This autumn, Warwick Arts Centre is set to dazzle with a vibrant array of events ranging from creativity-inspiring workshops to soul-stirring performances. Envisioned to ignite imaginations and foster artistic growth, events like 'Mini Creatives: Autumn 2024' and 'Songwriting Workshops' cater to both budding and seasoned talents. Meanwhile, 'Musical Picnic' and 'Jazz Fridays' promise melodious gatherings for music lovers. As the days grow shorter, the centre brings warmth with captivating performances like 'Met Opera: Tosca' and the poignant 'NT Live: Prima Facie'. This season, explore the arts in all their glory.

Warwick Arts Centre Autumn 2024 Line-Up: A Celebration of Creativity and Music

Immerse yourself in a cultural extravaganza at the Warwick Arts Centre in 2025, where a diverse lineup of events promises something for everyone. Whether you're a jazz enthusiast, an opera aficionado, or a lover of orchestral music, the Centre's offerings are sure to captivate. From the rhythmic beats of Jazz Fridays to the dramatic splendor of Met Opera's Aida, and the nostalgic melodies of CBSO's John Williams tribute, this season is packed with artistic brilliance. Join us as we delve into the details of these unmissable events.

A Cultural Symphony: Exploring the Warwick Arts Centre's Diverse Events in 2025

This spring, Warwick Arts Centre is set to become a vibrant hub of artistic expression with a diverse lineup of events ranging from jazz to opera. Featured acts include the soulful Jazz Fridays with The Aaron Moloney Trio, the orchestral delights of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the electrifying dance performances of Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez. Each event promises to engage and inspire audiences, making the spring of 2025 a season to remember. Let's delve into these spectacular events that are sure to capture the heart and soul of every attendee.

Warwick Arts Centre Spring 2025: A Harmonious Tapestry of Music and Dance

Warwick Arts Centre is all set to host an electrifying lineup of concerts and performances that appeal to music enthusiasts across genres. From the soulful sounds of country music to the legendary beats of Motown, and from the grandeur of operatic performances to the rousing energy of rock, the center promises an unforgettable experience. Noteworthy performers include Jade Helliwell, Joan As Police Woman, The Drifters, and many more. Whether you’re a fan of opera or a lover of classic hits, Warwick Arts Centre has something special in store.

A Vibrant Tapestry of Sound: Unmissable Concerts at Warwick Arts Centre

This spring, the Warwick Arts Centre is set to become a cultural hotspot, hosting an impressive array of performances that promise to captivate audiences of all tastes. From soulful country hits to the timeless tunes of Motown, and from opera to tributes to legendary artists, the Centre offers a diverse lineup that is as rich as it is varied. Join us as we delve into the upcoming events and meet the talented performers set to grace the stage.

Warwick Arts Centre Delights with Eclectic Music and Arts Lineup

The Internationally acclaimed Björn Again show was created and founded in 1988 in Melbourne, by Australian musician/manager Rod Stephen.

Bjorn Again

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Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside American tenor Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the ingenious barber of Seville, with Hungarian bass-baritone Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out the principal cast.Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Bartlett Sher’s madcap production.

Met Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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There has never been anything quite like The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, from their formation in 2002 and a cameo appearance at T in the Park in 2004 with the Darkness to opening the main stage in their own right in 2014, and storming Glastonbury festival in 2024.

Red Hot Chilli Pipers featuring the Red Hot Chilli Dancers

Premiered 80 years later, Marsalis’ A Fiddler’s Tale is composed from a later 20th century musical perspective, with the writer introducing elements from jazz, blues, tango, waltzes and rags into the classical gumbo.

Chineke! Chamber Ensemble

Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting.

Met Opera: Salome

Plus Maurice Ravel's entertaining piano concerto, and opening with a vivacious concert overture by pioneering 19th century female composer/ musician, Louise Farrenc.

Halle Orchestra

After a fantastic sell out debut tour across the UK, What’s Love Got To Do With It? is back for 2025 celebrating the music of the incredible rock and soul legend Tina Turner.

