Step into the elegance of Vienna with an evening of Austrian music with Durham University's Classical Ensemble at St Oswald’s Church!

Settle beneath the stars in the century-old setting of Elvet Methodist Church to tones of timeless Christmas classics. Durham University Brass Band and Durham University Concert Band will collaborate to bring to life a vibrant array of music from the haunting melodies of O Holy Night and The Snowman to Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride and the twist on the English classic, God Rest ye Merry Cha Cha Men

Durham Dynamics presents their annual A Cappella Christmas concert, mixing your favourite Christmas hits with modern pop arrangements for a festive, music filled night!

All I want for Christmas… is some festive a cappella! Presenting a diverse selection of a cappella, there is truly something for everyone to enjoy.

Join Durham University Big Band and Durham University Jazz Orchestra for their yearly Jazzy Christmas charity gig at the Assembly Rooms Theatre for an evening of festive classics, blazing solos and Christmas cheer!

Highlighting music that normally accompany a stage performance. This includes Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (a tragic love story) and Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty depicting the lilac fairy and puss-in-boots.

Join Durham University Choral Society in partnership with DU Wine Society for a night of festive favourites and mulled wine!

Join Durham University Chamber Choir for The Waiting Sky, a captivating concert featuring a program of British and European choral music that reflects on winter’s beauty, hope, and spiritual anticipation.

Join DUPO Symphony Orchestra in their first concert of the year - an engaging journey through history, with some timeless classics from Sibelius, Elgar and Wagner!

Come celebrate the festive season with Gospel Choir at our Michaelmas Showcase: “Exultation! A Christmas Celebration!” Hear toe-tapping Gospel classics and well-known Christmas favourites infused with rousing gospel harmonies.

Durham University’s Barbershop Choir, Full Score, invite you to ‘Be Our Guest!’ at their Michaelmas term concert. They will be singing Disney classics, heart-wrenching ballads, nostalgic melodies, and Barbershop favourites.

Join us for the premiere performance of the newly formed Palatinate Ensemble! A concert of chamber groups and 20 piece ensemble featuring works by Shostakovich, Dvorak, Grieg and Amy Beach.

Join the Dunelm Consort and Players for 'A Dunelm Christmas', a collection of festive Early Music from across Europe!

Join Durham University Hill Orchestra to celebrate the Christmas season with a night of excerpts from ballet, sure to get you in the festive spirit. We’ll be playing a host of recognisable tunes, including arrangements of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, Stravinsky’s Firebird, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, and the famous Troika, as well as spotlighting some small ensembles from within the group.

Christmas After Hours blends the magic of the season with the sophistication of after-hours jazz, promising cozy vibes, great music, and holiday cheer. Don’t miss this jazzy celebration of Christmas!

The concert will take you on a tour celebrating European national identity. From the tone poems of Sibelius’ Finlandia and Smetana’s Vltava, to the Russian folklore of Borodin’s Symphony No. 2.

Durham University Concert Band and John Snow Bean Society are excited to announce our charity concert, Fanfares and Food Banks!

Instead of tickets, please make a donation for the local foodbank!

Inventions is a fascinating trans-national project to promote and present unusual music for solo harpsichord, drawing primarily on historical and contemporary music by female composers from Scotland, Ireland and England. Three beautiful new commissions are set alongside historical works, making links between different countries and centuries, and performed by Katarzyna Kowalik, a creative and skilled performer of both historical and contemporary keyboard music.

FALL for the music of Durham University Brass Band in their Michaelmas Term concert, ‘Autumnal Tones,’ held in the atmospheric St Oswald’s Church!

As the 2021 UniBrass champions and winners of the Best University Band in Friezland at Whit Friday 2023, the concert promises to be an unforgettable evening of brass-banding.

This event is a part of MUSICON; a series of professional music concerts organised by Durham University's world-leading Music Department.

This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.

This event is a part of MUSICON; a series of professional music concerts organised by Durham University's world-leading Music Department.

This fascinating programme explores the instrumental music that passed between these ports and countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, from dances to sonatas, including Pavans inspired by John Dowland’s famous Lachrimae to elaborate music by major figures such as the German/Danish organist Dietrich Buxtehude, a precursor of Bach. In the virtuosic hands of Gawain Glenton’s In Echo, these rarely-heard gems will sparkle as brightly as they did in centuries past.

Join Durham University Concert Band on a symphonic adventure, as we explore Beyond the Horizon with concert band classics and travel to Westeros for striking music from Game of Thrones!

This event is a part of MUSICON; a series of professional music concerts organised by Durham University's world-leading Music Department.

On the 100th anniversary of the death of Gabriel Fauré, this concert celebrates the composer’s lyrical romanticism with works from the 1870s to the 1890s, including the great first Sonata. Saint-Saëns’ own first Sonata and Ravel’s one movement Sonate Posthume complete a programme that will transport you to the magic of fin-de-siècle Paris.

Step into a night of smooth rhythms and timeless melodies as Durham University Jazz Society presents 'High Standards'. Celebrate the start of the academic year with live performances of iconic jazz standards, delivered with style and passion from our experienced performers. Whether you're an enthusiast or just looking for a memorable evening, this is one event you won't want to miss!

This event is a part of MUSICON; a series of professional music concerts organised by Durham University's world-leading Music Department.

The Portrait Players are an all-female trio whose engaging programmes are inspired by historical characters. This event is a part of MUSICON; a series of professional music concerts organised by Durham University's world-leading Music Department.

This event is a part of MUSICON; a series of professional music concerts organised by Durham University's world-leading Music Department.

James Weeks (EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and Durham University) leads an inspiring day exploring the brilliant, varied and stunningly expressive church music of Henry Purcell (1659-95).

Brace yourselves for a melodic evening of barbershop, packed to the brim with Disney, musical theatre, and jazz classics like you’ve never seen them before!

Dunelm Consort and Players in collaboration with soprano Emma Kirkby DBE and the orbist Jonatan Bougt present "Storie Sacre e Profane" for their final concert of the academic year.

DUCC presents a choral celebration of the British Countryside, Memory and the Divine, with music from the renaissance to the present day.

Durham University Orchestral Society is delighted to present 'Beethoven's 5th Symphony' performed by one of Durham's most elite chamber orchestras in Durham Town Hall, alongside Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf'.