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Roderick Williams is joined by the award-winning Carducci Quartet for an exclusive performance featuring Schubert’s great song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, arranged and performed by the celebrated British baritone.

Experience an unforgettable afternoon of music and film as the renowned Shepherd Brass Band presents a unique and captivating live screening of the Academy Award-winning short film Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers.

Renowned British pianist Danny Driver explores how composers have developed intricate works by varying often simple musical ideas in a programme including Bach’s much-loved Goldberg Variations.

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.

As we usher in the winter months, Manchester Collective joins forces with The Marian Consort for an imaginative and eclectic selection of works, inviting you to slow down and reconnect with the land and those around you.

A landmark score of the eighteenth century, Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation, showcases the composer's striking orchestration and unparalleled mastery of choral writing, evoking a technicolour array of natural wonders.

Following a string of sold-out performances last December, Raymond Briggs’ magical Christmas story, The Snowman, returns to York this festive season with live music by the Shepherd Brass Band.

Following a string of sold-out performances last December, Raymond Briggs’ magical Christmas story, The Snowman, returns to York this festive season with live music by the Shepherd Brass Band.

Following a string of sold-out performances last December, Raymond Briggs’ magical Christmas story, The Snowman, returns to York this festive season with live music by the Shepherd Brass Band.

Jess Gillam and her seven-piece band present a high-octane and enchanting programme that pulls on the common threads found in music from across the centuries, leaving you beaming from ear to ear!

From the jubilant fanfares of John Rutter’s Gloria to Britten’s enchanting A Ceremony of Carols, celebrate the festive season with a joyous selection of choral works by modern British composers.

Angela Hewitt’s interpretations of Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters and one of the world’s greatest living pianists, with her award-winning Bach cycle being hailed as ‘one of the record glories of our age.'

Join University Choir members and one of the country’s leading choral directors for an inspiring and informative afternoon of singing on repertoire from I Fagiolini’s fortieth-anniversary concert.

In 1986, another student vocal group gave its first concert. Forty years on, Monteverdi has remained a constant and Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini have gone on to rethink exactly what a vocal group does.