The first De Montfort Hall concert of the new Bardi season  "Life, Love and Nature" will see the welcome return of BBC Young Musician Finalist Isata Kanneh-Mason as our soloist to play Schumann's romantic Piano Concerto. Dvorák's Carnaval Overture will give a lively start the concert and the evocative Symphony No.5 by Vaughan Williams a contrast in the second half. Although completed in 1943 in the midst of the Second World War, much of the music of the symphony looks back to the composer's earlier style of the Tallis Fantasia.

Leicestershire Chorale are celebrating their 40th Anniversary with a performance of the Verdi Requiem and the Coronation Te Deum by William Walton at De Montfort Hall. Chorale Director Tom Williams will be conducting the Verdi and Guest Conductor Paul McCreesh the Walton.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen returns as our violin soloist in the second De Montfort Hall Concert of the season the play the highly charged Violin Concerto by Sibelius. Mozart's ever-popular Overture to The Magic Flute commences the proceedings and we turn to Beethoven's ground-breaking third symphony the "Eroica" for our finale.

Join the Bardi Symphony Orchestra and guest vocal soloists at the best seat in the house to hear music and songs from a fabulous selection of Broadway and West End blockbusters including The Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, Cats, Carousel, Les Misérables, Mack and Mabel, Anything Goes, The King and I, My Fair Lady, West Side Story and of course The Sound of Music!

Three top-flight international soloists join the Orchestra for Beethoven’s joyous and rarely heard Triple Concerto, followed by Richard Strauss’s mighty "Ein Heldenleben" (A Hero’s Life) to bring the Bardi’s season to a dazzling and heroic close.

The Bardi Young Musician 2018 is Trumpeter Evie Dunn.
The concert will be at the newly re-opened Haymarket Theatre in Leicester.
Sunday 8th July 2018 3pm.