London Sinfonietta
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FeaturedLondon Sinfonietta: Then & Now Composer Workshop
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, LondonThe 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…
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FeaturedLondon Sinfonietta: Night Shift with Cathy Milliken- Unique Audience Participation Concert
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom“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…
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FeaturedLondon Sinfonietta: Tapestries
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomInspired 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…
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FeaturedLondon Sinfonietta: Leaning East – London Concert
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomThe 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…
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London Sinfonietta: Long Song of Solitude
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomA celebration of the music and influence of Canadian composer Claude Vivier. The event features his masterwork, Lonely Child, or as he refers to as…
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Xenakis: Architect of Sound
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomStep 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…
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Quartet for the End of Time
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomPenderecki’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…
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FeaturedChanging Standards
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, LondonAccepted 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.
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Turning Points: Takemitsu
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomOur Turning Points series presents the music of great composers whose output was so distinctive that it had an enormous impact on the direction of…
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Sleeping Patterns
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomPremiere 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…
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Sir Harrison Birtwistle: A Tribute
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom“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…
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Reich/Richter
Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd,, London, Lambeth, United KingdomMinimalist master Steve Reich returns to his New York art scene roots in this bright and rhythmically agile piece, written and performed alongside painter Gerhard…
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Fireworks
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomA 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…
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Turning Points: Sound Unwrapped
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomThe 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…
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Ligeti 100
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomLondon 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…
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NWANDO EBIZIE: WRITING THE FUTURE
Colour Factory‘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…
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Marius Neset: Geyser
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomOur 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…
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London Sinfonietta Birthday Concert
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, LondonThe 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…
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New Traditions
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room, London LondonLooking 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…
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Schoenberg: Reshaping Tradition
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomLondon 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…
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Refracted Sound
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre Belvedere Rd, SE1 8XX London, United Kingdom, London, United KingdomWritten 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…
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Love Lines
Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United KingdomLondon Sinfonietta returns to Kings Place, presenting an evening of music by Scottish composers exploring the idea of love and our deepest human need for…
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