London Philharmonic Orchestra 11 Feb 2017 concert programme by London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Our 2017 concerts are part of

Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI supported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation Principal Guest Conductor ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA Leader pieter schoeman supported by Neil Westreich Composer in Residence magnus lindberg Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM

Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Saturday 11 February 2017 | 7.30pm

Philip Glass The Light (24’) Aaron Jay Kernis Flute Concerto (UK premiere) (30’) Interval (20’) Ives The Unanswered Question (6’) John Adams Doctor Atomic Symphony (24’)

Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Marina Piccinini flute

The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Contents 2 Welcome LPO 2017/18 season 3 On stage tonight 4 Belief and Beyond Belief 6 About the Orchestra 7 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 8 Andrés Orozco-Estrada 9 Marina Piccinini 10 Programme notes 14 Recommended recordings New on the LPO Label 15 Next concerts 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Supporters 20 LPO administration

Welcome

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LPO 2017/18 season

The 2017/18 LPO season is now on sale! Browse and book online at lpo.org.uk or call 020 7840 4200 to request a season brochure by post. You can also book via the LPO Box Office by phone on 020 7840 4242. Highlights of the new season include: Belief and Beyond Belief 2017

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Continuing our ambitious festival in partnership with Southbank Centre, our concerts from September to December examine the themes of Judgement, War and Peace, and Rituals and Seasons. Highlights include: • Vladimir Jurowski explores the theme of ‘Judgement’ with Enescu’s powerful drama Oedipe. • Andrés Orozco-Estrada showcases Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony as part of ‘War and Peace’. • The Orchestra and Jurowski give the long-awaited UK premiere of An Autumn Symphony, Joseph Marx’s multicoloured Romantic masterpiece. Changing Faces: Stravinsky’s Journey 2018 Under the Artistic Directorship of Vladimir Jurowski, we chronologically chart the life of Stravinsky. Highlights include: • Three major ballet scores written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes – The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. • Vasily Petrenko conducts the Pulcinella Suite.

A few points to note for your comfort and enjoyment: PHOTOGRAPHY is not allowed in the auditorium. LATECOMERS will only be admitted to the auditorium if there is a suitable break in the performance.

• Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, performed alongside his landmark choral masterpiece Symphony of Psalms. A Golden Gala Evening

RECORDING is not permitted in the auditorium without the prior consent of Southbank Centre. Southbank Centre reserves the right to confiscate video or sound equipment and hold it in safekeeping until the performance has ended.

Vladimir Jurowski and the Orchestra celebrate ten years of this extraordinary partnership with a semi-staged gala performance of Wagner’s Das Rheingold.

MOBILES, PAGERS AND WATCHES should be switched off before the performance begins.

The legendary violinist gives a rare performance of Penderecki’s Violin Concerto No. 2 (Metamorphosen).

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Anne-Sophie Mutter returns

On stage tonight

First Violins Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich

Kevin Lin Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Ilyoung Chae Chair supported by the Candide Trust

Ji-Hyun Lee

Susanne Martens Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Daniel Cornford Naomi Holt Isabel Pereira Stanislav Popov Martin Fenn

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner Martin Höhmann Robert Pool Sarah Streatfeild Yang Zhang Tina Gruenberg Grace Lee Rebecca Shorrock Essi Kiiski Second Violins Tania Mazzetti Principal Jeongmin Kim Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens Rebecca Dinning Robin Wilson Marie Schreer Sioni Williams Harry Kerr Violas Cyrille Mercier Principal Robert Duncan Gregory Aronovich Katharine Leek

Cellos Kristina Blaumane Principal Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Pei-Jee Ng Co-Principal Francis Bucknall Santiago Carvalho† Chair co-supported by Molly & David Borthwick

David Lale Gregory Walmsley Elisabeth Wiklander Chair supported by Drs Oliver & Asha Foster

Sue Sutherley Susanna Riddell Tom Roff Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal George Peniston Laurence Lovelle Rodrigo Moro Martin Tom Walley Lowri Morgan Charlotte Kerbegian Laura Murphy Flutes Juliette Bausor Principal Sue Thomas* Sub-Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Stewart McIlwham* Piccolo Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Oboes Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling*

Piccolo Trumpet Paul Beniston* Trombones Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton

Cor Anglais Sue Böhling* Principal

David Whitehouse

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith Principal

Clarinets Thomas Watmough Principal Charys Green Paul Richards

Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal

E flat Clarinet Charys Green

Percussion Andrew Barclay* Principal

Bass Clarinet Paul Richards Principal

Chair supported by Andrew Davenport

Henry Baldwin Co-Principal Keith Millar James Bower

Bassoons Jonathan Davies Principal Gareth Newman Simon Estell*

Harps Rachel Masters Principal Lucy Haslar

Contrabassoon Simon Estell* Principal

Piano/Celeste Catherine Edwards

Horns David Pyatt* Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

John Ryan* Principal Chair supported by Laurence Watt

Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Christopher Evans Guest Principal Anne McAneney*

Mandolin Daniel Thomas

* Holds a professorial appointment in London † Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of Rio Branco Meet our members: lpo.org.uk/players

Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

David Hilton

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose player is not present at this concert: Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

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Belief and Beyond Belief An overview of 2017’s year-long festival, by Richard Bratby

Roman Catholic) it seems profoundly strange. But this is what Mozart thought, what he felt: what he believed. And his music speaks to us. There’s something irreducible there. As Theodor Adorno once put it, ‘When I hear great music, I believe that I know that what this music said cannot be untrue.’

n a glass case at Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg is a little wax doll. Its eyes look demurely downwards, it wears a crown four times the size of its head and it’s clad in what looks like an embroidered ballgown. This is the Loreto-Kindl (Loreto Child): a replica of an ivory model of the infant Christ housed in Salzburg’s Loreto Church. Believed to have miraculous properties, it was (and is) an object of pilgrimage. The Mozart family revered it. When, in Paris in 1764, the eight-year old Wolfgang fell sick, his father Leopold sent money back to Salzburg for a Mass to be said at the shrine of the Child. What are we to think of that today? When we hear the procession that opens Mozart’s Requiem and find our emotions responding to those sighing woodwinds, are we somehow feeling and reacting to the same impulse that once prompted Mozart to kneel before a wax doll? It’s a curious thing, the Loreto Child, and oddly touching. To 21st-century minds (and particularly if you’re not

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Which is why music has a central role – arguably the central role – in Southbank Centre’s year-long 2017 festival Belief and Beyond Belief: a cross-artform investigation of the great questions surrounding our experiences of life, death, religion and spirituality, and the role of religious belief in all its forms in the 21st century. Music, after all, is capable of articulating feelings and ideas that lie beyond words. That gives it a unique scope when dealing with a subject this vast, and this intangible. Belief, says LPO Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski, is ‘probably the most all-encompassing theme we could find.’ ‘We were looking for something that would concern all people in all times. And of course you can’t help but come to all those basic questions of life and death: why are we here, what is the purpose of human existence?’ These are questions that – while central to the world’s major religions – are also of urgent importance to those who don’t follow any one specific faith. ‘Spirituality, obviously, is not only about organised religion and faith. It’s about the intangible matters, the non-corporeal realm of human existence’ says Jurowski. ‘As the Dalai Lama put it recently, we can all exist without religion – but we cannot exist without spirituality.’ No question, though: Western classical music’s centuries-old relationship with organised JudeoChristian religion offers a magnificent starting point. Mozart’s Requiem forms part of the series [performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir on 25 March], as does Tallis’s Spem in Alium [8 April] and Haydn’s life-affirming oratorio The Creation [4 February] – expressions of belief, grounded in the certainties of a pre-Darwin age. In each of these masterpieces, contemplation of the divine actually intensifies the music’s humanity. Belief certainly enriches the experience of hearing these works today, but few would argue that they have nothing meaningful to say to an atheist or agnostic.

Still, as Jurowski explains, ‘I didn’t want us to limit ourselves to one period of time, one epoch. Working with a modern orchestra is like having a time machine at your disposal. You’re free to move in time and space within the duration of one concert.’ It’ll be thought-provoking but also enormous fun to travel in one evening [28 January] from the divinely ordered exuberance of Jean-Féry Rebel’s Les élémens (1737) to Milhaud’s La Création du monde (1923) and John Adams’s Harmonielehre (1985) – works that don’t so much celebrate an established universal order, as grab what they can find to hand and try to throw together a new one. It’s hard to feel that Also sprach Zarathustra – Richard Strauss’s explicitly post-Christian orchestral romp through Nietzsche [10 February] – sees the death of God as anything but a liberation. Wagner’s Parsifal [28 April; Act III excerpts], however, can be an altogether more troubling experience, as well as a transcendent one. And then there are the works that, in the sunset years of Western civilisation’s spiritual consensus, erect massive ramparts against the abyss. Gustav Mahler – a Jewish convert to Catholicism, and the first great composer to undergo analysis with Sigmund Freud – throws gigantic forces and every last ounce of creative muscle into his Eighth Symphony [8 April]. But what of Bruckner’s Ninth [22 March], designed by an unshakably devout composer as a final act of homage and praise ‘to my beloved God’? As his health failed, Bruckner prayed daily to be allowed time and strength to finish the Symphony. Neither was granted. And during the 20th century, art and belief have both tended to throw open questions rather than assert answers. Confronted with atrocities such as that commemorated in Martinů’s Memorial to Lidice [25 January], the silence that Charles Ives called The Unanswered Question [11 February] may be the only appropriate response. Yet even in atheist dictatorships, composers continued to seek meaning. ‘Shostakovich was never a believer’ says Jurowski. ‘He was afraid of death. He was convinced that with the end of human existence the human spirit also ceases to exist’. Somehow, though, in his fifteenth (and final) symphony [22 February] ‘he finds space in there for very loving music […] You are exposed to someone who has a thing or two to teach us about life.’ Edison Denisov’s Second Symphony [also 22 February], written during its composer’s terminal cancer, is even more

uncompromising. ‘He finds no consolation at the end of his journey. It was obviously an act of defiance.’ In a godless world, the very act of asserting religious belief becomes a radical act. In 1966, Krzysztof Penderecki’s Bach-inspired St Luke Passion [4 March] outraged Western modernists almost as much as it offended the authorities in communist Poland. The composer made its significance explicit: ‘The Passion is the suffering and death of Christ, but it is also the suffering and death at Auschwitz, the tragic experience of mankind in the middle of the 20th century’. Penderecki is as devoutly Roman Catholic as Mozart, but the St Luke Passion is designed for all listeners. Religion helps it tell its truths; but those truths are comprehensible even without belief. It’s why Jurowski has chosen to open Belief and Beyond Belief tonight not with a sacred work, but a semi-staged opera: a story of tyranny, freedom, courage and – supremely – human love: Beethoven’s Fidelio. ‘Fidelio celebrates what the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Bloch called “The Principle of Hope” – one of the cornerstones of the human spiritual existence’, says Jurowski. ‘Hope is what makes us human, what gives life meaning; hope – when lived actively – has the power to change the world. Fidelio connects and mediates between the religious and humanist approach to life, and thus appears to me to be a perfect start for a celebration of spirituality and the human spirit.’ If there’s any one motto for this whole, intensely rich and complex journey into music and belief, ‘Hope’ would probably be it. ‘We’re not going to turn Southbank Centre into a place of worship’, says Jurowski. ‘We’re not going to turn the concert hall into a temple. We just want to look at all these different pieces of music by different composers, which are all concerned with the same questions’. In other words, to do what music lets us do more intensely than any other art form – explore different ways of simply being human. Richard Bratby writes about music for The Spectator, Gramophone and the Birmingham Post. Watch the interview with Vladimir and browse the full festival: lpo.org.uk/belief

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Everything about this performance ... was perfect ... one of the best pieces of orchestral playing I have heard in quite a long time. Seen and Heard international, February 2015

Recognised today as one of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with a reputation as one of the UK’s most forwardlooking ensembles. As well as its performances in the concert hall, the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks, releases CDs on its own record label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities. The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932. It has since been headed by many of the world’s greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. Vladimir Jurowski is currently the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, appointed in 2007. Andrés Orozco-Estrada took up the position of Principal Guest Conductor in September 2015. Magnus Lindberg is the Orchestra’s current Composer in Residence. The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. Throughout 2016 the LPO joined many of the UK’s other leading cultural institutions in Shakespeare400, celebrating the Bard’s legacy 400

