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Funding will improve facilities and provide a community hub

From TV to print to social media, Crescendo has been making noise

A look back at Daniele’s five years as the Orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Music Director. 

The ABO and its 200 member organisations, alongside Classic FM, Classical Music Magazine, LIVE, UK Music, the Musicians’ Union and the Independent Society of Musicians, today launch a major three-year campaign to celebrate the power and value of classical music and the UK’s orchestras.

An update on our Belfast 2024 project celebrating Townsend Street as it moves into its next phase.

We’re looking for your stories and memories of Townsend Street for an exciting project as part of Belfast 2024.

The workshops have reached over 10,000 children.

The music sessions at Blossom Children’s Ward are supported by Ulster Carpets.

A look back at the women composers, conductors and soloists we’ve recently worked with.

February 2024 marks the beginning of the new lunar year and Spring Festival, which is celebrated around the world by many cultures.

Our new merchandise has something for everyone!  

An allegrissimo look back at the Ulster Orchestra’s 2023.

An allegrissimo look back at the Ulster Orchestra’s 2023.

On Friday 15 December the Belfast Campus of Ulster University (UU) came alive with the sound of music as it hosted a Christmas Concert to officially launch its new partnership with the Ulster Orchestra.   

Deloitte will support all of this year’s Schools’ Concerts, as well as a season concert and a year-long corporate membership.

At the end of August 2023, the Ulster Orchestra travelled to France with conductor Fiona Monbet to perform at Festival Berlioz, a yearly classical music festival that takes place in La Côte-Saint-André, the hometown of the composer Hector Berlioz.

‘Basoon and Beyond’ a UO and EA Music Service partnership project, has been nominated for Classic FM’s ‘Best Music Learning Initiative 2023’ – and we need your vote. 

We are pleased to announce a new role for Ioana Petcu-Colan, former Associate Leader of the Orchestra.

The Ulster Orchestra’s 2023/24 Season is now on sale and you’re invited to escape your everyday as the Orchestra tells stories of magicians, princes, pirates, Greek gods, dragons, marionettes, a hungry wolf – and much, much more! 

You’re invited to our lunchtime rehearsal! 

We have pleasure in announcing that the application process is now open for our Professional Experience Scheme in the 2023/24 Season. 

Ulster Orchestra announces an exciting collaboration with Neil Hannon  

On Friday 10 March 2023, the Ulster Orchestra and their audience embraced an extraordinary combination and celebration of music from South and West Africa, alongside our own orchestral tradition; in an evening of ‘Boundary Breaking Fireworks’.

The 2022/23 Season is a musical menagerie for the senses. The Ulster Orchestra invites you to Immerse Yourself this season as we celebrate our artists, composers and conductors.  This week, Clare Hammond joins us to perform two new works, including Orpheus by Canadian composer Samy Moussa. Montreal-born Moussa, currently based in Germany, wrote the work in 2017. 

“So much has happened in the world since I met the Ulster Orchestra in April 2019, and I am immensely looking forward to returning to Belfast soon to collaborate with these inspiring musicians again.”​  

A new generation of bassoonists visited orchestra rehearsals at the Waterfront Hall