Musical theatre star Michael Ball has announced a UK tour with a date in Bournemouth next spring.

The announcement comes ahead of the release of his 19th solo album, If Everyone Was Listening. A double Olivier Award winner, multi-platinum recording artist and a hugely popular radio and TV presenter, Ball will release the latest album in November. It features 15 tracks chosen by him to include a mix of individual classics, award winners and contemporary songs spanning the years 1960 to 2013.

For more than 25 years Michael Ball has been at the top of his game, starring in musical theatre productions in the West End and on Broadway, winning critical acclaim, a devoted following and awards for his stage work and recording career.

He made his West End debut as Marius in the original London cast of Les Misérables and since then, has starred in West End productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang..

In 2005 he performed on Broadway as Count Fosco in The Woman in White, which transferred from London's West End and, in the same year, made his New York City Opera debut as Reginald Bunthorne in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. In 2007 he made his debut with the ENO as Haj/The Poet in Kismet. In 2008 he made box office history at the Shaftesbury Theatre with his Olivier Award winning performance as Edna Turnblad in the smash hit musical Hairspray which he then took on tour across the UK throughout 2010.

During August of that year he made his debut as a chat show host on ITV1's The Michael Ball Show and in December he made his debut as a West End co-producer with the musical theatre production of Love Story (Duchess Theatre).

In 2013 he won Best Actor in a Musical from Whatsonstage.com and his second Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his critically acclaimed lead role in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Chichester and Adelphi/West End).

Having sold millions of albums and DVDs nationally and internationally, he's also performed in Australia, China, USA, Singapore and in 2007 made his BBC Proms debut: An Evening with Michael Ball at the Royal Albert Hall, which marked the first time a musical theatre star had been given a solo concert at the Proms.

Tickets for the Bournemouth show go on sale at 9am on Friday. Call the BH Live Tickets on 0844 576 3000, book online at bic.co.uk or visit the BIC box office in person.