Biped – London
March 12, 2025
Sadlers Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London
Performance of major dance by Merce Cunningham with music by Gavin Bryars
GB Ensemble Espinho
December 14, 2024
Auditório de Espinho | Academia, R. 34 884, 4500-318 Espinho, Portugal
GB Ensemble Portugal
GB Ensemble Braga
December 13, 2024
GNRation, Praça Conde de Agrolongon 123, 4700-312 Braga, Portugal
GB Ensemble concert
Serbia Concert
October 26, 2024
Bioscope Balkan, Belgrade, Serbia
Multi piano performance by Serbian Ensemble
BIPED – Rome
September 4, 2024
to be confirmed
Performances of Merce Cunningham works with Gavin Bryars Ensemble musicians
String Sextet
July 21, 2024
Paxton House, Paxton, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1SZ
Scottish premiere of Gavin Bryars String Sextet
Fuse Camp 2024
June 26, 2024
Fuse Art Camp, Aulus-les-Bains, France
Jesus’ Blood/Titanic
June 12, 2024
Paris auction house - venue to be announced
GB Ensemble performance
BIPED – Italy
June 7, 2024
Venue to be confirmed, Ravenna, Italy
Performance of classic dance by Merce Cunningham with music by Gavin Bryars
BIPED – Germany
May 8, 2024
venue to be confirmed. Ludwigshafen, Germany
Performance of classic Merce Cunningham dance with music by Gavin Bryars
BIPED – Poland
April 26, 2024
19:00, Teatr Wielki w Lodzi, Lodzi, Poland
Performance of highly acclaimed Merce Cunningham dance work with music by Gavin Bryars
Harpsichord Concerto – French premiere
April 20, 2024
Auditorium, 149 Rue Garibaldi, 69003 Lyon, France
French premiere of concerto
BIPED – Lyon
April 16, 2024
Opera de Lyon, 1 Pl. de la Comédie, 69001 Lyon, France
Performances of Biped, dance work by Merce Cunningham and Gavin Bryars
Klarafestival 2024
March 9, 2024
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Performance of Jesus' Blood + Songs for Clara/Bertrand
Gavin Bryars Ensemble
February 17, 2024
7pm St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick, W4 1LW
Gavin Bryars Ensemble chamber works
GB Ensemble Chiswick
February 17, 2024
St Michael and All Angels Church, Bedford Park Priory Avenue London W4 1TX
GB Ensemble London concert
GB at the Barbican
December 19, 2023
Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS
Retrospective concert of Gavin Bryars' work
GB Ensemble Gent
December 15, 2023
December 15: SMAK, Jan Hoetplein 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium + December 16, Handelbeurs, Kouter 29, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Gent GB Ensemble concert
Phaedra Ensemble: Gavin Bryars at 80
December 2, 2023
6:45pm, Howard Assembly Room, Opera North, 46 New Briggate Leeds LS1 6NU
Chamber Music concert
The Ensemble for Different New Music
December 1, 2023
The Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street ,Liverpool L6 1HP 7:30pm
Multi piano works by Gavin Bryars
GB Ensemble – Stoller Hall, Manchester
November 26, 2023
5pm Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester M3 1DA
GB Ensemble performance
GB Ensemble Sheffield
November 16, 2023
Firth Court Western Bank Sheffield S10 2TN
GB at 80...
Memorial Service St Martin-in-the-Fields
November 9, 2023
11am, St Martin-in-the-Fields,Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 4JJ
Memorial service for those who died homeless in the previous year
GB Ensemble at St Martin-in-the-Fields
November 9, 2023
7:30 pm St Martin-in-the-Fields,Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 4JJ
GB Ensemble concert
String Sextet (“The Bridges of Königsberg”)
October 19, 2023
St George's Bristol, Great George St, Bristol BS1 5RR 1pm
String Sextet performance
String Sextet (“The Bridges of Königsberg”)
October 17, 2023
St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 4JJ
String Sextet performance
String Sextet (“The Bridges of Königsberg”)
October 14, 2023
Ipswich Chamber Music Society, Ipswich School, Ipswich IP1 3QW
Performance of new work by Gavin Bryars
GB Ensemble Brighton
October 11, 2023
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road ,Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RA 7:30pm
Gavin Bryars at 80 Ensemble concert
Sound Biennale Switzerland
October 6, 2023
Sion, Switzerland
Performance of The Sinking of the Titanic
GB Ensemble Southampton
October 3, 2023
Turner Sims, University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
GB Ensemble Concert for 80th
Phaedra_Kings Place
October 1, 2023
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. 4pm
Chamber music works of Bryars, plus new work by Jurd
GB Ensemble Rimini
September 9, 2023
Teatro Galli, Piazza Cavour, 47921 Rimini, Italy
GB Ensemble concert
String Sextet (“The Bridges of Königsberg”)
August 20, 2023
Park Lane Chapel, 64 Park Lane, Norwich NR2 3EF 6:30pm
Performance of new string sextet
GB Ensemble at Britten-Pears
August 13, 2023
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk, IP17 1SP 8 pm
GB Ensemble "Gavin Bryars at 80"
String Sextet (“The Bridges of Königsberg”)
August 13, 2023
Holywell Music Room, Wadham College, Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3SB
Second performance of new work - morning concert at 11:15
String Sextet (“The Bridges of Königsberg”)
August 12, 2023
Syde Manor, Syde, Gloucestershire
Premiere of new work
CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory
July 13, 2023
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
Public Lecture
Lecture – Como
July 13, 2023
Villa Sucota, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, via Cernobbio 19, Como, 22100 CO, Italy
Public Lecture
Fuse Camp
June 22, 2023
Fuse Art Camp, Aulus-les-Bains, France
Open music project/study June 22 - July 2
GB Ensemble at Moers Festival
May 27, 2023
Moers, Germany
GB Ensemble Concert "GB at 80"
Estonian National Men’s Choir
May 21, 2023
7:30pm, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG.
