Festivals & Series | Southbank Centre.
Saturday 6 February 2010 - Tuesday 29 June 2010
Southbank Centre regularly hosts free events, performances and exhibitions across the site.
Saturday 6 February 2010 - Tuesday 2 March 2010
Imagine, the UK’s brightest children’s festival, fills Southbank Centre with wonderful readings, storytelling and poetry featuring some of today’s leading children’s writers, as well as comedy,...
Tuesday 9 February 2010 - Tuesday 30 March 2010
Art makes a difference to our lives and the world, and our Election 10 series invites you to participate in a people’s forum of debates, spoken word performance...
International Piano Series 2009/10
Tuesday 9 February 2010 - Tuesday 8 June 2010
The International Piano Series is one of the world’s most significant platforms for solo piano recitals, and the coming season is particularly special, as we celebrate its twentieth...
London Philharmonic Orchestra 2009/10
Wednesday 10 February 2010 - Thursday 1 July 2010
The London Philharmonic Orchestra launches 2009/10 with Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski, opening with two performances of Mahler’s Second Symphony, Resurrection and including an...
Philharmonia Orchestra 2009/10
Thursday 11 February 2010 - Tuesday 29 June 2010
The Philharmonia Orchestra's 2009/10 London season will see the Orchestra performing 38 matinee and main evening concerts at Royal Festival Hall, together with a number of small ensemble...
Friday 12 February 2010 - Friday 26 March 2010
Free lunchtime music returns to the Royal Festival Hall with weekly concerts.
Friday 12 February 2010 - Friday 26 March 2010
Wind down at the end of the working week and experience some great music and performance for free, whatever the style.
Sunday 14 February 2010 - Sunday 11 July 2010
Project Artistic Director Marin Alsop curates this season-long project celebrating the great icon of 20th-century music making, Leonard Bernstein, including performances, talks and workshops.
Sunday 14 February 2010 - Sunday 30 May 2010
The Foyers in Royal Festival Hall resound with the joyous sound of singing every Sunday afternoon, as Southbank Centre hosts a new series of free choral performances.
International Chamber Music Season 2009/10
Tuesday 16 February 2010 - Thursday 27 May 2010
The 2009/10 International Chamber Music Season offers audiences an enormous breadth of sonorities and styles, encompassing warmth and intimacy as well as high drama and excitement.
Tuesday 16 February 2010 - Tuesday 16 March 2010
Writing from the Front Line explores contemporary reportage and non-fiction, showcasing the best writing about the real world, both on the domestic front and from across the globe.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 2009/10
Wednesday 17 February 2010 - Tuesday 25 May 2010
An undisputed highlight of the OAE's new season is the Beethoven Symphonies Series.
Music Through Unconventional Means
Friday 19 February 2010 - Saturday 20 February 2010
Shlomo is one of the world's finest human beatboxers, which means he has the ability to create entire songs using only his vocal chords.
Wednesday 24 February 2010 - Monday 31 May 2010
Taking a new look at what is meant by a great voice, this season moves from soaring opera arias to Bernstein's downtown charm.
Sunday 28 February 2010 - Saturday 15 May 2010
Pianist Nikolai Lugansky is one of the most exciting artists of his generation.
Shell Classic International 2009/10
Saturday 6 March 2010 - Thursday 27 May 2010
At the centre of the 2009/10 series we have an extraordinary quartet of concerts; Daniel Barenboim with the Berlin Staatskapelle in a fascinating musical journey that pairs the complete Beethoven...
Wednesday 17 March 2010 - Thursday 3 June 2010
The London Sinfonietta has always been closely associated with leading composer-performers, and this season is joined by John Adams, Steve Reich, George Benjamin and Oliver Knussen.
Bach Weekend 2010: From Church to Coffeehouse
Friday 19 March 2010 - Sunday 21 March 2010
Martin Feinstein's enormously successful Bach Weekend returns to Southbank Centre with Bach in Leipzig: From Church to Coffeehouse, giving you a unique opportunity to listen to Bach's great works...
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2009/10
Wednesday 24 March 2010 - Monday 17 May 2010
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Southbank Centre season begins with Maestro Charles Dutoit commencing his tenure in style as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestra, with a...