🚨 EXCITING NEWS ALERT
We are delighted to announce that your favourite 'drumming weatherman'
@OwainWynEvans
is the newest addition to our orchestra - joining the percussion section with his
#PercussivePrincess
.
We're really excited to welcome Owain into our family 💖
The full clip from this morning's
@BBCBreakfast
. Orchestra Director Simon Webb spoke to the amazing Paul Harvey and his son
@mrnickharvey
about a very special collaboration and the power of music.
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything”- Plato
#WednesdayWisdom
Sir Andrew Davis (1944-2024)
We are all deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Sir Andrew Davis. Our relationship with him was forged over many years of performances and recordings, and the legacy he left and the laughter he brought will not be forgotten by our musicians…
"Her roster of music students reads like the ultimate 20th Century Hall of Fame. Leonard Bernstein. Aaron Copland. Quincy Jones. Astor Piazzolla. Philip Glass. John Eliot Gardiner. Daniel Barenboim. Elliott Carter.." Nadia Boulanger
#bornonthisday
in 1887
Apart, but still making music together, members of our viola section ❤️
💃🕺Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. for 8 violas by Matthew Compton.
Violas: Steve, Matthew, Fiona , Alex, Nick, Ruth, Roisin & Rachel
#BBCPhilatHome
Delighted to have been asked by
@bbcpaddy
to orchestrate & record Paul Harvey’s beautiful 4 note improvisation 🎹
Our musicians will be recording it at home and you’ll be able to hear it soon on
@BBCRadio4
’s BH🎶
@mrnickharvey
"Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue" - John Williams
#MondayMotivation
Chocolates ✔️
Flowers ✔️
Lights dimmed ✔️
This Valentine's Day
@TheRealLukevans
will bring you a very special treat on
@CBeebiesHQ
🐻❤️Tune in to CBeebies on Feb 14th at 6:50pm 📚💫
“I do think there's a connection between being a musician and being very childlike. We never really grow up. We just look at everything creatively with a fresh mind." –
@YujaWang
#mondaymotivation
#pianist
🏊🎾🏇🏉
Our musicians really did commit to
@bbc5live
's Sports Medley Challenge, here's the evidence!
Listen to the full version
@BBCSounds
(arr. Pete Willmott / sound engineer Joseph Reiser/ recorded by musicians at home)
#BBCPhilatHome
“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts”- George Gershwin
#MondayMotivation
"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing"- Leonard Bernstein
#ThursdayThoughts
“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts”- George Gershwin
#MondayMotivation
📣 We're delighted to announce that
@johnstorgards
has been appointed as the Chief Conductor of BBC Philharmonic.
John’s appointment builds on an existing fruitful relationship with the orchestra which began in 2010 and saw him become the Chief Guest Conductor in 2017.
From Salford to London… we’re off for our last 2023
@bbcproms
performance tomorrow at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
.🚚
We couldn’t do it without our amazing Stage Management and Orchestra Management team amongst others – spotted in this video Ed, Tom, Will, Steve, Saltz and Mackenzie!🙏
“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts”- George Gershwin
#mondaymotivation
With a heavy heart we share the news that Clare Dixon, First Violinist passed away earlier this month. Clare was a wonderful musician and a part of our orchestral family for thirty-three years.
"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require" - Edward Elgar
#thursdaythoughts
👕Hi there
@BBC6Music
- we're wearing our band t-shirts!
Any chance of playing our orchestral version of David Bowie's Sound & Vision????!!
👨🎤🎺🎶
#TShirtDay
😊Keep your eye on the little blue trombone...
Thanks to our musicians Midori and Toby for sharing this lovely performance of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, what a talented family!
#BBCPhilatHome
#NYOdetoJoy
@NYO_GB
❤️🎶
"I just rang my husband and said 'can you come and pick me up early and bring my cello?' in the hope that it would boost the patients and the morale of the staff"
🚨 EXCITING NEWS ALERT
We are delighted to announce that your favourite 'drumming weatherman'
@OwainWynEvans
is the newest addition to our orchestra - joining the percussion section with his
#PercussivePrincess
.
We're really excited to welcome Owain into our family 💖
🤩This is incredible, we are honoured to be part of this!
Four Notes, Paul's Tune now available for download with proceeds to
@alzheimerssoc
&
@MusicforDemUK
French composer Maurice
#Ravel
was
#BornOnThisDay
in 1875.
In 2014,
@BBCRadio3
celebrated the composer, exploring everything from his house, his letters to Vaughan Williams and his musical legacy. Browse the content in one place, here:
🔎
🎻 Joseph Haydn's String Quartet in D, Op.20 No.4 (3rd mvt) 🎻
Performed by Lucy Baker (violin 1), Martin Clark (violin 2), Fiona Dunkley (viola) and Elinor Gow (cello)
As heard in the recent edition of
@BBCRadio3
's Words and Music,
#BBCPhilatHome
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Omer Meir Wellber as the BBC Philharmonic’s new Chief Conductor. Join us this Saturday, 7.30pm for his debut
@BridgewaterHall
This morning we’re rehearsing for our studio concert this afternoon with our Chief Conductor
@johnstorgards
and violinist
@JamesEhnes
🎻
Here is a snippet of our rehearsals of Walton’s Violin Concerto which we will be also performing tomorrow at
@bbcproms
for Prom 26!
Drumroll please! We’re delighted to announce we’ve been shortlisted for
@GramophoneMag
Orchestra of the Year 2023. 🏆 We’re just one out of two orchestras based in the UK to be nominated! Public voting opens today and runs to September – vote now!
🔔 🎶 On loan from
@liverpoolphil
, it's the first time the bells have been played in Manchester at the pitch Berlioz intended for his piece Symphonie fantastique!
Come and see Paul playing these wonderful instruments tomorrow night
@BridgewaterHall
! 🎶🔔
🎶🎻🎺🎷
We're really sad not to be welcoming schools to our studio this term so instead we’ve created this whistle-stop tour of the orchestra so children can see our players and their instruments close-up!
(Music by Dan Whibley)
#BBCPhilatHome
@GMMusicHub
#musiceducation
🎶🕺💃
It’s impossible to keep still whilst listening to this one!
“Crazy Rhythm” by Roger Wolfe Khan & Joseph Meyer featuring Julian (violin), Matthew (accordion) & Pete (guitar/double bass)
#BBCPhilatHome
@BBCNorthPR
"You gave people a chance they wouldn't normally have had"
#BBCBreakfast
has reunited former music teacher Paul, who has dementia, with his ex-pupils; including a member of
@The_CuttingCrew
and a
#DoctorWho
composer.
"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing" - Leonard Bernstein
#ThursdayThoughts
Gustav Mahler was
#bornonthisday
in 1860.
His 2nd Symphony (known as the "Resurrection Symphony") was first performed in 1895- here is the finale, arranged for 30 French Horns by Jonathan Barrett who also performs each part.
#BBCPhilatHome
#Mahler
‘I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.’- Igor Stravinsky
#mondaymotivation
🎶Welcome to the family, Ben Hulme! 😃
Ben joins the orchestra today as our Principal Horn. Listen out for him on today's
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast, performing an excerpt from Also sprach Zarathustra by Strauss with the rest of the section, Phill, Tom, Jonathan and Rebecca 📯
"If I miss a day of practice, I know it. If I miss two days, my manager knows it. If I miss three days, my audience knows it"- André Previn
#MondayMotivation