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Svetlana Rudenko: Dreaming with Mixed Reality

Following their MUSICON debut in 2023, DreaMR (Dreaming with Mixed Reality) by Haunted Planet Studios return to Durham with their dizzying fusion of art, music and consciousness science.

19 November 2025

7:30 AM - 9:30 PM

Music Department, Palace Green

  • Music
  • Performance
  • Music Department

James Weeks: weatherworld quartets

We are delighted to welcome back the internationally-renowned Bozzini Quartet of Montreal to MUSICON for a special concert featuring the premiere of James Weeks’ major new work, weatherworld quartets.

25 November 2025

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham

  • Music
  • Performance
  • Music Department

Richard Rijnvos: lettura del labirinto

MUSICON is thrilled to welcome virtuoso harpsichordist Jane Chapman to give the UK premiere of Richard Rijnvos’ major new work.

21 January 2026

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham

  • Music
  • Performance
  • Music Department

Royal Northern Sinfonia II: Beethoven’s Septet

Royal Northern Sinfonia, directed by dynamic violinist Maria Włoszczowska, return for their second visit of the season in an evening of music packed full of wit, sparkle and passion.

23 January 2026

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL

  • Music
  • Music Department

Musica Antica Rotherhithe

Musica Antica Rotherhithe present cantatas and extracts from operas written for Venice’s public theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, many of which have lain unperformed for over 350 years.

17 February 2026

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Elvet Methodist Church

  • Music
  • Performance
  • Music Department

Royal Northern Sinfonia III: Schubert and Haydn

For their final visit of the season, RNS bring two Viennese Classical masterworks to Durham. Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, heard tonight in its well-known arrangement for string quartet, moves with reflective grace: a series of slow, searching movements inspired by the final phrases spoken by Jesus Christ on the cross.

08 May 2026

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL

  • Music

SongPath in the Botanic Garden

Music – Nature – Mental Health

21 June 2026

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Durham University Botanic Garden

  • Music
  • Performance
  • Music Department