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Explore the 2024/25 Season

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£6.00 - £37.00
Take the Stage

Ulster Hall - Belfast
02 May 2025 19:45

This concert shines a spotlight on music filled with sumptuous drama


£6.00 - £37.00
Grand Masters

Ulster Hall - Belfast 16 May 2025 19:45


£6.00 - £37.00
Act of Defiance

Ulster Hall - Belfast 30 May 2025 19:45


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A Sound Links Celebration
A Sound Links Celebration Read Article
Christoph Altstaedt reflects on the Ulster Orchestra Good Friday concert
Christoph Altstaedt reflects on the Ulster Orchestra Good Friday concert Read Article
Haydn’s 'Seven Last Words': music made for reflection
Haydn’s 'Seven Last Words': music made for reflection Read Article

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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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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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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