Barbican reopens for festive season

Performers will include Jess Gillam, the Academy of Ancient Music and the BBC Singers. The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle will perform two days of Beethoven Piano Concertos on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 December with guest pianist Krystian Zimerman to round off the Barbican’s Beethoven 250 celebrations.

Full programme information is available here.  

Sir Nicholas Kenyon, managing director, Barbican said: 'We’re excited to welcome everyone back to the Barbican once again to enjoy culture and creativity. Our festive programme features a series of in-person and live-streamed Christmas concerts, new theatre performances and cinema releases, two not-to-be-missed exhibitions, and a range of creative activities for families.

'We’re also very pleased to restart our Communities in Residence programme which provides free space in the Barbican for local community groups to use in a way that is useful to them, and to reopen our iconic Conservatory to the public again for free, for those seeking solace or a place to pause and reflect.

 

'We understand not everyone will be able to join us in person, and we’ll continue to share a curated programme of digital content via our website and social channels including Akin’s We Cover the Universe, an interactive sensory online show combining poetry and drawing show for the under-fives and our digital residency with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.'