The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra today reveals its 2023-24 Season – CBSO Remastered - presenting a broad programme of life-enriching musical experiences for audiences at its home in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, and beyond.

With a new Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor – Kazuki Yamada – at the helm and the arrival of Emma Stenning as the orchestra’s new Chief Executive, the new Season welcomes a host of starry guest soloists and conductors and marks 50 years of the celebrated CBSO Chorus with a programme of much-loved choral works.

150 years since the birthday of Rachmaninoff, the composer’s genius is explored, while new music is spotlighted throughout the programme. And, as always, the Orchestra strengthens its mission to reach new audiences across the West Midlands and beyond, with a celebration of the music of the movies and a collaboration with the Orchestral Qawwali Project. Kazuki Yamada leads 12 concerts across the 23/24 programme.

He presents three major choral works with the CBSO Chorus, launching and closing the season with Verdi’s thrilling Requiem and Puccini’s tragic opera, Madam Butterfly respectively, as well as leading Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust. Further highlights of Kazuki’s season include Elgar’s Enigma Variations, two performances of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and his first ever CBSO Family Concert, featuring former Birmingham Poet Laureate Casey Bailey as his right-hand man as they venture into a world of classic fairy tales set to music by Ravel, Grieg and Holly Harrison.

Full season details can be found at cbso.co.uk