The immersive culmination of Writing the Future, the London Sinfonietta's innovative composer development scheme. Inspired by ethnomusicologist and song collector Alan Lomax, Luke Lewis' The…
“When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.” Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Cathy Milliken’s new work takes inspiration from Shakespeare’s ‘fourth-wall’-breaking play…
Inspired by large Bruegel and Ody Saben paintings and Grayson Perry’s Walthamstow Tapestry, Writing the Future composer Alex Paxton’s kaleidoscopic new piece is a busy…
The London Sinfonietta celebrates contemporary musical life in Poland. Two new pieces of Polish music are heard in tonight’s concert: the reorchestrated version of Wojciech…
A celebration of the music and influence of Canadian composer Claude Vivier. The event features his masterwork, Lonely Child, or as he refers to as…
Step into the musical world of Iannis Xenakis in his centenary year: a ferociously intellectual world in which the mathematical forces which govern the atoms and elements…
Penderecki’s 70-year composing career exemplified the arc of Polish musical modernism, and in 2012 The Guardian called him ‘arguably Poland’s greatest living composer’. He died…
Accepted standards, but not as you know them: familiar tunes are transformed into new compositions by five of the best and brightest British jazz composers for the extraordinary power and virtuosity of a contemporary music ensemble.
Our Turning Points series presents the music of great composers whose output was so distinctive that it had an enormous impact on the direction of…
Premiere of Juste Janulyte's new work Juste Janulyte's music moves over the listener like a wave, bathing you in warm sonorities and rich harmonies. Taking a…
“The purpose of life is to pass the message on”,: so reads the inscription on an artwork by Bob Law, which was the inspiration for…
Minimalist master Steve Reich returns to his New York art scene roots in this bright and rhythmically agile piece, written and performed alongside painter Gerhard…
A night of virtuosic fireworks from different musical and cultural traditions. The sounds of the far East in Dai Fujikura’s Shamisen Concerto are tempered by…
The London Sinfonietta explores the boundary between sound and music in this fascinating programme, delving into the earliest innovations by twentieth-century composers using tape to…
London Sinfonietta celebrates the life of provocatively distinctive composer György Ligeti in his centenary year. Beloved of Stanley Kubrik, Ligeti’s richly avant-garde “micro-polyphony” explores how…
‘If suffering purifies the soul / then I’m as pure as one could hopeA beauty bordering on the obscene…’ Enter a liminal space for a…
Our third collaboration with the saxophone virtuoso and composer London Sinfonietta is reunited with “marvel” Norwegian saxophone virtuoso and composer Marius Neset to perform their “elemental” third…
The London Sinfonietta mark their birthday on the anniversary of their first-ever concert with a celebration of the eclectic, provocative, surprising and beautiful music they…
Looking to the future with three UK premieres London Sinfonietta travels to the future with three UK premieres and a favourite past commission. Sky Macklay’s Microvariations will lull…
London Sinfonietta open our 2024/25 season with a portrait of one of the most misunderstood pioneers of the early 20th-century avant-garde. Arnold Schoenberg's early works…
Written shortly before the composer's death, Morton Feldman's expansive For Samuel Beckett is a meditatively shifting work, in which tiny differences between endless rhythmic and harmonic permutations…
London Sinfonietta returns to Kings Place, presenting an evening of music by Scottish composers exploring the idea of love and our deepest human need for…
