Wednesday 8th July 2026 7.30pm
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
MENDELSSOHN
Overture: The Hebrides
Violin Concerto in E minor
Symphony No.4, “Italian”
Rising star Matteo Cimatti brings his sparkling youthfulness to one of the most attractive of all violin concertos; bask in the Mediterranean sunshine of the Italian Symphony, and relax in the cool shade of Final’s Cave, hearing the wash of the waves on the Hebridean island of Staffa.
Tickets on sale now from The Apex.
Saturday 22nd August 2026 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Bury St Edmunds
MENDELSSOHN
Elijah
Mendelssohn’s masterpiece of dramatic musical story-telling, delivered here with a hint of theatre to bring the drama vividly to life.
Mark Saberton as Elijah; Katherine Gregory as The Widow; James Micklethwaite as Obadiah, with The English Arts Chorale augmented by singers from choirs across Suffolk as the Children of Israel and the prophets of Baal.
Tickets on sale from 1st March
Experienced choral singer? Singers from all over Suffolk are being invited to sing in this concert. Watch this space!
Sunday 20th September 2026 4.00pm
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
Sir Stephen Hough
GLINKA Overture to Ruslan & Ludmilla
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.3
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.5
Sir Stephen Hough returns to play Rachmaninov’s transcendental Third Piano Concerto in an all-Russian programme which includes whizzbang overture to his opera Ruslan and Ludmilla and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with its triumphant proclamation of joy coming out of darkness and despair.
Tickets on general sale from The Apex from Monday 26th January
With Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano, and Linda Richardson, soprano,
Leslie Olive conducts Suffolk Philharmonic in three astonishing works at the core of the Romantic soul.
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Richard Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano
Linda Richardson, soprano
An Astonishing performance,
in front of a packed audience.
An afternoon of sheer delight
Ariel Lanyi plays Mozart
Suffolk’s classical music fans gave rapturous applause to one of the world’s fastest-rising stars of classical music, pianist Ariel Lanyi, who joined Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Mozart’s Piano concerto No.20 at The Apex on Sunday 16 July 2023.
Ariel is pictured here after the performance with SPO's conductor and artistic director, Leslie Olive.
Julian Milone
Richard Milone
MEET THE MUSICAL MILONES
You are invited to a rare and exclusive occasion on Wednesday 6 th March when there is the opportunity to meet two of the most important musicians in the Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra, and what makes it even more remarkable is that they are brothers.
Join us at 7.30pm on 6 th March 2024 in the Edmund Room at St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
Tickets for this exclusive event are limited to 75