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Both ensembles were founded in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for emerging and established musicians of Black and ethnically diverse heritage.

Chineke! Junior Orchestra

Southbank Centre

The sister ensemble to the Chineke! Orchestra, the Chineke! Junior Orchestra, is made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians aged 11 – 22. Both ensembles were founded in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for emerging and established musicians of Black and ethnically diverse heritage.

The concert opens with a blast of energy: Dukas’ Fanfare from La Péri, which was written after the composer had completed the 1912 ballet in one act, based on a Persian folk story.

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Celebration: Coleridge-Taylor & Tchaikovsky

Strathmore

A celebration of Britain’s land- and sea-scapes. Hear the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending as well as the many moods of the North Sea as it meets Suffolk shingle in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’.

Great British Classics

Royal Albert Hall

Classical tradition meets contemporary innovation in a memorable programme with works by Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Haydn and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Southbank Centre: Tributes & Triumphs

Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra makes its Orange County debut. Brian Raphael Nabors’ Pulse is an episodic rhapsody that explores several phases and colorful variants of rhythm. Experience two works by father-daughter composers, Avril and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Aaron Azunda Akugbo performing Haydn's grand Trumpet Concerto.

Chineke! Orchestra Haydn and Coleridge-Taylor

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Tributes & Triumphs

Granada Theatre

The Chineke! Orchestra honours women composers whose powerful music resonates through the ages, ending with a UK premiere of a rediscovered Florence Price work.

Chineke! Orchestra: Phenomenal Women

The centrepiece is Valerie Coleman's Concerto for Wind Quintet and Orchestra, Phenomenal Women. The piece is a profound tribute to women who have stepped into treacherous spaces, inspired the world, and moved the course of history; shining a bright light and opening doors, especially for women of colour.

Southbank Centre: Phenomenal Women

Hot-property conductor Daniele Rustioni brings his Ulster Orchestra to London for a Prom concluding with Dvořák’s stirring Symphony No. 7, in which dark clouds and bright sunshine jostle for supremacy throughout a melody-fuelled, rhythm-buoyed journey that ends in triumph. 

BBC Proms: Prom 39 – Dvořák’s 7th Symphony

Music teachers inspire their students every single day. The young musicians involved in this program are living proof of all the good that music teachers foster in the lives of their students and the Minnesota Orchestra is honored to share the stage with them. This exciting program features the 2022 and 2023 Young People’s Symphony Concert Association (YPSCA) Concerto competition winners.

Students Center Stage

Minnesota Orchestra

CYSO ‘s Concert Orchestra and Jazz Orchestra present their Fall concert.

Concert Orchestra & Jazz Orchestra Fall Concert

Northwestern University

HOW HAS THE PAST SHAPED US? Anne-Marie McDermott and LACO musicians trace the familial and musical lineage of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his daughter, pianist/composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor.

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The Walls Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Colburn School

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra opens its Chamber Series with an intimate program curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer. Celebrated pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, who “plays with both technical virtuosity and evident joy” (The New York Times), joins LACO artists to trace the familial and musical lineage of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his only daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, a pianist/composer who followed in her father’s musical footsteps.

Composer, Pianist

Avril Coleridge-Taylor

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Sep 28, 2025

Chineke! Junior Orchestra · Southbank Centre

Sep 28, 2025

Chineke! Junior Orchestra · Chineke! Orchestra

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