80 free tickets for first-time bookers

To celebrate our 80th birthday, we’re giving away 80 tickets for every concert in our 2025/26 London season to first-time bookers. If you’ve never booked for a Philharmonia concert before, that means you.  

How to claim your free ticket:

  1. Create an account
    Click Account (top right) and set up your login.
  2. Choose your concert
    Pick any London season concert still listed on this page (if the one you’re looking for is gone, the 80 free tickets are already claimed).
  3. Select your free seat
    Choose one or two seats in the pink price band of the Rear Stalls (or pink wheelchair spaces).*
  4. Go to checkout
    Your free tickets will automatically show as £0. Any extra tickets or concerts will be charged at the usual price.
  5. Complete your booking
    Finish checkout and choose e-tickets or postage. We’ll email you details of Philharmonia Social, where you can meet other first-time attenders and chat to players and staff before the concert.

*For the 1 March Queen Elizabeth Hall concert, choose any blue seat or blue wheelchair space.
*For Heavy Metal Orchestrated on 22 April, choose a green seat in the rear stalls.

We’re looking forward to sharing the incredible experience of hearing a live orchestra with you – welcome to the Philharmonia!  

Audience in the stalls at Royal Festival Hall
Donald Runnicles conducting
Concert

Runnicles conducts Bruckner 8

Donald Runnicles – conductor  

  • Bruckner Symphony No. 8
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Vikingur Ólafsson
Concert

Esa-Pekka Salonen and Víkingur Ólafsson

Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor
Víkingur Ólafsson – piano

  • Adams Piano Concerto, 'After the Fall' (London premiere, Philharmonia co-commission)
  • Ravel Daphnis and Chloé (complete ballet score)
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Vikingur Ólafsson
Concert

Víkingur Ólafsson celebrates Kurtág at 100

Elena Schwarz – conductor 
Víkingur Ólafsson – piano  
István Várdai – cello 

  • Kurtág Hommage à J. S. B.
  • Kurtág Double Concerto, Op. 27 No. 2
  • Schumann Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op. 60
  • Kurtág Hommage à R. Sch.
  • Simpson Hommage à Kurtág
  • Kurtág ...quasi una fantasia... Op. 27, No. 1
  • Bach Music for solo cello and solo piano
Queen Elizabeth Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Mark van de Wiel with Santtu-Matias Rouvali on stage at the Royal Festival Hall
Concert

Santtu conducts Bernstein, Copland and Gershwin

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Mark van de Wiel – clarinet
Frank Dupree – piano

  • Bernstein On the Waterfront Suite
  • Dove Clarinet Concerto, 'Rainbow' (World premiere, commissioned by Mark van de Wiel and the Philharmonia)
  • Copland Clarinet Concerto
  • Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Alisa Weilerstein
Concert

Marin Alsop and Alisa Weilerstein

Marin Alsop – conductor
Alisa Weilerstein – cello

  • Márquez Danzón No. 2
  • Ortiz Cello Concerto, 'Dzonot' (London premiere)
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Lisa Batiashvili playing the violin
Concert

Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Lisa Batiashvili – violin

  • Bacewicz Divertimento
  • Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
  • Walton Symphony No. 1
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Denis Kozukhin standing next to a piano
Concert

Denis Kozhukhin plays Beethoven

Ruth Reinhardt – conductor
Denis Kozhukhin – piano

  • Ortiz Tzam (UK premiere)
  • Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor'
  • Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, 'Scottish'
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Bruce Liu
Concert

Bruce Liu plays Ravel

Ryan Bancroft – conductor
Bruce Liu – piano

  • Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
  • Ravel Piano Concerto in G
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Nicola Benedetti holding violin and looking towards the side, standing in a corridor
Concert

Nicola Benedetti plays Elgar

Cristian Măcelaru conductor  
Nicola Benedetti – violin  

  • Elgar Violin Concerto
  • Chaminade Callirhoë Suite
  • Debussy La Mer
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Kian Soltani holding a cello
Concert

Kavakos conducts Dvořák, Schumann & Brahms

Leonidas Kavakos – conductor
Kian Soltani – cello

  • Dvořák Vanda Overture
  • Schumann Cello Concerto
  • Brahms Symphony No. 1
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Benjamin Grosvenor standing by a piano
Concert

Santtu conducts a Strauss extravaganza

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor – piano

  • Strauss Don Juan
  • Strauss Burleske
  • Strauss Symphonia Domestica
  • Strauss Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (first sequence)
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.