· Appearances by Gustavo Dudamel, Lang Lang, Karita Mattila, Sir Antonio Pappano, Maxim Vengerov, Joseph Calleja, Ingrid Fliter, Joshua Bell, Andreas Scholl, John Lill, András Schiff

· San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas visit Birmingham for first time since 1995

· Season opens with Peter Grimes from London Philharmonic and Vladimir Jurowski, continuing Birmingham’s Britten Centenary

· Sir Roger Norrington’s 80^th birthday concert

· Three-concert residency from the Pavel Haas Quartet

· Bach: A Beautiful Mind: six events in the biennial Bach celebration

· Thomas Trotter’s 30^th anniversary recital as Birmingham City Organist

· International visits from Orchestra Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Moscow Philharmonic, Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Apollo’s Fire

· Opera performances from The Royal Opera and Opera North’s Ring Cycle, The English Concert in Handel’s Theodora and Music Theatre Wales production of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek