DEBUT SOUNDS

Debut Sounds is an annual celebration of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s New Talent programmes: LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts. This year we have been delighted to work with LPO Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean as Composer Mentor, supporting the five Young Composers in seminars and workshops to develop their new pieces.

For this season’s brief, the composers were invited to create music inspired by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The sheer scope of the crisis and its myriad accompanying implications brings such a paradigm shift in behaviours, expectations and realities that it is too major an occurrence to ignore and, as such, demands a rich variety of artistic responses.

Tonight, an ensemble of Foyle Future Firsts and members of the LPO, conducted by Brett Dean, present these five world premieres.

Visit lpo.org.uk/youngcomposers to find out more about tonight’s composers, and check out our YouTube channel to watch short films of each of them discussing and rehearsing their new pieces: youtube.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra

The 2020/21 LPO Young Composers Programme is generously supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the RVW Trust, The Leche Trust and the Garrick Charitable Trust. The 2020/21 Foyle Future Firsts Development Programme is generously funded by the Foyle Foundation with additional support from the Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust and the Fidelio Charitable Trust.