UEA Music Centre Concerts and Events 2024-25

UEA Music Centre will be organising coaches to take UEA Choir members and a limited number of audience members, from UEA (LCR) to Saffron Hall (Saffron Walden) and back again for UEA Choir and Cambridge Philharmonic's ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ concert on Saturday 1 March 2025.

Coaches will leave UEA (LCR) at 8:30am on Saturday 1 March 2025 and arrive back at UEA (LCR) at approximately 9:00pm on Saturday 1 March 2025.

Cost of coach place:

UEA Choir non-student member - £10

UEA Choir student member - £0

Audience member - £10

Audience members, please note that you are only purchasing a place on the coach to and from Saffron Hall. You must purchase a ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ concert ticket, if you wish to watch the concert. ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ concert tickets are available to purchase from the Saffron Hall Box Office (https://bit.ly/3CLY4XO or 0845 548 7650).

UEA Choir, Community Choir, and members of Chamber Choir, warmly invite you to join them for their ever-popular UEA Choirs Christmas Carol concert on Wednesday 11th December at 7.30pm at The Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich.

Under the direction of UEA Choirmaster, Tom Primrose, UEA Choir and members of UEA Chamber Choir, will perform Ode on the Nativity by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, as well as a host of well-loved Christmas carols for the audience to join in.

The concert will also feature performances by UEA Community Choir, organist David Grealy, and pianist Matthew Rhodes.

If you would like to celebrate the festive season, with many of your favourite carols, in one of Norwich’s grandest historic buildings, come and join us on Wednesday 11th December. 

Ticket prices: 

*£12 (full price) 

*£9 (UEA staff, students, and seniors (over 60’s))

The ticket price includes the cost of a programme (available to collect on the night).

For further information: Please visit: www.uea.ac.uk/uea-life/campus-life/campus-facilities/music-centre/whats-on; email: [email protected]; phone: 01603 593948; or follow: @UEAConcerts on X, UEA Music Centre on Facebook, UEA Music Centre on YouTube and ueamusiccentre on Instagram.

Please note: 

Doors open at 6.45pm.

The concert will last approximately 2 hours (including an interval).

Seating is unreserved.

Please take your seats 10 minutes before the advertised time.

Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

We are no longer issuing physical tickets. This means that your confirmation email will be your ticket. 

We regret that we cannot exchange, refund or transfer tickets unless the event in question has been cancelled or rescheduled. For further information, please see our UEA Music Centre concert: terms and conditions.

All profits from UEA Music Centre concerts are used to fund scholarships for students.

UEA Symphony Orchestra warmly invite you to join them for their spring concert ‘Ad Astra’, on Thursday 20th March 2025 at 7pm at The Church of St Peter Mancroft (Hay Hill, Chapelfield Grove, Norwich, NR2 1QX).

Under the direction of Director of Music, Stuart Dunlop, the 70-strong orchestra will perform Johann Strauss’ Waltz Op. 314 ‘The Blue Danube’; 'Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter' from Gustav Holst’s The Planets Op. 32; and John Williams’ Star Wars Suite.

Ticket prices:

* £12 (Full Price)

* £8.50 (Seniors (over 60s))

* £6 (Students) 

Tickets available to purchase online until 10am on the day of the concert.

Programme price:

*£1.50

If you pre order a printed programme, you will be able to collect this from the ticket checking desk, on the night of the concert.

For further information: Please visit: www.uea.ac.uk/uea-life/campus-life/campus-facilities/music-centre/whats-on; email: [email protected]; phone: 01603 593948; or follow: @UEAConcerts on X, UEA Music Centre on Facebook, UEA Music Centre on YouTube and ueamusiccentre on Instagram.

Please note:

Doors open at 6.15pm.

The concert will be approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes long and there will be no interval.

Seating is unreserved.

Please take your seats 10 minutes before the advertised time.

Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

We are no longer issuing physical tickets. This means that your confirmation email will be your ticket. 

We regret that we cannot exchange, refund or transfer tickets unless the event in question has been cancelled or rescheduled. For further information, please see our UEA Music Centre concert: terms and conditions.

UEA Symphony Orchestra warmly invite you to join them for their autumn concert, ‘Tragedy to Triumph’, on Thursday 21st November 2024 at 7.30pm at St Thomas Church (Earlham Road, Norwich, NR2 3RG).

Under the direction of Director of Music, Stuart Dunlop, the 70-strong orchestra will perform: Max Bruch's Romanze for Viola Op. 85; Ludwig van Beethoven's Music for Goethe’s Egmont Op. 84; and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68. 

Brahms wrestled with his First Symphony for more than 20 years, and the struggle is manifest in its driving first movement. Subsequently opening into music of radiant beauty, the glorious last movement tune has earned it the title of ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’ in recognition of the confident hope it shares with the older composer’s Ninth. 

The themes of Goethe’s 1788 play Egmont - the struggle for liberty and against oppression, were close to Beethoven’s heart and he responded to the request for accompanying music with a score of foreboding power, but also tenderness, reflecting the sacrifice involved in the eventual triumph of freedom. This rare performance of the complete incidental music will be preceded by Bruch’s little gem, the Viola Romanze - recognisably a cousin to the lyrical violin concerto.

The concert will feature solos from UEA students, and Music Scholars, Amelia Fox (viola) and Elizabeth Newman (soprano), and performances by students from the UEA Drama School. 

Tickets have now sold out. There will not be any tickets available to purchase on the door.

For further information: Please visit: www.uea.ac.uk/uea-life/campus-life/campus-facilities/music-centre/whats-on; email: [email protected]; phone: 01603 593948; or follow: @UEAConcerts on X, UEA Music Centre on Facebook, UEA Music Centre on YouTube and ueamusiccentre on Instagram.

Please note:

Doors open at 6.45pm.

The concert will be approximately 2 hours 5 minutes (including an interval).

Seating is unreserved.

Please take your seats 10 minutes before the advertised time.

Latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

The nearest non-permit parking is on Christchurch Road (5min walk away). The nearest multi-story is The Forum (20min walk away). The church is also on a bus route (26), which runs from the city centre to UEA.

We are no longer issuing physical tickets. This means that your confirmation email will be your ticket. 

We regret that we cannot exchange, refund or transfer tickets unless the event in question has been cancelled or rescheduled. For further information, please see our UEA Music Centre concert: terms and conditions.

If you pre order a printed programme, you will be able to collect this from the ticket checking desk, on the night of the concert.

All profits from UEA Music Centre concerts are used to fund scholarships for students.