What's Love Got To Do With It?

Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.

Met Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro

Senbla presents Opera International's award-winning Ellen Kent Production featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra.

Ellen Kent: La Boheme

Legends of the music scene, The Drifters have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, performed for the President of the United States and are listed among the Greatest Artists of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine.

The Drifters

What sets Eddi apart is the depth and quality of the emotional performance and ability to not only move the listener, but connect her experience to that of her audience. No two performances are ever the same.

Eddi Reader

Culminating over 40 million album sales and eight Grammy awards including man of the greatest dance anthems and love songs ever written, fronted by international Luther Vandross tribute Harry Cambridge and his 10-piece band.

Luther Live

You will be going loco down in Acapulco as we take you back down memory lane with all the Motown classics from artists such as: Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, The Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson, and many, many more.

The Magic of Motown

Highly acclaimed American songwriter Joan As Police Woman returns to Europe performing key songs from throughout her career alongside music from her new album, Lemons, Limes and Orchids.

Joan As Police Woman

Performed by a cast of multi award-winning musicians and singers, Country Hits Live will celebrate the atmosphere and energy of an evening in the home of country music.

Country Hits Live

From the New York Speakeasy to Havana dance floors, Chicago Blues Scene, Burlesque Cabaret Clubs and the glittering mirror balls of Studio 54.

Karen Hauer & Gorka Marquez - SPEAKEASY

Opening is Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's single movement nature-inspired Nightride and Sunrise - a strident nocturnal journey culminating in a rejoiceful dawn.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

A defining voice in cinema history, Williams’ stirring themes have enhanced countless blockbusters, including Jaws, Superman: The Movie, Harry Potter, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park.

CBSO: The Best of John Williams

New fans might know Beth as the all-conquering global icon, dubbed "extraordinary" by The Times and "daring, brooding and angry" by The Guardian. But to understand her rollercoaster backstory, you need only read the War In My Mind lyric sheet.

Beth Hart

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

Get ready to experience the passion of 21st-century country music as we pay homage to the genre’s biggest stars.

21st Century Tennessee

A continuation of artistic director Kevin Finnan’s exploration of his distinctive dance-circus form, Hidden will examine the human experience in the context of some of our shared challenges in an increasingly divided world.

Motionhouse: Hidden

In February 2025 The Longest Pony rides again, as our combined musical energies will be hitting the road with a raucous folk double bill that you will not want to miss, so get your tickets booked early!

The Longest Johns X El Pony Pisador

In a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer, audiences are brought inside the towering pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling animations.

Met Opera: Aida

We are delighted to bring back our weekly foyer programme of live jazz, hosted by The Aaron Moloney Trio plus special guest musicians. As always, this event also features an open jam session for local musicians in the second half. Come and Play!

Jazz Fridays: Spring 2025

Experience the Orchestra perform Ravel’s Boléro, a masterpiece of orchestration and evolving textures.

The National Youth Orchestra: Illuminate

The Ballroom King and Strictly Come Dancing judge joins forces with his dynamic live band, the incomparable vocalist Lance Ellington, and a troupe of extraordinary dancers, to bring you a magical evening of music, dance and laughter.

Christmas with Anton Du Beke

The show that everyone is talking about, now even BIGGER! Join us as we recreate the magical 70s and let us take you on a musical journey straight to the heart of disco!

Lost in Music - One Night at the Disco

The Albion Christmas Band are widely regarded as the premier seasonal show, which has been touring for 25 years this year, and attracts sell-out audiences across the UK.

The Albion Band Christmas Tour 25th Anniversary

Expect soaring harmonies and exquisite musicianship as the 5-piece blast through a repertoire of brand new, specially written songs, fresh arrangements of traditional carols both well-loved and little-known, and seasonal classics from both sides of the Atlantic.

