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
| 4 April 2026 | 2:00 pm | London, United Kingdom | Royal Albert Hall |
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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| 4 April 2026 | 7:30 pm | London, United Kingdom | Royal Albert Hall |
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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| 5 April 2026 | 1:00 pm | London, United Kingdom | Royal Albert Hall |
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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| 5 April 2026 | 6:30 pm | London, United Kingdom | Royal Albert Hall |
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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| 18 April 2026 | 7:30 pm | Lucerne, Switzerland | KKL Luzern |
City Light Symphony Orchestra Roger Sayer organ Matt Dunkley conductor |
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| 19 April 2026 | 5:30 pm | Lucerne, Switzerland | KKL Luzern |
City Light Symphony Orchestra Roger Sayer organ Matt Dunkley conductor |
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| 25 April 2026 | 8:00 pm | Brussels, Belgium | Forest National |
Philzuid Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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| 26 April 2026 | 2:00 pm | Brussels, Belgium | Forest National |
Philzuid Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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| 20 November 2026 | 8:00 pm | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Rotterdam Ahoy, RTM Stage |
Philzuid Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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| 21 November 2026 | 8:00 pm | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Rotterdam Ahoy, RTM Stage |
Philzuid Roger Sayer organ Ben Palmer conductor |
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Additional Performances to follow
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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.
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.
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 and Pirmin Zängerle
Executive Producers:
Tara Finegan and Becca Nelson
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