YorkConcerts

A classically trained musician, British-born DJ Sam Barker has helped push the boundaries of dance music in Berlin, looking beyond the realm of 4/4 techno to explore left-field sound design and rhythmic complexity.

Chapter House Choir celebrates 60 years of music-making with a unique programme dedicated to remembrance, featuring their Youth Choir – founded for their fiftieth season – and the professional vocal ensemble Jervaulx Singers.

Based in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall yet reaching out to the wider world, Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2000 years.

The 24 – conducted by the renowned British choral director Robert Hollingworth – collaborates with rising stars of the vocal world The Lyons Mouth, on music from the Renaissance to the present day.

On the eve of the prestigious Brass in Concert Championship in Gateshead, Shepherd Brass Band teams up with the internationally renowned Cory Band for a tantalising mix of music, including Cory Band’s Brass-in-Concert programme.

To coincide with this autumn’s Railway 200 celebrations, three musicians working across a range of genres explore the sonic possibilities of the railways and York’s status as a key railway city, past and present.

Following a string of sold-out concerts, University Symphony Orchestra returns to perform César Franck’s Symphony in D minor – the Belgian composer’s best-known orchestral work – alongside Sibelius’ ever-popular Karelia Suite.

Grawemeyer Award-winning York alumnus Christian Mason and his critically acclaimed Octandre Ensemble celebrate nature, friendship and song, pairing Schubert’s much-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet with new works by composers with a close connection to York.