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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 23h

Please join us in giving a big warm BSO welcome to Lucie Sprague, our new Principal Oboe, who began this week ✨ Lucie studied at the Royal Academy of Music and previously held the position of Principal Oboe for the Welsh National Opera.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢📢 Have you heard? Our upcoming two-year Road to Joy celebration promises a deep dive into one of music’s most iconic and intriguing disruptors: Ludwig van Beethoven. The landmark series comes as we deepen our partnership with Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will you be visiting Bournemouth over the course of this weekend to enjoy Arts by the Sea Festival? Or perhaps some of the many spaces throughout the @mybcpcouncil.bsky.social region celebrating creativity over the coming weeks? @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @pierjournal.bsky.social

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Huge congratulations to our new Calleva Assistant Conductor, Michal Oren, on her win at the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Birmingham, this weekend. Michal won both First Prize and the Orchestra’s Prize at the Competition, which was streamed live on MediciTV 🥳

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The BSO Music-Making Competition (sponsored by Lark Music) is now closed! Thanks so much for entering 🙏

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Are you wondering which BSO concert to come to this September? We’ve made a handy list of September highlights to help you decide ✨ There’s music taking place in Barnstaple, Bridport, Exeter, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Truro, Swanage and Weymouth! bsolive.com/news/6-note-... #music #september

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Violin player in rehearsals, smiling and looking forward

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

According to recent research, commissioned by London Concertante, ‘more than a third of adults say they regret not continuing to make or study music when they were younger’.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“…a barnstorming performance” says Tom Wickson on last week’s BBC Proms performance at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social with conductor Adam Hickox and cellist Maximilian Hornung.

Cellist Maximilian Hornung and Conductor Adam Hickox join hands as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra stand behind them onstage at the Bristol Proms

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Playing to a 120-strong audience at Bradford-on-Avon Library last month was so special! 🎺🎻🎹🎷 Musicians joined players from Bournemouth NOYO and BSO Resound to perform an inspiring programme on the theme of ‘Dusk to Dawn’ 🌄

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have you met our fantastic line-up of judges for this year’s BSO Music-Making Competition, which is sponsored by Lark Music? 🪄 Here are a few inspiring words from some of them about what they’re looking for… so you can glean a couple of handy hints and tricks 😉

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📢📢If you’re close to Weymouth or Barnstaple prepare for an exciting programme showcasing the beauty of the violin this September. We’ll join star violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen 🎻 and our new Calleva Assistant Conductor Michal Oren 🪄 for a moving programme of popular classics charting a journey...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We're pleased to announce an exciting opportunity offering four children (aged 9-13) the chance to join the BSO on stage as soloist for 'Walking in the Air'! ☃️🎤 Applications are now open, so if you know a talented young singer...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

YouTube star and guitarist Dagan Wilkin is one of the brilliant judges for the BSO Music-Making Competition (sponsored by Lark Music)… and he dropped in to say a few words about the competition.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Were you at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social for the weekend’s BBC Proms performances? Don’t miss the chance to listen again to our concert with Maximilian Hornung and Adam Hickox, it’s presented by Sarah Walker and is on BBC Sounds now: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... [📸: Soul Media]

two musicians hold hands in the air at the front of a concert stage with full orchestra behind them as they accept applause from an enthusiastic audience

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In just over a week, we’ll return to the BBC Proms - at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social ✨ Join us for a programme of music by Shostakovich, Gubaidulina and Rachmaninov. Read all about it here ➡️ bsolive.com/news/sparkli... @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

There’s just one week to go until our Southampton-based community choir, BSO Voices, takes to the stage at St Michael and All Angels Church in Lyndhurst. On Saturday 1 August the choir serenades with a selection of summer songs ☀️ including 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' by Simon and Garfunkel...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

📢 We are thrilled to announce two concerts at @mayflower.org.uk in Southampton! Jedis and Siths, prepare for an out-of-this-world concert celebrating Star Wars 50th Anniversary on Sunday 3 October. www.mayflower.org.uk/whats-on/bso...

