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Barbican announces Maria Schneider Orchestra and Jane Birkin for 2022

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Maria Schneider Orchestra
Sat 29 Jan 2022, Barbican Hall, 7.30pm
Tickets £20 – 35 + booking fee
Grammy-award winning band leader Maria Schneider and her eighteen-piece jazz orchestra return to the Barbican for the first time since 2008. Schneider’s ensemble is made up of some of the world’s finest jazz musicians today, and in writing for them Schneider tailors her compositions to the creative voices in the group to create music that blurs the line between genres.
Schneider and her orchestra will be performing their latest multi-award-winning double-album Data Lords, released in 2020. The album, which has been called ‘the most daring work of Schneider’s career’, is both a cry against dystopian clutter and exploitation, and a paean to nature, connection and inspiration. Scenically spacious and luminously harmonised, Data Lords is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has won two GRAMMY Awards, been named Jazz Album of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association and NPR and was winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie du Jazz.
Produced by the Barbican
On sale to Barbican patrons and members on Wed 28 July 2021
On general sale on Fri 30 July 2021
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Jane Birkin
Sat 5 Feb 2022, Barbican Hall, 8pm
Tickets £25 – 35 + booking fee
Singer, songwriter and actress Jane Birkin returns to the Barbican to perform tracks from her most recent album Oh! Pardon tu dormais… accompanied by her band.
Oh! Pardon tu dormais….. was born in 2020 in collaboration with Étienne Daho and Jean-Louis Piérot. The album traces and soundtracks Birkin’s life - encompassing romance, tragedy and acceptance - weaving Birkin and Daho’s texts with Daho and Piérot’s music to create a wistful and reflective collection of ballads.
Birkin most recently performed at the Barbican in 2017 to present a symphonic tribute to her long-term partner, Serge Gainsbourg and returns now, shifting focus onto her own experience and bringing with her, in her own words, “a backpack filled with memories”.
Produced by the Barbican In association with Como No!
On sale to Barbican patrons and members on Wed 28 July 2021
On general sale on Fri 30 July 2021
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COMING UP SOON – OUTDOOR CINEMA IN AUGUST

Floating Points – Promises: Through Congress + Reflections: Mojave Desert (U)
Wed 25 Aug, Barbican Sculpture Court, 8.30pm
Tickets £15
Barbican Cinema is delighted to present a late summer programme of evening Outdoor Cinema screenings (24 – 29 Aug 2021), featuring a double bill of films from Floating Points – the pioneering electronic music composer – including the European premiere of Promises: Through Congress (USA 2021, Dir Trevor Tweeten) a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, Floating Points, and filmmaker Trevor Tweeten. The film features Mehretu’s expansive painting Congress (2003) and Promises, the acclaimed album from Floating Points and jazz titan Pharoah Sanders, featuring the Barbican’s Resident Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra.
Screening in the same programme is Reflections – Mojave Desert, a short film directed by Anna Diaz Ortuño (USA 2017, Dir Anna Diaz Ortuño), including a sound-track by Floating Points; ambient sounds creep into the recording, with bird calls and the sound of wind captured by microphones placed in the desert.
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FURTHER EVENT DETAILS ANNOUNCED

Darbar Festival 2021
Thu 21 – Sun 24 October 2021, various venues
Tickets £15 – 100 plus booking fee

NEW: Indian Music Appreciation Course (livestreamed Sat 16 and Sun 17 Oct, 2pm-5.30pm each day)
Ken Zuckerman with Surdarshan Chana + Jyotsna Srikanth with Sanju Sahai & RN Prakash (Thu 21 Oct, Milton Court Concert Hall, 6.30pm)
Sukhvinder Singh with Milind Kulkarni + Roopa Panesar wth Shahbaz Hussain (Fri 22 Oct, Milton Court Concert Hall, 6.30pm)
NEW: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Unwrapped by Alam Khan (Livestream on Sat 23 Oct, 2-3.30pm on Darbar Concert Hall)
Yogabliss to Live Music (Sat 23 & Sun 24 Oct, Frobisher Room, 10.30am)
Ustad Waseem Ahmed Khan with Gurdain Rayatt & Milind Kulkarni (Sat 23 Oct, Milton Court Concert Hall, 6.30pm)
NEW: Future of Carnatic Music by TM Krishna (Livestream on Sun 24 Oct, 2-3.30pm, Darbar Concert Hall)
Kaushiki Chakraborty with Shahbaz Hussain & Milind Kulkarni + Pandit Kushal Das with Sukhvinder Singh (Sun 24 Oct, Barbican Hall, 5.30pm)