In 2023, we put on the very first concert to celebrate Pride by any major orchestra or concert hall anywhere in Europe.

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The concert took place at the Barbican and was presented by Nick Grimshaw, featuring the CBSO, star soloists including Pavel Kolesnikov and Nicky Spence, a specially-assembled LGBTQ+ community choir and a new commission from Julian Anderson.

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Classical Pride will return to the Barbican in July 2024.

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Music x Museums presented by Viking was a concert series in 2022 that invited audiences into London’s most iconic cultural institutions to experience performances blending classical music with the capital’s most impressive architecture and collections of art.

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In partnership with the V&A, British Library, Science Museum and Cutty Sark, we presented four engaging concerts with artists and orchestras including the Philharmonia, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Jakub Józef Orliński and Sarah Connolly. These concerts were also filmed and released on Apple Music.

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An earlier film was created in 2021 at the V&A featuring leading violinist Viktoria Mullova.

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In 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, we partnered with Apple Music to create a new opera-film, shot entirely on iPhones. Filmed on location right across the world - in cities including, London, Meknes, Mexico City, Munich, New York, St. Petersburg, San Diego and Shanghai - the opera paired eight of today’s leading composers with eight inspiring singers.

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Julian Anderson le 3 mai
Huw Watkins How
Freya Waley-Cohen spell for reality
Thomas Adès Gyökér
Ilya Demutsky I Guess the Universe is to Blame
Helen Grime Prayer
Du Yun Every Grass a Spring
Nico Muhly New-Made Tongue

Searching for ways to stimulate meaningful international collaboration during a global lockdown - and in a period in which we were all looking for answers - Ozero Arts brought together the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (London), the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela (Caracas) and Simon Höfele (Berlin) to make a of film Charles Ives’ seminal piece The Unanswered Question.

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In 2017, Ozero Arts brought George Benjamin’s celebrated opera, Written on Skin to the Mariinsky Theatre in an ‘electrifying’ semi-staging. This was followed two years later with the Russian premiere of Lessons in Love and Violence in partnership with the London Chamber Orchestra.

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These two large-scale tours were the culmination of a multi-year cultural exchange to St. Petersburg which saw Ozero Arts facilitate the Russian premieres of several key 20th-and 21st-century works - at the Mariinsky Theatre and St. Petersburg Philharmonia - including Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King, Walton Façade, Ligeti Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures and Birtwistle The Triumph of Time.