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years since his death. In 2017 we will collaborate with Southbank Centre on Belief and Beyond Belief: a year-long multi-artform festival. Other 2016/17 season highlights include the return of Osmo Vänskä to conduct the Sibelius symphonies alongside major British concertos by Britten, Elgar, Walton and Vaughan Williams; Jurowski’s continuation of his Mahler and Brucker symphony cycles; landmark contemporary works by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams and Gavin Bryars; and premieres of new works by Aaron Jay Kernis and the Orchestra’s Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg. Outside London, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra. Touring remains a large part of the Orchestra’s life: last season included visits to Mexico,

Pieter Schoeman leader

Spain, Germany, the Canary Islands and Russia; and tours in 2016/17 include New York, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Switzerland.

In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians through an energetic programme of activities for young people. Highlights include the BrightSparks schools’ concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts; the Young Composers Programme; and the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme for outstanding young players. Its work at the forefront of digital engagement has enabled the Orchestra to reach even more people worldwide: all its recordings are available to download from iTunes and, as well as regular concert streamings and a popular podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on social media. lpo.org.uk facebook.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra twitter.com/LPOrchestra youtube.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra instagram.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World. It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 90 releases available on CD and to download: recent additions include a disc of Stravinsky works with Vladimir Jurowski, Act 1 of Wagner’s Die Walküre with Klaus Tennstedt, and Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 with Kurt Masur.

Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. Born in South Africa, Pieter made his solo debut aged 10 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. Five years later he won the World Youth Concerto Competition in Michigan. Aged 17, he moved to the US to further his studies in Los Angeles and Dallas. In 1991 his talent was spotted by Pinchas Zukerman who, after several consultations, recommended that he move to New York to study with Sylvia Rosenberg. Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. At the invitation of Yannick Nézet-Séguin he has been part of the ‘Yannick and Friends’ chamber group, performing at festivals in Dortmund and Rheingau. Pieter has performed several times as a soloist with the LPO, and his live recording of Britten’s Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov was released on the Orchestra’s own label to great critical acclaim. He has also recorded numerous violin solos for film and television, and led the LPO in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 1995 Pieter became Co-Leader of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. Since then he has appeared frequently as Guest Leader with the Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon, Baltimore and BBC symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. In April 2016 he was Guest Leader with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for Kurt Masur’s memorial concert. He is a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Pieter’s chair in the London Philharmonic Orchestra is supported by Neil Westreich.

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Andrés Orozco-Estrada Principal Guest Conductor

In appointing Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the LPO has made an excellent choice.

Classical Source

Andrés Orozco-Estrada first worked with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2013, conducting a major tour of Germany. His impressive energy and musicianship, and the immediate rapport that formed between him and the players combined with such success that it led quickly to the announcement that he would take up the position of Principal Guest Conductor from September 2015. Born in Colombia and trained in Vienna, Andrés OrozcoEstrada is one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation. In 2014 he became Music Director of the Houston Symphony and Chief Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Andrés Orozco-Estrada first came to international attention in 2004 when he took over a concert with the Tonkünstler Orchestra Niederösterreich at the Vienna Musikverein, and was celebrated by the Viennese press as a ‘wonder from Vienna’. Numerous engagements with many international orchestras followed, and since then, Orozco-Estrada has developed a highly successful musical partnership with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, serving as Music Director from the 2009/10 season until 2015. Following his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in autumn 2010, Orozco-Estrada was hailed ‘a brilliant stand-in’ (Wiener Zeitung) for Esa-Pekka Salonen and celebrated as an ‘eminent talent’ (Die Presse). In November 2012 Orozco-Estrada stepped in once again at short notice, to replace Riccardo Muti with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein, proving to be a ‘standin worth his weight in gold’ (Kurier) and ‘an inspired master of communication’ (Der Standard).

