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Royal Northern Sinfonia I – Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence
We launch our new, multi-season partnership with the North East’s world-class chamber orchestra with an evening rich emotions and vivid contrasts in bold, theatrical chamber music by three of Russia’s greatest composers.
10 October 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
John Snijders (piano): Iberian Nights
An evening of lyrical intimacy, full of infinite refinement, brought to you by two major composers to come out of Catalonia. Frederic Mompou has long been a well kept secret. His modest, highly personal music, often reminiscent of that of his friend Erik Satie is only now being recognised as one the true originals within the 20th century piano repertoire.
22 October 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Concert Room, Music Department, Palace Green
- Music
- Performance
- Music Department
Svetlana Rudenko: Dreaming with Mixed Reality
Following their MUSICON debut in 2023, DreaMR (Dreaming with Mixed Reality) by Haunted Planet Studios return to Durham with their dizzying fusion of art, music and consciousness science.
19 November 2025
7:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Music Department, Palace Green
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- Music Department
James Weeks: weatherworld quartets
We are delighted to welcome back the internationally-renowned Bozzini Quartet of Montreal to MUSICON for a special concert featuring the premiere of James Weeks’ major new work, weatherworld quartets.
25 November 2025
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham
- Music
- Performance
- Music Department
Richard Rijnvos: lettura del labirinto
MUSICON is thrilled to welcome virtuoso harpsichordist Jane Chapman to give the UK premiere of Richard Rijnvos’ major new work.
21 January 2026
7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham
- Music
- Performance
- Music Department
Royal Northern Sinfonia II: Beethoven’s Septet
Royal Northern Sinfonia, directed by dynamic violinist Maria Włoszczowska, return for their second visit of the season in an evening of music packed full of wit, sparkle and passion.
23 January 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
Musica Antica Rotherhithe
Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice’s public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years.
17 February 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church
- Music
- Performance
- Music Department
Royal Northern Sinfonia III: Schubert and Haydn
For their final visit of the season, RNS bring two Viennese Classical masterworks to Durham. Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, heard tonight in its well-known arrangement for string quartet, moves with reflective grace: a series of slow, searching movements inspired by the final phrases spoken by Jesus Christ on the cross.
08 May 2026
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music