What you can expect from BSO After Dark

It’s going to be a concert of classical music like you’ve never heard it before, where the potential of the music and our experience of it is fully explored.

It mixes orchestral music, spoken word poetry and atmospheric lighting for a truly immersive experience – straight from the minds of the Turner Sims’ Assistant Producers.

Izzy, one of the Assistant Producers and a third year music student, says  ‘I want the audiences to have a really immersive experience with the concert allowing time for them to de-stress and exist outside of daily pressure for a couple of hours. I want this concert to perhaps broaden their tastes and curiosity.’

Turner Sims’ Assistant Producers

‘BSO After Dark’ is a collaborative project from the minds of five young creatives: the Turner Sim’s Assistant Producers.

The musical masterminds – Antonio, Carley, Izzy, Marie and Ralph – have worked closely with both Turner Sims and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra to create this exploratory evening that aims to expand the views of the audience.

Throughout the months leading to the concert, the quintet have worked across many different roles that go into putting on a concert such as this, including formulating concert repertoire, instrumentation, lighting, rehearsal management, marketing and promotion.

Across several sessions they have worked with BSO musicians and librarian, both the BSO and Turner Sims marketing teams and Turner Sims lighting technician and programmers.

Carley, an archaeologist with a love for live music, says that her favourite part of producing event such as this one is ‘speaking to people after and hearing that they never thought they would understand this type of music, or never would have come to this type of show. I love seeing people’s world expand in music.’

Baby Panna

Baby Panna is a spoken word artist and musician who first performed at Turner Sims in July 2024 as part of the venue’s Vibe Lounge (hear more about that later…) at the invitation of Antonio. Following that concert, the Assistant Producers invited him back to be a part of ‘BSO After Dark’.

The Portsmouth artist will be performing spoken word alongside iconic film scores and transcendent classical works as part of the performance – his favourite piece from the concert being Hans Zimmers’ Time from Inception.

Antonio, who was a member of the first round of The Vibe Collective, says that ‘the concept of blending [classical music] with a rapper who is particular poetically inclined, Baby Panna, excite me and I’m excited to see how the audience responds.’

Baby Panna’s poetic lyrics will accompany music such as Bundle of Joy from film Inside Out, Venus, The Bringer of Peace from Holst’s Planets, and A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke.

The Vibe Lounge with DJ Jack Pudding

‘BSO After Dark’ kicks off at 7.30pm but you can start the evening earlier with a free performance from DJ Jack Pudding in the intimate foyer space at Turner Sims.

The forty minute performance brings an intense soundscape connecting the hypnotic rhythms and alien sounds of electronic dance music with the melancholic and reflective instrumentation of modern classical, ambient and drone music.

What you will take away from BSO After Dark

It will be a whole new symphonic experience for you, even if you’ve heard the BSO a hundred times.

Ralph, a third year music student with a keen interest in film music, said ‘I would like the audience to be engaged and moved by the music. As well as listen to some genres they don’t normally listen to and introducing them to artists such as Baby Panna.’

It’s going to be a memorable evening of new sounds and new faces, a concert that Antonio hopes will be ‘a reimagined version of what classical music can be. Hopefully taken on a journey sonically and through the atmosphere that levels up their appreciations of classical music live and/or poetry!’

Join us on this journey and uncover a concert without limits.

 

We can’t wait to present BSO After Dark on Friday 13 March, with seven BSO musicians working alongside these fabulous artists and producers, in the fantastic venue Turner Sims. Tickets available here. Book for the Vibe Lounge event too here.

This project has been delivered in partnership with Turner Sims.