A sung service giving thanks and praying for the performers and audiences taking part in this year’s Canterbury Festival.

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Festival Evensong

Canterbury Cathedral

A bold and exhilarating annual festival showcasing new music from the talented minds of our composition department. Over three nights, experience cutting-edge contemporary works performed in various locations throughout King Charles Court, immersing you in a celebration of innovative soundscapes and fresh creative voices. 

Rude Health 2026: A Festival of Contemporary Composition

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance

From Beethoven’s “Adelaide” to Fauré’s “Lydia” to Noël Coward’s “Nina,” our playlist is composed of songs whose titles are the given names of a colorful cast of characters, ranging from Biblical times (Belsazar) and Greek myths (Ganymede) to the Beatles’ London (Michelle) and Randy Newman’s America (Marie). Featuring soprano Christine Taylor Price, mezzo-soprano Megan Moore, baritone Samuel Kidd, and NYFOS’s own Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois as pianists and hosts.

New York Festival of Song: First-Name Basis

Kaufman Music Center

The festival's acclaimed main event of the year, bringing 10 days of multi-genre international music-making to the medieval city of Salisbury.

Opera, jazz, choral, music theatre, cabaret, theatre, folk and community.

13th Celebrate Voice Festival

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_ZQW5C2pw&amp;t=2s

The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFe6mW6x9pc

The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

The first weekend of our Piano Festival launches with two nights of Romantic firepower from legendary pianists. Andreas Delfs leads the orchestra in two unique programs spotlighting towering works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Olga Kern tackles the volcanic intensity of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3, framed by the composer’s haunting Isle of the Dead and Moment Musical, Etude Tableaux, and Polichinelle. Each evening offers a distinct program, revealing the passion, drama, and virtuosic brilliance that make these composers—and these pianists—truly unforgettable.

Piano Festival: Kern Plays Rachmaninov

Eastman Theatre

Emerging from the success of the Canterbury Festival Youth Orchestra project, this year’s strings-focused initiative provides an opportunity for young musicians from across Kent to meet, gain confidence and build up their professional experience. Come and support them as they take to the stage for the first time as part of an ambitious, county-wide strings ensemble.

Canterbury Festival Youth Strings

King's School Recital Room

The first weekend of our Piano Festival launches with two nights of Romantic firepower from legendary pianists. Andreas Delfs leads the orchestra in two unique programs spotlighting towering works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Barry Douglas brings heroic sweep to Tchaikovsky’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 1, framed by selections from The Seasons and Francesca da Rimini. Each evening offers a distinct program, revealing the passion, drama, and virtuosic brilliance that make these composers—and these pianists—truly unforgettable.

Piano Festival: Douglas Plays Tchaikovsky

“The rays of sun chase night away.” If there is an opera for everyone, an opera about the very essence of life, it’s The Magic Flute. For the first time since 2015, Iván Fischer will once again bring to the stage Mozart’s philosophical tale, where good and bad, light and darkness, right and wrong, courage and fear, wisdom and superstition, vengeance and mercy are juxtaposed. The opera, which is Mozart’s last work for the stage, is an initiation ceremony and a moral tale about the journey to adulthood. “It’s an inscrutable work of magical power,” says Fischer, who is particularly awed by the opera’s optimism, humor, playfulness, fairy tale-like quality, deep humanism, or, in a single word, complexity. The international cast includes Mozart specialists from the world’s leading opera houses, several of whom are already familiar to the BFO’s audiences.

Vicenza Opera Festival: Fischer and The Magic Flute

Teatro Olimpico

Canterbury Festival: PhD Student Showcase

St Gregory’s Centre for Music

Week 2 of our Piano Festival continues with two programs devoted to the commanding brilliance and deep expressive power of Beethoven and Brahms. Under the direction of Music Director Andreas Delfs, Jonathan Biss brings clarity and conviction to Beethoven’s majestic “Emperor” Concerto, paired with the composer’s vibrant Symphony No. 8. Framed by dramatic overtures, these concerts reveal four masterpieces that balance strength with lyricism and close the festival with authority, depth, and unforgettable artistry.

Piano Festival: Biss Plays Beethoven

Week 2 of our Piano Festival continues with two programs devoted to the commanding brilliance and deep expressive power of Beethoven and Brahms. Under the direction of Music Director Andreas Delfs, Marc-André Hamelin takes center stage in Brahms’ expansive Piano Concerto No. 2, alongside the luminous Haydn Variations. Framed by dramatic overtures, these concerts reveal four masterpieces that balance strength with lyricism—and close the festival with authority, depth, and unforgettable artistry.

