One of the UK’s leading chamber orchestras, Manchester Camerata has established an enviable reputation as an orchestra which delivers high quality concerts in a refreshingly relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Apart from being an outstanding institution in music education, the RNCM is one of the top venues in the region, with a jam packed events calendar of nearly 300 performances a year. 

Widely recognised as one of Britain’s finest orchestras, the BBC Philharmonic is based in Manchester where it performs around 18 concerts a year in the magnificent Bridgewater Hall. It also records programmes and concerts for Radio 3 in the BBC's Studio 7 Concert Hall. The Orchestra has built a worldwide reputation for outstanding quality and committed performances over an immensely wide-ranging repertoire.

Raw and heart warming, this double bill of two groups hailing from the Arctic region forges magnetic links between folk and world music, rock and pop.  This is gorgeously naïve sounding music drawing on the harsh but striking landscapes of the farthest corners of the world to create unnervingly beautiful sounds.

Manchester Camerata Music Director

Douglas Boyd is currently Music Director of Manchester Camerata. His relationship with the orchestra as its main conductor over the last five years has seen the Manchester Camerata’s repute increase dramatically to become one of the leading chamber orchestras in the UK. Under Dougie’s direction, their concert at the Barbican in the Mostly Mozart Festival last July was received with great acclaim.

Manchester Camerata Principal Guest Director

The acclaimed and charismatic new Principal Guest Director of Manchester Camerata.

Leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, Gordan Nikolitch is an internationally renowned and truly awe inspiring violinist, drawing both musicians and audiences alike to his hypnotic performances.

Manchester Camerata Permanent Guest Conductor

Both a conductor and harpsichordist, with a dynamic and diverse repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the 19th and 20th Centuries, Nichloas Kraemer is a man of many talents.

BBC Philharmonic Chief Guest Conductor

Vassily Sinaisky’s international career was launched in 1973 when he won the Gold Medal at the prestigious Karajan Competition in Berlin. The Russian born conductor and pianist, studied at the Leningrad Conservatoire with Ilya Musin and was his assistantship to the legendary Kondrashin at Moscow Philharmonic provided him with an incomparable grounding.