YorkConcerts

The 24 offers pairs of pieces – each connected by their text or a compositional idea but sometimes separated by centuries. An intriguing programme, with light from one elucidating the other.

Award-winning composer and improvising-trombonist Alex Paxton is joined by saxophonist David Zucchi, jazz guitarist Mike De Souza and drummer David Ingamells to perform his critically acclaimed 2021 album, Music for Bosch People.

University Baroque Ensemble presents a programme of words and music from the court of Frederick the Great, including concertos and chamber music by Quantz, Benda and Graun.

Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris illuminates the musical world of the Mendelssohn family whose Berlin salons were at the centre of the city’s intellectual and cultural life in the early nineteenth century.

Boxwood & Brass explores the life and legacy of the Berlin court clarinettist and composer Franz Tausch whose music was a melting pot of changing musical styles at the end of the Classical period.

To mark its 40th anniversary, Gamelan Sekar Petak looks to York's Viking past and the great Norse myth of Ragnarök. The legend will unfold in a blend of new compositions, film, puppetry and storytelling.

Comprising a variety of shapes, textures and approaches to time, The Chimera Ensemble's final concert of our 2021/22 season, fold/unfolds, explores an array of interesting sound worlds.

University of York Choir is delighted to be joined by Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan, together with a star-studded lineup of soloists to perform one of Dvořák’s best-known sacred works in the historic setting of York Minster.