BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2026/27 season

BBC Philharmonic & John Storgårds at Bridgewater Corridor in 2024 (Photograph: Chris Payne)

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s just lately introduced 2026/27 season spans from large-scale symphonic live shows at The Bridgewater Corridor to extra intimate performances on the RNCM, alongside bold large-scale collaborations at Aviva Studios and modern stay experiences on the orchestra’s house in MediaCityUK.

Cassandra Miller is composer in residence for 2026/27, and works to be carried out embody Swim, impressed by two chords by Robert Schumann and the writings of Anne Carson, and Chanter (with soloist Sean Shibe) which pulls on Scottish folks music and the work of smallpipes participant Brìghde Chaimbeul [see my review of the premiere with Sean Shibe in 2024]. The residency concludes with the UK premiere of Dad Goes to the Mountain, knowledgeable by Peruvian banda music and themes of reminiscence and notion. 

Chief conductor John Storgårds opens the season with Gabriella Smith’s Respiration Forests, with organ soloist James Vinnie [see my review of the UK premiere at the 2025 BBC Proms] alongside Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. Different new music at Bridgewater Corridor consists of a brand new orchestration of Miho Hazama’s Daybreak in Retiro, and music by Jennifer Higdon, Gabriela Ortiz and Caroline Shaw. Within the collection of live shows on the RNCM, up to date composers embody Errollyn Warren, Edmund Finnis, Tom Coult, Julia Wolfe and Alex Paxton.

Giant scale works embody the relative rarity, Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiousness’  and Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. Principal visitor conductor Anja Bihlmaier conducts Brahms’ German Requiem, with soloists Julia Grüter and Joshua Hopkins, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 marking the 2 hundredth anniversary of the composer’s loss of life with soloists Hera Hyesang Park, Jess Dandy, Robin Tritschler, Paul Grant.

Following the UK premiere of Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, the orchestra continues its collaboration with English Nationwide Opera and Manufacturing facility Worldwide with a brand new staging of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s iconic 1976 opera Einstein on the Seaside, directed by Phelim McDermott. This completes ENO and Unbelievable’s Glass Portrait Trilogy, following the success of Satyagraha and Akhnaten. The manufacturing premieres in Manchester at Aviva Studios in June 2027 

Full particulars from the BBC Philharmonic’s web site.