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Double Bassist Strahinja Mitrović pictured in Barbican Hall, holding up the Gold Medal in box
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Classical music

The Gold Medal 2025

The final of Guildhall School's most prestigious music prize, offering the chance to enjoy songs and arias performed by three outstanding Guildhall vocalists in front of an esteemed panel of judges.

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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Art & design

Noah Davis

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Black and white image of Mustafa
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Contemporary music

Mustafa

Dunya, the breathtaking debut album by Sudanese-Canadian artist Mustafa, means 'the world in all its flaws', and explores themes of devotion, trauma, and intimacy through genre-blending sound.

A group of dancers move around each other. They move at different levels creating one moving entity.
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Theatre & dance

Boy Blue: Hip Hop Matters

Join Boy Blue for an exciting and thought-provoking conversation on the future of the UK street dance scene, from where we are in 2025 to what the future holds. 

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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Art & design

Noah Davis

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

A group of hip hop dancers caught in motion. They lift one arm in the air and open their mouths.
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Theatre & dance

Generation Blue: A Night With Boy Blue

Mixing exuberant hip hop dance displays, a joyful sense of community and the heart-thumping rhythms of an eclectic score, Boy Blue’s company showcase always culminates in uproarious applause.

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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Art & design

Noah Davis

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

A group of hip hop dancers cheer and embrace in a rehearsal room.
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Theatre & dance

Boy Blue: BB – Frontline Battle

Join Boy Blue at this explosive dance battle event, with an electric atmosphere provided by a line-up of guest judges and DJ's.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Barbican Conservatory
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Talks & events

Concrete Garden: Listening to Images

Free

Join us for a day of pop up readings, discussions, performances and workshops centred around Tina Campt's idea of 'listening to images'. 
 

A painting of two teenage girls asleep on a sofa. One has her head leant against the arm of the sofa, the other is laying beside her. On the left, the legs of another figure can be seen sitting in an adjacent seat. There are a pair of black shoes on the floor.
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Talks & events

In conversation: Black Worlding

Grammy Award-winning artist and director Jenn Nkiru joins other artists, musicians and cultural mavericks for a talk about intersectional creativity and "Black Worlding". 

BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin
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Classical music

BBC Singers: Songs from the Shows

Following the success of the BBC Singers previous visit to the West End and Broadway, Owain Park conducts BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra in more music from some of our best-loved musicals.

to be announced
BBC Concert Orchestra
BBC Singers
Owain Park conductor
A group of hip hop dancers caught in motion. They lift one arm in the air and open their mouths.
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Theatre & dance

Generation Blue: A Night With Boy Blue

Mixing exuberant hip hop dance displays, a joyful sense of community and the heart-thumping rhythms of an eclectic score, Boy Blue’s company showcase always culminates in uproarious applause.

Louise Alder standing by a large concrete pillar, smiling and looking upwards
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Classical music

The English Concert/Bicket: Giulio Cesare

A runaway hit at its 1724 premiere, Louise Alder stars in Giulio Cesare - arguably Handel’s most popular operatic creation – a drama teeming with passion and political skulduggery.

George Frideric Handel Giulio Cesare
The English Concert
Harry Bicket conductor
Louise Alder Cleopatra
Christophe Dumaux Cesare
Paula Murrihy Sesto
Beth Taylor Cornelia
John Holiday Tolomeo
Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Gustavo Dudamel smiling while holding his baton above his head
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel

Four stories of faraway lands, opulence, and scandal.

Richard Strauss Don Juan
Maurice Ravel Shéhérazade
Rapsodie espagnole
Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier – Suite
London Symphony Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Marina Rebeka soprano
Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

A view from the ground up of tall buildings
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Bach's The Art of the Fugue

Four actors, four musicians, one unparalleled musical genius. From the theatrical imagination of Bill Barclay, a completely new journey into Bach’s astonishing The Art of Fugue.

Image of the band Bang on a Can stood next to each other
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Classical music Contemporary music

Terry Riley 90th Birthday Tribute

Celebrate Terry Riley's 90th with a mesmerising tribute featuring Bang on a Can All-Stars, SHABAKA, Valentina Magaletti and special guests.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Dima Slobodeniouk clasping his hands in front of his face, with pink circular swirls around him
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Classical music

Slobodeniouk conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

From the depths to the stars; from romance to tragedy: Dima Slobodeniouk pairs Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with Lili Boulanger’s mighty shout of hope and praise. 

Lili Boulanger Psalm 130 – From the Bottom of the Abyss
James MacMillan Three Interludes from ‘The Sacrifice’
Sergei Prokofiev Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Dima Slobodeniouk conductor
Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

fatoumata diawara, afro hair, colourful background
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Contemporary music

Fatoumata Diawara

Malian artist Fatoumata Diawara invites us on a cosmic journey through Afrofuturism.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Leila Josefowicz
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki

Showpieces for the orchestra meet a dazzling concerto, brimming with characteristic Stravinsky flair and melody.

Julia Perry A Short Piece for Large Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Leila Josefowicz violin
Quatuor Diotima holding broken instruments.
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Classical music

Quatuor Diotima: Boulez Anniversary Concert

Performed by one of its outstanding interpreters, Boulez’s uncompromising Livre pour quatuor is at the heart of a centenary tribute to the composer referencing Webern, Bach, and impassioned Debussy. 

Johann Sebastian Bach 'Contrapunctus I' from Die Kunst der Fuge
Pierre Boulez I, Livre pour quatuor
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Contrapunctus IX' from Die Kunst der Fuge
Pierre Boulez II, Livre pour quatuor
Anton Webern String Quartet Op 28
Pierre Boulez III, Livre pour quatuor
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Contrapunctus XVIII' from Die Kunst der Fuge
Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor
Quatuor Diotima