An electrifying new arts festival, powered by orchestral music.
Multitudes is a brand-new arts festival taking place 23 April - 3 May 2025. Conceived and hosted at the Southbank Centre, showcasing spectacular experiences where world-class orchestras join with some of the most ambitious and exciting artists, performers and creatives practising today. Through this ambitious mix of disciplines, the festival dramatically reimagines the concert hall experience, transcending the boundaries of what it is to see, hear and feel live orchestral music and appealing to audiences both familiar and new to the extraordinary 500-year body of orchestral music.
- Daphnis and Chloé: Wed 23 Apr at 6:30pm and 8:30pm
Ravel’s ballet brought to life by the LPO’s and Circa’s daring contemporary circus. - Oh To Believe in Another World: Thu 24 Apr at 7:30pm
William Kentridge’s film UK premiere with a live score played by the Philharmonic Orchestra. - Vexations: Thu 24 Apr & Fri 25 Apr
Pianist Igor Levit plays Erik Satie’s challenging Vexations directed by Marina Abramović. - R.I.S.E.: Fri 25 Apr at 7:45pm
Chineke! Orchestra joins forces with George the Poet for a night of music, spoken word and poetry. - Singing All About Love: Sat 26 Apr
The Multi-Story Orchestra creates a musical response to Mickalene Thomas’s exhibition All About Love. - Mahler 8: Sat 26 Apr at 7.30pm
The LPO sets the heavens ringing with Tom Morris and Edward Gardner. - Refractions: Sat 26 Apr at 7:45pm
- A one-of-a-kind collaboration between Clark, Manchester Collective and Melanie Lane.
- Symphony of Shadows: Sun 27 Apr at 3pm
The RPO performs Shostakovich’s Symphony No.7 with a video installation by Kirill Serebrennikov. - LEGACY: Mon 28 Apr at 7:30pm
Dig into Birmingham’s grime and hip-hop with the CBSO and a line up of the city’s leading artists. - In C: Tue 29 Apr & Wed 30 Apr at 7:45pm
- London Sinfonietta and dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests Terry Riley’s In C.
- City of Floating Sounds: Wed 30 Apr at 7:30pm
Huang Ruo and the BBC Concert Orchestra in an immersive musical journey through London. - Carnival: Sat 3 May at 7pm
- Aurora Orchestra’s The Carnival of the Animals, created in collaboration with Frantic Assembly.
- Carnival: Family Edit: Sat 3 May 2025, 3pm
- Family-friendly matinee performance of Aurora Orchestra’s Carnival.
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Further information: Multitudes | Southbank Centre