Kazakh pianist Dina makes a welcome return to our series with four timeless sets of variations. Based on a simple violin theme, Bach’s epic Chaconne was transformed into this brilliant showpiece by Italian composer Feruccio Busoni in 1916. Also creating a dazzling display from simple elements are Mozart’s delightful variations on ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’. Schubert’s dramatic variations on his ‘Rosamunde’ theme build tension by appearing to rush towards the finale. Dina ends with Brahms’s variations on the famous Caprice by Paganini. With rich invention and startling originality, Clara Schumann referred to them as ‘witches’ variations’.

Sunday Piano Series: Dina Duisen

Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

This Christmas feel-good show brings all the magic of the season to life, with all your favourite songs you will know and love!

Including – All I Want for Christmas Is You, Last Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock, Stay Another Day, Let it Snow, White Christmas, Do They Know it’s Christmas, A Winter’s Tale, Merry Xmas Everybody, and many many more!

Step Into Christmas

An award-winning extravaganza that plays tribute to one of the leading contemporary recording artists of our time. Katy Ellis a self obsessed ‘Swiftie’ with an incredible live band and dancers promises to deliver the most authentic recreation of a Taylor Swift show you will ever see.

The show has already taken ‘Swiftie’ fans across the world by storm and features all of Taylor’s much loved hits including ; Shake It Off, Blank Space, Love Story, You Belong With Me, Look What You Made Me Do, I Knew You Were Trouble and many, many more.

Taylormania

The World’s most popular Big Band The Glenn Miller Orchestra, directed by music legend Ray McVay brings the Orchestra back to Nottingham for another afternoon of Glenn Miller music.

Glenn Miller Orchestra

To celebrate 100 years since the birth of television, the concert will be packed full of familiar music from iconic TV shows and adverts. From old favourites including Verdi’s Force of Destiny Overture (the Stella Artois advert) to gorgeous soundtracks from shows including Downton Abbey, the evening promises a delightful mix of nostalgia and celebration. We’ll even play the Liberty Bell March (Monty Python) to get your toes tapping.

Sinfonia Viva’s New Year’s Eve Gala

This vibrant matinee concert brings together three distinctive voices from Eastern Europe, beginning with Bela Bartók’s set of seven piquant miniatures. Josef Suk was both son-in-law and student to Dvořák and an accomplished composer of highly evocative music. His Meditation on the old Czech hymn ‘St Wenceslas’, took its inspiration from the twelfth century, and was an emotive patriotic statement at a time of conflict with neighbouring Austria.  Dvořák’s famous Serenade for Strings provides a suitably grand and upbeat finale. Written in just two weeks in 1875 it overflows with positive energy, drawing on a rich range of Czech traditional music and lively dance styles.

Sinfonia Viva: String Masterpieces from Eastern Europe

It’s 1985 – Wham are topping charts and everyone has enormous hair. The first ever mobile phone (the size of a brick) is on sale and scientists locate the site of the sunken Titanic. Microsoft Windows is launched, and Bob Geldof persuades just about everyone to appear in the biggest line up we’ve ever seen to raise millions for Live Aid. Back to the Future is on our screens, the first episode of Eastenders is beamed into British homes, and what’s THAT coming over the hill? Why, it’s the sixteen-handed, all-singing, all-plucking Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, and they’re coming this way…

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Join Barry Steele and Friends for a night of timeless classics as this top class production takes you from rockabilly Sun Record years through to the Traveling Wilburys era, and Beyond!

Based firmly in the 80s this West End production of The Roy Orbison Story features many of The Big O’s smash hits, as well as a few surprises!

Barry Steele’s Roy Orbison Story Anniversary Special

Winner of the Piano Category Final at BBC Young Musician 2022, and blind since birth, Scottish piano prodigy Ethan Loch takes us on a colourful journey, beginning in London with Haydn’s cheerful sonata that displays his sense of humour, as well as his musical genius. Inspired by the fountains of the Villa d’Este near Rome, Ravel’s sparkling depiction of water was one the first pieces labelled ‘impressionist’, a theme that continues with Debussy’s sunny views of the Italian island of Capri, and the Bastille day fireworks in France. Finally, Chopin’s last sonata, composed in Paris, is acclaimed for its expressiveness and technical brilliance.

