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Leif Vollebekk and BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Leif Vollebekk playing the piano in black and white

The Canadian singer-songwriter creates musical alchemy, performing songs from his latest album, Revelation, accompanied live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist marries Carl Jung’s I Ching and Wittgenstein’s love of language with his own lyrical poetry on the aptly named album Revelation, a product of introspection brought on by the lockdown. Part orchestral ballad, part folk song, the music is organic and earthy, weaving themes of nature, astral constellations and mortality into a meditation on living in an ever-changing present laced with existential doubt and the search for a higher power.

His first label release, Twin Solitude, was a breakthrough album, making the Polaris Music Prize 2017 shortlist and gathered over 80 million streams. 

Vollebekk is accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Ames.

Tagged with: Contemporary music Barbican Presents

Stage Times:
7pm Doors
7:30pm Leif Vollebekk and BBC Symphony Orchestra
9:30pm Close

Please note there will be no interval in this performance.

 

Age guidance: 5+. Under 14s must be accompanied by someone aged 16 or over. 

This performance may contain haze and strobe.

Produced by the Barbican in association with BBC Symphony Orchestra 

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