About Interstellar Live
Experience Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award-winning sci-fi epic back on the big screen, with Hans Zimmer’s revelatory score performed live by symphony orchestra and organ!
The movie starts with a bleak prospect: Earth’s resources are running out, air pollution is toxic. In a few years, Earth will be uninhabitable for humans. Also affected by these threatening developments is former NASA astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), who is struggling to support his family as a farmer and single parent. As the situation worsens, NASA contacts Cooper again and asks him to lead the most important mission in human history: travelling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Experience Interstellar in its 170-minute-long theatrical version, accompanied live by the soundtrack that Hans Zimmer has cited as the best work of his career. Performed by a symphony orchestra and by highly acclaimed organist Roger Sayer, who was personally selected by Zimmer to record the organ elements of the original soundtrack.
With Interstellar released in 2014, Christopher Nolan created a breathtaking, action-packed and at the same time poetic science fiction epic – a movie hailed by the press as one of the best films of the early 21st Century. The powerful images of the mysterious and awe-inspiring universe and the pre-apocalyptic conditions on Earth are enhanced by Hans Zimmer’s mesmerizing, Academy Award-nominated score.
Upcoming concerts
Dates & Tickets
- Upcoming
- Past concerts
| 17 / 18 September 2026 | Tokyo, Japan | Hitomi Memorial Hall |
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Andrews organ Matt Dunkley conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 25 September 2026 | Kobe, Japan | Kokusai Hall |
Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Andrews organ Matt Dunkley conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 26 September 2026 | Tokyo, Japan | Tokyo International Forum |
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Andrews organ Matt Dunkley conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 26 September 2026 | Helsinki, Finland | Musiikkitalo |
Vantaan Viihdeorkesteri Roger Sayer organ Martin Gellner conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 11 October 2026 | Seoul, South Korea | Grand Peace Hall |
NOA Orchestra Charles Andrews organ Martin Gellner conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 23 / 24 / 25 October 2026 | Kansas City, USA | Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts |
Kansas City Symphony Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 28 October 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | UOB Live |
Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Andrews organ Martin Gellner conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 31 October 2026 | Singapore, Singapore | The Star Theatre |
Metropolitan Festival Orchestra Charles Andrews organ Martin Gellner conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 20 / 21 November 2026 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Rotterdam Ahoy |
Philzuid Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
Details & Tickets |
| 29 December 2026 | Lucerne, Switzerland | KKL Luzern |
City Light Symphony Orchestra Roger Sayer organ Matt Dunkley conductor |
Details & Tickets |
Additional Performances to follow
Photo Gallery
The Artists of Interstellar Live
Roger Sayer
Organ soloist
Roger Sayer is an internationally renowned organist and choir director who is at the forefront of British choral and organ music. A former organ student at St Paul’s Cathedral, Sayer was a prize winner at the 1989 St Albans International Organ Competition and won all organ prizes at the Royal College of Music.
From 2013 to 2023, he was organist and music director at Temple Church. In 2014, he recorded the organ solos for Hans Zimmer’s Oscar-nominated film score for Interstellar. In 2015, Sayer played the organ solos during the live performance of the film at the renowned Royal Albert Hall in London, where composer Hans Zimmer was also present.
In 1995, Roger Sayer founded the Rochester Cathedral Girls’ Choir. He has an impressive portfolio of radio appearances, concerts and recordings. Sayer has also worked with jazz saxophonist Mark Lockheart, composer John Ashton Thomas and regularly with the London Symphony Chorus.
Charles Andrews
Organ soloist
Charles Andrews is Organist of the Temple Church and professor of organ and Organ co-ordinator at the Royal College of Music, London. Charles studied at the RCM with the aid of a Douglas & Kyra Downie Award, achieving the Harold Darke Memorial Prize for organ.
Before joining the Temple Church, Charles was Associate Director of Music at All Saints, Margaret Street, one of London’s most prestigious churches, from 2011–2016. Recently, four live performances with Temple Church Choir have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, including the first performance of “Carmina tempore viri” by Kenneth Hesketh (nominated for an Ivor Novello Award) in 2021.
Engagements for 2026 include a recital at St Bavo, Haarlem in the Orgelstad concert series. A solo recital of British music, “Old Hundredth”, recorded at the Temple Church, was released in October 2025.
Matt Dunkley
Conductor
Matt Dunkley is one of the world’s leading film orchestrators, arrangers and conductors, who has also developed a successful parallel career as a talented film, TV and theatre composer. He studied trumpet and piano at the London College of Music and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2023.
Dunkley has worked on over 200 films, including Barbie (2023), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), James Bond – No Time to Die (2021), Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight (2008), Love Actually (2003) and Moulin Rouge (2001). He is also one of the musical directors and conductors of the international arena tours of “The World of Hans Zimmer” and has worked with pop greats such as Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and U2.
As a conductor, he has led all the leading British orchestras and has also conducted international ensembles such as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl.
Martin Gellner
Conductor
Martin Gellner is an Austrian composer, conductor, and music producer based in Vienna. His career has spanned pop, opera, ballet, film, and concert productions.
Trained at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Martin has collaborated with leading artists and orchestras across Europe, Asia, and North America.
He has arranged the “Hans Zimmer Live” and “The World of Hans Zimmer” arena tours and serves as Music Director, conductor, and arranger for Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience. In 2026, Martin was appointed composer of the official Eurovision Song Contest theme music and conductor for the Opening Ceremony in Vienna.
His productions have earned multiple Gold Records and contributed to Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-shortlisted films.
Ben Palmer
Conductor
Ben Palmer is one of the world’s leading film-with-orchestra and film music conductors, in demand in concert halls and studios around the globe. Acclaimed by Hans Zimmer as “a masterclass in conducting”, he has a repertoire of more than 60 films, spanning the entire history of film, from silent movies of the 1920s to blockbusters of the present day.
He works regularly with such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the five BBC Orchestras. Other guest conducting engagements include the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, and San Francisco Symphony.
Ben Palmer has recorded classical albums for Sony and Decca, as well as media projects for clients including Hans Zimmer, Studiocanal and 20th Century Fox.
Production Credits
Interstellar Live is produced by
Cutting Edge Group Presents
in partnership with
City Light Concerts
Producers:
Philip Moross, Tommy Pearson and Pirmin Zängerle
Executive Producers:
Tara Finegan and Becca Nelson
Technical Director:
Tommy Pearson
Sales Manager:
Michael Freiburg
Press Contact:
Basil Böhni
Librarian:
Vera Gros
Score Preparation for live performance:
Tommy Pearson
Score Consultant:
Gavin Greenaway
Music Preparation:
Leo Nicholson
Conductor Screen Production:
Tommy Pearson and Simon Hendry
Technical Preparation:
James Morris