Award-winning actor and War Child Ambassador Gillian Anderson hits the stage - joined by a surprise cast of friends - to give voice to the raw, unfiltered fantasies of women from across the globe.

Bed into our Conservatory for a day of talks, workshops and performances on ecology and fertile ground. Join us for a day of readings, talks and activations centred around the conditions of life, all ...

Niall Harbison takes to the stage to discuss how rescuing street dogs saved him and inspired the creation of his charity Happy Doggo and Tina’s Hospital – a sanctuary for Thailand’s vulnerable dogs.

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Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy. Did you know the Barbican’s theatre and concert hall go deeper underground than the nearest Tube line; early plans for the Centre included a Pyramid; ...

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a day-long deep-dive into the life and work of Pierre Boulez. From 1971 to 1974 Pierre Boulez was the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra – a relationship ...

Tippet's moving pacifist oratorio meets Beethoven’s immense Choral Symphony. A Child of our Time was Tippett’s response to Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom against German Jews. In a unique, utterly ...

80 years after the end of WWII, we hear musical responses from then and now. You can feel the tension of 1938 in Martinů’s concerto, written when he had left his native Czechoslovakia for Switzerland.

The orchestral space rockers play their seminal 1995 album Pure Phase in its entirety for a rare performance. Considered to be J. Spaceman's favourite Spiritualized record, Pure Phase is an ...

The Berliner Barock Solisten and pianist Alexandros Kapelis come together for Bach’s six concertos for solo keyboard and orchestra: a tour-de-force not seen on the concert stage in recent memory.

Join us for a day of readings, talks and activations centred around the conditions of life, all set in the living, breathing ecosystem of our conservatory. Entry to Fertile Ground in the conservatory ...

Enjoy three short premieres from the composers embarking on this year’s edition of Britten Sinfonia’s composer development scheme. This event is free for ...