Barbican Sessions

Reinventing the modern choir, Shards perform live in the Frobisher Tunnel ahead of their gig at Milton Court this may.

Latinx jazz collective Colectiva perform an exclusive piece in the Milton Court Theatre, ahead of their sold out gig with Balimaya Project last October.

Emmy The Great brought her guitar along to the Barbican Foyer, to perform ‘Mary’, the first single to be taken from her latest album April/Yuet Yam .

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha performs 'The Way Of Spiritual Breath' on live Yanggeum with recorded industrial soundscapes in our Members Lounge.

Scottish multi-instrumentalist and producer Erland Cooper brings a tape machine, a piano and a cello together for an intimate performance in the Barbican Foyer.

For our most recent Barbican Session, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and prodigious whistler Andrew Bird performs ‘Sisyphus’ from his latest album My Finest Work Yet. 
 

For our latest Barbican Session, one of the central figures of the London jazz scene, Shabaka Hutchings performs an improvised piece on bass clarinet.

Accordionist Bartosz Glowacki performs the animated third movement ‘Thieves’ from Five views on the Archipelago Gulag by Ukrainian composer Victor Vlasov in the entrance to the Exhibition Halls.

In our latest Barbican Session, British composer, producer and musician Gazelle Twin performs ‘Glory’ in the Barbican Conservatory.

Filmed in an empty Milton Court Concert Hall, baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Andrew West perform a beautiful rendition of 'An die Nachtigall' by Johanness Brahms.

In our latest session, Timo-Veikko Valve, principal cello at the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performs JS Bach's Sarabande from Suite No.4 for Unaccompanied Cello BWV1010 in E-flat Major at Milton Court.

Deep within the Barbican, British Indian composer Soumik Datta performs ‘From Raag to Reel’ on his custom built, fretless sarod (a 19-stringed instrument).

In an empty Theatre, Satu Vänskä, Principal Violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performs JS Bach's ‘Allemande’ from Partita II in D minor.

For our latest Barbican Session, English folk rock musician Keaton Henson performs an Impromptu on a theme from Six Lethargies in our Library.

For our latest Barbican Session, experimental musician Laura Cannell performs in our Car Park 5.
 

For our latest Barbican Session, Irish rock band Microdisney perform their song 'Dolly' in the Barbican Exhibition Halls.

For our latest Barbican Session, percussionist Christoph Sietzen performs in an empty Cinema 1.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain take to the stairs outside the Barbican Hall to perform a raucous rendition of AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell'.

In this Barbican Session, Soul singer Carleen Anderson performs Before Me from her album 'Cage Street Memorial' in our conductor's dressing room.

In this Barbican Session, London-based electronic musician felicita performs Track 6 from the 2016 'a new family' EP in our Conservatory.

In the first of our Barbican Sessions, Black Top, the duo of multi-instrumentalist Orphy Robinson and pianist Pat Thomas, perform a live concert after hours in our 'Basquiat: Boom for Real' exhibition.