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2025/26 Concerts now on sale!

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£29.50
Belfast TradFest: Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway, John McIntyre with The Ulster Orchestra

Mandela Hall - Belfast
02 August 2025 13:00

Belfast TradFest is delighted to present a very special collaborative concert featuring Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway and John McIntyre, together known as Allt, with the Ulster Orchestra.


£15.00 - £19.50
BBC Proms: 100 Years of the Shipping Forecast

Ulster Hall - Belfast 08 August 2025 21:00


£20.00
On Your Doorstep: Cushendun

The Old Church Centre - Cushendun 06 September 2025 19:00


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Every Note Tells a Story in our new concert season
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Learning, Community & Engagement

The Ulster Orchestra’s Learning and Community Engagement programme helps us to achieve our vision of enriching lives through music. Since 2016, all of our musicians have been delivering outreach and education activity as part of their orchestral schedule – the only symphony orchestra in the UK to work in this way.

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Sound Links - A celebration of Townsend Street

Find out more about Ulster Orchestra, Townsend Enterprise Park and Zeppo Arts' project to explore and celebrate the history of Townsend Street, Belfast, as part of the city's Belfast 2024 celebrations.

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Who We Are

Founded in 1966, the Ulster Orchestra has been at the forefront of musical life in Northern Ireland and the Orchestra’s full-time musicians form the region’s only professional symphony orchestra.
 
The Orchestra has a distinguished line of past principal conductors including Bryden Thomson, Vernon Handley, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Thierry Fischer, Kenneth Montgomery, JoAnn Faletta, Rafael Payare and, most recently, Daniele Rustioni.

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