
PÄRT REFRACTED
26 NOVEMBER 2025
LSO ST LUKE'S - BARBICAN - LONDON
For Barbican's ‘Arvo Pärt at 90’ celebrations, 12 Ensemble pay homage to the 20th century titan's iconic compositions presenting a collection of his works alongside music by pioneering electronic artists and contemporary classical composers.

LAST DAYS
5 DECEMBER 2025 - 3 JANUARY 2026
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - LONDON
Following its sold-out run in 2021, composer Oliver Leith and librettist/co-director Matt Copson’s visceral opera returns to The Royal Opera. Adapted from Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film loosely based on the final days of grunge icon Kurt Cobain, Last Days is an introspective meditation on the silent torment and alienation that created a modern myth.

HOLLYWOOD
29 JANUARY 2026
WIGMORE HALL - LONDON
‘It’s time to take cinema music in hand, to eliminate the bungling and the inartistic and to thoroughly clean the Augean stable. The only way to do this is to write special music’ - Shostakovich
Music by Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, Eric Korngold, Dmitri Shostakovich and Samuel Barber.

IESTYN DAVIES: DOWLAND
27 MARCH 2026
WIGMORE HALL - LONDON
12 Ensemble join acclaimed counter-tenor Iestyn Davies in his artistic residency at the Wigmore Hall for a lunchtime programme celebrating John Dowland's 400th anniversary. Alongside Iestyn, performers Thomas Dunford, Morgan Szymanski, Hélène Clément, Jonathan Leibovitz and 12 Ensemble collaborate to perform works by Dowland, Britten, Nico Muhly and Thomas Adès.



