for New Opera Scene

music by Pierrot lunaire (Schoenboi) and new works by Xan Gill, Sun Keting, David Nunn, Joanna Ward.

The inaugural Chamber Series concert of the 2019–2020 season examines what “classical music” means from traditions from around the world—India, Ireland, and China—situating the music of Dvořák and Western classical music within a vast framework of diverse cultural practices.

48th Annual Festival 14th September - 28th September 2019

Creative Dialogue XI will be held in Kallio-Kuninkala, Tuusula, Finland. The final concert will be at the Helsinki Music Centre on August 25th and will include the student compositions as well as some of Kaija Saariaho's works for strings and singers.

LSO Soundhub offers composers a flexible environment to explore, collaborate and experiment, and this annual showcase gives an opportunity to hear what they’ve been working on in the last year.

Want to know more about classical music but not sure where to start? Make the most of your lunchbreak and enjoy a free, 45-minute informal concert at LSO St Luke’s. Our presenter Kizzy Brooks talks about the works and the instruments, and there are opportunities to ask questions of Kizzy and the mus

As part of the LSO’s East Meets West series, a string quartet from the London Symphony Orchestra and a traditional Chinese string quartet perform a mixture of European and Chinese music. The performance shows the influence of the two cultures on each other’s musical traditions, culminating in an oct