# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Sugar-Plum Swing: Tchaikovsky, Ellington and Strayhorn 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 07:45 pm
- **Event Description**: Tchaikovsky/Ellington/Strayhorn: The Nutcracker Suite 
Robin Haigh: LUCK Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (UO co-commission) 
Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake 

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Cosette Justo Valdés: Conductor  
Matilda Lloyd: Trumpet 

*** 
 
Christmas is often the time for a trip to the ballet, and this concert will take you there; albeit with a bit of a twist! 

In 1960, the great jazz band leader Duke Ellington and his regular collaborator Billy Strayhorn took the music (and movement titles!) of Tchaikovsky’s ballet suite The Nutcracker and made it swing.  

This concert’s concerto, Luck, commissioned by the Ulster Orchestra for Matilda Lloyd, starts with string and wind flurries like snowflakes, that melt into a playful, buoyant work for trumpet and orchestra that keeps jazz-inflections to the fore.  

The concert closes with selections from another of Tchaikovsky’s peerless compositions for the ballet, the romantic tragedy, Swan Lake. 

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Doors open: 6.30pm approx. 
Pre-concert talk: 7.00pm 
Concert start: 7.45pm 
Concert end: 9.45pm approx.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/belfast/sugar-plum-swing-tchaikovsky-ellington-and-strayhorn/200028488629955
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, concerts, trips-adventures, jazz, christmas
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk/5-dec-25-valdes-lloyd-tchaikovsky-ellington-haigh-nutcracker-luck-swan-lake/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=belfast-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Belfast
- **state**: NI
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Ulster Hall
- **lat**: 54.5946036
- **long**: -5.9310075
- **full address**: Ulster Hall, Mission IQ Limited, 36 Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7FF, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ulster Orchestra (https://allevents.in/org/ulster-orchestra/25964858)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 07:45 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Ulster Hall, Mission IQ Limited, 36 Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7FF, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ulster Orchestra
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, concerts, trips-adventures, jazz, christmas
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Sugar-Plum Swing: Tchaikovsky, Ellington and Strayhorn  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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