Event type: Music

Join an evening of new music, composed by Youth Company members taking part in the Rushworth Young Composers and Songwriters programme this year.

The Equilibrium String Quartet performs works from the newest generation of contemporary composers.

Dub collective Zion Train return to Birkenhead once again, celebrating the release of their new album ‘Dubs of Perception’ (out 21.03) with an extended party out in the FY Garden on Saturday 24th May.

One of the most unique and enjoyable live dub acts on the planet, their use of dynamic onstage dub mixing whilst performing alongside acoustic instruments and exceptional vocalists, make Zion Train one of a kind.

Iration Steppas, Simma & Parly B + Dub Defenders support. 5pm doors.

Some pieces are classics for a reason – and let’s face it, when it comes to Dvořák’s New World symphony it’s been a long time since the Hovis ad!

This great symphony of exile, hope and nostalgia has been touching hearts since 1893. Shostakovich’s uproarious Piano Concerto is a bit newer, and Anna Tsybuleva makes it sparkle tonight. First, though, guest conductor Erina Yashima shares a piece of pure magic from a young Dutch composer with a huge imagination.

In the midst of a burgeoning British independent music scene, Miles Hunt formed The Wonder Stuff. The band went on to score four Top 20 albums and seventeen Top 20 singles, including the number one hit ‘Dizzy’ with Vic Reeves.

Miles returns to Liverpool to perform an intimate acoustic show of hits, rarities and classics songs from his huge catalogue.

All the right notes in rather more than just the right order! Grieg’s Piano Concerto is one of those pieces that absolutely everyone knows.

The real skill is making it sound as fresh as new – and when the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition winner Anna Tsybuleva joins forces with guest conductor Erina Yashima, we think the results will be magical. As for Humperdinck’s fairytale prelude and Dvořák’s New World symphony…well, enough said, really. It’s just tune after tune after tune.

It’s time to relax on the sofa with a cuppa, put your feet up and switch on the telly to watch your favourite show – only this time, all of the classic theme tunes from throughout history have been rearranged for full jazz big band!

The full array of Liverpool Philharmonic’s Youth Orchestras and Youth Choir come together for a Sunday afternoon concert.

Ludwig van Beethoven was an idealist – and when his hero Napoleon betrayed the revolution, he tore up the score of his Eroica symphony.

That same energy pulses through every bar of this game-changing work, and Domingo Hindoyan certainly won’t hold back tonight. But Beethoven was a poet, too, and when Veronika Eberle plays his radiant Violin Concerto, you’ll hear just how beautiful music can be.

Jörg Widmann’s love of Schumann impelled him to reflect, reconsider and then weave his own instrumental tapestry in and around Schumann’s great song cycle Dichterliebe, sung tonight by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Artist in Residence, Benjamin Appl.

Geoffrey Paterson returns to Ensemble 10:10 to guide us through this and the contrasting musical landscapes of Alexander Goehr and Pierre Boulez(to honour his 100th anniversary), and introduce new music from Liverpool-born former Rushworth Composition Prize winner, Nneka Cummins.

There’s nothing like thinking big. “The symphony should be like the world,” said Gustav Mahler, “it should embrace everything”.

But even by his own epic standards, his Third Symphony is extraordinary: a whole concert, complete with distant trumpets, children’s songs, glittering marches and lofty mountaintop meditations. Domingo Hindoyan conducts it tonight, and with two choruses, a colossal orchestra and Liverpool’s own Jennifer Johnston joining the adventure, this should be a night and a half.