Thrive is a joyful May Day weekend festival marking the turning from spring to summer – celebrated through Indian music, culture, and creative connections with nature. We invite you to join in!
Headline concerts
At the heart of this weekend sits a series of three special evening concerts programmed by internationally renowned Tabla player Sanju Sahai – featuring collaborations between classical Indian artists and musicians from backgrounds including folk, jazz, and western classical:
Winner of ITV’s The Voice UK 2022 Anthonia Edwards will be joining the legendary Grammy Award-winning vocalist Billy Ocean as a very special guest on his Spring UK Tour, performing at the Torquay Princess Theatre on 18 March.
After seeing Anthonia perform on ITV primetime show The Voice and hearing her cover of Love Really Hurts Without You , Billy insisted Anthonia should join him...
Baroque Venice in all its musical glory will be brought to life in Exeter Cathedral on 18 March with a large-scale performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers , conjured up by the combined forces of Exeter Philharmonic Choir, Devon County Junior Choir, top professional singers and the internationally renowned early music group, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts.
Join us for an exciting evening of works of our time - string trios of the 20th and 21st centuries - performed by the translucent London-based Trio Kurtag, and the premiere of a new composition commissioned by Musica Viva from David Bessell.
David specialises in electronic music, and Trio Kurtag performs a wide range of repertoire of the present day.
This promises to be a unique concert, a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in music that is literally being heard for the first time, along with music that is recently composed.
Southbank Sinfonia Mark Forkgen, conductor Dr Robert Taub, pianist
Southbank Sinfonia - an orchestra like no other.
Each year, Southbank Sinfonia welcomes thirty-three of the world’s most promising graduate musicians to come together to create a unique orchestra. These wonderful musicians who complete the Southbank Sinfonia fellowship often go on to occupy prominent seats in leading orchestras worldwide, from the Philharmonia to the Hong Kong Philharmonic. This concert is a thrilling opportunity to hear some of the most loved Beethoven masterpieces...
Two carol concerts by Exeter Philharmonic Choir have raised almost three thousand pounds for local charity Dream-A-Way, which helps make holiday dreams come true for Devon children and adults with disabilities or life-affecting health conditions.
The generosity of concertgoers at Exeter Cathedral on 13 and 14 December raised a total of £2,913, a sum that representatives of Exeter-based...
Exeter Philharmonic Choir opens its 176th season with musical fireworks in memory of the Queen
There will be musical fireworks in Exeter Cathedral on Saturday, 5 November with a glorious concert in memory of the late Queen, combining the exciting sounds of choir, brass, organ and percussion.
Exeter Philharmonic Choir had planned to open its 176th season with a celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. The concert will now be a tribute to the Queen’s long reign.
EPC’s Director of Music Howard Ionascu has chosen a varied programme which...
On Saturday 23rd April, Buckfast Abbey, in South Devon, will host the world-renowned choir of Westminster Cathedral for a concert of choral and organ music for Eastertide. The highly anticipated performance, titled Surrexit Christus!, follows the success of the choir’s participation in the 2018 Festival of Sacred Music at Buckfast Abbey, which was a complete sell-out event.
Exeter Philharmonic Choir celebrates its 175th anniversary with a performance of Brahms’ great work, Ein deutsches Requiem . To celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Choir is joined by the renowned London Mozart Players and two of the UK’s most exciting soloists: soprano Jessica Cale, winner of the 2020 Kathleen Ferrier Award, and Timothy Nelson.
The programme also includes Lo, The Full, Final Sacrifice by Gerald Finzi, a rare opportunity to hear this piece accompanied by a full orchestra.