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The Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public on Tuesday 16 June. It will reopen for Harry Styles & Jules Buckley Orchestra ticket holders only at 5pm.

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Chineke! Orchestra

Championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music

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Founded in 2015 by Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE, the Chineke! Orchestra is Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra.

‘That exclamation mark says it all. Chineke! likes to startle and amaze with the sheer joyousness of its music-making’

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Chineke! Orchestra

Synonymous with the Southbank Centre from the very beginning, Chineke! Orchestra launched right here, in our Queen Elizabeth Hall.

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