Karen Ní Bhroin Conductor

03/06/2026

Thrilled to be apart of the season launch today and to be back with the next season for a fantastic world premiere! 🇮🇪

Extremely excited to bring this project to too! 🇩🇪

A flagship new work for children based on Irish mythology, with music by Aoife Ní Bhriain and Cormac McCarthy , and text by the former Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde . 

23/04/2026

How glorious does Clare Hammond and theBBC Concert Orchestra sound?

❤️

23/04/2026

So happy to be back with the brilliant this week!

This week we’re at with a fantastic programme inspired by the movies. I’ll be joined by the wonderful on piano all presented by

Tune in live at 7:30pm on Friday 24th on

Clare Hammond piano
Karen Ni Bhroin conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra

A great film needs a great soundtrack – and music doesn’t get much more powerful than the classics. Whether it’s Colin Firth delivering The King’s Speech, spiralling spaceships in 2001: A Space Odyssey or Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson pouring out their hearts in Brief Encounter, the stars wouldn’t shine without the melodies of Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Strauss, and…well, the list goes on!
In tonight’s live Nottingham edition of BBC Radio 3’s Friday Night is Music Night, the BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Karen Ní Bhroin and Nottingham’s own pianist Clare Hammond come together to celebrate the best in classical music that defines the cinema masterpieces. Expect favourites from Amadeus, Chocolat, Up!, Out of Africa and many more, performed live and larger-than-life. You know them, you love them… and if you thought they sounded good in the cinema, just wait until you hear them in the fabulous Royal Concert Hall.

21/04/2026

I’m thrilled to be heading BACK to the BBC Proms stage this summer. Catch me performing Horrible Science: The Big Bang Proms Experiment

14:00 Sat 25 Jul 2026 Royal Albert Hall
18:00 Sat 25 Jul 2026 Royal Albert Hall

To debut at the proms last year, was a dream come true! To be asked back straight way, pinch me!!! Thrilled to be working in this fantastic prom which will be televised, with the wonderful BBC National Orchestra of Wales. welwn ni chi cyn bo hir!

Join Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as they present CBBC’s hit sketch show Horrible Science live at the Royal Albert Hall with some scientifically proven bangers from the classical canon, including Holst’s The Planets and John Williams’s Star Wars

Performers
Richard David Caine
James McNicholas
Jessica Ransom
Inel Tomlinson
 
Karen Ní Bhroin, conductor

With 86 concerts and more than 3,000 musicians across eight weeks, it’s set to be an extraordinary summer of music.

Explore the full programme: bbc.co.uk/proms

13/04/2026

, what a week!

Two amazing concerts in Sumida Triphony Hall and Suntory Hall. A debut I won’t forget! 🇯🇵

Bacewicz Overture for Orchetsra
Clara Schumann Piano Concerto with Japan’s own ❤️ and a wonderful solo from
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony” with Motoko Murozumi

Such an amazing welcome, energy, and fantastic music making. Bravo and thank you! 🙏🏻

Special thanks to the orchestra team and Tempo Primo for looking after me all week.

Arigato gozaimash*ta!

Lovely to have people from the and community in Japan present too! 🇮🇪 (spot the Tin whistle!)

📸©️TERASHI Masahiko

13/04/2026

12/04/2026

And today! Concert no. 2! ❤️

12/04/2026

Yesterday at Sumida Triphony Hall with 新日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団 New Japan Philharmonic, orchestra ❤️

04/04/2026

Next stop - Tokyo!! 🇯🇵

30/03/2026

And up next - JAPAN!

My debut with 🇯🇵

I’m incredibly excited about this one. What an honour to visit such an amazing country, culture and people and even more importantly to go and make music together!!

Very excited to have an amazing trio of women with and Motoko Murozumi leading this, with two female composers on the programme too!

See you soon, Tokyo, one week to go!

Karen