Family Events

As the NCH’s Learning and Participation Artist-in-Residence, Jessie Grimes will present and lead a suite of family friendly concerts with the NSO that include popular screenings of classic children’s stories by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, and Roald Dahl namely Stick Man and The Snail and the Whale and Revolting Rhymes.

Our Precious Planet with the NSO and Catriona Ryan flute, will feature musical pieces with a nature and earth theme brought to life with projections by Grégoire Pont, illustrator and animator.

The popular children’s story Peter and Wolf will be told with shadow puppetry and Britten’s classic Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra performed by NSO and led by Gavin Maloney.

The ASD friendly Symphony Shorts concerts continue featuring Beethoven’s heroic Symphony No. 5 and Berlioz’s rousing Symphonie fantastique.