Over the next three years, we’re thrilled to be bringing all that we do to Barrow-in-Furness.
Working in collaboration with a wide range of fantastic partners including The Forum, BarrowFull, Cumbria Music Education Hub, North West Music Academy, Westmorland & Furness Council, and with the support of Arts Council England we’ll be bringing something for everyone, whether you’re a fan of classical music or this is your first time hearing an orchestra.
The Orchestra and Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan will be bringing you a stunning selection of show-stopping performances and inspirational music-making projects. There’ll also be events specially designed for under-5s, chamber music concerts, dementia-friendly performances, and collaborations with local arts organisations.
And that's not all - we're putting together a youth programme that'll grow every year, working with teachers across Barrow to enrich music education through workshops and live performances in schools.
You can catch us all around town – The Forum, Barrow Town Hall, Barrow Library, St Mary of Furness Church and yet to be revealed pop-up locations – so come along and get involved. We can’t wait to see you.
Coming up
Friday 29 November 7pm
Mozart’s Oboe Concerto
Coronation Hall, Ulverston
Mendelssohn Symphony No.4, ‘Italian’
Mozart Oboe Concerto
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
Poulenc Sinfonietta
Karel Deseure conductor
Helena Mackie oboe
Winter’s drawing in but here at Coronation Hall it’s summer all over again! Mendelssohn’s heart turned somersaults when he arrived in the sunshine of Italy, but today his Italian symphony is just the starting point. Karel Deseure conducts Ravel’s dreamy Spanish fantasy, Poulenc’s witty Sinfonietta, and Mozart’s ebullient Oboe Concerto – with the Orchestra’s very own Helena Mackie in the spotlight. It’s music that practically dances for joy.
Tickets £25, Concessions £23, Under-25s £9
Friday 31 January 12.30pm & 2.30pm
Dementia-Friendly Concert: By The Fireside
Barrow Library
Programme to feature works by De Falla, Handel and Vaughan Williams.
Claire Henry presenter
Members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra perform a concert of popular classics. This programme has been designed to be an informal, engaging and enjoyable concert for people living with dementia, along with their friends, family and carers.
The concert takes place in Barrow Library, which is fully accessible. The performance space will be made as comfortable as possible for the audience.
The concert will last for approximately 1 hour.
Tickets: £5
Saturday 1 February 1pm & 2.45pm
Under-5s Concert: The Musical Professor
Barrow Library
Claire Henry presenter
We’re inviting you to come along and join the Musical Professors in their laboratory! Claire Henry will work with their musicmaking machines to create musical experiments with players from our Orchestra. These concerts introduce our youngest audiences to the different sounds of the orchestra through lively storytelling and musical fun.
Barrow Library is fully accessible, and our audiences will enjoy wriggling and jiggling along to the music from comfy floormats.
The concert will last for approximately 1 hour and seating is unreserved.
Tickets £5, Children £3
Friday 21 March 7pm
Beethoven in Barrow
The Forum
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’
Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Veronika Eberle violin
Ludwig van Beethoven saw red when his hero Napoleon betrayed the revolution, tearing up the score of his Eroica symphony. That same energy pulses through every bar of this game-changing work, and Domingo Hindoyan certainly won’t hold back tonight. But Beethoven was a poet, too, and when Veronika Eberle plays his radiant Violin Concerto, you’ll hear just how beautiful music can be.
Tickets £25, Concessions £23, Under-25s £9
FREE EVENT
Saturday 22 March 11am
Conducting Showdown!
The Forum
Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Ever wondered what a conductor does? As part of Barrow's Festival of Colours, come meet Venezuelan maestro Domingo Hindoyan and members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Learn the tricks of the trade with some of the very best in the business!
This event is free and unticketed – just turn up!
There is a booking fee of £1 per ticket. There is an additional fee of £1.25 per booking online.