Royal Northern Sinfonia is the UK’s only full-time chamber orchestra. Founded in 1958, RNS has built a world-wide reputation for the North East through the quality of its music-making and the immediacy of the connections the musicians make with audiences. They regularly fly the flag for the region at the Edinburgh Festival and BBC proms, and often work with prestigious conductors, soloists and leading popular voices such as Sting, Ben Folds and John Grant.