Sound Unbound 2019

Head here for our headliners. Our 2000-seater concert hall is the place to hear everything from minimalist sounds reimagined to iconic music you’ll probably recognise – including Carl Orff’s explosive choral work Carmina Burana and the symphony that changed classical music forever, Beethoven’s Eroica. The charismatic Miloš blends classical guitar with the Beatles. And the soundtrack is the star in the Academy Award-winning love-letter to the silent film era The Artist ^(PG), screened here with a live performance of its toe-tapping score.

Line-up includes: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Adès, Bruce Brubaker, Max Cooper, Miloš & 12 ensemble, Chineke! Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Stephen Fry

Soak up the sun and relax by the fountains while you enjoy pop-up performances from the fun-loving Street Orchestra Live and two hypnotic minimalist masterpieces – Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint and Terry Riley’s In C.

Line-up includes: Dither, Zwerm, Street Orchestra Live, Guildhall Wind Ensemble

Wander among the greenery, koi carp and terrapins of our tropical oasis to the strains of Mozart’s heavenly Gran Partita and music inspired by birdsong. Or get caught up in the infectious dance rhythms of a Klezmer Wedding.

Line-up includes: Isha Crichlow, Three Strange Angels, Lakeside Clarinet Quartet, Guildhall Wind Ensemble

Explore the points where art, politics and contemporary culture intersect in Stalin’s Piano^(*), as music duets with and plays off speeches by famous politicians, artists and personalities, from Jackson Pollock to Donald Trump. Gain a new perspective of Baroque song, reimagined as 21st-century singer-songwriter arrangements. And budding young film composers can learn the ropes of making music for the movies with film composer Laura Rossi at Family Film Club.

Line-up includes: Nora Fischer & Marnix Dorrestein, Sonya Lifschitz, Laura Rossi

Get up close to intimate performances in this acoustically-perfect hall. Join countertenor John Holiday as he demonstrates the versatility of the human voice in songs from the Baroque to Broadway via the Blues and romantic song; guitarist Miloš in a short concert bursting with Spanish and Latino rhythms; and the vivacious saxophonist and Classic Brit Award-winner Jess Gillam. Discover the meditative and calming qualities of the music of the 18th-century master J S Bach, reinvented for marimbas. And dive into an unsettling futuristic world, where Nora Fischer sings a story of secrets and paranoia in a Big Brother-like surveillance society.

Line-up includes: Nora Fischer, Ragazze Quartet, Miloš, Jess Gillam, John Holiday & Kevin J Miller, members of the Wave Quartet, Academy of Ancient Music, Amy Dickson

Check out the best in new classical, electronic and experimental music – nonclassical take over one of London's most beloved nightclubs, putting their sound system to the test with experimental electronics, turntablist strings, short films, and a musical safari from nonclassical DJs.

Line-up includes: Mira Calix, Shiva Feshareki, Addelam, Tom Richards, nonclassical DJs including Gabriel Prokofiev and Nick Luscombe

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Explore the grand Tudor interiors and atmospheric courtyards of The Charterhouse – Sound Unbound’s home for early music, both in its original form and reimagined for a modern age. Hear authentic medieval sounds with Gregorian chant at twilight in the intimate Chapel, the pop music of the 17th-century in 21st-century singer-songwriter arrangements, and Baroque trios in the ornate Great Chamber. And take a time out in the tranquil Norfolk Garden, where you can rest or stroll through Pleasure Garden, an interactive ‘listening garden’ installation.

Line-up includes: BBC Singers, Genevieve Lacey, Liam Byrne, Helen Charlston & Toby Carr, Academy of Ancient Music trio, John Holliday, Nora Fischer & Marnix Dorrestein, Street Orchestra Live

Visit The Charterhouse website

Visit London’s oldest parish church for a mixture of peaceful, reflective choral music and performances responding to the space and its features. Organist James McVinnie makes a nod to St Barts’ history as a notable period-film location in For Weddings and a Funeral. And sackbut ensemble Sacred Bones give a theatrical performance of Purcell funeral music in the churchyard.

Line-up includes: James McVinnie, Sacred Bones, BBC Singers, Street Orchestra Live, SANSARA

Visit St Bartholomew the Great website

Embark on a musical walking trail around the historic backstreets of Smithfield and discover the stories of the people who have lived, worked and died here. You might bump into a young John Wesley, future founder of the Methodist movement, fresh out of school in 1714; Alfie the butcher’s boy, witnessing the devastation of Smithfield wrought by the Second World War; or condemned criminal Harry James drinking his final pint before the march to the scaffold at Newgate.

Celebrate the flair of the Brazilian bossa nova, the unmistakable, evocative sounds of the Spanish guitar, and love in the ancient world in intimate duets for voice and lute with outstanding young musicians from the City Music Foundation. Explore the anatomy of the versatile accordion, a one-man portable orchestra. And take a glimpse into an unimaginable medical past through the eyes of Bach, Handel, and medieval polymath Hildegard von Bingen, all in the surrounds of this beautiful 15th-century church hidden away in the heart of the City.

Line-up includes: Tabea Debus & Paula Chateauneuf, Bartosz Glowacki, Andrey Lebedev, Lotte Betts-Dean, Helen Charlston & Toby Carr

Visit City Music Foundation website