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Displaying events between 16 June 2025 and 30 June 2025

Advanced Diploma Recitals: Tom Zalmanov Tom Zalmanov

Mozart Sonata No 8 in A minor, K 310
Schubert Sonata No 22 in A, D 959
Dates: Mon 16 Booking and More Information
Accordion Chamber Music Academy students curate and performed an exciting concert of chamber works spotlighting the accordion. Dates: Mon 16 Booking and More Information
Planetary A programme of new works inspired by stars and astronomical phenomena by Academy students, alongside pieces by Glen Downie and Arvo Pärt. Dates: Mon 16 Booking and More Information
Advanced Diploma Recitals: Rob Burton Rob Burton

Alexander Papp introspection through closed eyes
Edmund Finnis A Spiral Ascending
Other works to be announced
Dates: Tue 17 Booking and More Information
Lingua Obscura Hear seldom-performed music by Slovene, Catalan, Irish, Swedish and Maltese composers – from Fran Gerbič to Morfydd Llwyn Owen – in a concert celebrating marginalised languages in the art song tradition. Dates: Tue 17 Booking and More Information
Ephemeral Cartographies Programme to also include brand-new works by members the group and composers including Edward Tait, Maddy Chassar Hesketh, Jacob Jordan, Edward Harris-Brown and Mina Mazur. Dates: Wed 18 Booking and More Information
CANCELLED Academy Flute Ensemble A concert of flute music directed by acclaimed concerto and recording soloist Anna Noakes. Dates: Thu 19 Booking and More Information
Bach Lecture-Recital Pianist and harpsichordist Xiaowen Shang offers a deep dive into Bach’s second set of preludes and fugues, played on various instruments from the Academy’s collection. Dates: Thu 19 Booking and More Information
Harp Showcase The Harp Department’s annual summer celebration concert, in association with Salvi Harps. A chance to hear our leavers and others perform some of their solo and ensemble pieces. Dates: Thu 19 Booking and More Information
Composing a Musical Life Adriana Festeu and Christopher White explore the musicality of various languages and their interaction with genre in this unconventional, plot-led lecture-recital. Dates: Fri 20 Booking and More Information
Strings in the Earth and Air with the Riot Ensemble A programme of richly diverse new music curated by the Academy’s cohort of PhD composers and featuring Berio’s early masterpiece, Chamber Music. Dates: Fri 20 Booking and More Information
Edward Gardner conducts the Academy Symphony Orchestra Daniel Kidane Sirens
Mark-Anthony Turnage Refugee
Nielsen Symphony No 4, Op 29, ‘The Inextinguishable’
Dates: Fri 20 Booking and More Information
Programme Buy your programme ahead of time, and have it waiting for you at the venue. Dates: Fri 20, Sun 29 Booking and More Information
Sonic Meditations: Teach Yourself to Fly Oliveros Sonic Meditations No 14: Tumbling Song (with audience participation)
Feldman Only
Linda Catlin Smith In Black Ink
Oliveros Sonic Meditations No 23: Pure Noise (with audience participation)
Cage The Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs for baritone and piano
Ashkan Layegh New work for soprano and piano
Oliveros Sonic Meditations No 16
Archie John On Dreams for soprano and piano (world premiere of full cycle)
Dates: Mon 23 Booking and More Information
Electronic Soundscapes and the Classical Guitar Join composer and guitarist Dr Milton Mermikides in a lecture and workshop exploring the potential of new technology for opening up new creative possibilities. Dates: Tue 24 Booking and More Information
Seen & Heard Returning for its fifth year, this series of concerts celebrates diversity in classical music. Dates: Tue 24, Fri 27 Booking and More Information
Masterclass: Susan Bullock A masterclass for Vocal Studies students with Susan Bullock CBE, one of the world’s most sought-after dramatic sopranos and Marjorie Thomas Visiting Professor of Singing at the Academy. Dates: Tue 24 Booking and More Information
Piano Gallery Tour Susana Caldeira, Head of Collections, and pianist Xiaowen Shang give an evening tour of the Museum Piano Gallery. Dates: Tue 24 Booking and More Information
Historical Bassoons Bassoon students from the Historically Informed Performance class present a memorable concert of Baroque solo and ensemble works. The programme includes music by Vivaldi, Boismortier, Fasch and Corrette’s Concerto for four bassoons, ‘Le phénix’. Dates: Wed 25 Booking and More Information
Josephine Knight Directs the Academy Cello Ensemble Cello students perform a varied selection of music led by our Alfredo Piatti Chair, international soloist Josephine Knight. Dates: Wed 25 Booking and More Information
Following Gut Feeling A genre-defying exploration of the violin in 21st-century music. Dates: Wed 25 Booking and More Information
Composer in Residence: Anna Meredith Philip Cashian, Head of Composition, interviews our latest Composer in Residence, Anna Meredith, about her unique and hugely diverse musical career, in an event that also includes a performance of fresh new music by Academy students. Dates: Thu 26 Booking and More Information
Barbican Quartet Recital The Barbican Quartet, prizewinners of the 2022 ARD International Music Competition, join Academy students in a performance of Brahms’s much-loved String Sextet No 1. After an interval, the concert will close with Verklärte Nacht, Schoenberg’s Expressionist – and Brahmsian – drama. Dates: Fri 27 Booking and More Information
Black and red illustration of William Purcell over a 1600s map of the British Isles
Resounding Shores: 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us This fantastical journey will include extracts from Purcell’s music for the stage and semi-operas exploring themes of love, magic, myth, authority, nature and transformation. Dates: Sun 29 Booking and More Information
Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award and Webb Award For Accompanists The highly prestigious Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award for postgraduate vocal students was created to celebrate the great British tenor Richard Lewis (1914-1990) and is generously endowed by the Richard Lewis Trust and the foundation set up by the eminent pathologist Dr Jean Shanks. Four prizes are awarded to singers, and an additional major award for the best accompanist is generously donated by the late Brenda Webb, a close friend and admirer of Richard Lewis. Dates: Mon 30 Booking and More Information
Composers’ Platform Be among the first to experience thrilling new sounds in this programme of world premieres by students from our Composition Department. Dates: Mon 30 Booking and More Information

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