Conductor Nicholas Collon, Tom Service and Aurora Orchestra play Beethoven 7 from Memory tonight at the Royal Albert Hall. Your digital programme notes available here! bbc.co.uk/proms/extra/wn…

Class 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So proud to be part of Let Music Live in Birmingham today. Arts & Culture contribute £10.8 billion a year to the economy, we want to be here to stay. Rishi Sunak Oliver Dowden Musicians' Union Tracy Brabin WY 🌹 Olga FitzRoy #LetMusicLive #LetMusicLiveBrum

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Our interview with Matt Hardy, Principal Timpanist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Teacher at the RBC and Wells Cathedral School, is now live on the PercWorks website! Matt gives us an insight into his education, career and experiences. percworks.co.uk/matthardy

My portrait of Sir Philip Green taken on his Arcadia office balcony on Oxford Street. He was unpleasant and rude to me and my assistant when we arrived to photograph him so I thought.. well if it’s ok for you to act like a prick, it must be ok to make you look like one. So I did.

And now it’s time for our experts in rhythm, At work they’re the engine room, But today they’ll showcase their melodious side, With these classic Christmas tunes. Our percussionists teamed up with some brilliant Royal Birmingham Conservatoire students for today's Advent offering! #Christmas2020

Christmas has come early! Look at our gorgeous new timpani that have arrived at the CBSO Centre today! All beautifully engineered by Aehnelt Perkussion. We can't wait for you to hear them!

Best of luck to the 20 members of the CBSO who are running as many miles as possible in January 2021 to raise money for both Help Musicians UK and the CBSO! We'll be tracking their progress across the month... 🏃🏽 justgiving.com/team/CBSO

Trying to beat our 1250 miles from last year! Any donations very very gratefully received to help our freelance pals during Covid via Help Musicians UK. Happy New Year!

Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’: extreme greed; an insatiable desire for wealth at any cost.

Check out wells.cathedral.school/percussion-day/ places still available. Will be a fun day! Music At Wells Emma Arden Jayn Obvic

Fair play Nigel, taking the knee! Good on you mate 😂. #BlackLivesMatter #ComeOnEngland

If you missed our Royal Birmingham Conservatoire OPEN DAY today you can check out our full session here 🎶youtu.be/WEsjYilVwfk

MIGRANTS WILL BE TURNED BACK TO FRANCE! ...meanwhile well done our Emma, who was born in Canada to a Romanian father and a Chinese mother and moved to London as a two-year-old

📢 The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is searching for a small cohort of emerging conductors to be the CBSO Assistant Conductors throughout 2022. 📢 For info and how to apply 👉 cbso.co.uk/job/assistant-…

Thanks for coming to our CBSO Centre Stage gig last week - it featured Royal Birmingham Conservatoire students playing alongside CBSO players. Check out these epic photos taken by alumni Alex Henshaw 📷 🥁💥🥁

Here is a concrete, little-known example of how Channel 4 provides value to UK citizens **without costing us any money**, and why privatising the broadcaster will 🚨strip this value away🚨 The year was 2010... 🧵🪡 1/15

So is the orchestra.