Music x Museums
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About the Series
Music x Museums sees an exciting and engaging programme of music performances take place across a number of London’s major museums, pairing iconic music with iconic art and architecture.
Particularly when all the arts have been so badly hit over the last two years, collaboration between different art forms and institutions is more important than ever. Music x Museums aims to be a meaningful way of reigniting cultural activity and bringing audiences back to the heart of London.
Concerts
1 April, 20:00
V&A
V&A
Fashioning Masculinities
Lully Le bourgeois gentilhomme - Overture & Dances)
Caroline Shaw Entr’acte
___ [tbd]
Stravinsky Apollo
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Jakub Józef Orliński - countertenor
Oliver Zeffman - conductor
To buy tickets, visit the V&A website
22 April, 20:00
British Library
British Library
Beethoven Idealist. Innovator. Icon
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral'
Beethoven Choral Fantasy
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
The Bach Choir
Tba - piano
Oliver Zeffman - conductor
To buy tickets, visit the British Library website
__ May, 20:00
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Cutty Stark
Adès Shanty - Over the Sea
Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
XXX
XXX - soprano
Oliver Zeffman - conductor
To buy tickets, visit the Royal Museums Greenwich website
__ June, 20:00
Science Museum
Science Museum
Stephen Hawking: Maths in Music
George Benjamin Canon & Fugue (from Bach The Art of Fugue)
Birtwistle Tragoedia
New commission (tba)
Per Nørgård Voyage Into the Golden Screen
XXX
Oliver Zeffman - conductor
To buy tickets, visit the Science Museum website
__ July, 20:00
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Under the Stars
Messiaen Des canyons aux étoiles
XXX
XXX - piano
Oliver Zeffman - conductor
To buy tickets, visit the Royal Museums Greenwich website
__August, 20:00
Bold Tendencies
Bold Tendencies
Love
Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie
XXX
XXX - piano
XXX - ondes-martenot
Oliver Zeffman - conductor
To buy tickets, visit the Bold Tendencies website
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Oliver Zeffman
Widely seen as one of the most intrepid young conductors working today, Oliver Zeffman works regularly with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. His recent/upcoming debuts including with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Ulster Orchestra and the Urals Philharmonic.
In 2020, as the pandemic shut down live music, Oliver collaborated with Apple Music to commission and record a new opera-film, Eight Songs from Isolation, with contributions from a number of today’s leading composers and singers. This was nominated for five Opus Klassik awards and he followed this up with a second collaboration with Apple - partnering with the V&A Museum in London - to film a visual album in their newly renovated Raphael Court.
A firm advocate for contemporary music, Oliver has to date commissioned and premiered twenty-one new works from some of the most exciting composers of today. He has given the Russian premieres of a number of important 20th and 21st century pieces, including George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence, Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time, Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King, Walton’s Façade and Ligeti’s Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Zeffman originally studied History and Russian at Durham University and also spent a year at the St Petersburg State Conservatory.
Orchestras
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Performing approximately 200 concerts each season and with a worldwide audience of more than half-a-million people, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) embraces a broad repertoire that enables it to reach the most diverse audience of any British symphony orchestra. Whilst artistic integrity remains paramount, the RPO is unafraid to push boundaries and is equally at home recording video game, film and television soundtracks and working with pop stars, as it is performing the great symphonic repertoire.
Academy of
St Martin in the Fields
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras, renowned for fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world’s greatest orchestral music. Through unrivalled live performances and a vast recording output of over 500 releases – highlights of which include the 1969 best-seller Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the soundtrack to the Oscar-winning film Amadeus – the name and sound of the Academy is known and loved by classical audiences throughout the world.
Museums
V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and gives access to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. Our collection of over 170 million items includes artefacts from every age of written civilisation. We keep the nation’s archive of printed and digital publications, adding around three million new items to our collection every year.
Royal Museums Greenwich
Royal Museums Greenwich comprises the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, National Maritime Museum and Queen’s House. We are also home to The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre and the Caird Library and Archive. Together we’re dedicated to enriching people’s understanding of the sea, the exploration of space, and Britain's role in world history.
Bold Tendencies
Bold Tendencies is a not-for-profit organisation started in 2007 in Peckham, London. It supports artists to develop their ideas and to realise site-specific projects and present live performances from its rooftop home, Peckham’s Multi-Storey Car Park. Bold Tendencies celebrates the free enjoyment of public space in the city, welcoming participation in its rich, experimental programme and preserving open access to this special, spectacular place.
Science Museum
The Science Museums aims to inspire visitors with award-winning exhibitions, iconic objects and stories of incredible scientific achievement. The Science Museum’s world-class collection forms an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical advancement from across the globe.
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