London Symphony Orchestra
Resident 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
London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
Fate knocks at the door, and LSO Principal Guest Conductor François-Xavier Roth and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja seize the moment.
London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
Half Six Fix is a 60-minute burst of music to kick-start your evening. Grab a drink and take your seat, as François-Xavier Roth introduces and conducts the most revolutionary symphony ever written.
London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
From Richard Strauss’ sweeping self-portrait to the musical poetry of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts an evening of music that’s larger than life.
London Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop
Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, Kurt Weill on Broadway and the award-winning Eric Lu playing Beethoven, in a concert that spans the many worlds of guest conductor Marin Alsop.
London Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop
Half Six Fix is a 60-minute burst of music to kick-start your evening. Grab a drink and take your seat, as Marin Alsop introduces you to music that spans two centuries, and the Atlantic ocean.
London Symphony Orchestra/Ryan Wigglesworth
Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and the LSO’s own James Fountain plays the happiest of all trumpet concertos – raising the roof as well as lifting the spirits.
London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda: Tales of the North
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Janine Jansen plays Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, at the heart of a concert filled with powerful stories from cold countries.
LSO Discovery Family Concert: Orchestral Olympics
Run, jump, dance and sing as we discover the highest, lowest, fastest, slowest, coolest, catchiest music ever known.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle: Storms of Passion
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Janáček’s opera of loneliness, love, and the price of passion, in a dramatic concert performance from Sir Simon Rattle and a hand-picked cast.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle: Sorrow and Serenity
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Sir Simon Rattle explores intensely personal choral music by Szymanowski and Brahms – music that transforms sorrow into pure sonic beauty.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle
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Two great artists, and the journey of a lifetime: Sir Simon Rattle and Evgeny Kissin explore Mozart and Stravinsky.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle: Landscapes in Sound
Sir Simon Rattle conducts music in which vast landscapes merge with the human soul: Sibelius’ tone poems and Bruckner’s radiant Seventh Symphony.
London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle & Mitsuko Uchida
Mitsuko Uchida and Sir Simon Rattle: one of the great musical partnerships of our time, in a concert filled with sweet and sorrowful longing.
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda conducts Shostakovich’s blockbuster 11th symphony – alongside Ravel and a new creation by Louise Drewett.
London Symphony Orchestra/Music Academy
Fellows from Music Academy in Santa Barbara, California, join the London Symphony Orchestra for a joint concert.
London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda & Jess Gillam
Gianandrea Noseda conducts, and saxophone star Jess Gillam takes the spotlight as the LSO goes to the EFG London Jazz Festival.
Ayanna Witter-Johnson / LSO Percussion Ensemble
A jazz-infused concert showcasing the partnership between the LSO Percussion Ensemble and composer-cellist-singer Ayanna Witter-Johnson, including new works for percussion.
London Symphony Orchestra/Stutzmann: Wild and Stormy Nights
Nathalie Stutzmann dives deep into the dark heart of 19th century music, with storm-swept thrillers by Beethoven, Brahms and Franck.
London Symphony Orchestra/André J Thomas: Awaken the Sleeper
LSO Associate Artist André J Thomas delivers an all-American programme of music never-before-heard in the UK, including Wynton Marsalis’ new Tuba Concerto and two rising-star composers in the US.
London Symphony Orchestra/André J Thomas: Symphonic Gospel
A performance bringing together the enlivening power of gospel music and the symphonic sound of the LSO, conducted and designed by André J Thomas to mark Black History Month.
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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.
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