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Events

Discover classical, contemporary and traditional live music events, performed at stunning historic venues across Durham. You can also view these events in calendar format.

SongPath in the Botanic Garden

Sunday 21 June: a unique blend of music, nature and wellbeing in the beautiful surroundings of Durham University Botanic Garden.
Musicians performing in a forest

Tanja Orning: Hardanger Cello

Wednesday 14 October: Tanja Orning performs on the Hardanger cello, playing Bach, Norwegian folk music and a new work by Eric Egan.
A double exposure of a woman playing cello in a forest

Dean Stockdale Quartet: Celebrating Oscar Peterson

Sunday 25 October: the Dean Stockdale Quartet perform bold new quartet arrangements of Oscar Peterson's lesser-known compositions as part of Durham Jazz Festival.
A man playing piano

Matthew Schellhorn: On the Reckoning of Time

Wednesday 11 November: pianist Matthew Schellhorn gives the world premiere of David Lancaster's De temporum ratione, alongside Howells and Messiaen.
A man in formalwear sitting at a piano

Royal Northern Sinfonia plays Brahms

Friday 20 November: Royal Northern Sinfonia perform Brahms' Clarinet Quintet and Serenade No.1, directed by Maria Włoszczowska.
Two women playing violin in an ensemble

Sam Cave: Guitar Fantasies

Wednesday 25 November: Sam Cave performs contemporary and Renaissance fantasias for classical and electric guitars.
A man playing guitar

Royal Northern Sinfonia: Americana

Friday 15 January: Royal Northern Sinfonia soloists perform Barber, Adams, Korngold and Copland's Appalachian Spring.
A woman playing violin in an ensemble

John Snijders: Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories

Tuesday 26 January: John Snijders performs Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories, his long, mesmeric work for piano.
Morton Feldman playing the piano

Monteverdi String Band: 'A thousand flexible ways'

Tuesday 2 February: the Monteverdi String Band perform early baroque Italian music for voice, violin and lute.
A man playing the violin

The New Winter Songbook

Wednesday 10 February: Rebecca Lea and Caroline Jaya-Ratnam perform twenty-one brand-new songs for winter by living British composers.
Two women outside a row of houses

Carla Rees: Flute Transformations

Wednesday 10 March: Carla Rees performs Musgrave, Saariaho and the world premiere of David Gorton's Partita for alto flute.
A woman's face