Barbican Presents

Fri 17 Feb 2023, 16:30

Go behind the scenes at an open rehearsal with luminary violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

Thu 16 Feb 2023, 18:30

Be enchanted, energised, and entertained by percussionist Vanessa Porter; a virtuoso performer who strikes sparks off everything she touches.

Wed 15 Feb 2023, 19:00

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, a violinist in 'a class of her own' (The Times), passes her knowledge onto some Guildhall School players of the future in this evening Artist Spotlight Masterclass.

Mon 13 Feb 2023, 19:30

Piano sensation Seong-Jin Cho brings his musical refinement to a solo programme of Baroque dance music and the Romantic composers inspired by it.

Sat 28 Jan –Sat 4 Feb 2023

Marvel at the beauty and fragility of our world in a family concert of sound and storytelling, with Grégoire Pont’s drawings projected live alongside thrilling music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Thu 26 Jan 2023, 19:30

Revel in the idiosyncratic sounds of vibrant contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment, as they collaborate on a world premiere with composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki.

Wed 4 –Fri 6 Jan 2023

Join the world's greatest orchestra of teenagers for an odyssey fuelled by firecracking musicianship.

Mon 19 Dec 2022, 19:30

Step back into a Grand Siècle Christmas, as William Christie directs Les Arts Florissants in some of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s most invigorating but rarely performed Nativity music.

Thu 15 Dec 2022, 19:30

Violinist Rachel Podger brings her spellbinding artistry to a solo recital, championing lesser-known Baroque works in a programme bookended by transcriptions of J S Bach’s most popular music.

Wed 7 Dec 2022, 19:30

Spend a cold December night in the company of tenor Allan Clayton and pianist Kate Golla, as Schubert’s melancholic song cycle Winterreise is matched with striking landscapes by Fred Williams.

Tue 6 Dec 2022, 19:30

Seven unique musical voices, seven specially created new works. An ensemble of virtuosic and versatile contemporary musicians alternate in leading their fellow performers.

Sun 4 Dec 2022, 19:30

The daring visions of Sō Percussion are realised in a collaboration with Caroline Shaw, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who’s just as willing to push her music beyond its boundaries as they are.

Fri 2 Dec 2022, 19:30

John Wilson and his specially selected players that make up the Sinfonia of London mark their Barbican debut with the original ballet version of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro.

Tue 29 Nov 2022, 19:30

Pianist Samantha Ege brings her technical mastery and determination to give marginalised composers their rightful voice to a recital on the 20th-century Black Renaissance, narrated by Adjoa Andoh.

Thu 24 Nov 2022, 19:30

The Carducci Quartet explore the intense connection between the Mendelssohn siblings through their music, intertwined with spoken word adapted from Myla Lichtman-Fields’s play, Felix and Fanny.

Fri 18 Nov 2022, 13:00

Praised in the German press for her musicality, technical mastery and charisma, Ukrainian-born violinist Diana Tishchenko possesses a musical imagination to match a thrilling programme.

Sat 5 Nov 2022, 19:30

One old, one new: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform two works fraught with tension, shrouded in darkness, and finally, a breakthrough to the beyond.

Fri 4 Nov 2022, 19:30

Expect fireworks from the indisputable virtuosity of violinist Leonidas Kavakos, as he joins the stellar Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for the first night of their two-concert visit.

Sun 30 Oct 2022, 19:00

This is our world, but not as you know it. The ghosts and ghouls come out to play as pianist Clare Hammond adds live accompaniment to a spooky set of specially conceived images by the Quay Brothers.

Sat 29 Oct 2022, 19:30

Discover how the kaleidoscopic dissonances and pioneering textures of 20th-century Polish classical music inspired some of the boldest sounds in 21st-century culture, as the two worlds collide.