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Orozco-Estrada now appears with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Santa Cecilia Orchestra Rome and Orchestre National de France. Recent successful debuts have included The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic orchestras. In the summer of 2014 he made his debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera conducting Don Giovanni with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and was immediately re-invited to conduct La traviata in 2017. In 2015 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival followed by a re-invitation for 2016 with Il templario. In April 2017 he will make his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in 1977 in Medellín, Colombia, Andrés OrozcoEstrada began his musical studies on the violin and had his first conducting lessons at the age of 15. In 1997 he moved to Vienna, where he studied at the renowned Vienna Music Academy and completed his degree with distinction by conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein. The emphasis of his artistic work lies in the Romantic repertoire and Viennese classics. At the same time, Andrés shows a keen interest in contemporary music and regularly performs premieres of music by Austrian composers as well as compositions of Spanish and South American origin. Andrés currently lives in Vienna.

Marina Piccinini flute

Marina Piccinini’s flute playing is very special, her lyrical phrasing cool, exquisitely shaped, and with underlying delicate sensuality.

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A daring artist with diverse musical interests, flautist Marina Piccinini is in demand worldwide as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. Internationally acclaimed for her interpretive skills, rich, expansive colours, technical command and elegant, compelling stage presence, she has been hailed by Gramophone as ‘the Heifetz of the flute’. Well-known for her commitment to new music and her history of first performances and commissions by some of today’s foremost living composers, as well as performances with orchestras worldwide, Marina Piccinini’s 2016/17 season includes engagements throughout the United States, Canada, Korea, Italy and the UK. As well as this evening’s UK premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’s Flute Concerto, other highlights include the world premiere of Kernis’s Air for flute and orchestra with the Korean Chamber Orchestra at Korea’s Seoul Arts Center. Other engagements include a North American tour with guitarist Meng Su, performances at Korea’s Gonjian Flute Festival, at the Marlboro and Aspen music festivals in the US, and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Marina returns to the UK next month to perform the Ibert Concerto with the Farnborough Symphony Orchestra.

and Town Hall; the Mozartsaal in Vienna’s Konzerthaus; and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Amongst the esteemed orchestras with which Marina Piccinini has appeared are the symphony orchestras of Boston, Saint Louis, Tokyo, Montreal and Toronto; the National Symphony Orchestra; the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. An active chamber musician, she is Resident Artist at the Marlboro Festival and has performed with the Tokyo, Takács and Brentano string quartets, toured with pianist Mitsuko Uchida’s acclaimed Pierrot Lunaire project, and is a founding member of Tre Voci. Marina Piccinini’s recordings can be heard on the Avie, Claves and ECM labels, and this season she records the Kernis Flute Concerto with conductor Leonard Slatkin for Naxos. Marina’s latest CD is of her own arrangements of the Paganini Caprices (Avie). Marina Piccinini received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School under legendary flautist Julius Baker, and also worked with flautists Aurèle Nicolet and Jeanne Baxtresser. Her popular Marina Piccinini International Masterclasses, a weeklong seminar, celebrates its 10th anniversary this June.

Recent performances of note include a celebrated US recital tour with pianist Andreas Haefliger, the world premieres of Kernis’s Flute Concerto with the Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Chautauqua Symphony orchestras, and a highly acclaimed tour with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, playing the Nielsen Flute Concerto under Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Other performances include Tokyo’s Casals and Suntory halls; the Seoul Arts Center; New York’s Weill Hall and Zankel Halls at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall

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Programme notes

Speedread Tonight we journey from the very beginnings of American art music to some of its most recent fruits. Charles Ives was, in a sense, where it all started: the first wholly and distinctively American composer to be recognised as such. Ives’s rampant imagination put him on a collision course with the American musical establishment of the early 20th century, so he pursued a career as an insurance broker. But Ives was a pioneer and a radical, anticipating numerous trends in 20th-century music. The Unanswered Question – which was performed at the re-opening of Royal Festival Hall after its two-year transformation in 2007 – blatantly exposes the existential fragility that lay behind much of Ives’s work. The most significant trend affecting opera and concert music in 20th-century America was minimalism – a style in which rhythm, harmony, volume and instrumentation remained consistent, inviting a different sort of listening from audiences.

