Queerness at the Heart of Classical Music
Featuring the world-renowned City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, an LGTBQ+ community chorus and top international soloists, Classical Pride 2023 –Presented by the broadcaster and DJ Nick Grimshaw – celebrated the profound contribution that the LGBTQ+ community makes to classical Music.
Soloists Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy, Nicky Spence, Davóne Tines and Ella Taylor joined the CBSO and Oliver Zeffman to explore music by LGBTQ+ composers, from Tchaikovsky to Poulenc and Bernstein, Caroline Shaw and a new commission from Julian Anderson.
Celebrating these musicians not only for their artistic brilliance but also for their queerness, Classical Pride showed that LGBTQ+ people have always been at the heart of music at its highest level.
