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£8.00 - £19.50
BBC Proms: 100 Years of the Shipping Forecast

Ulster Hall - Belfast
08 August 2025 21:00

The Proms celebrates the centenary of the Shipping Forecast with presenters from Radio 4’s Continuity team, music inspired by the oceans and the elements, and a new work by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his group LYR.


£8.00 - £12.00
On Your Doorstep: Summer, Shimmer, Perfect Days in Bangor Abbey

Bangor Abbey - Bangor 20 June 2025 19:00


£15.00
On Your Doorstep: Summer, Shimmer, Perfect Days at Seamus Heaney HomePlace

Seamus Heaney HomePlace - Bellaghy 21 June 2025 19:30


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UO Playback: An Expanded Orchestra, 1981
UO Playback: An Expanded Orchestra, 1981 Read Article
Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony: a love letter in sound
Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony: a love letter in sound Read Article
UO Playback: In the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, 1986
UO Playback: In the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, 1986 Read Article

Sound Links - A celebration of Townsend Street

Find out more about Ulster Orchestra, Townsend Enterprise Park and Zeppo Arts' project to explore and celebrate the history of Townsend Street, Belfast, as part of the city's Belfast 2024 celebrations.

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Learning, Community & Engagement

The Ulster Orchestra’s Learning and Community Engagement programme helps us to achieve our vision of enriching lives through music. Since 2016, all of our musicians have been delivering outreach and education activity as part of their orchestral schedule – the only symphony orchestra in the UK to work in this way.

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Who We Are

Founded in 1966, the Ulster Orchestra has been at the forefront of musical life in Northern Ireland and the Orchestra’s full-time musicians form the region’s only professional symphony orchestra.
 
The Orchestra has a distinguished line of past principal conductors including Bryden Thomson, Vernon Handley, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Dimitry Sitkovetsky, Thierry Fischer, Kenneth Montgomery, JoAnn Faletta, Rafael Payare and, most recently, Daniele Rustioni.

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