A Winter Union

For the first time acclaimed duduk player Arsen Petrosyan will collaborate with lauded Iranian musicians Mehdi Rostami and Adib Rostami.

Arsen Petrosyan, Mehdi Rostami and Adib Rostami

In this concert he leads Hungary's famed orchestra through Liszt's dramatic waltz, Chopin's beautiful three-part concerto, and Beethoven's Seventh - a favourite of the composer.

Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

After spending five years starring as Dean Martin in the hit West End show ‘The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas’, Mark Halliday created his first of many hit shows, ‘The Rat Pack - Swingin’ At The Sands’ in 2010.

Rat Pack - A Swingin' Christmas At The Sands

Make the most of your lunchtimes with a fabulous performance by the Isbourne Trio, comprising of soprano, clarinet and piano.

Songs of Shepherds & Shepherdesses: Isbourne Trio - Lunchtime Concert December 2024

They will present three powerful and personal works as a call to action to shout about the injustices in the world: Vaughan Williams choral cantata Dona Nobis Pacem, Dvorak’s Symphony No.9, and the world premiere of Bobbie Jane-Gardner’s The Burning House.

Songs for a New World: UOW Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

Met Opera: Tosca

In the ever-changing society we live in, the University of Warwick Chamber Choir proudly present a programme of choral music to reflect on a world of injustice and conflict, but also of peace and resolution.

The Times, They Are Changin': University of Warwick Chamber Choir

Plus numerous other classics including ‘Can’t Give You Anything (But My Love)', ‘Let’s Put it All together’, ‘Stop Look Listen’, ‘You are Everything’, ‘Betcha by Golly Wow’, ‘Sing Baby Sing’ and more.

The Stylistics: Greatest Hits Tour

Charismatic host on rotation (including Tommy Sandhu, Noreen Khan or Eshaan Akbar) Vocal performances by some of our favourite artists (including Chirag Rao, Rekha or Abirah Shah)

Bollywood Time Machine

Dynamic forces of contemporary British folk music, Eliza Carthy & The Restitution + The Young'Uns, promise to deliver an impassioned and uncompromising double bill folk show to remember!

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution + The Young'Uns

He was the boy treble who captivated the world with his angelic voice. Selling over seven million albums, Aled was the original, classical crossover star. His recording of 'Walking in the Air', from the animated film The Snowman, firmly established him as a household name and he has become an integral part of the nation's festivities.

Aled Jones - Full Circle

'We couldn't ignore all the love we got for the first acoustic tour (in 2019) when we kept having to add more and more shows due to the demand. We ended up doing about 50 shows when we originally planned to do just one or two! So we decided to do it again and make it another very special and intimate performance. We honestly can't wait!'

Turin Brakes (acoustic)

Since the mid-late 1990s, Kenny Anderson's DIY pop alter-ego King Creosote has released over 100 records (at a relatively conservative guess), and his songs have been covered and performed by artists including Simple Minds and Patti Smith.

King Creosote

The Duke weaves together the tragi-comic fate of a family heirloom - a porcelain figure of The Duke of Wellington, the quandary of a scriptwriter stretching his integrity, and an unfolding disaster as thousands of children flee their homes.

The Duke

Experience the ultimate tribute to the remarkable musical repertoire of Whitney Houston in an electrifying production that honours her timeless songs with sensational vocalists and a full live band.

Whitney - Queen of the Night

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

NT Live: Prima Facie

Make the most of your lunchtimes with a fabulous performance by harpist, Victoria Davies.

Victoria Davies (Harp): Lunchtime Concert November 2024

Founded in 2004 by Marcella Puppini, the band pioneered the neo burlesque/swing scene with their immaculate close harmonies and went on to worldwide success releasing 6 albums.

The Puppini Sisters: 20th Anniversary Tour

Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Rickie Lee Jones, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush and Sinead O Connor.

Sarah Jane Morris: The Sisterhood

Tubular Bells is world-renowned as one of the most celebrated examples of music in film for its soundtracking of horror classic The Exorcist.

