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MUSICON
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As Durham University’s professional concert series, MUSICON’s aim is to bring top-class musical performance from across the world to Durham, engaging, delighting and inspiring audiences from both the university and city of Durham and beyond.

Rooted in the university’s world-leading Music Department, MUSICON draws on the special expertise and enthusiasms of its staff to create programmes which are diverse, inclusive and at the cutting-edge of musical research and knowledge, ranging from Western classical, early and contemporary music to the musical traditions of India, the Far East and elsewhere: a unique cultural resource in the North East.
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A MUSICON performance at Durham Cathedral

 

 

An introduction from our Chair

Welcome to our 57th season of world-class chamber music concerts in Durham! As ever, the 2025-26 season brings you a rich mixture of music, from baroque and classical masterworks to adventures in cutting-edge new music, film and virtual reality.

We launch an exciting new partnership with Royal Northern Sinfonia, one of the world’s great chamber orchestras, who bring three scintillating programmes across the season. We also explore links between music, the natural world and wellbeing, with the world premiere of James Weeks’ weatherworld quartets by Canada’s Quatuor Bozzini, and a rare MUSICON visit to the beautiful Botanic Gardens for a very special SongPath event in June. We hope to see you at our concerts this season!

James Weeks

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