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SUMMARY:Wayne Terence Dobb
DESCRIPTION:The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) today announces its 2026–27 Season: a year of artistic ambition\, civic pride and musical breadth under Music Director Kazuki Yamada. The season brings together major symphonic journeys – including Beethoven and Mahler cycles – with new commissions\, international touring and landmark moments such as the CBSO Chorus’s 1000th performance. Looking both forwards and back\, the orchestra returns to Coventry Cathedral for Britten’s War Requiem\, while a wide‑ranging programme that embraces film\, popular music and cross‑genre collaborations reflects the CBSO’s commitment to sharing exceptional music with the widest possible audiences. \nShaped by extensive listening to the people of Birmingham\, the 2026-27 Season responds to a city where music plays a vital role in daily life\, with 96% of residents saying it is important to them. Research also revealed a strong desire for live music and shared cultural experiences\, with more than half of respondents valuing a ‘great night out’ with family and friends\, alongside a growing appetite for diverse and cross‑genre programming. Embracing scale\, risk and joy in equal measure\, the new season opens on 17 September 2026. \nLooking ahead to the new season\, Emma Stenning\, CEO at the CBSO comments: “Over the past two years we have listened closely to the people of Birmingham – through research\, audience feedback and the work of our Community Board – and that dialogue has shaped a season designed to offer something for everyone. We continue our Mahler journey and present a complete Beethoven symphony cycle with our Music Director Kazuki Yamada\, while welcoming Ilan Volkov as our new Principal Guest Conductor and Collaborative Artists Jess Gillam\, Alice Sara Ott and Rushil Ranjan\, each bringing fresh energy and ideas to the CBSO. Our return to Coventry Cathedral for Britten’s War Requiem will be a defining moment of the season\, sharing a powerful message of peace that feels especially resonant today. Alongside this\, film and pop concerts\, cross‑cultural collaborations and our family programming allow us to broaden our audiences\, reflect the diversity of our city and invest in the next generation of music‑lovers. We hope you’ll join us for a truly special year of music‑making.” \n  \nCBSO 2026-27 Season at a glance: 10 highlights \n  \n\nWar Requiem returns to Coventry Cathedral \n\nFor Remembrance Day\, Kazuki Yamada brings Britten’s humanitarian masterpiece home to Coventry Cathedral\, with a plea for peace as resonant now as the day it was written. A timeless\, intensely moving meditation on man’s inhumanity to man\, the CBSO gave the world premiere of the piece at Coventry Cathedral in 1962 and the Orchestra’s return in 2026 also marks 50-years since Benjamin Britten’s death. This performance will be followed by an international tour. \n  \n\nMahler symphonies to open and close the season\n\nKazuki Yamada and the CBSO continue their Mahler cycle: a signature artistic journey that explores music grappling with life\, death and renewal. The 2026-27 Season opens with Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony\, in a concert which also celebrates the 1000th performance of the CBSO Chorus. The season will close in June 2027 with Mahler’s 3rd Symphony. \n\nThree Collaborative Artists redefining what an orchestra can do\n\nThis season sees the CBSO welcome Alice Sara Ott\, Jess Gillam and Rushil Ranjan as Collaborative Artists\, who each offer fresh perspectives and exciting programming across genres\, venues and formats. Pianist Alice Sara Ott brings major concerto and chamber performances at home and on tour\, saxophonist Jess Gillam appears as a soloist\, presenter and creative collaborator across concerts and education projects\, and composer‑producer Rushil Ranjan expands the orchestra’s sound world through his genre‑defying Orchestral Qawwali Project. \n\nBeethoven’s full symphony cycle\n\nMarking 200 years since Beethoven’s death\, Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO will perform all nine symphonies in 2027\, celebrating one of the most famous and enduring symphonic cycles of all time alongside performances of the Violin Concerto and a wide‑ranging programme of chamber music. \n\nA major commitment to new music\n\nIn addition to exciting projects with CBSO’s Collaborative Artists – Alice Sara Ott\, Jess Gillam and Rushil Ranjan – the CBSO’s first Composer in Residence\, GRAMMY-nominated composer Anna Clyne\, is central to the season; including the world premiere of her new viola concerto ‘Resonant Forms’ with Lawrence Power\, a performance of PALETTE by the CBSO Orchestral Residency scheme\, and a Decca recording of Glasslands with Jess Gillam and Alpesh Chauhan. \n\nIlan Volkov debut season\n\nThe CBSO will welcome Ilan Volkov for his first season as Principal Guest Conductor and repertoire will feature Bruckner’s 7th Symphony\, Messiaen’s Turangalila and a Shakespeare inspired programme. \n\nFilm and pop music concerts\n\nFrom Classic FM Hall of Fame and Jules Buckley’s Quincy Jones celebration to Guitar Heroes\, ABBA and Home Alone – the CBSO season is packed with popular family-orientated concerts that celebrate milestones in popular culture. There will also be concerts that celebrate special anniversaries; such as  50 years of Star Wars: A New Hope