Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Just announced! 📢 Road to Joy: we’re touring 100+ concerts across the South West in 2026/27 as our two-year Beethoven series begins, welcoming: 🎶 @thomasades – Celebrated Composer 🎹 @bgiltburg – Artist-in-Residence 📺 @larkmusic_ – Digital Concert Sponsor Wherever you are in the South West – or beyond, via the magic of live broadcast – we can’t wait to share symphonic thrills, cinematic spectaculars and choral masterpieces reaching into all corners of the region. General booking opens on Wednesday 27 May (priority access opens tomorrow for members): Link in Bio! @aceagrams @lighthousepoole @uniofexeter @portsmouthguildhall @farehamlive @bristol_beacon

Head to Newbury Spring Festival this coming Saturday, May 23rd to catch the talented Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performing live! @newbury_festival @bsorchestra #music #livemusic #readinguk #newbury #festival

Orchestra musicians in a hot air balloon, inside Beacon Hall? It must be BBC Proms Bristol 🎈🎻 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall goes on sale today, and we’re getting ready to welcome the world’s greatest classical music festival back to Bristol Beacon for its third residency on Fri 7 - Sun 9 Aug. For our announcement last month, we teamed up with @bristolballoon , @bsorchestra , @nationalopenyouthorchestra and @paraorchestra to inflate a hot air balloon inside Beacon Hall, in true Bristol style! A one-of-a-kind moment celebrating the South West as a cultural powerhouse, as the Proms and Balloon Fiesta take over the city across the same weekend. Hear from the musicians and Balloon Fiesta team behind the scenes, and meet some of the people who brought the magic to life ✨   BBC Proms Bristol tickets available via the link in our bio 🪉

We bid farewell to Artist-in-Residence Roderick Williams, following two stunning final performances. In his concluding week, Roddy also made a surprise visit in a local primary school assembly and to @charity_shc to perform for staff, visitors and patients of all ages. Read on through the link in our bio! @aceagrams @mybcpcouncil

Photos from a very special concert last week with @bsorchestra and @martinjamesbartlett performing a programme I’d been looking forward to for quite a long time! Opening with Arnold Bax’s Tintagel - a piece premiered by the then Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra in the early 20th Century, it was an absolute treat to premiere a new critical edition of Bax’s brilliant piece, written by fellow Bristol grad, George Owen! Followed by a barnstorming performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the legendary @martinjamesbartlett - such a joy to work with and explore some of wonderful music with! Then onto a personal desert island disc - Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No.5. Written in 1943, during some of the darkest days of WW2, it’s one of my favourite symphonies, for its gorgeous string writing, luscious harmonic language, and optimistic tone. On a personal note, I last conducted it in 2024, and used footage of that performance in my application for my current role with the BSO - so revisiting it with the BSO near the end of my time in Dorset felt like such a lovely full-circle moment. Last week was one of my favourite and most special weeks in the job, exploring some exciting and personal repertoire, with some lovely friends in Dorset I’ve got to know over the past two years. The concert was live streamed and presented by the wonderful Martin Handley and is on the BSO’s Digital concert hall until 6th June! Huge amount of love to everyone at @bsorchestra ! And thanks to @bant_etienne for some of the photos!

If you have a sense of adventure, we have the perfect thing for you! Bournemouth’s @nationalopenyouthorchestra ensemble is celebrating the differences in everyone’s adventures in a FREE concert at The Spire, Poole, on 6 June 💃 This concert features pieces like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Medley - a heroic adventure about saving your friends - and Danse Macabre which is about dancing with skeletons at midnight… a particularly spooky adventure 🩻 These talented musicians aged 11-25 present a relaxed, welcoming and pressure free concert… come along and join and see where the adventure takes you! Link in Bio!

Priority booking is now open, so if you’re not already a member why not sign up and become part of a special community of music lovers. We are thrilled to be returning to @lighthousepoole , @uniofexeter Great Hall, @portsmouthguildhall , @farehamlive plus many more venues across the region. Which concerts will you be booking? And find out more about becoming a member here: bsolive.com/join

WOW – what a night! Our 2025/26 season might have concluded, but a whole host of new season concerts are just around the corner. Priority booking opens tomorrow morning for members (on general sale from 27 May) 👀➡️What's On Link in Bio! 📸: Mark Allan @lighthousepoole @uniofexeter @portsmouthguildhall @farehamlive

Tomorrow, Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth conducts Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time, featuring Artist-in-Residence Roderick Williams alongside the fantastic @bschorus and soloists @talisetrevigne , @jsstenor and @anitamonserratmezzo . Here’s what Anita has shared ahead of tomorrow’s performance...

Our new Calleva Assistant Conductor @michal.oren won a thrilling competition just a couple of weeks ago, following stiff competition from the very best next generation conductors 🪄 Following a vote from the Orchestra, she was appointed our Calleva Assistant Conductor for the 2026/27 season! We can’t wait to work with Michal… read our blog to find out all about the competition, and learn more about the brilliant, shortlisted candidates. Link in Bio! @aceagrams

Are you joining us at @lighthousepoole on Wednesday, when we conclude our Poole concert season? 🙌🥳 Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth returns to the stage with four brilliant soloists, including – for the last time in the role – our Artist-in-Residence baritone Roderick Williams, and the full might of the @bschorus ! Don’t miss the opportunity to join us ➡️ What's On Link in Bio!

🎶 Pop quiz - is it Tico-Tico no Fubá or Beethoven? What a wonderful time spent with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the brilliant conductor @enyi_okpara ! We had such great fun exploring this work and all its quirky eccentricities.. how hard it is not to dance a little during this section!