Public Events

June

• Tuesday 3 June, 7.30pm
  Theatre Royal Concert Coaches with The Hallé - Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

• Thursday 5 June, 7.30pm
  Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with Royal Northern Sinfonia - Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington

July

• Saturday 5 July, 7pm
  JAM on the Marsh Festival: Mealor @50: Symphony No.2 with Britten Sinfonia - St Nicholas, New Romney

• Wednesday 9 July, 6.30pm
  Classically Yours: Music to Watch the World Go By with Manchester Camerata - Withernsea High School, Withernsea

• Thursday 10 July, 6.30pm
  Goole Creates: Downtown in Goole with the Hallé and East Riding Music Service’s new Deltaside ensemble - Delta, Goole Academy

• Saturday 12 July, 7pm
  JAM on the Marsh Festival: Shaker Loops JAM Sinfonia - St George, Ivychurch

• Sunday 13 July, 7.30pm
  Thaxted Festival Closing Night Concert: London Mozart Players - Thaxted Parish Church, Thaxted

Project activity

We have a number of ongoing community and learning projects continuing:

June

• Hear and Now 2025 creative sessions
• Our Music, Our Way workshops with Royal Northern Sinfonia
• Classically Yours in Withernsea and Hornsea with Manchester Camerata
• Goole Creates with the Hallé
• Thaxted Festival Education Project
• Culture Sounds – Action Research sharing of project findings in partnership with Leicestershire Virtual School and Sinfonia Viva
• Young Creatives workshops in Corby led by Yvette Riby-Williams and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Geoffry gets the Jitters and Barbara Throws a Wobbler co-creation workshops in Peterborough with Britten Sinfonia and Peterborough Music Hub
• Space Scratch Symphony creative beatbox, rap and turntablism workshops with Bradley Smith and Mr Shay
• Co(l)laboratory research placement mapping music provision for children and young people in Nottinghamshire in partnership with the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.

July

• Young Creatives workshops in Corby led by Yvette Riby-Williams and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Geoffry gets the Jitters and Barbara Throws a Wobbler co-creation workshops in Peterborough with Britten Sinfonia and Peterborough Music Hub
• Space Scratch Symphony creative beatbox, rap and turntablism day and side-by-side performance on 2nd July with Opera North orchestra, Bradley Smith and Mr Shay with Inspire Culture and the University of Nottingham
• Co(l)laboratory research placement mapping music provision for children and young people in Nottinghamshire in partnership with the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.

Find out more about our projects

On-Demand

• Tea Break Episode Eighteen In the latest episode of OL Tea Break, Stuart Bruce, our Senior Creative Producer, sits down with David Savill, Artistic Director of Age Exchange, one of the partners behind our Good Company project. They discuss the extensive work of Age Exchange and the positive impact of reminiscence arts in empowering neglected groups to share their stories through creative expression. They reflect on how the Good Company project with Orchestras Live and other key partners has developed a new approach to person-centred dementia care. Watch Tea Break episode eighteen
• Musical Journeys: A Day at the Pond / Mausam This is a multi-part digital musical resource for early years children. Featuring an ensemble from Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and South Asian Arts-uk and narrated by Seetal Kaur, children can immerse themselves in music and dance through the world of the pond. Register for the resource
• Destinies Film"Destinies" is a co-created filmed theatre piece created with young people with care experience and unaccompanied asylum seekers across Derby and Derbyshire in partnership with Sinfonia Viva, Derbyshire Virtual School and Orchestra Live. Ava Hunt Theatre produced "Destinies" across a two year period 2019 to 2021 navigating the Covid restrictions. Young people worked with artists specialising in writing, character creation, performing, animation, musical composition and lyric writing exploring how to trust, make new friends and what is home - 'Better to be friends together than strangers alone'. Watch The Destinies film