and the 20thanniversary of Casino Royale in partnership with esk live and B:Music; and 25 years of the legendary film\, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring presented by The Flying Music Company at BP Pulse Live. \n\nKazuki Yamada’s generous and joyful programming\n\nThe CBSO’s Music Director\, Kazuki Yamada also champions programmes that invite audiences in through joy and familiarity this season\, treating much‑loved repertoire with the same care\, imagination and musical rigour as the symphonic canon. From a festive ‘double Nutcracker’ that sets Tchaikovsky alongside Duke Ellington’s sparkling reinvention\, to a Night at the Opera with an all-star cast\, celebrating the enduring power of great melody and drama. \n\nConcerts for young children and families \n\nFrom toddlers to teenagers\, the CBSO’s family and Notelets concerts are presented by CBSO musicians and designed to remove barriers and spark a lifelong connection with music. Created especially for under‑6s\, Notelets are joyful\, interactive performances where children can sing\, dance and discover orchestral instruments for the very first time\, supported by free creative activities and opportunities to meet the musicians. Across the season\, BSL‑interpreted family concerts further widen access\, ensuring orchestral music is welcoming and inclusive for audiences of all ages. \n\nA season that embraces scale\, risk and joy in equal measure\n\nFrom vast\, ambitious works such as Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony and Weinberg’s rarely performed operatic epic The Passenger\, to symphonic film\, jazz‑inflected reimaginings and large‑scale popular orchestral projects\, the season demonstrates a willingness to programme at full stretch – artistically\, logistically and imaginatively. Rather than separating the serious from the celebratory\, the CBSO places demanding contemporary and 20th‑century masterpieces alongside exuberant\, high‑craft crossover\, asserting that ambition\, curiosity and pleasure can and should coexist on the same stage. \n  \nKazuki Yamada\, Music Director\, CBSO\, comments: “It brings me so much happiness to be looking forward to another season with this wonderful orchestra and our fantastic audiences. And what a year of music making it’s going to be: 18 concerts at home and another 21 across the UK and around the world. Wherever we perform\, I am always proud to share the CBSO’s incredible energy\, openness and spirit with our audiences.” \n  \nThe CBSO would also like to thank the many guest musicians\, soloists and ensembles that will join them for the 2026–27 season. For full details\, visit the CBSO website. \n 
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SUMMARY:Sarah Yeo - The Circles Of The Grain Album Tour
DESCRIPTION:SARAH YEO – THE CIRCLES OF THE GRAIN TOUR UK  \nSolo artist Sarah Yeo is back with her new Album entitled “The Circles Of The Grain” This record is the sixth release for this stalwart performer on the British music scene\, with her 2024 album “the Wisdom Of The Wind” receiving high acclaim from audiences and press alike. “A gloriously tuneful\, thought provoking gem of an album” **** RnR magazine.  \n  \nThis 13 track album has a more stripped down sound from the last\, and Sarah’s “multi faceted” songwriting and subtle guitar playing are the perfect vehicle for Sarah’s incredible “Honeyed vocal” to shine. The album is once again produced by George Arnold at Rapunzel Studios and their collective vision of ‘Atmospheric acoustic’ has very much delivered to spine tingling effect. The title was track inspired by watching her cousin carving wood out in New York last year\, and Sarah realised that woodworking is very much like songwriting\, “you just keep chipping away until the song is formed”.  \n  \nThe rest of the tracks are all in some way connected to the theme of the circle of life..with each track drenched in emotion and inspired by both personal experiences and thoughts and the lives of others around her.  \n  \nSarah’s career so far has taken her to many amazing venues in the UK and USA including the Birmingham Symphony Hall. Blackpool Winter Gardens\, and she’s recently shared stages with the likes of Roswell\, Sam Kelly\, Kezia Gill\, The Wandering Hearts & Ward Thomas\, and performed a pre show for the UK 2023 Bonnie Raitt tour.  \nHer music has led her to recently being placed as a finalist in the International and UK songwriting competitions\, which is judged by major worldwide artists\, and over the years gained many local and national radio plays and interviews.  \n  \nSarah’s delivery in a live setting must be heard\, possessing a voice as “smooth as chocolate” that leaves audiences spellbound. On the ‘Circles’ tour you will hear these new tracks alongside some of Sarah’s existing catalogue of beautiful music.  \nThe Circles Of The Grain Album is released 4th Sept 2026 \n The tour starts in Totnes\, Devon 11th September.  \n  \n“Great Voice!” SHOW OF HANDS \n  \n “Beautiful” EDWINA HAYES \n  \n Beautifully atmospheric Folk” BBC RADIO \n  \n “Sarah is my favourite Singer” Late Jim Marshall – Marshall AMPs \n  \n “Plenty to Tickle the Ear” Maverick Magazine 4 stars \n  \n “Sarah Is a rare talent\, a masterclass in songwriting and connection” LOUD MASTERING  \n  \nNOT SPECIFICALLY A CHILDRENS SHOW. UNDER 18’S ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT
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