Summer Festival of Music

9 – 21 June Join our student musicians, community members, and guest artists, for two weeks of relaxed performances in the annual Summer Festival of Music. Sun 9 June 2pm Folk Band at POWER FOLK Sun 9 June 5pm University Brass Band Reunion Concert Tues 11 June 8pm Jazz at the Spotted Dog: Jazz Collective Vocal Ensemble … Read more

The Purcell School

Barber Lunchtime Concert Friday 26 April 1-1.50pm Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Free We welcome talented students from The Purcell School for Young Musicians with a concert featuring two captivating trios featuring the piano. The performance begins with Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D minor for violin, cello and piano, written in 1839, and described by Schumann … Read more

Ella Taylor soprano & Sholto Kynoch piano

Barber Lunchtime Concert Friday 3 May 1-1.50pm Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Free As part of our ongoing partnership with Oxford International Song Festival we welcome festival Director Sholto Kynoch with opera singer and recitalist, Ella Taylor for their Barber Concerts debut. ‘A voice of tempered steel, wrapped in a warm velvet cloak’ is how The … Read more

Oliver Janes clarinet & John Reid piano

Barber Lunchtime Concert Friday 10 May 1-1.50pm Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Free A familiar face to Birmingham’s classical music fans, Oliver Janes was just twenty-one and fresh out of the Royal Academy of Music when he was appointed the Section Leader of the clarinets of the CBSO. Just as comfortable as a soloist as performing … Read more