Stjepan Hauser interview

Still in his early twenties, Croatian cellist Stjepan Hauser has already performed in the biggest venues in Europe, as the soloist with many major orchestras. Hauser is also a Youtube sensation in his own right: the video where he imitates great cellists (including Rostropovich, Yo Yo Ma and Jacqueline Du Pré) has received over 70,000 [...]

Quick Profile: Mark Stephenson, conductor of Peter & the Wolf Live on Stage

We interviewed Mark Stephenson, who is conducting Peter & the Wolf Live on Stage here 28 – 30 December. Read on to find out what makes him tick, how falling in a lake played a part in his conducting career, and how he came to be in a field near Reading with a whole pack [...]

Peter & the Wolf – Simon Armitage’s new script

Question: what do Mikhail Gorbachev, Sting, Sean Connery, Sir David Attenborough, David Bowie, Patrick Stewart, Sharon Stone, Terry Wogan, Captain Kangaroo, Dame Edna Everage, Mia Farrow and Bill Clinton have in common? No, unfortunately it isn’t the leaked line-up for the next series of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, in which we’ll [...]

Sir Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker Now On Sale!

The London Concerts 2011
The Barbican Centre and Southbank Centre bring Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker to London for a series of concerts in February 2011.

Special offer
Book for all 4 concerts to receive an invitation to an exclusive post-concert drinks reception. Tickets to the reception are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, [...]

Just Announced: The London Concerts 2011

In an unprecedented partnership, the Barbican Centre and Southbank Centre bring Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker to London for a series of concerts in 2011.
Priority booking for Barbican and Southbank Centre members from 10am on Thursday 10 December
On sale to all from 10am on Monday 14 December
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Pictures success explodes throughout Europe!

Since the weekend Pictures Reframed has been performed in Stockholm, Hamburg and Munich and is coming to London at Queen Elizabeth Hall for a double-bill this Friday.
Reviews from Stockholm:
‘In Pictures at an exhibition, Andsnes moves smoothly between the explosive and the meditative, the energetic and the melancholic.’ (The Svenska Dagbladet)
‘In such a presentation there [...]

The Night Shift Podcast

Hear the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Podcast on their ground-breaking late-night concert series The Night Shift. The podcast includes reviews of October’s Night Shift featuring Yannick Nezet-Seguin himself, and looks forward to the next Night Shift, here at Southbank Centre this Saturday.
The Night Shift
Saturday 5 December
As part of Southbank Centre’s The Bernstein Project, [...]