London Symphony Orchestra

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

Photo of Gianandrea Noseda in black suit

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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda

Cancelled

Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’ symphony is one of the most original and devastating masterpieces of 20th-century music. Gianandrea Noseda conducts it tonight

Young children watch a storytelling concert

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Classical music

LSO Discovery: Musical Storytelling for Under-5s

Cancelled

LSO musicians retell a popular children’s story through music. Dance and sing your way through the concert as the instruments bring the tale to life.

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Classical music

LSO/Rattle: Zimerman plays Beethoven Piano Concerto 3

Cancelled

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.

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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle

Cancelled

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.

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Classical music

LSO/Roth: Ravel, Stravinsky & Francisco Coll

Cancelled

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.

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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Roth: Varèse, Ravel & Berlioz

Cancelled

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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Profile: London Symphony Orchestra

Listen to our selection of LSO recordings from across the years in our Spotify playlist.

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.