Beethoven 200: Ode To Joy!
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📅 Friday 25 September 2026 | Doors open for pre-concert talk 7pm | Concert 7:45pm
📍 Ulster Hall, Belfast
🎟️ Tickets from £12 — £38
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Our 60th anniversary season opens with a bang. Under the baton of Chief Conductor Anna Handler, this is an evening built around community, youth, and the kind of joy that fills a room.
Brahms kicks things off with the irrepressible Academic Festival Overture, before we welcome 2025 Northern Ireland Young Musician of the Year Senan Sheridan for Britten's shimmering Young Apollo. Then, joined by a host of young singers from across Northern Ireland, we close with the one and only: Beethoven's Ninth.
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Programme
Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture
Benjamin Britten — Young Apollo
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
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Performers
Anna Handler, Conductor | Senan Sheridan, Piano
Eleanor Dennis, Soprano | Carolyn Dobbin, Mezzo-Soprano | Kieran Carrel, Tenor | Padraic Rowan, Bass-Baritone
National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland Senior Choir | Belfast Philharmonic Youth Chamber Choir | Belfast Philharmonic Choir | Methodist College Chapel Choir | RBAI Choir Tenors & Basses | Belfast Royal Academy Chamber Choir
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Pre-Concert Talk — 7pm, Main Auditorium
Join Artistic Director Patrick McCarthy and Chief Conductor Anna Handler for a conversation before the concert. Free to ticket holders — just arrive a little early.
📍 Ulster Hall, Belfast
🎟️ Tickets from £12 — £38
***
Our 60th anniversary season opens with a bang. Under the baton of Chief Conductor Anna Handler, this is an evening built around community, youth, and the kind of joy that fills a room.
Brahms kicks things off with the irrepressible Academic Festival Overture, before we welcome 2025 Northern Ireland Young Musician of the Year Senan Sheridan for Britten's shimmering Young Apollo. Then, joined by a host of young singers from across Northern Ireland, we close with the one and only: Beethoven's Ninth.
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Programme
Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture
Benjamin Britten — Young Apollo
Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
***
Performers
Anna Handler, Conductor | Senan Sheridan, Piano
Eleanor Dennis, Soprano | Carolyn Dobbin, Mezzo-Soprano | Kieran Carrel, Tenor | Padraic Rowan, Bass-Baritone
National Youth Choir of Northern Ireland Senior Choir | Belfast Philharmonic Youth Chamber Choir | Belfast Philharmonic Choir | Methodist College Chapel Choir | RBAI Choir Tenors & Basses | Belfast Royal Academy Chamber Choir
***
Pre-Concert Talk — 7pm, Main Auditorium
Join Artistic Director Patrick McCarthy and Chief Conductor Anna Handler for a conversation before the concert. Free to ticket holders — just arrive a little early.
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Ulster Hall, Mission IQ Limited, 36 Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7FF, United Kingdom
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