We are sorry that Martyn Brabbins has had to withdraw from this concert at short notice. We are delighted that the equally distinguished conductor Joshua Weilerstein has agreed to conduct in his place. The programme remains unchanged.

The university’s flagship orchestra returns to West Road Concert Hall, under the direction of Martyn Brabbins, Music Director of the English National Opera. The concert opens with Petrushka, Stravinsky’s unnerving tragedy of puppets, love, and jealousy, a prominent exploration of bitonality, featuring the famous ‘Petrushka chord’. The orchestra is then joined by Patrick Pan, Concerto Competition Prizewinner 2021-22, to perform Prokofiev’s blazing third piano concerto. The concert concludes with Hymne – 2001, a rich, powerful work by contemporary Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov.