Event type: Concert

Hejira is an outstanding 7-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late ‘70s. 

Having released the albums The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter and Mingus, Joni then toured briefly with a band formed from the crème de la crème of contemporaneous musicians (Metheny, Mays, Brecker, Pastorius and Alias). The tour was recorded, producing the much-lauded live album, Shadows And Light; it is from this album that the band Hejira is drawing the body of its repertoire. 

Comprising highly experienced, world class musicians, this band is fronted by the brilliant Hattie Whitehead who not only has – in her own way – assimilated the poise, power and beauty of Joni’s vocals, but also plays guitar with Joni’s stylistic mannerisms. Expect an evening of the great songs from Mitchell’s back catalogue, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Help Me’, ‘A Case Of You’, ’Song For Sharon’, ‘Free Man in Paris’ and more.

Part of the Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert Series

More tickets for this concert will be released on Wednesday 7 October (four weeks before the concert). If it is currently showing as sold out, please check back on this page then. 

The Music, Technology and Interaction (MTI) research centre presents an experimental performance at The Tung Auditorium. 

Bringing together artists and researchers from across music, creative technologies, and digital media, the concert explores how performers and technologies interact in contemporary creative practice. Featuring works and performances by MTI members, the programme reflects the centre’s practice-based ethos through improvisation, audiovisual experimentation, live electronics, installations, and interdisciplinary collaboration.—-The Tung Auditorium Lunchtime Concert Series is supported by Yoko Ono Lennon via Spirit Foundations

Leopold Mozart thought that Parisian symphonies were “noisy” but in Mozart’s hands the style combines vigour with stirring tuttis and an exciting active bass line, starting the LMO’s new season at The Tung with a bang.  

Scottish composer Thea Musgrave (b.1928), wrote her orchestral work The Seasons based on paintings spanning five centuries, using the images as a metaphor for the cycles in the life of man,  creating an inventive and varied soundscape.

The concert finishes with Beethoven’s epic Violin Concerto.  After an inauspicious première it was later described on its revival by Joachim as the “greatest” German violin concerto and has remained an audience favourite ever since.

There will be a free pre-concert talk starting at 6.45pm that all ticket holders are invited to attend.

Promoted by Liverpool Mozart Orchestra

Part of the Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert Series

More tickets for this concert will be released on Wednesday 30 September (four weeks before the concert). If it is currently showing as sold out, please check back on this page then. 

Workshop 11am-12pm, no additional ticket required.

Join Ruth K Minton in a return to the Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert Series in a programme that will explore the colours of the piano through repertoire including Florence Price’s Three Roses, Chopin’s Barcarolle, and Gershwin’s Three Preludes. 

This half term concert, open to children and families, introduces the next generation to the joys and beauty of the piano as well as the concert experience. 

Come along in the morning from 11am for a fun and interactive pre-concert workshop about the piano, its history and colours, as well as learning about music and concerts. 

(Please note that under 10’s are not permitted to sit on the balconies (rows AA and BB).—-

The Tung Auditorium Lunchtime Concert Series is supported by Yoko Ono Lennon via Spirit Foundations

Soulful vocals, shimmering kora melodies and complex rhythmic Malian guitar in this special collaboration.

An innovative and refreshing approach to creativity that will take listeners and audiences on a journey through West Africa, grounded with traditions full of joyful melodic vibes in a setting celebrating friendship and culture. Manding Melody features Mali’s redoubtable troubadour and guitarist Habib Koite and the charismatic Gambian kora maestro and singer Sura Susso, presenting their newly recorded intergenerational, cross-cultural project which celebrates the powerful ‘griot’ narratives of traditional Manding folk tales and stories, told through modern musical styles. 

West Africa’s griots (in Mandinka language known as Jeli) are traditional storytellers, poets, historians, musicians, and praise singers. They maintain and share traditions, cultural heritage, values and history. They originated in the 13th century within the Mande Empire of Mali. Since then, the oral tradition has been handed down through specific Manding griot families (in Mali, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea) of which both Sura and Habib were born into. Traditional instruments used by griots include the kora, balafon and ngoni. Manding Melody highlights some of these instruments, intertwined with contemporary musical instruments and styles. The result is a blend that refreshes and revives ancient stories and musical traditions.

