Artist/photographer Sandra Kantanen returns to London with a solo show

Partying nail technician with attachment issues becomes a match-maker for an Iranian refugee in this irresistible director debut.

The Persistence of Plastic.

Exhibition titled Avanto - Ice Hole

Chipping Barnet Library presents: An Evening with Quentin Bates, Rachael Blok & Helena Halme

Saara Aalto performs at Bristol Pride.

Discover the mesmerising paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, one of Finland’s best kept secrets, in the first major exhibition of her work in the UK

Discover the mesmerising paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, one of Finland’s best kept secrets, in the first major exhibition of her work in the UK.

Do you feel like summer isn't really summer until you've had a proper sauna, ideally with a dip in the sea or a lake?

Saara perfoms at Weston-Super-Mare Pride

Is female ejaculation the last taboo? A documentary performance about sexuality and desires based on interviews with women from various backgrounds and countries

One teacher. Five students. Five desks. A powerfully compelling show about dogma.

Honey, a freelance journalist and single mother of four (and a half) seeks control, agency, confirmation and solvency from her rebellious daughter, disappointed mother, skeptical friends and imperfect ...

Your daughter is missing. You are the only one who has not given up the search. You hear voices. They guide you. They also haunt you.

A beautiful wordless dialogue between Iraqi traditional music and Finnish contemporary dance.

Finnish string quartet makes its Edinburgh International Festival debut.

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall hosts series of early music recitals

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall hosts series of early music recitals

Alma will be performing in two gigs in Reading

Saara Aalto performs at Manchester Pride

Step back in time for a specially created show bursting with the songs and street music of 1920s Berlin.

A riveting programme of music from Weimar-era composers that both looks back to history for inspiration and draws connections with the art of the period.

Weimar Berlin: Bittersweet Metropolis closes with a programme spanning the early years and the tragic end of the Weimar Republic.

Alma on mini-tour in the UK

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo are joined by an international cast for a landmark concert staging of William Alwyn's Ms Julie.

Currently one of Finland's most popular exports, singer-songwriter Alma will be performing in Glasgow

The Rasmus mini-tour in the UK

No need to choose between a firework display, a night at the ballet, or an opportunity to hear one of today’s top pianists - Santtu-Matias Rouvali rolls all three into one thrilling concert.

First in a season-long exploration of music for soloist and orchestra by women composers.

Poets of the Fall on tour

Celebration of the French horn, with classic works made glorious by one of the most distinctive and versatile orchestral instruments, alongside a major world premiere.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts three masterworks composed for a world emerging from the destruction of the Second World War.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Shostakovich’s denunciation of the futility of war alongside the lustrous songs by Alma Mahler with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. A UK premiere by Sebastian Fagerlund – a co...

Oramo gathers a stellar quarter of soloists – including a baritone at the peak of his powers in the title role, Johan Reuter – for this collaboration between the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chorus.

Enjoy a dramatic all-Russian programme with Phiharmonia Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

It is easy to immerse yourself in music as seductive as Anders Hillborg’s. The climax of our Total Immersion weekend is this concert in which Sakari Oramo underlines his own belief that the Swedish com...

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a new production recreating one of the most famous concerts in the history of classical music: Beethoven’s epic Vienna concert of December 1808.

Lise Davidsen joins Esa-Pekka Salonen for Mahler’s Humoresken, a collection of settings of poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Sakari Oramo conducts the piece here alongside one of those works from history it seems obsessed with, Rossini’s William Tell overture.

Before the fire and ice of Sibelius’s striking First Symphony, Lelia Josefowicz and Dalia Stasevska bring us the UK premiere of Helen Grime’s virtuosic and dreamlike Violin Concerto.

Sakari Oramo conducts it here alongside works by Beethoven that speak of light and love brought to a world of darkness and fear, including his Fourth Piano Concerto with stunning soloist, Paul Lewis.

Take a musical journey with “the hottest conductor in Finland” (The Times), from earthy soldiers’ tales to the ecstatic heights of Sibelius.

Surrounding the zest and brilliance of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto performed by star violinist Vilde Frang, we hear some of the most atmospheric music Sibelius ever wrote, including his blistering, ma...

Extraordinary operatic masterworks by Mozart and Mahler close our season in an evening of high stakes and drama conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.