GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell brings a night of self-confessional storytelling to the Hall.
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Classical musicContemporary music
India’s Music of Today: Niladri Kumar
Indulge in an evening of dazzling sitar playing and evocative romanticism by one of today’s most maverick performers. This is pure Indian classical music, evolved, refined and elementally powerful.
One of the leading exponents of a generation of tap dancers, Annette Walker, features as special guest with Guildhall Jazz musicians.
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Contemporary musicTheatre & dance
HighRise Entertainment: Lil.Miss.Lady
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Part rave, part drama, HighRise return with an immersive history of Grime, told through the eyes of a trailblazing female MC.
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Classical musicContemporary music
Music of the Movies: From the Heart
On Valentine's Day, experience music from some of the greatest love stories in film, performed by violinist Esther Abrami, soprano Carly Paoli and a live orchestra.
London Concert Orchestra
Toby Purserconductor
Esther Abramiviolin
Carly Paolisoprano
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Contemporary music
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra & Choir: Emboldened
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra and Choir welcome guitarist and composer Steve Banks to perform his debut album, Emboldened.
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Classical musicContemporary music
ROBESON with Davóne Tines and The Truth
Davóne Tines and The Truth’s new work ROBESON explores the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson alongside pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas.
ROBESONconceived by Davóne Tines and Zack Winokur
directed by Zack Winokur
Davóne Tinesbaritone
Khari Lucasbass and sound
John Bitoypiano
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Contemporary music
Theo Croker's DREAM MANIFEST
Trumpeter Theo Croker and an array of special guests take us on a sonic journey that explores imagination and the power to manifest in our universe.
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Contemporary music
Belinda Zhawi & Duncan Bellamy
Cancelled
The premiere performance of a new project of sonic poetry, Jump Ship, Sit Lean, Be Still, Stand Tall sets Belinda Zhawi's illuminating words in dialogue with Duncan Bellamy's explorative sounds.
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Contemporary music
Barbican ClubStage: Wu-Lu, Denzel Himself & SHEIVA
The Barbican ClubStage showcasing the best of London's DIY music scene, with live performances from Denzel Himself and SHEIVA and a special genre-spanning DJ set from Wu-Lu.
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Classical musicContemporary musicTalks & events
Symphonic Electronics: Meet Steven Daverson
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Steven Daverson, creative sound engineers and others about symphonic electronics.
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Iridescence
The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – 'symphonic' in the ancient Greek meaning 'harmonious'.
Programme to include:
Juste JanulyteIrridescene (UK premiere)
Guildhall School musicians
BBC Singers
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Continents, Computers and Electronic
Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.
Steven DaversonFigures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background
Misato MochizukiIntrusions
Tristan MurailGondwana
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkovconductor
Carl Faia live electronics
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Classical musicContemporary musicTalks & events
Symphonic Electronics: Meet Shiva Feshareki
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Shiva Feshareki and sound systems designer Daniel Hulme about Feshareki’s new work Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory.
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Shiva Feshareki and Stockhausen
Vintage Stockhausen plus a new adventure from British-Iranian composer and sonic explorer Shiva Feshareki – the world premiere of her Barbican commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Shiva FesharekiBab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory
Karlheinz StockhausenCosmic Pulses
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jack Sheenconductor
Shiva Fesharekiturntables, live spatial electronics, sound design