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Showcasing boundary-pushing, eye-opening new music

 

Choose from our selection of performances that showcase the wealth of boundary-pushing, eye-opening new music that Southbank Centre has to offer.

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Thursday 11 June

Time Entwined: Birtwistle, Gerber & Mason
Harrison Birtwistle wearing a white shirt and round orange glasses.

Time Entwined: Birtwistle, Gerber & Mason

Classical music
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Multi-buy

Sunday 28 June

Manchester Collective: Patterns in Repeat
Cassie Kinoshi in a white lace blouse on a pink and yellow background facing the camera

Manchester Collective: Patterns in Repeat

Classical music
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Multi-buy
Mozart’s Jupiter by Heart
Conductor wearing a dark suit standing in the middle of a seated audience with a spotlight shining on him

Mozart’s Jupiter by Heart

Classical music
Royal Festival Hall
Multi-buy
Mozart’s Jupiter by Heart
Conductor wearing a dark suit standing in the middle of a seated audience with a spotlight shining on him

Mozart’s Jupiter by Heart

Classical music
Royal Festival Hall
Multi-buy

Tuesday 22 September

Julia Wolfe's Fire in My Mouth with Marin Alsop
A choir of women in blue dresses holds open scissors above their heads

Julia Wolfe's Fire in My Mouth with Marin Alsop

Classical music
Royal Festival Hall
Multi-buy

Saturday 26 September

Steve Reich at 90: Triple Quartet + After Dark
Steve Reich wearing a baseball cap and suit, standing on a bridge with the skyline of New York in the background

Steve Reich at 90: Triple Quartet + After Dark

Classical music
Purcell Room
Multi-buy
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Sunday 27 September

Steve Reich at 90: London Sinfonietta & Jonny Greenwood
Close-up portrait of an older man in a brown cap and olive jacket looking off-camera against a blurred forest background.

Steve Reich at 90: London Sinfonietta & Jonny Greenwood

Classical music
Royal Festival Hall
Multi-buy

Sunday 4 October

Manchester Collective & Sidiki Dembélé
A woman in a green silk blouse stands behind a seated man in a light blue embroidered robe against a smoky dark blue backdrop.

Manchester Collective & Sidiki Dembélé

Classical music
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Multi-buy

Wednesday 9 June

Sean Shibe & Aidan O'Rourke: Lùban
Aidan O'Rourke (pink raincoat, holding fiddle) and Sean Shibe (yellow coat, holding lute) sit together

Sean Shibe & Aidan O'Rourke: Lùban

Classical music
Purcell Room
Multi-buy

While you're with us

Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
People enjoying the Jeppe Hein Fountain at the Southbank Centre

Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms

A summer favourite returns to our site with water fountains to splash around and cool down in

Shopping
Wooden displays in the Southbank centre shop, featuring books, plushies, and colourful merchandise

Shopping

A vibrant range of inspiring books, homeware, prints, accessories and more.

Klaus Weber: Thinking Fountains
Two statues; a green human body with water spouting from its neck and another of human legs with water pouring down from above displayed outdoors

Thinking
Fountains

Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.

Modified Social Benches
Two children eating ice cream on a red cirrcular bench

Modified Social Benches

Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.

William Pye's Zemran
A photograph showing Riverside Terrace at Southbank Centre, with the metal sculpture Zemran in the foreground, next to Queen Elizabeth Hall

William Pye's Zemran

Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.

Natura Nostra Forest
Bright sunlight bursts through green leaves with a lens flare, set against a blue sky and a textured concrete building.

Natura Nostra Forest

Our growing pocket forest creating a natural oasis.