the power of a performance that surely ranks among the absolute finest that the CBSO has given in years. The years ahead with Kazuki Yamada are going to be very exciting."
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The first day of advent is here at last,.So let’s open proceedings with a festive brass blast 🎺. Happy First of December Everyone, and welcome to our 2020 Digital Advent Calendar! Tune in to our socials at 9am each day for a festive treat from the musicians of the CBSO 🎄
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That was special! @BBCProms, live on @BBCRadio3 from @RoyalAlbertHall tonight: Howells, Elgar, Knussen & Weinberg. Thanks to the superb @ShekuKM for joining us, and of course to Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla who at the end invited the audience to celebrate our centenary with us in Brum!
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It's really starting to feel like our birthday now! . Thank you to everyone who made ‘Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand’ possible, from the staff at Symphony Hall, to our soloists, our friends from Baltimore Choral Arts Society and UOB, and everyone in team CBSO.
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Over the centuries music has always brought people together and in that spirit, the CBSO dedicate the encore performance today of Melody, by the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk, in solidarity and friendship, to the Ukrainian people. Continue watching:
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Mirga and @ShekuKM share the applause after Elgar’s Concerto in tonight’s final concert of our residency @elbphilharmonie. Thanks for having us - we’ve loved being in Hamburg and can’t wait to return!
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Excited to announce this morning that CBSO Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla has signed with @DGclassics! Read more on our website:
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