Piano Festival: Hamelin Plays Brahms

Our 2026 festival takes place 2- 22 November at The Cockpit, Arches Lane Theatre, Barons Court Theatre, Canal Cafe Theatre, Theatre Deli, Etcetera Theatre, The Playground Theatre, The Space Theatre, Theatro Technis & Upstairs at the Gatehouse.

Voila! Theatre Festival

The Cockpit

On Saturday the 07th of November the Nation will gather to pause, reflect and remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of the Nation. To mark this significant Annual occasion, Royal British Legion Scotland, will host the National event (as supported by Scottish Government at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. This will be a poignant evening of remembrance which this year will focus on Afghanistan and will tell the story of service personnel who served there, through the mediums of music, film and song dance and will include an Act of Remembrance.

Scotland's Festival of Remembrance

Usher Hall

Gateways Music Festival’s free digital programs bring performances, conversations, and defining moments from more than three decades of Black artistry in classical music to audiences across the country and around the world. Livestreams, encore presentations, and curated programs are free with registration.

Livestream: Gateways Brass Collective In Concert

In 1926, Henry Wood invited a 72-year-old Leoš Janáček to visit the Academy, where he observed an orchestral rehearsal in the Duke’s Hall. A hundred years later, we’re celebrating Janáček’s passionate, utterly original output for pianists. Students perform his complete solo piano and chamber duo music, as well as ensemble pieces including the Concertino, introduced by our Dame Myra Hess Chair of Piano, Joanna MacGregor. 

Autumn Piano Festival

Royal Academy of Music

The meeting between Third Coast Percussion , a GRAMMY Award- winning ensemble , and Jlin , a Pulitzer Prize -winning composer, producer, and performer , has given birth to a project that spans and revitalizes ten years of collaboration, showcasing one of the most fertile and unpredictable alliances in contemporary music. This dialogue could only have occurred in Chicago: on one side, the precision, rigor, and timbral plasticity of one of the most innovative percussion quartets on the international scene; on the other, the radical writing of Jlin, an artist originally from Gary, Indiana, who, drawing on the legacy of Chicago Footwork, has constructed a highly personal, physical, layered, polyrhythmic sonic language capable of uniting club culture, the avant-garde, and formal architecture.

Jlin, Third Coast Percussion – “Vernacular”

Auditorium Parco della Musica

The Everybody Dance Festival is a vibrant celebration of dance, movement, and community.

Bringing together schools, colleges and community groups from across Yorkshire it creates an inclusive space for people of all ages and abilities. With workshops, live performances, and interactive events, the festival inspires joy, creativity, and connection through the power of dance.

Everybody Dance Festival

York Theatre Royal

BIG BANG is landing in La Monnaie! After more than 30 years, this two-day festival has become an international reference thanks to its unique mix of daring musical theatre, intimate listening rooms, interactive installations and fantastic fanfares. On their journey of discovery, children are treated to a colourful musical programme, but they don’t just have to sit still and listen. BIG BANG is also, and above all, a festival that invites you to discover and take part – after all, there is something to experience in every corner of our opera house. Big and Bangin’, right?

Big Bang Festival

La Monnaie - De Munt

Twelve young pianists performing the great masterpieces of the piano repertoire. Three concerts. 30 minutes for each pianist. A marathon dedicated to the piano and the talents of the 66th Busoni Competition in Bolzano . But this time there's something special: you are the jury! At the end of the festival, the public will choose the pianists who will advance to the final stages of the Busoni Competition in Bolzano.

The Glocal Piano Festival

Novos Londrinos are a Brazilian-inspired band based in North London. Cláudia, Jackson, Jonny, Gio and Rachel were brought together by their love of bossa nova, samba and MPB.

Festival Evensong

Canterbury Festival

Rude Health 2026: A Festi...

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and...

New York Festival of Song...

Kaufman Music Center

13th Celebrate Voice Fest...

Celebrate Voice

The Artelize Podcast Pres...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast: 'Am...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast and ...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast - A ...

Artelize

Piano Festival: Kern Play...

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Canterbury Festival Youth...

Canterbury Festival

Piano Festival: Douglas P...

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Vicenza Opera Festival: F...

Budapest Fes­ti­val Orches­tra

Canterbury Festival: PhD ...

Canterbury Festival

Piano Festival: Biss Play...

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Piano Festival: Hamelin P...

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Voila! Theatre Festival

The Cockpit

Scotland's Festival of Re...

Usher Hall

Livestream: Gateways Bras...

Gateways Music Festival

Autumn Piano Festival

Royal Academy of Music

Jlin, Third Coast Percuss...

Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morr...

Everybody Dance Festival

York Theatre Royal

Big Bang Festival

La Monnaie / De Munt

The Glocal Piano Festival...

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Guildhall Jazz Festival: ...

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Budapest Festival Orchestra