Tectonics Festival ~ Glasgow
For over a decade, artists from around the world have gathered in Glasgow with a shared goal – to push the boundaries of their art form, often challenging its basic ground rules.
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For over a decade, artists from around the world have gathered in Glasgow with a shared goal – to push the boundaries of their art form, often challenging its basic ground rules.
Organist Anna Lapwood plays Max Richter, Hans Zimmer and more.
Future-facing composers Pablo Martinez and Sun Keting debut their commissioned compositions as part of London Sinfonietta's fifth Writing the Future: a scheme which encourages composers to stretch themselves in new directions while also leading the London Sinfonietta into undiscovered creative territories.
London Sinfonietta premieres a composition by Laurence Osborn, alongside works from Hannah Kendall and Luciano Berio on being heard, acceptance and community.
Envelop in a hypnotic interplay of music and dance.
Olga Pashchenko showcases Fanny Mendelssohn's cycle of 13 piano pieces describing the passage of a year, within a reimagining for period instrument orchestra by four contemporary composers.
EMPOWER: Women Changing Music is an initiative dedicated to promoting fairness and gender equality within the music industry.
EMPOWER: Women Changing Music is an initiative dedicated to promoting fairness and gender equality within the music industry.
The Swan brings its captivating and contemplative Entranced project to the Collegiate Church of St Mary’s Warwick.
Dance the night away with Barbie The Movie: In Concert as part of the Royal Albert Hall's Films in Concert series.
You are invited into a wyrd world of bargains, community, and magic in a trilogy of interactive immersive operas.
At the heart of this year’s RCM Chamber Festival are two centenary screenings of Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush film in concert, with live chamber ensemble in the Britten Theatre.
What can puppetry reveal about music? Musicians and puppeteers come together to blend sound and visuals, exploring the abstract and the real.
When Vivaldi wrote his Four Seasons in 1723, the world was a different place. How do we respond when the world around us is changing?
What can puppetry reveal about music? Musicians and puppeteers come together to blend sound and visuals, exploring the abstract and the real.
What can puppetry reveal about music? Musicians and puppeteers come together to blend sound and visuals, exploring the abstract and the real.
Come in, make yourself at home and listen closer.
Celebrating Pierre Boulez and his influences, in the composer’s centenary year: his beloved Debussy, alongside three intriguing world premieres.
A new work for piano and electronics, complete with immersive lighting.
The BBC Concert Orchestra lends its powerful sound to an eclectic range of pioneering artists in BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified Live, with presenter Elizabeth Alker.
The Komuna Collective is a group of artists, DJs and musicians committed to experimentation. Formed in 2022, Komuna launched in an underground nightclub in Oxford.
Grammy-winning musical phenomenon Jacob Collier will perform with a UK orchestra for the very first time in January 2025, joining forces with the 50-piece orchestra Britten Sinfonia for two unmissable concerts.
The album launch of Vivaldi’s seminal Four Seasons, in a never-heard-before interpretation by virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro, Manchester Camerata and specially commissioned poetry written by Sir Michael Morpurgo, narrated by Stephen Fry.
Wintersound is a festival of new music involving Canterbury Christ Church University, North Western University (Illinois) and Free Range.
OBSIDIAN is a journey into ecology, perception, focus, liminal space, and industry.
Jacques Allen reflects on aspects of sexuality and gender in Elegy for the Feminine Man.
Join us for the climax of Vox Urbane's Inaugural London Season: Responses. A series of three curated concerts which reflect upon past musical traditions and offer a new vision of what classical choral music can be, who it is for, and who it can represent.
Join us for Responses II, the second concert of Vox Urbane's Inaugural London Season: Responses. A series of three curated concerts which reflect upon past musical traditions and offer a new vision of what classical choral music can be, who it is for, and who it can represent.
The launch of Vox Urbane's Inaugural London Season: Responses. A series of three curated concerts which reflect upon past musical traditions and offer a new vision of what classical choral music can be, who it is for, and who it can represent.
Part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, the LSO is joined by the Mercury Prize-nominated ensemble seed., led by saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, for an evening of new and classical music celebrating the natural world.
Beautifully curated instrumental and electronic performances at Folkore Hoxton.