International Orchestras & Recitals

We are excited to present some of the finest international artists and ensembles as part of the NCH Season 2025 Autumn/Winter

As part of her first solo tour for more than a decade, acclaimed Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti returns to perform classics by Sarasate, Clara Schumann, Vaughan Williams and Paganini alongside new works and arrangements of traditional Scottish music. Guests: Plínio Fernandes (guitar) and Samuele Telari (accordion).

Superstar siblings, cellist and pianist Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason and American violinist Tai Murray join Chineke! Orchestra, Europe's first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, for their 10th anniversary featuring a world premiere by Master of the King’s Music ’24, Errollyn Wallen.

Philip Glass Explored - a unique recital of works by one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, Philip Glass, for organ and piano with James McVinnie and Maki Namekawa to include his Piano Etudes, No. 11 & 20, ‘Award Montage’ from Mishima and more.

The mighty Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, one of Hungary’s oldest ensembles with more than 100 years of history, makes a welcome return with Chief Conductor András Keller and distinguished British pianist Paul Lewis, for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and more.

Named by The Economist as one of 20 Living Polymaths, British pianist Sir Stephen Hough, is regarded as a true renaissance man, a leading concert pianist, writer, composer and painter. He joins Viano Quartet in an eagerly awaited recital to include the Irish premiere of Hough’s Piano Quintet Les noces Rouges.

A tribute to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, for his 90th birthday, with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor Tõnu Kaljuste and organist Kadri Toomoja.