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Leon Bosch
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Date
Sat 27 Jun 2026, 7.30pm
Tickets
£40 £37 £33 £27 £18
Duration

This concert is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes in duration, including an interval

Availability

Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket

Important Information

Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.

General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 27 January 2026.

Artists

  • Leon Boschdouble bass, conductor
  • Ubuntu Ensemble

    Programme

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    Overview

    Freedom Songs: A day of concerts dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising

    An evening of orchestral music by South African composers highlighting Shane Woodborne’s Red Ink concerto for double bass and string orchestra (2019). Commissioned by the Matseer Diabelli Sommer festival Red Ink is dedicated to the bassist Leon Bosch and serves as a musical memorial to the Soweto Uprising of 1976 in South Africa, an event that marked a turning point in the fight against apartheid but which came at a devastating human cost.

    With an introduction by Eugene Skeef, composer, poet and activist.

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