The Game Music Festival returns to London next year with individual orchestral concerts for the music from Diablo, Hades 1 and 2, Persona 3-5, and composer Hitoshi Sakimoto, who wrote the music for Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy 12 (among many other games).
The concerts take place in a couple of locations – the Royal Festival Hall and Fairfield Halls – and will be spread throughout June 2026. The precise running order is as follows:
- 6th June – The Infernal Symphony featuring music from the Diablo franchise (Royal Festival Hall)
- 13th June – The Colors of Harmony: Hitoshi Sakimoto 40th Anniversary Celebration (Fairfield Halls)
- 19th June – An evening with Troy Baker & Austin Wintory (Fairfield Halls)
- 27th June – Ballads of the Underworld featuring music from Hades & Hades II (Royal Festival Hall)
- 27th June – Persona Grooves featuring music from Persona 3, 4, 5 (Royal Festival Hall)
Tickets for a few of the concerts are live already. The Diablo tickets start from £57, which is a good gauge for what the other Royal Festival Hall concerts will cost, though they aren’t on sale yet; and the two Fairfield Halls concerts have tickets from £55.
I went to the Game Music Festival’s unforgettable Baldur’s Gate 3 orchestral concert last year and enjoyed it immensely. A full and sumptuous Philharmonia Orchestra brought Borislav Slavov’s score to life with passion, and Slavov made a teary appearance on the stage to thank players for their support. Also in the audience were numerous members of the Larian development team and actors from the Baldur’s Gate 3 cast, including Raphael actor Andrew Wincott, who took to the stage during an encore to perform the character’s iconic ‘Mortal Lives’ boss fight song. The audience – which more resembled a raucous crowd at this point – went wild. It was electrifying.
Earlier that day there had also been a rendition of music from The Last of Us by composer and performer Gustavo Santaolalla, which our Dom watched and was greatly moved by. These concerts were very good last year, then, so there’s every chance this new batch will be too.
