A rare 245-year-old Neapolitan violin has been presented to the leader of the Ulster Youth Orchestra (UYO) for use during her tenure. Anna Jansson, 21, from Cork, a student at the Kunst-Universitat ...

Fisk is finishing up his role as chief executive of the Ulster Orchestra Society, the national symphony of Northern Ireland. The Ulster Orchestra is slightly smaller in size than the Richmond Symphony ...

Bryden Thompson leads the Ulster Orchestra in two pieces from Hamilton Harty's music "The Children of Lir." We feature "The Swan Children," and "Blue Skies." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Join the Ulster Orchestra this February for an evening with their new Principal Guest Artist, clarinettist and conductor Michael ...

After months of silence from both orchestra and audience, The Enchanted Lake by the Russian miniaturist Lyadov turned out to be an unexpectedly apt opener. This was seven minutes of seemingly timeless ...

Robert McMillen reports on a concert by the Ulster Orchestra paying tribute to Carl Hardebeck, the blind composer of German extraction who came to Belfast and fell in love with traditional Irish ...

The Ulster Orchestra, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, performed at this summer's Proms, the huge annual music festival in London. We'll hear from that Proms appearance later in the hour. First, we ...

The Ulstermen and women played to the gallery – and stalls, circle and arena – with a buffet of Austro-German Romantic favourites that began with Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture and Venusberg music ...

Meet Anna Handler — the Ulster Orchestra’s new Chief Conductor for the next three years — a role she says she’s been “preparing for all my life”.

After headlining Outburst Queer Art Festival with Abomination: A DUP Opera, Ivor Novello-nominated composer Conor Mitchell returns to the festival with the 64 musicians of the Ulster Orchestra and six ...

JoAnn Falletta will be leaving the Ulster Orchestra in September, news reports have announced. Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, has been chief conductor of the orchestra ...

The wonderful Ulster Hall re-opens tomorrow after two years' closure for refurbishment. The opening programme will have something for everyone – from Stiff Little Fingers to the Ulster Orchestra – and ...