A wide shot from the balcony of the Mayflower, showing the orchestra on stage in the background as the audience watches on from the stalls and circle

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just announced! The BSO's Music-Making Competition (sponsored by Lark Music) is coming back… and we're calling to hear your music, your way. Competition opens 14 July. Full details ➡️ bsolive.com/press-releas... @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @southcoastmusic.bsky.social

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Come on, let us entertain you! 🎤 Let the world see what you have got when we bring it all back to the 90s! Join us at Meyrick Park on Saturday 8 August and let your body groove to the music and live la vida loca! 💃 🎶

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Our friends at The Old School House (TOSH) are hosting a Garden Celebration on Sunday – and we’re so proud that weekly community music group features. If you’re in Boscombe don’t miss the chance to pop along and support them. There will be lots of other lovely things too including...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢 Attention, teachers! You can book to join us for our FREE 'Explore the Orchestra' schools’ concert at @exeter.ac.uk 's Great Hall (Friday 22 January 2027, 10.15am and 1.30pm) and Portsmouth Guildhall (Thursday 25 February 2027, 1.30pm) 📸 Corin Messer

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🎸 The search has begun for the next cohort of BSO Young Associates! If you’re a young creative who would like to build a career in community music-making we’d love to hear from you ✨ This programme provides participants with the opportunity to hone their skills, through practical experience...

A line of BSO Young Associates and BSO Associate musicians stand and sit in front of a white background in a hall, they are smiling and laughing and hold instruments including a drum, a violin, an oboe, a guitar, a trumpet, a keyboard, a percussion instrument and a flute

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just announced 📢 Popular training programme returns to empower next generation community music leaders ✨ The search is on for our next cohort of BSO Young Associates! We’ll be supporting more brilliant young people from the South West with training, mentoring and practical experience...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We had a brilliant time with our Principal Guest Conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède and organist Anna Lapwood at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social last Wednesday 💪 Hearing Poulenc’s beautiful Organ Concerto brought to life by Anna – and experiencing the audience’s reaction – was a memorable moment.

Anna Lapwood plays organ on Bristol Beacon Stage

Chloé Van Soeterstède conducts orchestra and Anna Lapwood on Bristol Beacon stage

Anna Lapwood and Orchestra stand up and bow to audience on Bristol Beacon stage

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

To celebrate the launch of the new partnership between the BSO and Care South, BSO supporters and guests of Marjorie House were recently treated to a string quartet performance – featuring BSO musicians – in the beautiful garden at Marjorie House, overlooking Poole Harbour...

A group of four musicians play string instruments on a stage inside a tent

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The BSO Brass Ensemble visited Poole’s Alderney Hospital to perform a special celebratory summer concert last week 🎺 bsolive.com/news/smiles-...

Musicians of the BSO, holding their instruments, smile for photograph in hospital ward with hospital staff.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We can’t wait to welcome audiences to The Spire, Poole, this Saturday (3pm) when we share the brilliant music-making of the Bournemouth NOYO ensemble this term. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear this fantastic youth ensemble – it’s free to attend and everyone is welcome.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

5,275 children and their teachers came to Lighthouse, Poole last week to experience four performances of ‘Explore the Orchestra: Sing Out!’ - with Enyi Okpara, James Redwood, and Felicity Buckland.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📢📢Tickets for our 2026/27 Poole, Solent and Exeter concerts are on sale now… We’re thrilled to be returning to Lighthouse Poole, University of Exeter's Great Hall, Portsmouth Guildhall, Fareham Live and many more venues across the South West… bsolive.com/whats-on/bso...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Did you hear our Chief Executive, Dougie, and Head of BSO Participate, Lucy, on BBC Radio Solent this morning? They spoke to both Rick Jackson and Steve Harris ahead of our four performances of ‘Explore the Orchestra: Sing Out!’ taking place today and tomorrow at Lighthouse, Poole.

Person faces an audience of young school pupils and shines a torch in their hands: the audience is impressed.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We bid farewell to Artist-in-Residence Roderick Williams, following two stunning final performances. In his concluding week, Roddy also made a surprise visit in a local primary school assembly and to Southampton Hospitals Charity to perform for staff, visitors and patients of all ages.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just announced! 📢 Road to Joy: we’re touring 100+ concerts across the South West in 2026/27 as our two-year Beethoven series begins, welcoming: 🎶 Thomas Adès – Celebrated Composer 🎹 Boris Giltburg – Artist-in-Residence 📺 Lark Music – Digital Concert Sponsor

Montage image of artists. Along the top (left to right): Mark Wigglesworth, Evelyn Glennie, Chloé van Soeterstède. Along the bottom (left to right): Michal Oren, Boris Giltburg, Thomas Adès.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Our new Calleva Assistant Conductor Michal Oren won a thrilling competition just a couple of weeks ago, following stiff competition from the very best next generation conductors 🪄 Following a vote from the Orchestra, she was appointed our Calleva Assistant Conductor for the 2026/27 season!

