BBC Singers 2025-26
BBC Singers 2025-26 Calendar
By Year
Thu 15 Jan 2026
- 14:30St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge
The BBC Singers are delighted to welcome Alexander Lüken, making his debut conducting the group in a programme of Germanic choral music to begin 2026.
The BBC Singers are delighted to welcome Alexander Lüken, making his debut conducting the group in a programme of Germanic choral music to begin 2026.
Programme
- Der verborgene Gott(17 mins)
- Warum ist das Licht gegeben(11 mins)
- Requiem Aeternam(5 mins)
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen(7 mins)arr. Gottwald
- Die Capelle am Strande(4 mins)
Performers
- Alexander Lükenconductor
- BBC Singersensemble
Fri 23 Jan 2026
- 19:30Barbican, London
US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
Programme
- Appalachian Spring
- unEarth
Performers
- Martyn Brabbinsconductor
- Else Torpsoprano
- BBC Singersensemble
- Finchley Children’s Music Groupensemble
Composers
Sun 22 Feb 2026
- 14:30Milton Court Concert Hall
The BBC Singers and Guildhall Musicians explore Icelandic chamber and vocal music – sounds of wild beauty and quiet, luminous power.
Thu 26 Feb 2026
- 19:30Milton Court Concert Hall
The BBC Singers join the strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, organist Iain Farrington and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for an emotive programme of music to touch the very heavens.
The BBC Singers join the strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, organist Iain Farrington and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for an emotive programme of music to touch the very heavens.
Programme
- Who are these angels?
- To the Hands
- My Guardian Angel
- Die erste Elegie
- interval
- Hymnus Paradisiorch. Iain Farrington
Performers
- Iain Farringtonorgan
- Strings of the BBC Concert Orchestraensemble
- Sofi Jeanninconductor
Thu 5 Mar 2026
- 19:30St Martin in the Fields
A landmark semi-staged opera by Shiva Feshareki and Karen McCarthy Woolf, exploring the Goddess through history and modernity. Featuring the Upper Voices of the BBC Singers and Vox Urbane with electronics and turntables.
A landmark semi-staged opera by Shiva Feshareki and Karen McCarthy Woolf, exploring the Goddess through history and modernity. Featuring the Upper Voices of the BBC Singers and Vox Urbane with electronics and turntables.
Programme
- Divine Feminine(50 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
Performers
- Shiva Fesharekicomposer & turntables
- Karen McCarthy Woolflibrettist
- Emma Tringsoprano & creative production
- Karin de Fleytflute, with collaborators HERMESensemble
- Vox Next Genensemble
- BBC Singersupper voices
- Rebecca Namgaudschoreographer
- Lucy Goddardconductor
Composers
Sat 21 Mar 2026
- 19:30The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Grit courses through Julia Wolfe’s *Anthracite Fields*, her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio for choir and ensemble that serves as a musical memorial to American miners and their struggle. *‘I guess I have a bias towards the grit.'* – Julia Wolfe
Grit courses through Julia Wolfe’s *Anthracite Fields*, her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio for choir and ensemble that serves as a musical memorial to American miners and their struggle. *‘I guess I have a bias towards the grit.'* – Julia Wolfe
Programme
- Anthracite Fields
- New Work (world premiere)
Performers
- BBC Philharmonicorchestra
- BBC Singerschoir
- John Storgårdsconductor
Composers
Also part ofBBC Philharmonic Orchestra 2025-26 Season
Sun 10 May 2026
- 15:00Milton Court Concert Hall
The BBC Singers join the Academy of Ancient Music under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for one of the ‘greatest musical works of art of all times and nations’: Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor.
The BBC Singers join the Academy of Ancient Music under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for one of the ‘greatest musical works of art of all times and nations’: Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor.
Thu 21 May 2026
- 19:30City Halls
A glorious finale to the 90th season, where voices and orchestra soar as one.
A glorious finale to the 90th season, where voices and orchestra soar as one.
Programme
- Ave Maria (1861 setting)(4 mins)
- Magnificat - for solo soprano, chorus and orchestra(30 mins)(revised version, world premiere)
- interval
- Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, ‘Romantic’(65 mins)
Performers
- Sophie Bevansoprano
Composers
