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aja monet singing in front of a jazz band
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Contemporary music

aja monet

The GRAMMY-nominated surrealist blues poet and this year’s Artist in Residence will bring her debut album When The Poems Do What They Do to our Hall. 

Shri Sriram playing a string instrument in front of a classical brass band
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Contemporary music

Dhamaal

A dynamic collaboration like no other, fusing classical brass bands, jazz improvisations and south Asian music in a thrilling performance designed to explore new possibilities in music. 

Artwork for Guildhall Jazz Festival 2025 - Abstract illustration of a stylised figure playing a saxophone, composed of geometric shapes in yellow, green, blue, and grey on a dark blue background.
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Contemporary music

Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival

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The creativity and originality of the Guildhall Jazz community is celebrated in the highly anticipated return of our Jazz Festival in November, presented in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival.

Image of Shabaka, Camilla Goerge and Jason Yarde
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Contemporary music

The Evolution of UK Jazz—20 Years On

An evening of pioneering jazz celebrating 20 years of Serious' Take Five programme for a world premiere collaboration of two revolutionary voices of British Jazz.

Maxime Pascal conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Maxim Pascal

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.

Omri Kochavi gilufim (LSO Panufnik commission, world premiere)
Sasha Scott Sly (LSO Panufnik commission, world premiere)
Donghoon Shin Piano Concerto (world premiere)
Pierre Boulez Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
London Symphony Orchestra
Maxime Pascal conductor
Seong-Jin Cho piano
A slightly blurry image of Aikiko
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Contemporary music

Japanese Jazz

Join us for the closing night of the EFG London Jazz Festival as we bring you a one-of-a-kind performance, celebrating the bold, beautiful sound of Japanese Jazz.

Image for Hania Rani NON FICTION
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Contemporary music Classical music

Hania Rani: Non Fiction: A Piano Concerto In Four Movements

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Hania Rani performs the world premiere of Non Fiction alongside Manchester Collective assembled as a 45-piece Orchestra with Rakhi Singh, conductor Hugh Brunt, Jack Wyllie & Valentina Magaletti. 

Hania Rani piano
Manchester Collective
Hugh Brunt conductor
Jack Wyllie saxophone
Valentina Magaletti drums
12 Ensemble performing on stage
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Classical music

12 Ensemble / GBSR Duo x Koreless: Pärt Refracted

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.

Arvo Pärt Fur Lennart im memoriam
Koreless New work
Floating Points Requiem for CS70 and strings
Arvo Pärt Mein Weg
Koreless New work
Arvo Pärt Fur alina
Pari Intervallo
Sasha Scott New work
Koreless Agor track reimagined
Oliver Coates One Without
Arvo Pärt Fratres
12 Ensemble
Koreless
GBSR Duo
Pianist Alice Sara Ott leaning on the piano, her reflection is visible on the instrument.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Alexandre Bloch & Alice Sara Ott

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

Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Witold Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra
Maurice Ravel La valse
London Symphony Orchestra
Alexandre Bloch conductor
Alice Sara Ott piano
Opera singer dressed in white ruffled outfit and roman crown holding bow and arrow
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Autumn Opera Scenes

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

Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Ceci Calf designer
Ashok Gupta music director
Ligeti Quartet
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Classical music

Ligeti Quartet: Sunrise Missions

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.

Kaija Saariaho Terra Memoria
Wadada Leo Smith String Quartet No 5 ‘In the Diaspora: Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions'
Ayanna Witter-Johnson Earth
Cassandra Miller Warbleworks 1-4
Blasio Kavuma New work (co-commissioned by the Barbican and SHM Foundation)
John Luther Adams The Wind in High Places
Ligeti Quartet
Young children run around a space interacting with large, colourful objects in a sensory show.
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Theatre & dance

Engruna Teatre: Univers

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Live music, movement and poetic storytelling combine in this fun, sensory show that gives 0–2-year-olds the space to explore in magical and unexpected ways. 

Chiaroscuro Quartet
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Classical music

Consone Quartet X Chiaroscuro Quartet

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

Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 33, No 5
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet Op 18
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Felix Mendelssohn Octet in E flat major, Op 20
Consone Quartet
Chiaroscuro Quartet
An image of Ermonela Jaho posing surrounded by a blue circle against a blue background
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Classical music

Puccini's 'La rondine'

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

Giacomo Puccini La rondine
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi conductor
Ermonela Jaho Magda de Civry
Iván Ayón-Rivas Ruggero Lastouc
Nicola Alaimo Rambaldo Fernandez
Ellie Neate Lisette
Juan Franciso Gatell Prunier
Jessica Robinson Yvette/ Georgette / Fleury
Julieth Lozano Bianca / Gabriella / Mariette
Joanna Harries Suzy/ Lolette / Rorò
Robert Lewis Gobin
David Shipley Périchaud
William Thomas Crébillon / Il maggiordomo
BBC Singers
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra violin players
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Classical music

Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

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