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Our next Season concert offers beautiful, uplifting responses to emotional turmoil, and we also get ready to welcome Duggee, Bluey and more of the CBeebies gang to the Waterfront Hall!
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Our 2025/26 Season returned to the Ulster Hall with a bang on 23 January! Jess Gillam was an absolute shining light (quite literally, in an amazing sparkly suit) in a stellar evening of music-making; her performance of Anna Clyne's Glasslands was breathtaking in its virtuosity. If you were there, we hope you had as good a night as we did.
Next up, we turn to music that really tugs on the heartstrings in Far From Home, our Ulster Hall Concert on Friday 6 February. Dvořák's anguish at some tragic family news led to a profoundly moving musical outpouring of emotion in his Cello Concerto, which will be performed by Victor Julien-Laferrière. The Cello Concerto is paired with Brahms's uplifting Second Symphony - read on for a very special reflection on the piece from viola player Richard Guthrie.
We're also getting ready to roll out the musical red carpet for CBeebies royalty, as we get ready to welcome Duggee, Bluey and more of your favourite CBeebies characters and presenters in a multi-media CBeebies Prom, Wildlife Jamboree, on Saturday 28 March in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast and Sunday 29 March in the Millennium Forum, Derry~Londonderry.
Read on to learn more and as always, you can click images and links to go to the Ulster Orchestra website for more information and to book tickets. We'll see you at a concert soon.
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Viola player Richard Guthrie will give you a glimpse into the heart of the Orchestra and how it feels to perform Brahms's Second Symphony
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There's always an extra level of joy for a player when a piece comes along that's a personal favourite - if this video from Richard Guthrie, exploring his love for Brahms's Second Symphony, doesn't infect you with some of that joy for what lies ahead on Friday 6 February, we don't know what will! It's well worth taking a few minutes to enjoy Richard's passion for this wonderful work.
Brahms's Symphony is paired with Dvořák's emotional Cello Concerto. News of his sister-in-law's terminal illness hit Dvořák hard, as she had been his first love, and he wrote this work as the family prepared to return to Bohemia from the USA. The melancholy and anguish of the first two movements give way to a dancing finale, almost as though the composer's mood shifts from despair to hopefulness as he contemplates his return home. Our soloist is Victor Julien-Laferrière, and you can watch a recent clip of him performing the Concerto in the video below.
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An excerpt of the final movement of Dvořák's Cello Concerto, performed by Victor Julien-Laferrière and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
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Looking a little further ahead, we have a treat for all the family as some of your best loved CBeebies presenters and characters are coming to take us all on a Wildlife Jamboree!
Prowl with the tigers, stamp in the snow and hear the desert wind, as well as going on a quest to find one of the tiniest creatures in the world. This multi-media interactive performance combines animation, live action film, on-stage action and live orchestral treats in a magical celebration of the natural world.
We'll be giving two performances of Wildlife Jamboree on Saturday 28 March in Belfast's Waterfront Hall and on Sunday 29 March in the Millennium Forum, Derry~Londonderry. Click the links below to book your tickets!
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