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  • Charles Wood Collage

    Charles Wood Festival in Armagh, a place of historical notes

    The 'city of saints and scholars' will be filled with seven days of music this month as the enduring event returns with its special concerts, masterclasses and competitions
  • Lillian Bland

    Brian Irvine Strikes Up the Bland

    Inspired by Carnmoney's aviation pioneer, the composer explores the science of creativity with help from the Ulster Orchestra and 200 female singers
  • Kevin O'Connell

    Belfast Music Society Festival

    Philip Hammond takes in two concerts at the Great Hall at Queen's University, featuring new work by Derry composer Kevin O'Connell and a performance by Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov
  • Inon Barnatan

    Music From The Heart

    Domingo Hindoyan stands in to conduct pianist Inon Barnatan at the Ulster Hall
  • Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Performing on period instruments, Frans Brüggen's ambitious ensemble visit Belfast on November 30
  • Rafael Payare

    Ulster Orchestra

    Philip Hammond enjoys the youthful energy of principal conductor Rafael Payare 

  • Trio Rafale

    Swiss three-piece conjure the spirit of their classical forebears in a buoyant performance at Queen's

  • Composer Patrick Doyle at Belfast Film Festival

    Belfast Film Festival welcomes Kenneth Branagh's film score composer to the Waterfront Hall on March 31

  • Wallace Hartley's Violin Arrives at Titanic Belfast

    As Titanic Belfast welcomes the instrument that serenaded the sinking of Titanic, Philip Hammond sheds light on its divisive backstory

  • Portaferry Proms

    Portaferry Presbyterian Church resonates to the elegant sounds of the Endellion String Quartet

  • One City One Book

    Composer Philip Hammond struggles to relate as Glenn Patterson spins vinyl from the Good Vibrations soundtrack

  • Portaferry Proms Return

    Friends of Portaferry Presbyterian Church have successfully re-imagined the classical building as an arts venue

  • Nikolai Demidenko

    Philip Hammond admires the Russian pianist's individual take on works by Chopin and Rakhmaninov at the Ulster Hall

  • Frozen Planet Composer Comes to Ballymena

    Braid Arts Centre welcomes George Fenton as part of the Ballymena Arts Festival

  • The Bear

    NI Opera adapt William Walton's saucy one-act story under the baton of Nicholas Chambers

  • Stephen Hough

    The 'seemingly inexhaustible' pianist has Philip Hammond on the edge of his pew at Rosemary Street First Presbyterian Church

  • Philip Hammond on Writing the Titanic Requiem

    Composer Philip Hammond on devising his 'Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic', and seeing it performed in St Anne's Cathedral

  • Barry Douglas Praises Waterfront Russian Philharmonic Season

    Philip Hammond talks Russian orchestras and festivals with the classical pianist

  • Ulster Orchestra Recital

    Belfast-born conductor Courtney Lewis conducts a fine group of soloists

  • Puccini

    English Touring Opera tackle two of the Italian composer's shorter works

  • Female Conductor JoAnn Falletta Joins Ulster Orchestra

    The newly appointed Principal Conductor is one of the few female conductors on the professional circuit

  • Belfast Philharmonic Society

    Christopher Bell, outgoing artistic director, signs off in style and leaves a lasting legacy

  • An Evening With Julian Lloyd Webber

    Philip Hammond talks with the cellist about his big brother, fulfilling ambitions and leaving his instrument behind for the footie

  • My Festive Favourite: The Fallen Angel

    Philip Hammond finds solace - and an escape from Christmas kitsch - in the tangential paintings of Alexandre Cabanel

  • Chopin's Mazurkas

    Despite an energetic and poetic performance, the Mazurka marathon reveals limitations

  • Badke Quartet

    The award-winning players are impressive, despite some bad tuning

  • Postcards From Dumbworld

    In typically unconventional fashion, composer Brian Irvine continues to confound with his latest opera

  • 3epkano

    The music collective score the silent film Nosferatu in the Crescent Arts Centre

  • Liebeck & Forsberg

    Restraint and extravagance meet in this performance for the young at heart

  • Jan Krzysztof Broja

    Chopin's salon junkies would have been impressed

  • The Met: Live in HD

    Grand opera beamed live from New York to Belfast - the new Metropolitan Opera season begins. Philip Hammond gives his opinion, and talks with Niall Doyle, chief executive of Opera Ireland, about streaming opera to the masses

  • Postcards From Dumbworld

    Composer Brian Irvine returns with another high octane romp through a 'surreal and familiar' world of weirdness. In an exclusive chat with Philip Hammond he talks about his new production and previews some of the tracks

  • Ulster Youth Choir

    Volatile acoustics trump the hard seats at St Anne's Cathedral

  • ConTempo Quartet

    Good extroverted musical style, shame about the 'buzz'

  • Phil Kids

    The next generation of choral champions

  • When Size Matters: The Mulholland Organ

    Philip Hammond gets the low down on the Mulholland Grand Organ at the Ulster Hall

  • Rain Falling Up

    Philip Hammond straps in against the gravitational pull of Brian Irvine and the Ulster Orchestra

  • Michael McHale

    Roaming pianist Michael McHale talks to Philip Hammond about his Romantics repertoire and touring in Northern Ireland

  • Opera Theatre Company

    Philip Hammond makes a reluctant return for the concluding part of OTC's History Of Opera

  • Belfast Music Society Festival

    Philip Hammond talks with BMS concerts manager Pam Smith about this year's theme and programme. Click Play Audio for a podcast interview

  • Opera Theatre Company

    A short history of the world of opera isn't short enough for Philip Hammond

  • A Chopin Festival

    The Ulster Orchestra wheel out the piano for a celebration of Chopin's canon. Click Play Audio for a podcast with chief executive David Byers in conversation with Philip Hammond

  • New Belfast Sinfonia

    Philip Hammond reviews the New Belfast Sinfonia's December concert

  • National Chamber Choir

    Philip Hammond finds little to sing about in the Great Hall at Queen's

  • The Chilingirian String Quartet

    Performing at Portaferry Presbyterian Church, the chamber music stars impress Philip Hammond with music from three classical masters

  • Ulster Orchestra

    Philip Hammond attends a lunchtime recital at the Ulster Hall

  • Polish Passions

    Michal Dworzynski and Tasmin Little storm the stage in an outstanding concert, but do enough people appreciate it?

  • Heaney/Longley

    Philip Hammond is in a minority of one at the Waterfront Hall - or is he?

  • The Mariinsky Orchestra

    Philip Hammond travels back in time to Leningrad, 1942 - but was it worth the effort?

  • Hilliard Ensemble

    Philip Hammond heads south for an exhilarating evening of musicial modernity

  • Belfast Festival: Mariinsky Orchestra

    'You just shouldn’t miss a Gergiev concert. Something special will definitely happen and you have to be there to experience it.'

  • Belfast Festival: Barbara Cook

    Philip Hammond on the living legend of musical theatre as she heads to Ireland for the first time, a day before her 82nd birthday

  • Belfast Piano Trio

    Composer Philip Hammond comes in from the rain for a transcendant performance in Belfast's Rosemary Street church

  • Feis Doire Colmcille

    Composer Philip Hammond reflects on his experience adjudicating the traditional Derry music competition