What’s on

Tue 11 Nov 2025, 19:30

Celebrated Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero is joined by the Calidore Quartet for a programme of chamber music including a new work, Canaima, by Montero herself. 

Wed 12 Nov 2025, 19:30

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in an exhilarating programme of Janáček and Bruckner. 

Thu 13 Nov 2025, 20:00

The saxophonist, rapper and composer Soweto Kinch presents the final instalment of a trilogy of works in collaboration with the LSO, which began with The Black Peril and White Juju.

Fri 14 Nov 2025, 19:30

Paris in the 1780s was the musical centre of Europe. Academy of Ancient Music plays showpieces by Mozart, Haydn and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges: three geniuses on the edge of a volcano.

Thu 20 Nov 2025, 19:00

An evening celebrating music at the forefront of composition, as we hear three world premieres, alongside Pierre Boulez’s magnetic memoriam to fellow composer Bruno Maderna.

Wed 26 Nov 2025, 19:30

For the final Barbican concert in celebration of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday, the London based 12 Ensemble bring a contemporary slant to the 20th century titan’s compositions.

Thu 27 Nov 2025, 19:00

Debussy’s impressionistic colours give way to Ravel’s dazzling concerto and wild, untamed waltz; Lutosławski exhilarates in his Concerto for Orchestra. 

Thu 27 Nov –Tue 2 Dec 2025

Outstanding performers from the first year of Guildhall School’s Opera Course present classical and contemporary operatic excerpts with piano accompaniment.

Thu 27 Nov 2025, 19:30

The remarkable Ligeti Quartet traces the shifting contours of memory, nature, and change, through music by Kaija Saariaho, Cassandra Miller, John Luther Adams and many more.

Thu 4 Dec 2025, 19:30

Two leading instrumental groups – period ensemble Consone Quartet and the acclaimed Chiaroscuro Quartet – join forces to present an evening of beloved classical works.

Fri 5 Dec 2025, 19:30

Ermonela Jaho stars in Puccini’s bittersweet romance, his opera La rondine, incorporating music that has not been heard this century. 

Sat 6 Dec 2025, 18:00

The chance to hear outstanding orchestral musicians of Junior Guildhall performing in Milton Court under the baton of Julian Clayton.

Sat 6 Dec 2025, 19:30

A haunting tale of humanity’s evolving connection to nature. Renée Fleming enchants with music from Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene accompanied by an original film from National Geographic Society.

Sun 7 Dec 2025

A collaboration between The Hermes Experiment and five international sound artists, this immersive concert-installation responds to the climate emergency.