CBSO

"We have French, Art, Maths, Science - all the things you'd expect, but we have this really special partnership with the CBSO, which is giving these students a level of musical opportunity they just wouldn't get elsewhere".

For the CBSO, this new school partnership is partly about widening the talent pipeline to ensure future musicians come from more diverse backgrounds that reflect modern Britain.

There will be a 700-strong choir, and a water ballet sequence performed by the CBSO, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Elmhurst Ballet School and inclusive dance company Critical Mass.

Mezzo-soprano Samantha Oxborough, a graduate of The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, will also perform the national anthem with the CBSO.

For an insight into what makes this graceful young woman one of the most electric conductors of her generation, it’s worth watching the fascinating German documentary made just after her appointment to the CBSO.