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• BBC Radio West Midlands, 14 October, interview with conductor Richard Balcombe to promote

CBSO’s Your Song… A Tribute to Elton John

• BBC Radio West Midlands’ Elise Evans Breakfast Show, 10 December, interview with Karthi

Gnanasegaram promoting A Choral Christmas with the CBSO Chorus, Youth Chorus & CBSO SO Vocal

• BBC Radio West Midlands’ Breakfast Show, 19 January, interview with vocalist Stephen Weller

promoting ABBA: Thank You For The Music on 28 January

Features

• The Strad, 2 November, interview with cellist Jackie Tyler MBE, part of the CBSO Baroque
Ensemble, detailing her role as a continuo player, as well as ‘how working with wind players and

her Baroque cello set-up inform her playing’

• BBC Music Magazine, December Issue, feature on Simon Keenlyside in ‘Music To My Ears’, which

includes a plug for his concert with CBSO in December, p.22

New Street Station:

• Colin’s Column, 8 October, news story on CBSO performing at New Street Station

• Birmingham Press, 8 October, news story as above

• Birmingham What’s On Live, 8 October, news story as above

Social Media Highlights - New Street Station

Facebook:

• Birmingham What’s On, Facebook (228k followers), 15 October, cross-posted Facebook Live of

the New Street Station event

• Wesley Smith, ITV News Presenter, Twitter (1,678 followers), 15 October, tweets using content

filmed by RDMR (Jo Peskett)