Event Date: Sun - 7 Mar 2027

Event Time: 3:00 pm

Location: Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne

Price: From £17.50

Programme:
Mendelssohn: Overture, Ruy Blas
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"

Conductor: Alpesh Chauhan
Soloist: Sophia Liu (piano)

Alpesh Chauhan conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in an afternoon of Romantic favourites. Mendelssohn's dramatic Ruy Blas overture opens the concert, followed by Saint-Saëns's elegant Second Piano Concerto, played by Sophia Liu, the recipient of the orchestra's Alexandra Jupin Award for debut artists.

The afternoon ends with Schumann's Rhenish Symphony, which opens in a blaze of glory and takes listeners on a musical journey along the Rhine and to Cologne Cathedral.

Tickets from £17.50: trafalgartickets.com/eastbourne-theatres-eastbourne

Image: Alpesh Chauhan (Benjamin Ealovega)