Sunday Piano Series: Ethan Loch

From the alter-ego of Ziggy Stardust, through the dark and desolate years of Berlin, the pure joy of Let’s Dance to the genius of Blackstar, this show takes you on an emotional rollercoaster, transporting you to pasts and futures unknown, a journey that will make you laugh, sing and cry in equal measure.


The Bowie Show

An inspirational game-changer, Karina Canellakis has blazed a trail for female conductors since winning the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2016, being the first woman to conduct the First Night of the BBC Proms in 2019 and becoming the Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2020. She begins her first visit to Nottingham in this role with Sibelius’s En Saga. Although he described it as the ‘expression of a state of mind’ rather than a mythical adventure, there’s no shortage of action in this powerful ‘psycho-drama’. There’s an altogether more serene mood in Mozart’s most popular Piano Concerto, particularly in the ethereal central movement which gained the nickname, the ‘dream andante.’ It’s performed here by the exceptional British pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor, a perfect match for Mozart’s light-touch lyricism.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Following on from a sold-out tour earlier this year which saw them perform to tens of thousands across the country, the iconic Wet Wet Wet going on a huge tour of the UK for 2025.

Featuring founding member Graeme Clark, accompanied as ever by long-standing guitarist Graeme Duffin, and fronted by Kevin Simm.

Wet Wet Wet plus special guest Heather Small

Starring X-Factor winner Joe McElderry as the roof-raising Pharaoh, the smash-hit London Palladium production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to Nottingham in February.

The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide and has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

OASIZ are one of the UK’s most authentic tribute bands a point proved in 2023 when a short clip of front man Steve performing as Liam went viral on social media with over half a million views. Many fans were convinced the clip was actually of Liam Gallagher himself which led to the story being covered in the national press as well as a high profile TV appearance later that year.

Oasiz

This spectacular 90-minute show features more than 20 fan favourites drawn from Queen’s biggest hits including We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and the phenomenal anthem Bohemian Rhapsody.

Queen Extravaganza

Known for her grace and emotional range, Chinese pianist Siqian Li tells stories through her virtuosic playing. There are two transcriptions by composers who admired their older masters, with Liszt’s interpretation of Beethoven’s pastoral songs, and Percy Grainger conjuring up the sumptuous sound world of Richard Strauss. Gershwin’s preludes show off his brilliance and variety, from Brazilian and Spanish rhythms to a bluesy lullaby, whilst Russian visionary Alexander Scriabin’s Fantasy depicts moonlight and storms across the sea’s vast expanse. In Liszt’s virtuosic retelling of a Faust legend, the devil takes up the violin, dancing us all into an ecstatic frenzy.

Sunday Piano Series: Siqian Li

Amongst Dvořák’s greatest achievements were his Symphonic Poems, vivid musical renderings of gripping, often gruesome folk tales. The Noonday Witch is a memorable example: a cautionary tale of a disobedient child and the menacing spirit that comes to punish it. Any terrors that exist in Prokofiev’s effervescent Third Piano Concerto surround the stern challenge it makes to the pianist’s technique and stamina. Long regarded as one of the great twentieth-century concertos, it’s passionate and spontaneous by turns, qualities personified by our soloist, the sensational Venezuelan pianist, Gabriela Montero.

Prague Symphony Orchestra

Pushed to the boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralle live out their wildest fantasy - giving the boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged”, the women gives their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?

Musicality: 9 to 5 The Musical

Nottingham Arts Theatre

After two sold out tours in 2023 and Winter 2024, Nashville At Heart are back! As the Modern Country Music craze continues to spread across the globe, ‘Nashville At Heart’ are a band that celebrate the music of some of modern country music’s giants including Luke Combs, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Darius Rucker, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain & many others.

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Nottingham Arts Theatre

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