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We are delighted to share that Paraorchestra was awarded the Ensemble Award at the 2025 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. The awards evening took place in Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on Thursday 6 March 2025 and the Ensemble Award was…

Experience playing in a setting that is both supportive and challenging alongside members of the Paraorchestra ensemble

This Autumn, Paraorchestra musicians and composers gathered together with music-makers and creative technologists from Drake Music, Watershed and Sony Music Japan in a three-day hackathon exploring new possibilities in assistive music…

Virtuoso recorder player and long-standing member of our ensemble James Risdon introduces the braille music course he has been leading as part of Paraorchestra's artist development programme Modulate

The Ideas Fund is an open-ended commission created to offer our musicians and composers the chance to intrepidly explore early-stage creative projects and ideas

We are very excited to announce that Paraorchestra will be creating a large-scale commission for and in co-production with Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture.Collaboration is at the centre of everything we do. The Bradford Progress is a new…

Paraorchestra's Associate Music Director Lloyd Coleman introduces the twelve latest members of our ensemble