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Events

Discover classical, contemporary and traditional live music events, performed at stunning historic venues across Durham. You can also view these events in calendar format.

Royal Northern Sinfonia I: Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence

Friday 10th October: Join the North East’s world-class chamber orchestra as they perform bold, theatrical chamber music by three of Russia’s greatest composers.
A group of string players performing together

John Snijders: Iberian Nights

Wednesday 22 October: An evening of lyrical intimacy, full of infinite refinement, brought to you by two major composers to come out of Catalonia.
Goya EL Amor y la Muerte

Svetlana Rudenko: Dreaming with Mixed Reality

Wednesday 19 November: DreaMR (Dreaming with Mixed Reality) return to Durham with their dizzying fusion of art, music and consciousness science.
A pianist and a person in a leather jacket wearing a VR headset in a concert hall

James Weeks: weatherworld quartets

Tuesday 25 November: the Bozzini Quartet of Montreal premiere of James Weeks’ major new work, ‘weatherworld quartets’.
weatherworld

Richard Rijnvos: lettura del labirinto

Wednesday 21 January: virtuoso harpsichordist Jane Chapman gives the UK premiere of Richard Rijnvos’ major new work with film.
An image of Venice through an archway, with the view faded and the archway in full colour

Royal Northern Sinfonia II: Beethoven’s Septet

Friday 23 January: Royal Northern Sinfonia, directed by dynamic violinist Maria Włoszczowska, return for an evening of music packed full of wit, sparkle and passion.
A woman playing the violin

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

Tuesday 17 February: Musica Antica Rotherhithe play music from Venice’s mid-seventeenth century public theatres, much of which has lain unperformed for over 350 years.
A woman in dramatic stage lighting gesturing

Royal Northern Sinfonia III: Schubert and Haydn

Friday 8 May: For their final visit of the season, the Royal Northern Sinfonia bring two Viennese Classical masterworks to Durham.
Four string players standing in a lobby