
Ulster Orchestra names Anna Handler as Chief Conductor. A strategic appointment — and a moment for the orchestra to assert its identity more boldly.

A three-season appointment deepens an already well-established connection. Does it also hint at longer-term possibilities?

Neil Hannon’s new work ‘As The Sun Brightens, the Shadows Deepen’ is premiered by the Ulster Orchestra on Friday 5 May 2023.

The Ulster Orchestra strings are inconceivably rich. To hear them playing their loudest you’d think there were more of them squirrelled away somewhere.