Philip Glass

Philip Glass was a founding father of minimalism, combining those principles with the seamless flow of pulses he experienced in Indian music. A generation later, ‘post-minimalist’ John Adams loosened up the genre’s stringent rules while also breathing a new, almost Romantic warmth into its steady rhythms and cyclic patterns. His language has since expanded even further, though those elements still peer through his opera Doctor Atomic and the symphony that was created from it. And so to the here and now. The new millennium was heralded in America by Aaron Jay Kernis’s wild orchestral score New Era Dance, a piece of ‘maximal’ orchestral music that has since been performed throughout the world. Tonight we hear the first UK performance of Kernis’s Flute Concerto: half dark, half light, but wholly inspired by the ‘beauty and elegance’ of Marina Piccinini, who plays it.

The Light (1987)

born 1937

Philip Glass is a central, founding figure in musical minimalism, a school of composition that emerged in 1960s America and invited a different sort of listening from its audience by keeping rhythm, harmony, volume and instrumentation relatively consistent. Minimalist works are often based on repetition and the ‘simple’ exploration of patterns (even when that exploration has complex results). In 1960s New York, Glass studied and played with minimalism’s high-priest Steve Reich. After The Juilliard School in Manhattan, Glass took private lessons in 10 | London Philharmonic Orchestra

composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (she who taught composition to everyone from Stravinsky to Piazzolla). But for Glass, the true revelation came when he started to work with the sitar player Ravi Shankar, transcribing Indian music into Western notation. Glass saw that Indian musical structures were built using an additive process: single beats would be linked together to create long rhythmic cycles free from the ‘bar lines’ that organised Western musical rhythms. That technique became one of the backbones of Glass’s compositional style.

That style is firmly established now, through operas, symphonies, string quartets, film scores and other genres. It’s also extremely popular: Glass has sold more records than any other living composer and his appeal straddles the traditional gulf that separates classical and popular music. His works are characterised by their melodiousness, steady beat and simple harmonic progressions; rock music, Indian music, baroque music and other forms of ‘classical’ music are among its influences. Glass worked more and more with orchestral forces following his landmark early operas, and by the time he received a commission for an orchestral work from Case Western Reserve University in 1987, he was on the brink of writing his first symphony. The commission

Aaron Jay Kernis born 1960

Aaron Jay Kernis is the youngest of the four American composers we hear from tonight; he also became the youngest composer ever to receive a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Kernis shot to prominence in 1984 when the New York Philharmonic premiered his piece dream of the morning sky. Just over a decade later, the same orchestra introduced New Era Dance, an outlandish jamboree for huge orchestra and chorus that has become a modern classic. Kernis is most associated with the orchestral genre, and with music of combustible energy and sudden changeability. Among others, he studied with John Adams (who we hear from later). But Kernis could never be called a post-minimalist, both for the brazen complexity of many of his works and for the fact that his musical voice is more personal than ideological.

was for a piece to commemorate the centenary of the Michelson-Morley experiment that confirmed the uniform speed of light. Glass describes Michelson’s and Morley’s discoveries as ‘the final blow to the system of Newtonian physics that had dominated scientific thought until that moment.’ Glass’s piece, which contains many of his hallmark harmonic progressions and certainly the steady stream of pulses that came from Indian music, is built in two parts: a ‘slow, romantic’ introduction that leads to the main section, ‘a rapid, energetic movement which forms the balance of the music’. Glass goes on to describe the piece as ‘a portrait … not only of the two men, but also of that historical moment heralding the beginning of the modern scientific period.’

Flute Concerto (2015) (UK premiere) Marina Piccinini flute 1 Portrait 2 Pastorale–Barcarolle 3 Pavan 4 TaranTulla

In 2015, Kernis wrote his new Flute Concerto for the flautist Marina Piccinini, ‘inspired by the beauty and elegance of her playing.’ The premiere took place in Detroit on 21 January 2016, with Piccinini and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. The Concerto falls into two halves: a ‘darker’ half including the longer, first and third movements (Portrait and Pavan) and the ‘lighter’ half: the shorter second and fourth movements (Pastorale–Barcarolle and TaranTulla). ‘The movements are very much connected to each other musically, and share ideas between them that keeps the musical thread continuous’, writes Kernis in his own programme note, adding that the movements are united, with the exception of the last, by their tendency to spiral out of control from calm beginnings. He points to the basis of three of the movements in centuries-old Continued overleaf London Philharmonic Orchestra | 11

