From 10 to 100: Southbank Centre and its Resident Orchestras celebrate 5 birthdays with its Classical Music Autumn/Winter 2025/26 programme

The Southbank Centre and its family of six Resident Orchestras – Aurora Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Orchestra – today announce the Classical Music Autumn/Winter 2025/26 programme.

The new season delivers for all audiences the very best of classical music. Debut artists, world premiere performances and inventive site-specific programming alongside well-loved masterpieces, Resident Orchestra anniversaries and world-class artists fill the programme. Key highlights can be found below with the full event listings and details available here.

Commenting on the launch of the Classical Music Autumn/Winter 2025/26 programme, Southbank Centre Head of Classical Music Toks Dada said:

“Southbank Centre continues to provide audiences with an unrivalled opportunity to experience live, the full range of classical music. At the same time, we continue to support the creative vision of world-class musicians. With our Resident Artists, we are investing in a major multi-year commissioning project, and utilising the uniqueness of the expansive Southbank Centre site to bring new perspectives to major works of the classical music canon. As the largest year-round presenter of orchestral music in the UK, this year we celebrate key anniversaries with our Resident Orchestras spanning 10 to 100 years celebrating the orchestral tradition in various forms.

We continue to draw new and curious audiences to classical music. Our ‘Alternative Experiences’ continue to create new ways to experience classical music. Presented as part of a double-bill alongside concerts in our established programming strands, these events spill out of the concert hall inviting audiences to join artists for specially staged performances that take inspiration from lively corners of classical music history and contemporary culture.” 

Southbank Centre Artistic Director Mark Ball added,

“This season once again demonstrates that at Southbank Centre our approach to classical music reinforces our role as an engine of creativity and our commitment to democratising music.  It both celebrates the canon and shapes the future of the form, exciting audiences that are familiar concert-goers, whilst supporting artists to create thrilling ways to make music and engage new audiences.”