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REPLAY: A Limitless Recycled Playground
Southbank Centre Tours
Rug Rhymes: Summer
Hisaishi & Scriabin
Performers
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Alexander Edmundson horn
Ben Hulme horn
Katy Woolley horn
Repertoire
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Joe Hisaishi: Concerto for 3 horns & orchestra (The Border Concerto) (London premiere)
Interval
Scriabin: Symphony No.3 in C (The Divine Poem)
Édouard Louis: Collapse
GROOVE
Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Cordelia Williams: Lullabies
Performers
Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin
Cordelia Williams piano
Repertoire
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the mirror)
Brahms: Wiegenlied (Lullaby), Op.49 No.4 arr. Williams & Waley-Cohen for violin & piano
Dvořák: Songs my mother taught me, Op.55 No.4 arr. Kreisler for violin & piano
Freya Waley-Cohen: Sweet as plum wine (World premiere)
Scriabin: Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op.5 No.1 arr. Mogilevsky for violin & piano
Cage: Nocturne
Schubert: Wiegenlied (Lullaby), D.498 arr. Elman for violin & piano; Fantasie in C, D.934
REPLAY: Relaxed
Game Music Festival: The Infernal Symphony
Performers
London Mozart Players
Marek Wroniszewski conductor
Hertfordshire Chorus
Repertoire
Game Music Festival: The Infernal Symphony - featuring music from Diablo series
Out-Spoken Masterclass: June
Iveta Apkalna & State Choir LATVIJA
Performers
State Choir LATVIJA
Iveta Apkalna organ
Repertoire
Arvo Pärt: Pari intervallo for organ; Nunc dimittis for chorus
Rihards Dubra: Herr, bleib bei uns! for chorus
Pēteris Vasks: Zīles ziņa (The tomtit's message) for chorus; Dona nobis pacem for chorus & organ
Interval
Bach: Fantasia in G (Pièce d'orgue), BWV.572
Elgar: Lux aeterna (Nimrod) from Enigma Variations arr. John Cameron for chorus
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord for chorus arr. Sven-David Sandström
Thierry Escaich: Evocation No.2 for organ; 3 Motets for chorus & organ
Gardiner: Evening hymn for chorus & organ
Quentin Blake: The Southbank Parade
TONIC FLOW: A Communal Chorus in Colour and Sound
Skate 50
The Ruggeds Takeover
Festivals & series
Harry Styles’ Meltdown
Classical Music
Summer Time
Riverside Sessions
Performance & Dance
Refugee Week
South Asian Sounds
Poetry International Festival
Rough Trade 50
Steel Scenes
Recently announced
Brian Elias & Ben Goldscheider: TOUCHING THE QUICK
Hayward Gallery Lates: Anish Kapoor
London Oratorio
Vikki Heywood & Francis Spufford: Hidden London
Brutal(ism) Love and Hate
Mariza
Letters Live
K-Music Festival 2026: Korean Games in Concert
Lambeth Music Service: Musitrax Festival 2026
Nussaibah Younis: Fundamentally
Free events
Quentin Blake: The Southbank Parade
TONIC FLOW: A Communal Chorus in Colour and Sound
Skate 50
The Ruggeds Takeover
Luke Jerram: Stepping Out
Creative Encounters: Create with Courage
London Parks: An Exhibition
Floating Together
futuretense x Meltdown: deep tan + VIIZERO7
Simmer Down x Meltdown
Don't Keep Hush
Relaxed Sessions: Dad Dancing
Saturday Sessions: Dad Dancing
Riverside Boogie: Meltdown Edition
Midnight Train
Steam Down: Sounds of the Diaspora
While you’re with us
Make the most of your visit and explore all our venues and spaces have to offer.
Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
A summer favourite returns to our site on Wednesday 17 June.
Thinking
Fountains
Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.
Modified Social Benches
Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.
William Pye's Zemran
Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.
Skating history: the story of the Undercroft Skate Space
A brief look at the history of this iconic skateboard space on the South Bank that sits within the concrete of our buildings.
Artist on artist: Raymond Antrobus on the irreplaceable Benjamin Zephaniah
The multi-award-winning poet shares his personal lifelong connection with the hugely popular figure once dubbed ‘the people’s laureate’.
Playlist: South Asian Sounds 2026
Listen to a playlist of contemporary and timeless South Asian music from artists appearing at the 2026 edition of South Asian Sounds.
5 things to know about Anish Kapoor
Ahead of his major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, get a primer on one of the most influential artists of our time.
Shabaka: ‘If you don't follow the artistic path, you have nothing’
In an in-depth interview the musician and composer discusses Tomorrow’s Warriors, taking a saxophonic sabbatical and performing jazz with a small ‘j’.
Who is drummer Anmol Mohara?
Introducing the young drummer and bandleader who fuses traditional Nepali music with a modern jazz sound.
How I create… with musician Tara Lily
The British Bengali musician discusses finding motivation through collaboration and the value of an open mind.
The best skate spot in London? Exploring the iconic Undercroft on the South Bank
Take a closer look at the history, the community, and the much-loved concrete of our iconic London skate space in its 50th year.
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