Produced by African Night Fever, Manding Melody is on tour throughout England this October.

Presented in partnership with Chanya Culture and Africa Oyé 

Inspired by one of the earliest texts of Chinese philosophy, Divine Intimacies explores how nearly a thousand years of musical thought can be translated into contemporary sound.

During the performance, visualisations of the I-Ching are generated in real time. These are based on shifting combinations of Yin and Yang that guide a series of structured improvisations between the musicians, shaping the music as it unfolds and allowing each performance to take a different path. Music by Kaija Saariaho, John Cage, and J.S. Bach appears alongside a medieval chant by Hildegard von Bingen, ancient Chinese ritual drumming, and works by Yang Yong and Toshio Hosokawa. Although separated by time, geography, and musical language, these works share a sensitivity to resonance, stillness, and the subtle forces that shape the natural world.

The musicians will be surrounded by a responsive LED installation created by artist Ke Peng, with visuals by Chang Meng. Light shifts in colour and pattern across the performance, forming a changing visual landscape around the musicians. 

Tangram is an artist collective specialising in multidisciplinary and cross-cultural productions. They are Associate Artists with the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke’s, where they have been praised for their “highly imaginative presentations” (I CARE IF YOU LISTEN), “deep-rooted originality” (Morning Star), “powerfully theatrical performance” (TEMPO), and “intoxicating overall mood of poetry, restraint and elegance” (The Stage).”

Part of the Yoko Ono Lennon Lunchtime Concert SeriesMore tickets for this concert will be released on Wednesday 23 September (four weeks before the concert). If it is currently showing as sold out, please check back on this page then. 

Hank Bee is the solo project of Liverpool-based, Northumbrian musician Hannah Brown. Drawing from the folk and country traditions of the north-east while embracing the intensity of alternative rock, her music offers lyrical candour wrapped in vivid guitar-led arrangements. Performing alongside her band, their live shows have become a local staple, blending reflective songwriting with epic, emotive performances. 

Featured on the likes of BBC6 Music, KEXP, and X Radio and long-listed for Greenman Rising 2026, Hank Bee is one of the UKs most promising emerging artists. Originally from Morpeth, Northumberland, Brown moved to Liverpool in 2016 and has become a familiar face in its music scene. Her writing is shaped by place, identity, and a fascination with the beauty and drudgery of the everyday.

Celebrating over 40 years as a live performer, Eddi Reader has effortlessly developed into one of popular music’s most thrilling and affecting performers. What sets Eddi apart is the depth and quality of the emotional performance and ability to not only move the listener, but connect her experience to that of her audience. No two performances are ever the same.

Though first brought into the limelight as front woman for Fairground Attraction, who’s #1 single, Perfect and parent album, First of a Million Kisses, both topped the charts in the U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, it was Eddi’s subsequent solo albums that signalled her ability to assimilate different musical styles and make them very much her own. Notably, The Songs of Robert Burns (2003) is a timeless interpretation showcasing the poems of Scotland’s national bard and gained her honorary degrees from Strathclyde University, Caledonia University, Stirling University, Edinburgh University and Paisley University as well as an MBE for outstanding contributions to the Arts.

With her work in song, from the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi Reader extinguishes the preordained boundaries of genre, bringing joyous life to all forms. Her rare blend of meltingly true vocals and towering romanticism combine with an astute and pragmatic nature to make her a unique and powerful figure in contemporary music. With 10 critically acclaimed solo albums, and awards in tow, Eddi continues to delight audiences worldwide. The past few years have proved to be some of her busiest yet, playing sell out shows as part of her ‘40 Years Live Tour’ in addition to appearing as special guest with the Jools Holland’s Rhythm & Blues Orchestra for an extensive UK tour.

Eddi has also explored the acting profession, through her acclaimed performances as Jolene Jowett in John Byrnes Your Cheatin Heart (BBC Scotland production starring Tilda Swinton). She also appeared as a 1937 jazz singer in Richard Linklaters movie: Orson And Me, starring Zac Ephron and in her contribution as Joy 3 in Michael Boyd’s production of Janice Galloway’s The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, (Radio Four and a Tron theatre production also starring Siobhan Redmond and Jenny Black).

With Support from Miwa Nagato-Apthorp.