Southbank Centre

Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, London

Whats on at Southbank Centre, july 2024

Kate Molleson & Annea Lockwood in Conversation

Thu 4 Jul 2024, 20:45 - Southbank Centre, London

-breaking book Sound Within Sound , Kate Molleson, composer Annea Lockwood, and Southbank Centre´s Head of

Maya Dunietz Performs Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 20:30 - Southbank Centre, London

, with me sitting on a stool at her bedside, leaning right in so she could hear what I was saying

Éliane Radigue’s Occam Ocean

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 18:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Begin your evening with the free-flowing sounds of Éliane Radigue’s Occam Ocean , which invites you to slow down and be engulfed in music.
Read, watch and listen more Named after the theory of philosopher William of Ockham, that the simplest option is always the best, Radigue’s ethereal sounds invite audiences to discover the beauty of subtle and unshowy mastery of instruments.
This instal

London Sinfonietta: Carrillo & Revueltas

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 19:00 - Southbank Centre, London

A journey through Mexico features striking chamber works by Revueltas, and Carrillo´s moving and experimental song 'Preludio a Colón’.
Read, watch and listen more Described by Kate Molleson, author of the book Sound Within Sound that inspired this festival, as a 'confounding mix of absolutist, traditionalist, visionary and shameless revisionist’, Carrillo never ceases to surprise, in his music

Deep Listening: Else Marie Pade

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London

noises was what captivated the Danish sound pioneer and 'Technogranny’ ( Ekstra Bladet ) Else Marie Pade

London Sinfonietta: Ustvolskaya

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 17:00 - Southbank Centre, London

The London Sinfonietta plays music from an extraordinary composer who resisted conforming under the 'Great Terror’ of the Soviet Union.
Read, watch and listen more Galina Ustvolskaya joined the composition class of Dmitri Shostakovich at Leningrad State Conservatoire in St Petersburg, and immediately won his esteem, with the elder predicting 'world fame’.
However, the conditions couldn’t

Quatuor Bozzini: Crawford Seeger & Abrams

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 18:30 - Southbank Centre, London

Hear works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Muhal Richard Abrams and Johanna Beyer, some of the United States' most forward-thinking musical minds of the 20th century.
Read, watch and listen more Canadian string quartet Quatuor Bozzini, known for embracing new and experimental music, bring works by their fellow North Americans to London to fill the Purcell Room with innovative music.
While America

Siwan Rhys: Ustvolskaya Solo Piano Works

Sat 6 Jul 2024, 15:45 - Southbank Centre, London

Siwan Rhys approaches the physical limits of piano-playing in Galina Ustvolskaya’s hurtling, ferocious outpouring of frustration and resistance.
Read, watch and listen more There aren’t many piano compositions which leave the hands and arms of the pianist bruised.
It’s also not every day that a pianist has to make sense of a score which contains passages marked 'very, very, very loud’, fol

Annea Lockwood’s River Maps

Sun 7 Jul 2024, 14:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Follow the winding journey of New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood from river to sea, mapping the gentle sounds of waterways.
Read, watch and listen more In the 1960s, Lockwood began exploring the connections between river environments and mental well-being by asking friends and colleagues for sound samples of water environments from all over the world.
Twenty years later, she turned h

Quatuor Bozzini & Rhodri Davies: Occam

Sun 7 Jul 2024, 16:00 - Southbank Centre, London

The flowing sounds of waterways - often seen as in-between worlds - form the inspiration for the ethereal music of Éliane Radigue.
Read, watch and listen more 'Radigue is all about perpetual transition,’ writes Kate Molleson about Éliane Radigue, the French sound pioneer who was searching for 'the sound within sound’: 'She is a master of transience, queen of the in-between.’
Radigue found