Barbican Presents
Barbican Presents brings some of the greatest international classical artists, orchestras and ensembles to London, in a stimulating and eclectic mix of classical, contemporary, and Baroque music.
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Events
Jasdeep Singh Degun & Sukhvinder Singh Pinky
Sitar player Jasdeep Singh Degun, the first British Asian musician to win the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist award, returns to Darbar with one of today’s top tabla players.
Colin Currie Group: Steve Reich Celebration
Be in the room for the first London performance of In All Your Ways, a new work by Steve Reich, as the Colin Currie Group begins a year-long celebration of his 90th birthday.
Sinfonia of London: Scheherazade
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 grabs your attention and pulls at your heartstrings from the moment you hear its distinctive opening chords.
Ensemble Pygmalion: Mozart's Great Mass in C minor
Pygmalion celebrates 20 years of impactful music-making in the highest echelons of period performance with Mozart’s glorious Great Mass in C minor and more.
Apollo’s Fire: Echoes Across the Atlantic
Grammy-winners Apollo's Fire and Jeannette Sorrell join legendary Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique to explore the connections between Europe and the colonies of the Caribbean in the 18th century.
Explore Ensemble with Beatrice Dillon
Explore Ensemble dives into new and daring soundscapes with the world premiere of Beatrice Dillon’s latest album Where Never, where sounds fragment into circling states of constant reorientation.
Colin Currie & Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Experience a live performance of Steve Reich’s hypnotic, era-defining Music for 18 Musicians.
Caroline Shaw: Trees with London Symphony Orchestra
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green unites with Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw and award-winning author and environmentalist Rebecca Solnit in a live orchestral film experience.
Bach Collegium Japan: Handel’s Messiah
Revered Bach specialist, Masato Suzuki, returns to the Barbican with his acclaimed Bach Collegium Japan to perform Handel’s beloved seasonal masterpiece.
Beatrice Rana in Recital
Emotion, imagination and mind-boggling skill – this solo programme from Italian pianist Beatrice Rana has everything a piano fan could wish for.
Ligeti Quartet: Different Trains
Ligeti Quartet bring Reich’s Different Trains into sharp focus alongside Adams, Sokolovic and a world premiere by Ben Nobuto.
Elisabeth Leonskaja In Recital
World renowned Russian-Austrian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja brings her dazzling technical prowess and exceptional musicality to the Barbican Hall for the first time in over a decade.
ECHO Rising Stars: Trio Concept
An opportunity to hear the award-winning Trio Concept performing a selection of piano pieces from Paris and beyond from across the last century.
Le Poème Harmonique: Allegri's Miserere
Become immersed in the sounds of a different world with French ensemble Le Poème Harmonique, exploring the mystical, ceremonial energy at the heart of music from the Counter Reformation.
Anne-Sophie Mutter with Maximilian Hornung and Lauma Skride
Anne-Sophie Mutter will celebrate her 50th anniversary on stage in 2026 and 2027.
Nederlands Kamerkoor: Forgotten
Nederlands Kamerkoor bring to the Barbican their compelling new project Forgotten – a moving musical and theatrical exploration of memory loss.
ECHO Rising Stars: Giorgi Gigashvili
Georgian pianist and ECHO Rising Star Giorgi Gigashvili performs much-loved piano pieces alongside a new work by Georgian composer Natalie Beridze.
Darkness Visible: Âme x Lawrence Power
Âme Creative Studios make their Barbican debut with Lawrence Power in a concert that breaks down the walls of the concert hall and takes you on a musical journey across the City of London at night.
Gabriela Montero in Recital: Iberia
Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero performs an assortment of piano pieces from and inspired by Spain.
Discover
Barbican Sessions: Isata Kenneh-Mason
Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Brahms's Op 118, No 3 'Ballade' in our Fountain Room
Listen: Classical Music on Spotify
Follow our regularly updated Classical Music playlist for a sample of the music you'll hear across our programme.
Barbican Sessions: Satu Vänskä
In an empty Theatre, Satu Vänskä, Principal Violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performs JS Bach's ‘Allemande’ from Partita II in D minor.
Listen: Contemporary Classical on Spotify
Discover music from across the Contemporary Classical spectrum – from Judith Weir and George Benjamin to Nils Frahm and Max Richter.
Barbican Sessions: Jess Gillam
In an empty Level G foyer, Jess Gillam performs her ECHO Rising Stars commission: Edmund Finnis's A Spiral Ascending, Kurt Weill's Je ne t'aime pas and Astor Piazzolla's 'Nightclub 1960' from Histoire du Tango with Leif Kaner-Lidström and Sam Becker.