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dance forms: the Pastorale (‘a gentle dance of the land and field’), the Barcarolle (‘the undulating music of a gondola on water’), and the Tarantella (‘a continuously fast dance that often accelerates’). The opening movement carries the title ‘Portrait’ but the composer quizzically suggests it might be a portrait of the flute, the flautist or even himself, the composer. He describes the following Pastorale-Barcarolle as ‘a gentle

Italianate dance then repeatedly shifts to faster, more energetic and virtuosic music.’ The third movement starts ‘as a gentle, expressive line traded between flute and oboe, then gradually … intercut with fast outbursts that turn into music of a Bacchic frenzy before returning to its opening.’ Kernis describes his finale as ‘a virtuoso romp’ partly inspired by the rock group Jethro Tull, ‘but more out of the blues side of their music, less out of the rock’.

Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.

Charles Ives

The Unanswered Question (1906/1930–35)

1874–1954

One day in the 1880s, bandmaster George Ives arrived home in Danbury, Connecticut, to find his son Charles at the piano playing both the melody of a tune he had heard at one of his father’s rehearsals, but also the hammering drum beats. ‘It’s all right to do that Charlie’, the composer’s father said, ‘as long as you know what you’re doing.’ Charles Ives grew up to be the first wholly and distinctively American composer of art music to be recognised as such. His father’s words that day would guide him artistically: Ives knew precisely what he was doing when he pioneered techniques including free dissonance (discords that don’t smooth the way to ‘proper’ chords), polytonality (music concurrently in more than one key), polyrhythm (music concurrently in more than one time signature), experimental form and spatial positioning of instruments. In those elements – almost all of which crop up in the short orchestral piece The Unanswered Question – Ives anticipated the major musical developments of the 20th century.

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The Unanswered Question was originally conceived in 1906, but revised and re-upholstered for orchestral forces in 1930–35. It was designed as one of a pair of pieces; its companion, A Contemplation of Nothing Serious or Central Park in the Dark in the Good Old Summertime, had a purposefully incidental footing designed to offset the serious existential crisis of The Unanswered Question, in which a lone trumpet poses seven times, over hushed strings, ‘the perennial question of existence’. Sometimes Ives’s trumpet is physically divorced from the accompanying strings (the composer himself pioneered such ‘spatial’ performances), which only underlines the work’s initial mysticism. Eventually, the trumpet meets with Ives’s ‘flying answerers’, a group of noisy, schizophrenic flutes whose answers prove unsettlingly inconclusive.

John Adams

Doctor Atomic Symphony (2007) 1 The Laboratory – 2 Panic – 3 Trinity

born 1947

‘Minimalism was … like a bucket of fresh spring water splashed on the grim and rigid visage of serious music’, said John Adams in 1992; ‘I can’t imagine how stark and unforgiving the musical landscape would be without it. But I think as an expressive tool the style absolutely had to evolve and become more complex.’ Thus, minimalism spawned ‘post-minimalism’. Adams – a generation younger than Steve Reich and Philip Glass – put the cool austerity of minimalism over a hot flame. Adams played the clarinet in the Boston Symphony Orchestra while still in his teens; he fell for the luscious post-Romantic music of Mahler, for the clarity and flow of Sibelius’s symphonies, and for the propulsive energy of the pop music that resounded around Harvard University, where he studied music. Adams’s brand of ‘upholstered minimalism’ was far less dogmatic than that of Reich and Glass; he largely avoided regimented structure, preferring to balance his pieces intuitively. There was also a conscious sense of drama – of apotheosis, of rise and fall – in many of his early works. Adams’s first opera, Nixon in China (1987) was the first internationally successful operatic work to depict living characters on stage. Three stage works from Adams followed, dealing with subjects including the 1995 San Francisco earthquake and the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Next, in 2005, Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic was first performed. Like Nixon in China, the opera took real-life events – in this case, the building of the atomic bomb in the mid 1940s, overseen by the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer – and imagined, fictionally, the many conflicting human emotions the process might have induced. In Oppenheimer’s case, there was plenty of backstory. He was not just a scientist, but a literary prodigy and an enlightened thinker who used physics to craft a singular

