UEA Music Centre Concerts and Events 2025-26

UEA Symphony Orchestra and Choir warmly invite you to join them for their autumn concert ‘The New and Eternal’, on Thursday 20th November 2025 at 7:30pm at The Cathedral of St John the Baptist (Unthank Road, Norwich, NR2 2PA).

Under the direction of the new UEA Director of Music, Bjorn Bantock, and UEA Choir Director Tom Primrose, the orchestra and choir will perform a programme of dramatic orchestral works and soaring sacred choral music.

The concert will open with Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bare Mountain (Rimsky-Korsakov revision), a vivid, high-energy depiction of a witches’ sabbath. Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings offers contrast with its lyrical warmth, followed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s passionate Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.

The second half shifts to sacred works, beginning with Heinrich Schütz’s radiant Cantate Domino. Anton Bruckner’s Gloria and Credo from Mass No. 2 bring majestic choral depth, culminating in two of Schütz’s jubilant psalms—Jauchzet dem Herren and Alleluja! Lobet den Herren—filled with rich polyphony and celebratory spirit.

Ticket prices:

* £13 (Full Price)

* £10 (Seniors (over 60s))

* £6 (Students) 

Tickets (subject to availability) can be purchased online until 10:00am on the day of the concert.

Programme price:

*£2

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/music-centre/whats-on; email: musicevents@uea.ac.uk; 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 two hours long and will include a 30-minute 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 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.