Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 8 January 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 21 January.

Join PortaBanda on a musical journey through outer space. As part of our Imagine Series, this concert is for neurodivergent people and all who would enjoy a gently immersive, multi-sensory concert experience: including dimmed blue lighting and projected images of the cosmos behind the musicians onstage.

PortaBanda is a handpan duo formed of acclaimed artists Rosie Bergonzi and Amy Naylor. Working together since 2022, they released their debut EP in 2023 and an album in 2024 following a world tour. Between them, the duo have 20+ years of shared teaching and performing experience and with Rosie’s grounding in classical percussion, and Amy’s upbringing in the British folk scene, they bring a unique and varied sound to the world of handpan.

The handpan (a steel drum like instrument, played gently with the hands) was first created in Switzerland in the year 2000, and is still growing as an art form. Rosie and Amy are pioneers of the instrument, being amongst the first musicians to play handpan in orchestras, pop music, as well as bringing the instrument to hospitals, choirs, festivals and more. Their chemistry is heart-warming, and with two of the widest smiles on the handpan scene, their music will leave you feeling inspired.