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Our Head of Development, Jackie Tanner, visited Marjorie House – Care South’s beautiful new home overlooking Poole Harbour – at the recent launch of a new 12-month series. “A new partnership between the BSO and Care South has taken its first step: a year-long programme of shared music-making...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you can’t make it to Poole this week, be sure to tune in for our programme of Bax, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams: straight from the Lighthouse, Poole and into your living room!

Over the shoulder shot of BSO rehearsals, you can see the backs of some our violin players as they play under the baton of Enyi Okpara. Enyi is raising his baton and is in the centre of the shot

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Will you be joining us at the BBC Proms in Bristol this year? 🌟 We’ve got a sparkling programme this August at Bristol Beacon with conductor Adam Hickox and cellist Maximilian Hornung. The concert coincides with the city’s Balloon Fiesta too, if you want to combine events 🎈

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

We had a brilliant time celebrating the transition from dusk to dawn with some of the youngest pupils in Somerset, when we gathered with 1569 pupils and teachers at Yeovil’s Westlands Entertainment Centre 🎶

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📢 Just announced: Michal Oren is announced as our 2026/27 Calleva Assistant Conductor. The news follows two days of auditions at Lighthouse, Poole during which seven shortlisted candidates competed for the position. The winner was selected by a vote from the Orchestra’s musicians.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Hartmann’s work has an overwhelming personality, delivered with shattering energy in Pentatone’s world premiere recording” is what BBC Music Magazine says of our new release of Thomas de Hartmann’s lost opera, Esther – and it’s this month’s ‘Opera Choice’, too.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Have you ever experienced the power of a full symphony orchestra and chorus in concert? Tonight, we unite with our Southampton-based community choir, BSO Voices, for ‘Baroque Majesty’ at the O2 Guildhall Southampton. Enjoy iconic music from the Baroque period.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

‘How To Train Your Dragon in Concert’ is on sale now! Join us – in January 2027 – at Lighthouse, Poole on Friday 15th (7pm) or Saturday 16th (3pm) for a screening of the animated classic, with its Oscar®-nominated score performed live by the BSO.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Just announced: we’ve partnered with the beautiful Poole-based care home, Marjorie House to bring a monthly musical boost to residents, families, and staff. #CareSouth #MarjorieHouse #FoodFunFriendship @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @mybcpcouncil.bsky.social

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Don’t miss your last chance to hear us at Exeter University Great Hall as tonight we’re bringing our Exeter season to a close! Conductor Mark Wigglesworth is joined by soloists Stephen Waarts and Timothy Ridout for this fantastic concert.

Blurred background of the orchestra performing with Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth in focus as he raises his baton.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

‘All the most wildly romantic concertos you can think of rolled into one huge pianistic feat’ says Gramophone Magazine on Hyperion’s new boxed set ‘The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 1991-2007 edition’. We feature (on Vol.14)...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Were you at @bristolbeacon.bsky.social last Friday, when we celebrated a day of symphonic music – first with our ‘Explore the Orchestra’ schools’ concert, and later an evening of the music of John Williams?

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We are breezing across the South West with another of our BSO On Your Doorstep concerts at the Devizes Corn Exchange on Friday 15 May. 🍃 Enjoy a celebration of the wind instrument with our Wind Octet who will bring harmony to the works of Mozart, Debussy, Gipps and more. bsolive.com/events/wind-...

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra! 🎥 It’s your last chance to enjoy John Williams Blockbusters so come along to the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton this evening, an enjoy your favourite film scores brought to life!

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Tonight, we transport you from @bristolbeacon.bsky.social to Hogwarts, via a WW2 battlefield, a prehistoric theme park and a galaxy far, far way! Pete Harrison conducts this celebration of the most prolific and successful film-score composer ever... 📸(c)Soul Media/Jessie Myers

Audience shot of the orchestra stood on stage at the end of the concert, the audience are on their feet, applauding

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Did you enjoy last night’s concert at Lighthouse, Poole? If you missed it, we are bringing ‘Triumph Over Adversity’ to Exeter University Great Hall tonight, with Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth and pianist Boris Giltburg ➡️ bsolive.com/events/trium... 📸(c)Soul Media/Jessie Myers

Over the shoulder shot of Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra @bournemouthso.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Will you be joining us as we celebrate a programme of ‘Triumph Over Adversity’ tonight at Lighthouse, Poole? Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth conducts this exciting music by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Sibelius – featuring soloist Boris Giltburg.

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