Totally relaxed and friendly environment to share something you are working on, have completed or something original/improvised.

Get ready for an evening of festive joy and nostalgia with James B Partridge’s The Big Christmas Assembly.

This atmospheric programme drifts through starry skies and moonlit reflections.

Immerse yourself in a kaleidoscope of sounds and cross-genre experimentation at this radiant celebration of voices from the UK’s contemporary music scene.

Beautifully curated instrumental and electronic performances in the heart of London.

An evening celebrating music at the forefront of composition, as we hear three world premieres, alongside Pierre Boulez’s magnetic memoriam to fellow composer Bruno Maderna.

Known for his ecstatic compositional style, the Norwegian saxophonist takes a defiantly maximalist approach, placing his spontaneous horn playing alongside lush orchestral arrangements that sound like they’ve been written in watercolour.

What would you trade for eternal youth and boundless power?

The festive season can often be a hectic time of year. Wintering is a balm for the soul, where we’re invited to slow down, to reconnect with the land and one another, as we usher in the winter solstice.

Classical Unlocked Presents... Making their UK debut, Les Itinérantes are a French a cappella trio known for ethereal, haunting performances sung in over fifty languages - some ancient, some invented.

The festive season can often be a hectic time of year. Wintering is a balm for the soul, where we’re invited to slow down, to reconnect with the land and one another, as we usher in the winter solstice.

The festive season can often be a hectic time of year. Wintering is a balm for the soul, where we’re invited to slow down, to reconnect with the land and one another, as we usher in the winter solstice.

The festive season can often be a hectic time of year. Wintering is a balm for the soul, where we’re invited to slow down, to reconnect with the land and one another, as we usher in the winter solstice.

We often see glorious images from deep space at Bach, the Universe and Everything… but how are they created? Astrophotographer Chris Baker will talk to us about how his work capturing these images and turning them into art.

The festive season can often be a hectic time of year. Wintering is a balm for the soul, where we’re invited to slow down, to reconnect with the land and one another, as we usher in the winter solstice.

Think of this as a wild, adventurous continuation of Canterbury’s ancient choral tradition, celebrating the approaching Winter Solstice with howls, groans, croaks and laughter

The festive season can often be a hectic time of year. Wintering is a balm for the soul, where we’re invited to slow down, to reconnect with the land and one another, as we usher in the winter solstice.

Zubin Kanga performs the London premiere of Answer Machine Tape, 1987, a major work for piano and multimedia by Philip Venables.

Quintet ZRI reimagine Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C to sound as radical as when it was first written.

Get ready for a lively show blurring folk with classical music, inspired by a 19th-century Viennese tavern where musicians came together to play and make merry.

Totally relaxed and friendly environment to share something you are working on, have completed or something original/improvised.

In May 2013 a piano was left outdoors in private woodland near Canterbury. Each month for a year Sam Bailey played the piano, improvising in response to the instrument’s changing state.

Live Bach performance plus a talk from Dhara Patel at the National Space Centre about alternative ideas that could help explain the presence of galaxies that should not exist.

Step back in time for some joyous singalong tunes from your primary school days.

Step back in time for some joyous singalong tunes from your primary school days.

Live Bach performance plus a talk from Dhara Patel at the National Space Centre about alternative ideas that could help explain the presence of galaxies that should not exist.

Originally written for ‘robots’, Aphex Twin’s Computer Controlled Instruments pt2 is performed in transcription for live prepared pianos and percussion.

Join Manchester Collective and ascend to the highest heights.

Do something different for Valentine’s this year and treat your loved ones to a special evening of wine and music, set in the luscious and intimate surroundings of Smith Square Hall.

An extraordinary blend of theatre, live orchestral performance, and planetarium experience.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is a classical music favourite, vividly capturing nature’s drama from the freshness of spring to the crackle of a summer storm.

Enjoy the fusion of wine and music as you’re served a selection of canapés and 5 quality wines which have been thoughtfully paired with string quartets.

Butterflies: symbols of transfiguration and the ephemeral.

Enjoy the fusion of wine and music as you’re served a selection of canapés and 5 quality wines which have been thoughtfully paired with string quartets.