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Research has shown that music can have a positive effect on mental health, and working with others on creative pursuits is one of the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’ championed by the World Health Organisation (WHO). If you’re an adult experiencing mental health or well-being challenges, you are warmly invited to join musicians from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for fun, creative music sessions to listen to and create music alongside professional musicians. Monthly sessions are evidence-based and designed to provide respite and improve mood, delivered by our specially trained musicians and Workshop Leaders. At each session, you’ll get the chance to meet professional musicians and work together with other participants to create brand-new pieces of music and songs. You’ll be supported to try out instruments and devise melodies, lyrics, rhythms and styles for your pieces, expressing your thoughts, feelings and emotions.

We would love to invite Disabled adults and their carers or support workers to take part in a series of music workshops this summer. Alongside musicians from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, we will work together to create brand new pieces of music and explore orchestral music together.

The wind rises, and waves smash against the North Sea coast of England. The earth shakes, as the very ground beneath our feet threatens to give way. And, in 19th-century Russia, a chemist with a gift for music dreams of ancient times and exotic tribes and creates sheer sonic alchemy. Music can show us the world in magical new ways, and as conductor Gemma New brings the RPO’s season to a close, she’s chosen four pieces that stir the imagination even while they thrill the senses. Britten’s seascapes, Borodin’s oriental fantasies and Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ tribute to the imagination of Salman Rushdie will make a vivid setting for the playfulness and wit of Prokofiev’s brilliant Third Piano Concerto – played by young pianist Daniel Ciobanu for whom every performance is a new adventure.

Returning to Hull City Hall for a captivating evening of orchestral masterworks, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by the talented Gemma New.

The opening words of Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine evoke this year's theme for the Summer Music in City Churches festival, and his timeless, ethereal setting of the Requiem mass is the first of the three which form the pillars of the festival ("may light perpetual shine upon them"). Both of these much-loved works are performed in the orchestration by Sir John Rutter, alongside his own 'Suite Antique' and a pair of colourful dances by the master of impressionism, Debussy.

For centuries, even the most gifted composers have found themselves persecuted or marginalised simply because of who they were. As a gay man in Tsarist Russia, Tchaikovsky knew what it was to be an outsider, and he poured all his emotions into his Fourth Symphony: a no-holds-barred emotional autobiography, pulsing with melody and torn by raw and dangerous passions. ‘Petrenko’s Fourth is a white-knuckle ride’ wrote Gramophone magazine, and he certainly won’t hold back tonight. There’s no shortage of great melodies in the first half of the concert, too, as Petrenko champions Dorothy Howell’s Lamia – a wildly romantic tale of forbidden love – and the lovely piano concerto by the African-American composer Florence Price. Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, making her Royal Philharmonic Orchestra debut, is the soloist in music that was side-lined for decades and is only now receiving its due.

Returning to the festival by popular demand, the brilliant brass players of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra present a glittering programme of music inspired by 'Eternal Light'.

With a programme packed full of well-known music, this fun and interactive concert is the perfect way for all the family to discover great music and experience the exciting sounds of a live symphony orchestra. Featuring music from well-known composers such as Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wynton Marsalis, excerpts from iconic pieces such as Pictures at an Exhibition, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a little nod to the Wizarding World with music from Harry Potter.

Join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a night musical brilliance as renowned conductor Matthew Coorey leads the orchestra through a program of soaring Romantic classics.

Diana Ross has announced that she will be bringing ‘A Symphonic Celebration’ to The O2 on Wednesday 2 July 2025, with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. For the first time ever on tour, Ms Ross will be accompanied by the grandeur of a symphony in a world of splendour, love and music, surrounded by an ensemble of great musicians of Soul, Jazz, Rock, Pop and more.