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Enter a forest of art, formed through sculptures, installations, drawings, paintings and photographs.

Aurora, a commitment-phobic party animal, meets Iranian Darian one night at a hot-dog stand in Lapland. Darian is running from death and Aurora is running from love. They need each other in order to fi...

Children's book illustrator Linda Bondestam will talk about her work as an illustrator, artist and author. She will also read some of the delightful poetry in the books that she has illustrated.

The Philharmonia Orchestra’s 2020/21 season is Esa-Pekka Salonen’s last as Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor, a position he has held since 2008. For his first concert in this landmark season he h...

From a journey of loss and desolation to the new-found feelings of solace and peace in Anna Clyne’s elegy to her mother to Haydn’s dark-hued and theatrically named The Passion, the BBC SO put you in to...

The traditional yearly Christmas Bazaar organised by the Finnish Church in London is now a covid-secure Christmas Shop!

A trio of American composers, and one who became an American citizen, rub shoulders in Rouvali’s appealing programme. Aaron Copland’s much-loved Appalachian Spring tells the tender, hopeful story of a...

Join Brian Cox, one of the world’s pre-eminent physicists, for a mind-bending musical voyage through space and time, set to a soundtrack inspired by the great unknowns of the Universe.

Salonen has conducted most of Sibelius’s major orchestral works during his time as Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia. As he prepares to hand over the baton at the end of this season, he revisits ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Strauss’s operatic tour de force, a powerful insight into the mind of a grieving daughter hell-bent on revenge.

With their focus on uninhibited enjoyment of life’s pleasures, it’s hard to believe that the works in tonight’s programme were composed under two of the twentieth century’s most oppressive regimes.

Apocalyptica are true explorers, always seeking new frontiers and uncharted territories in which to express themselves. With Cell-0, their 9th studio album, the ambitious and electric quartet have not ...

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, soon to take over as our Principal Conductor, and Carlos Ferreira, our Principal Clarinet, join forces in a triple bill of undisputed classics.

James Newton Howard composed his first film score in 1985. And over 120 films later, with a Grammy, an Emmy and eight Academy Award nominations under his belt, he’s as busy as ever. “From the first cue...

In his final London concert as Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a masterpiece close to his heart: Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe.