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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

As a pillar in the evolution of human culture, stone has equipped us with tools, weapons, and ploughs as we built under it, into it and upon it.

The Rasmus mini-tour in the UK

Icon, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, media personality, flamboyant force of nature and one of rock’s most celebrated and uber-kinetic front-men brings his band on tour to 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.

This will be an opportunity to hear from our experts at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, how Finnish businesses should prepare for Brexit.

An EU immigration lawyer will answer EU citizens' questions about Brexit, the Settled Status scheme and no-deal Brexit.

In the moments between sleep and waking, imagination rules

During the residency at Dance Base, Johanna Nuutinen will develop the physical content of the production OPIA that will have its premiere in Helsinki in May 2020 at Zodiak - Center for New Dance.

Film tells a story of a family that moves from Finland to Poland in search of their roots.

Two receptionists have a pathological fear of their own customers.