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REPLAY: A Limitless Recycled Playground
Southbank Centre Tours
Rug Rhymes: Summer
Hisaishi & Scriabin
Performers
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Alexander Edmundson horn
Ben Hulme horn
Katy Woolley horn
Repertoire
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Joe Hisaishi: Concerto for 3 horns & orchestra (The Border Concerto) (London premiere)
Interval
Scriabin: Symphony No.3 in C (The Divine Poem)
Édouard Louis: Collapse
GROOVE
Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Cordelia Williams: Lullabies
Performers
Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin
Cordelia Williams piano
Repertoire
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the mirror)
Brahms: Wiegenlied (Lullaby), Op.49 No.4 arr. Williams & Waley-Cohen for violin & piano
Dvořák: Songs my mother taught me, Op.55 No.4 arr. Kreisler for violin & piano
Freya Waley-Cohen: Sweet as plum wine (World premiere)
Scriabin: Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op.5 No.1 arr. Mogilevsky for violin & piano
Cage: Nocturne
Schubert: Wiegenlied (Lullaby), D.498 arr. Elman for violin & piano; Fantasie in C, D.934
REPLAY: Relaxed
Game Music Festival: The Infernal Symphony
Performers
London Mozart Players
Marek Wroniszewski conductor
Hertfordshire Chorus
Repertoire
Game Music Festival: The Infernal Symphony - featuring music from Diablo series
Out-Spoken Masterclass: June
Iveta Apkalna & State Choir LATVIJA
Performers
State Choir LATVIJA
Iveta Apkalna organ
Repertoire
Arvo Pärt: Pari intervallo for organ; Nunc dimittis for chorus
Rihards Dubra: Herr, bleib bei uns! for chorus
Pēteris Vasks: Zīles ziņa (The tomtit's message) for chorus; Dona nobis pacem for chorus & organ
Interval
Bach: Fantasia in G (Pièce d'orgue), BWV.572
Elgar: Lux aeterna (Nimrod) from Enigma Variations arr. John Cameron for chorus
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord for chorus arr. Sven-David Sandström
Thierry Escaich: Evocation No.2 for organ; 3 Motets for chorus & organ
Gardiner: Evening hymn for chorus & organ
Chineke! Orchestra: Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto
Performers
Chineke! Orchestra
Joseph Young conductor
Njioma Chinyere Grevious violin
Repertoire
Carlos Simon: 4 Black American Dances for orchestra
Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.80
Interval
Price: Symphony No.1 in E minor
Quentin Blake: The Southbank Parade
Skate 50
The Ruggeds Takeover
Your chance to win tickets to see Harry Styles at Meltdown
The only way to see Harry Styles’ headline Meltdown gig on Tuesday 16 June is by entering our prize draw.
Festivals & series
Harry Styles’ Meltdown
London Literature Festival
Classical Music
Performance & Dance
Refugee Week
South Asian Sounds
Poetry International Festival
Rough Trade 50
Goalhanger: The Rest Is Fest
Letters to the Future
Recently announced
Anmol Mohara: Across The Sea
Performers
Tereza Catarov vocals
Simeon May flute, saxophone
Dan Fawcett guitar
Cody Moss piano, keyboards
Rory Hudson bass
Anmol Mohara drums, percussion
Making A Husband: Live
Tez Ilyas: Work in Progress
Thamarai: Pritt + Prito
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Asian Tones: Tara Lily + Shalini Rani
Shradhanjali: A Homage to Zakir Hussain
Christmas Oratorio: Parts 4 – 6
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Václav Luks conductor
Sofia Kirwan-Baez soprano
Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Guy Cutting tenor
Florian Störtz bass
Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Repertoire
Zelenka: Statio quadruplex for Processione Theophorica, ZWV 158
Bach: Cantata 4 (Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben)
Interval
Bach: Cantata 5 (Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen); Cantata 6 (Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben) from Christmas Oratorio. Performed in German, with surtitles.
Free events
Quentin Blake: The Southbank Parade
Skate 50
The Ruggeds Takeover
Creative Encounters: Create with Courage
Members' Private View: Anish Kapoor
Mix & Move: Bollywood Groove
Teachers' Twilight: Anish Kapoor
Our HeartBeats: Courage in Creativity
European Poetry Festival: Latvia
Primary Schools Morning: Anish Kapoor
Secondary Schools Morning: Anish Kapoor
futuretense x Letters to the Future
BUMPAH x Future Rhythms
Future Rhythms DJ Takeover
While you’re with us
Make the most of your visit and explore all our venues and spaces have to offer.
Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
A summer favourite returns to our site with water fountains to splash around and cool down in
Thinking
Fountains
Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.
Modified Social Benches
Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.
William Pye's Zemran
Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.
5 things to know about You Are Here
Get an insight into a special one-off spectacular to celebrate 75 years of the Southbank Centre.
Playlist: Harry Styles’ Meltdown
Get ready for this summer’s Meltdown, by listening to this playlist of all the artists added to the festival line-up so far.
Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart, Portable Cities and ‘second skin’
Go behind the works of Yin Xiuzhen’s Hayward Gallery exhibition in the company of Senior Curator Yung Ma and choreographer Julia Cheng.
Who is composer Alban Berg?
Discover the Austrian composer who hid an affair in his music score and whose first orchestral work caused a riot.
My mixtape: John Gosling’s 10 tracks for Lee Alexander McQueen
The musician and producer shares a playlist of pieces which put him in mind of his friend, the designer Lee Alexander McQueen.
How I create... with visual artist Yin Xiuzhen
The artist behind our current Hayward Gallery exhibition on ideas she can’t abandon, and the evolution of her creative process.
5 things to know about Quentin Blake
Of course you’ll know who Quentin Blake is, but did you know these things about him?
Ocean Vuong on The Emperor of Gladness
Watch writer Ocean Vuong discuss his second novel The Emperor of Gladness with novelist and critic Mendez in this talk recorded on our stage in 2025.
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