Join 12 string players from the BSO with Assistant Conductor, Enyi Okpara, in a colourful programme including lullabies, a starburst, film music and folk melodies.  The concert will be presented by the musicians to reveal connections between 20th and 21st century music and composers from the UK, Hungary, the USA and Ukraine, for an audience of all ages.

Works and composers

Karl Jenkins
Palladio

Carl Nielsen
Little Suite for Strings

George Gershwin
Lullaby

Jessie Montgomery
Starburst

Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Novelletten

Dame Ethel Smyth
Allegro, Suite for Strings

Myroslav Skyork
Ukrainian Melody

Gustav Holst
St Paul’s Suite