London Symphony Orchestra
Resident Orchestra
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The London Symphony Orchestra is built on the belief that extraordinary music should be available to everyone, everywhere. It was established in 1904 and today is among the world’s top orchestras
As Resident Orchestra at the Barbican since the Centre opened, it performs some 50 concerts here every year, under the batons of a family of conductors that includes Chief Conductor Designate Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor Emeritus Sir Simon Rattle, Principal Guest Conductors Gianandrea Noseda and François-Xavier Roth, Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas and Associate Artists Barbara Hannigan and André J Thomas.
Events
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London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda
Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’ symphony is one of the most original and devastating masterpieces of 20th-century music. Gianandrea Noseda conducts it tonight
![Pianist Krystian Zimerman](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2020-02/201206_Zimerman_1920_1080.jpg?h=f076139c&itok=9YUyy5c9)
LSO/Rattle: Zimerman plays Beethoven Piano Concerto 3
The phenomenal Krystian Zimerman performs Beethoven’s darkest piano concerto, and Sir Simon Rattle conducts music by Paul Hindemith at his most irreverent, and his most inspiring.
![Pianist Peter Donohoe](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2020-02/200913_Donhoe_1920_1080.jpg?h=f076139c&itok=cM4NkiFV)
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle
Sir Simon Rattle launches the LSO’s new season with a celebration of British music – including Britten, Tippett and Thomas Adès, plus a world premiere from Mark-Anthony Turnage.
![Conductor François-Xavier Roth](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2020-02/210218_Roth_1920_1080.jpg?itok=ydjCOTMf)
LSO/Roth: Ravel, Stravinsky & Francisco Coll
Ravel dances on the edge of the volcano, Stravinsky plays a hand of poker, and violinist extraordinaire Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins François-Xavier Roth for something new.
![Pianist Alice Sara Ott](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2020-02/210603_Ott_1920_1080.jpg?h=f076139c&itok=awiLwWsm)
London Symphony Orchestra/Roth: Varèse, Ravel & Berlioz
Ravel does jazz, Varèse fuses Mayan rituals with 1930s electronica, and Hector Berlioz goes completely off the rails, in this very French extravaganza from François-Xavier Roth.
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London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda
Tchaikovsky’s last symphony, Debussy’s iridescent visions, and a brand new violin concerto, performed by the one and only Nicola Benedetti.
![Conductor and composer Thomas Adès](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2020-02/ades%20high%20res.jpg?h=06fb01e3&itok=RAhwUX9J)
London Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adès: 50th Birthday Concert
In the week that he turns 50, Thomas Adès conducts his dazzling piano concerto In Seven Days alongside Sibelius' Sixth Symphony.
![Conductor Susanna Mälkki](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2020-02/201105_Susanna_Malkki_%C2%A9Simon%E2%80%93Fowler.jpg?h=368d8250&itok=oRSGKSX2)
LSO/Mälkki & Christian Tetzlaff
Dancing on the edge of a volcano: Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Shostakovich stared the 20th century in the eye. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and conductor Susanna Mälkki show us what they saw.
![Conductor Sir Simon Rattle](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2020-02/201129_Rattle_1920_1080.jpg?h=f076139c&itok=iRqRhioL)
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle: Haydn, Brahms & Strauss
Not so private passions. Sir Simon Rattle conducts personal favourites from three centuries, by Strauss, Brahms and Haydn.
Discover
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Profile: London Symphony Orchestra
Listen to our selection of LSO recordings from across the years in our Spotify playlist.
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Barbican Sessions: Peter Moore
London Symphony Orchestra’s young trombonist, Peter Moore, performs 'Doolallynastics – a brief torture for solo trombone’ by Brian Lynn in our latest Barbican Session, filmed in one of our Frobisher Auditoriums.