Choral concert
GB Ensemble at Café Oto 2
May 16, 2023
Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL
GB Ensemble at Café Oto 2
GB Ensemble at Café Oto 1
May 15, 2023
Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL
GB Ensemble Performance
Easy Listening 2023
April 16, 2023
Piscine Gilbert Bozon, Palais des Sports 37 rue Galpin Thiou, Tours, France
Performance of Titanic in Swimming Pool
Easy Listening 2023
April 15, 2023
Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré Jardin François 1er, Tours, France
Day of Gavin Bryars, including Jesus' Blood
Easy Listening 2023
April 14, 2023
MAME, Cité de la création et de l'innovation 47 boulevard de Preuilly, Tours, Fr ance
Chamber concert
Harpsichord Concerto (“Busoni’s Chickering”)
March 23, 2023
Philharmonic Hall, Hope Street, Liverpool
Premiere of new concerto
Passion-Requiem Gavin Bryars at 80
March 18, 2023
KühlhausBerlin, Luckenwalder Strasse 3, 10963 Berlin
80th birthday concert for Gavin Bryars, along with works by Zelenka
Estonian National Men’s Choir – Tallinn
February 12, 2023
Tallinn, Estonia kontserdisaal
Estonian National Men's Choir - "Gavin Bryars at 80"
Estonian National Men’s Choir – Pärnu
February 11, 2023
Pärnu, Estonia
Estonian National Men's Choir "Gavin Bryars at 80"
‘Qui Parle Ombre’
January 23, 2023
Théatre Municipal de Rezé, France (organisation La Soufflerie)
Midget! Performance
Around “In Là”
January 14, 2023
Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
Live performance with installation
LPO – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
January 11, 2023
St John's Church,7Waterloo, 3 Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8TY
Performance of original version of Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Massimo Bartolini: Hagoromo
September 15, 2022
Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
Opening of exhibition by Massimo Bartolini
Singer Pur Music Days
August 5, 2022
Adlersberg near Regensburg, Germany
Singer Pur's three-day festival
Dartington Summer Music School
July 23, 2022
Dartington, Totnes TQ9 6EA
Week-long music course related to early music
Tribute to Philip Jeck
June 24, 2022
7pm Iklectik, Old Paradise Yard 20 Carlisle Lane London SE1 7LG
Solo performance in memory of Philip Jeck
Superspectives Lyon
June 19, 2022
8:30pm, Maison de Lorette 42, Montée Saint-Barthélémy, 69005, Lyon
Outdoor concert
Wittgenstein Fragments
June 17, 2022
8pm, St. Nicholas Church of Ireland Church St, Townparks, Dundalk, Co. Louth, A91 WP52
New work for soprano, flute and string quartet
Jesus’ Blood…@Raft
June 12, 2022
4pm - Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD
Performance of Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Wedding in Spain
June 4, 2022
Cuerres, Asturias
Wedding of Marco and Joana
Piano City Milano
May 22, 2022
Ippodromo Snai San Siro, Piazzale dello Sport 16, Milano
Solo piano concert, 10:30am
Fuse Art Camp – Music
May 17, 2022
Fuse Art Camp, Aulus-les-Bains
Teaching and working with musicians
‘QUI PARLE OMBRE’
May 14, 2022
Opera de Lyon, Opera Underground, 1 Place de la Comédie, 69001 Lyon, France
Live Performance of Mocke, arranged by Gavin Bryars
f r a g m e n t s : The Waste Land 2022 Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
April 10, 2022
St. Katherine Cree Church, 86 Leadenhall St, London EC3A 3BP
Two performances of Jesus' Blood in historic London church
Addison Singers: On Photography
March 26, 2022
7:30pm St Peter's Church, Southfield Road, London W4 1BB
Addison Singers' Spring Concert
Viola Concerto at Sonica, Glasgow
March 12, 2022
7pm Tramway, Glasgow
UK Premiere of Viola Concerto as part of Cryptic's Sonica Festival, Glasgow
Billy the Kid/Jesus’ Blood
November 18, 2021
20:00, Opéra de Lyon, 1 Place de la Comédie, 69001 LYON
GB opera, plus Jesus' Blood
Gavin Bryars Ensemble – Opera North
November 10, 2021
Howard Assembly Room, Opera North, 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NU
Gavin Bryars Ensemble at Opera North
Memorial Service for those who died homeless
November 4, 2021
11am, St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, London WC2N 4JJ
Service/vigil for those who have died homeless
Cambridge Summer Music Festival
July 20, 2021
Cambridge Summer Music Festival, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Gavin Bryars Ensemble Concert
GB Ensemble in Hitchin – CANCELLED
July 4, 2021
5pm, Hitchin Schools Museum, 41-42 Queen St, Hitchin SG4 9TS
Gavin Bryars Ensemble concert
Dark Mofo Concert 2
June 18, 2021
Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, Tasmania
Orchestral Concert 2
Dark Mofo Concert 1
June 17, 2021
Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, Tasmania
Orchestral Concert 1, featuring premiere of new viola concerto
Above Water
April 30, 2021
Online
Release of performance online at 12:30
Gavin Bryars: en paroles, en musique
December 2, 2020
Publication of book by Jean-Louis Tallon
Memorial service for those who died homeless – POSTPONED
November 5, 2020
St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, London WC2N 4JJ
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet at annual memorial service
Gavin Bryars