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The Royal Festival Hall is closed on Thursday 3 September, re-opening at 5pm to ticket holders only for Letters Live at 7.30pm. The National Poetry Library remains open with entry via the Royal Festival Hall Artists’ Entrance.

A young man in a brightly coloured sweater turns to face the camera. He is playing a piano, and is surrounded by a variety of other musical instruments

Jacob Collier

With a depth and imaginatory infinity that is beyond question, musical multi-hyphenate and wiggly human Jacob Collier has taken the world by storm. His genre-bridging discography has led to seven Grammy wins and 16 nominations, making him the first British artist in history to win Grammys for each of his first five studio albums. His fearless approach to music has attracted hundreds of collaborators, including Coldplay, Shawn Mendes, Joni Mitchell, Anoushka Shankar, Stormzy, SZA and Hans Zimmer. 

Whether it’s writing songs in keys that don’t exist, or bringing 100,000 people or orchestral ensembles together in improvised song, Collier continues to push the boundaries of what’s creatively possible, with the mission of uniting and inspiring human beings across every continent of the world in a language beyond words. All the while, he is brewing up his next adventure. Whatever next? Only time will tell…