2012 promises to be an exciting year for culture with The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June and the Olympics six weeks later.

2012 is set to be an exciting year for the AAM. On 3 June 2012 the Academy of Ancient Music takes part in The Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. Positioned on The Edwardian barge they will perform Handel’s Water Music Suites and Music for the Royal Fireworks. From September 2012 the AAM becomes an Associate Ensemble at the Barbican bringing regular period performance to the Barbican’s musical community. Alina Ibragimova makes her debut with the AAM with a six concert tour starting on 23 February in Dartington with further concerts in Bath (24 Feb); Cambridge (27 Feb); London (29 Feb); Ludlow (3 Mar) and Bury St Edmunds (4 Mar).

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields looks forward to its first concert with new Music Director Joshua Bell on 5 April, as well as Principal Guest Conductor Murray Perahia on 25 February at the Barbican. The orchestra celebrates Hȧkan Hardenberger’s 50th birthday at Cadogan Hall on 5 May.

Delphian new releases include Peter Hill’s first JS Bach recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II and The Airmen, a disc of Martin Shaw songs in which Iain Burnside and singers Sophie Bevan, Andrew Kennedy and Roderick Williams have given new life to an unjustly neglected figure.

The Guildhall School’s music highlights this term include Guildhall Artists in recital at Carnegie Hall for the first time on 24 January; the School makes its Barbican Theatre debut with a new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the end of February and James MacMillan conducts the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican on 21 March. Drama highlights include two plays in February: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and an adaption from the play Her Stepdaughter of Jenufa as well as The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Part One in March.

Stuart Skelton is looking forward to a busy 2012. His standout performance in the title role of ENO’s critically acclaimed production of Britten’s Peter Grimes goes to Oviedo at the end of January. He sings Mahler with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez in February and returns to The Metropolitan Opera, New York to perform in their Ring Cycle on 13 April.

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