London Symphony Orchestra Announces Tangram for LSO St Luke's 2026/29 Programme
Tangram renews its Associate Artist partnership with LSO St Luke’s
Tangram’s Nature Echo at LSO St Luke’s in 2025
We’re delighted to share that Tangram will continue as an Associate Artist at LSO St Luke’s for another three years, from 2026 to 2029, renewing a partnership that began in 2023.
Over the past three years, LSO St Luke’s has become an important part of Tangram’s artistic journey: a place where we have been able to experiment, take risks and develop work on an increasingly ambitious scale. This renewed partnership gives us the opportunity to build on that foundation, deepen the work we have begun together, and look ahead to what the next three years might make possible.
The relationship itself goes back even further. Tangram’s co-directors Alex Ho and Rockey Sun Keting first developed their relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra as composers on the LSO Soundhub Scheme. In the years since, Tangram has grown from a group of artists brought together by a shared curiosity into a collective creating increasingly ambitious multidisciplinary work across music, theatre, visual art, movement, installation and performance.
As Associate Artists, we will continue to work closely with the LSO St Luke’s team to develop and present new work, making use of the venue’s production possibilities while continuing to explore what a contemporary music performance can be.
For us, this partnership is about more than having a home for concerts. It gives us something increasingly precious: time and space to develop ideas over the long term.
Tangram has always been interested in the places where forms, cultures and disciplines meet. Our projects have brought contemporary classical music into conversation with Chinese opera and sword dance, film, poetry, live painting, installation and audience participation. Sometimes our instruments have included stones, ice blocks and plastic bags. At other times, the starting point has been a thousand-year-old poem.
What connects these projects is a belief that music can be the beginning of a much larger artistic world.
Our most recent project at LSO St Luke’s was Chronicle 时·录, created with vocal ensemble SANSARA and premiered in August 2026.
Drawing on the words of six women poets across a millennium of Chinese history, Chronicle brought together twelve voices, live electronics, text, movement and a vast fabric gradually transformed through charcoal and water. The work explored how individual voices survive across time, and how histories can be carried through bodies, sound and collective memory.
It also offered a glimpse of where we hope to go next: work that grows beyond the conventional concert format, created collaboratively and given the technical and artistic space to become something larger.
We’re excited to continue this journey as part of LSO St Luke’s wider family of artistic partners, alongside artists and organisations whose practices expand ideas of what music-making can be.
Over the next three years, we want to use this partnership as a laboratory: developing new productions, deepening existing work, bringing together artists who might not ordinarily find themselves in the same room, and creating new encounters between contemporary music and the wider world.
Three years behind us. Three more ahead.
We can’t wait to see what we make next.
Tangram’s appointment forms part of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Partners programme at LSO St Luke’s. Read the full announcement on the LSO website.