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Live in Concert

Les Egarés more than a record. It's play space, a locus of musical life, a poetic asylum inhabited by two twosomes who for years have excelled in the art of cross-fertilising sounds and transcending genres.

Sissoko, Segal, Parisien, Peirani: Les Egarés

The musical heritage of Kenyans is such a precious part of their community, and they were generous in sharing their songs.

Africa: A Singing Continent!

Feel Me asks, via your mobile phone, who and what you care about from the stories unfolding live on stage in front of you.

Feel Me

Considered one of the UK’s premier live touring bands, the extra shows come off the back of the band’s most successful UK tour to date, with 18 concerts through March, including an advance sell-out at London’s 5,200-seat Royal Albert Hall.

10cc In Concert

The Jori drum  is a traditional percussion instrument used for hundreds of years in India.

An Evening of Indian Percussion: Presenting the Jori and Tabla

Thatcher’s Section 28, which banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, was the landmark legislation that silenced a generation, offered a global blueprint for LGBTQ+ oppression and galvanised a movement. After the Act is funny, camp and unapologetically queer but also a clear-eyed exposure of the political playbook used to enact repressive laws.

After the Act

They are the most beloved and recognisable big and small screen creations of all time – let alone just in the world of the Fantasy genre. Now the music of Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit will be celebrated in a special orchestral concert tour at Warwick Arts Centre.

A Celebration of Music from Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

Brought to you by professional musicians with a passion for sharing their love of classical music. Whether it is your first concert or your 100th, this is a wonderful way to enjoy music as a family. This time we will be joined by guitarist Sam Slater and Katie Stevens on the clarinet.

My First Concert: Autumn 2024

From this Autumn we're delighted to invite special guest professional jazz musicians to join sessions on the first Friday of each month.

Jazz Fridays: Autumn 2024

Perfect for first timers and regulars, you will learn songs to get you singing, moving, and dancing, with a healthy dose of creativity thrown in.

Family Singing: Autumn 2024

From the deeply personal to the political – each act possesses an empowering and inspiring vision. The Staves’ fourth LP, All Now, finds Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor exploring womanhood, sisterhood, and facing your fears.

Songs of Protest: The Staves, Grace Petrie, Bess Atwell and Pauline Black

Grounded wrestles with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepeople. 

Met Opera: Grounded

2013’s debut album Inform - Educate - Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond.

Public Service Broadcasting

Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest – direct from the West End and now heading to Warwick Arts Centre!

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

The hits earned their place in pop history. From Poison Arrow to The Look Of Love, from All Of My Heart, and Be Near Me, to When Smokey Sings, ABC were the band that redefined glamour and cool.

ABC - An Intimate Evening with Martin Fry

He also achieved a Top 10 chart position for 2013’s Let It All In, numerous UK and European tours and a triumphant farewell at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with an orchestra in 2014.

John Bramwell

Come and enjoy making music with an eclectic mix of incredible musicians, musical styles, cultures, instruments and personalities.

Musical Picnic: (Autumn 2024)

Make the most of your lunchtimes with fabulous performance by pianists Lynn Arnold and Charles Matthews.

Four Hands: Lynn Arnold & Charles Matthews: Lunchtime Concert

This incredible show features all your favourite hits from the iconic movie-musical, including "Come What May," "Your Song," and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." But that's not all - timeless hits from other modern movie musicals will really get your feet moving.

Come What May

Exploring the theme of magic, come and hear the fantastical array of Music Centre ensembles as they enchant the audience with their spellbinding music.

A Kind of Magic: Music Centre

Whether you’re just starting your songwriting journey or are looking to refine your craft then these free sessions are for you.

Songwriting Workshops: (Autumn 2024)

Experience artist led creative activities designed to inspire imaginations, encourage curiosity, and support development.

Mini Creatives: Autumn 2024

If you’re a singer, instrumentalist, poet, MC or any other kind of musical performer then this is an opportunity for you.

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