Concerts
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We've put together some guidance and handy tips for attending events in the Barber Concert Hall.
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Evening Concerts Piano Festival
Pavel Kolesnikov
Wednesday 8 May, 7.30pm
Pavel Kolesnikov joins us to launch the 2019 Birmingham International Piano Festival.
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Barber Concerts
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Lunchtime Concerts
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Friday 3 May, 1.10pm
The internationally recognised ensemble Apartment House presents a new work by James Opstad alongside music by Julius Aglinskas and Lucie Viková.
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Evening Concerts
Ziyu He & Marie Hauzel
Wednesday 4 December, 7.30pm
Outstanding violinist Ziyu He, teams up with Marie Hauzel for a Barber Evening Concert featuring Stravinsky, Bartók and Saint-Säens amongst others.
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Evening Concerts
Tenebrae: Path of Miracles
Wednesday 23 October, 7.30pm
Tenebrae presents Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, a unique and dramatic work inspired by the enduring Catholic pilgrimage to Santiago.
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Evening Concerts Piano Festival
Freddy Kempf
Wednesday 6 November, 7.30pm
Join former BBC Young Musician Freddy Kempf for a recital of Mozart.
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Evening Concerts Piano Festival
Martin Roscoe & Peter Donohoe
Wednesday 30 October, 7.30pm
Martin Roscoe returns to Birmingham International Piano Festival, performing with Peter Donohoe.
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Summer Festival of Music
A Little Night Music
Summer Festival Opera
Fall in love this June with some magical summer night music.
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Lunchtime Concerts Piano Festival
Sam Leak Trio
Friday 8 November, 1pm
We bring gospel tinged and folk inspired contemporary jazz to the piano festival in the final concert with the Sam Leak Trio.
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Lunchtime Concerts Piano Festival
Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen
Friday 1 November, 1pm
Benjamin Frith joins Department of Music PhD student Liang Shan for a rare performance of this Messiaen masterpiece.
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Lunchtime Concerts Piano Festival
Selecting a Steinway: A Concert with Conversation
Friday 25 October, 1pm
Professor Kenneth Hamilton and Steinway's Ulrich Gerhartz lift the lid on the Henry Barber Trust funded new grand piano in a lecture-recital on how to select a Steinway.
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Weekend Concerts
Birmingham International Piano Competition
Saturday 22 June and Sunday 23 June
Birmingham International Piano Competition remains committed to the art of the piano recital and gives young pianists the chance to further their careers and perform in world class venues.
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Lunchtime Concerts Summer Festival of Music
Summer Festival Voices
Friday 21 June, 1.10pm
To include selections from George Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare, and part-songs by Elgar, Holst, and Vaughan Williams.
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Lunchtime Concerts
Ceri Owen & Gareth Brynmor John
Friday 24 May, 1.10pm
Join us for a lecture-recital from the Department of Music's new Director of Performance Ceri Owen and award-winning baritone Gareth Brynmor John.
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Lunchtime Concerts
Florian Kitt & Carlos Rivera-Aguilar
Friday 17 May, 1.10pm
Internationally acclaimed Austrian cellist Florian Kitt and pianist Carlos Rivera-Aguilar perform Debussy, Friedrich Cerha and Prokofiev.
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Lunchtime Concerts
Callino Quartet
Friday 10 May, 1.10pm
The Callino Quartet join us to premiere the third instalment of John Woolrich's A Book of Inventions, alongside a new student composition and Mendelssohn's final string quartet.
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CrossCurrents
CrossCurrents – Further information coming soon!
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Evening Concerts
How to book
You can purchase tickets for Barber Evening Concerts at the reception desk in The Barber Institute of Fine Arts during normal opening hours, over the phone or online.
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