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

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...

📢 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...

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

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! 💃 🎶

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...

📢 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

🎸 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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

📢📢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...

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.

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.

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

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!

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...

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!

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 🎈

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 🎶

📢 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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “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.

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.

‘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.

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

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.

‘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)...