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2025/26 Concerts now on sale!

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£12.00 - £38.00
Myths & Magic

Ulster Hall - Belfast
26 September 2025 19:45

Stravinky's Firebird, Borodin, Saint-Saëns, Fauré and cellist Laura van der Heijden


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

Ulster Hall - Belfast 08 August 2025 21:00


£10.00 - £20.00
On Your Doorstep: Dungannon

The Hill of the O'Neill & Ranfurly House - Dungannon 07 September 2025 15:00


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Every Note Tells a Story in our new concert season
Every Note Tells a Story in our new concert season Read Article
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Ulster Orchestra at Townsend Community Information Session Read Article
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UO Playback: An Expanded Orchestra, 1981 Read Article

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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