view of the world. Oppenheimer experienced something of a personal crisis when he confronted the reality of his scientific work being used for mass destruction. Later in life, he was the victim of a smear campaign by the US government and was forced to retreat from public life back into academia. Pamela Rosenberg, director of the San Francisco Opera, suggested to Adams that Oppenheimer’s story might form the basis of an American ‘Faust’ opera. ‘America loves its heroes … but we love even more to bear witness to their weaknesses, to see them fall from their pedestals, suffer humiliation and even degradation’, writes Adams in his autobiography Hallelujah Junction. Doctor Atomic is deeply but not exclusively sympathetic to Oppenheimer, its central protagonist, as it charts the process of the atomic bomb’s final preparation. In 2007, two years after the opera’s premiere in San Francisco, Adams re-worked passages from the score into the three-movement Doctor Atomic Symphony, first performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adams, on 21 August 2007. The Symphony’s three sections are played without a break. The first opens as the opera does, using the violent music of the Overture that is said by Adams to have been influenced by the French-American composer Edgard Varèse. The second section, ‘Panic’, takes its music from the opera’s depiction of a momentous electrical storm. In the third section, ‘Trinity’, we encounter Oppenheimer himself. The character – a role created for, and initially sung by, baritone Gerald Finley – pauses in contemplation before the curtain falls on Act I and sings a soliloquy to text from John Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV: ‘Batter my heart, three person’d God’. In the Symphony, Oppenheimer’s aria is sung by a trumpet. Programme notes © Andrew Mellor

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Recommended recordings Many of our recommended recordings, where available, are on sale this evening at the Foyles stand in the Royal Festival Hall foyer.

New on the LPO Label: Violin works by Tchaikovsky and Lalo

Philip Glass: The Light Marin Alsop | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Naxos) Ives: The Unanswered Question Michael Tilson Thomas | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (RCA) or Leonard Bernstein | New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Sony) John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony Peter Oundjian | Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Chandos) or David Robertson| St Louis Symphony Orchestra (Nonesuch)

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto Augustin Hadelich violin Vasily Petrenko conductor

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Symphonie espagnole Augustin Hadelich violin Omer Meir Wellber conductor

Wednesday 15 March 2017 | 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic Gavin Bryars Jesus’ blood never failed me yet Steve Reich Music for Eighteen Musicians Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Synergy Vocals

‘There’s another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.’ Gavin Bryars

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LALO

£9.99 | LPO-0094 Released 1 February 2017 Generously supported by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Recorded live in concert at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 17 April 2015 (Lalo) and 24 February 2016 (Tchaikovsky).

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wednesday 15 March 2017 7.30pm

Denisov Symphony No. 2 Berg Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No. 15

Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic Gavin Bryars Jesus’ blood never failed me yet Steve Reich Music for Eighteen Musicians

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin

Members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Synergy Vocals Sound Intermedia

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Sound Futures donors

We are grateful to the following donors for their generous contributions to our Sound Futures campaign. Thanks to their support, we successfully raised £1 million by 30 April 2015 which has now been matched pound for pound by Arts Council England through a Catalyst Endowment grant. This has enabled us to create a £2 million endowment fund supporting special artistic projects, creative programming and education work with key venue partners including our Southbank Centre home. Supporters listed below donated £500 or over. For a full list of those who have given to this campaign please visit lpo.org.uk/soundfutures. Masur Circle Arts Council England Dunard Fund Victoria Robey OBE Emmanuel & Barrie Roman The Underwood Trust

The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Welser-Möst Circle Lady Jane Berrill William & Alex de Winton Mr Frederick Brittenden John Ireland Charitable Trust David & Yi Yao Buckley The Tsukanov Family Foundation Mr Clive Butler Neil Westreich Gill & Garf Collins Tennstedt Circle Mr John H Cook Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Mr Alistair Corbett Richard Buxton Bruno de Kegel The Candide Trust Georgy Djaparidze Michael & Elena Kroupeev David Ellen Kirby Laing Foundation Christopher Fraser OBE & Lisa Fraser Mr & Mrs Makharinsky David & Victoria Graham Fuller Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Goldman Sachs International Sir Simon Robey Mr Gavin Graham Bianca & Stuart Roden Moya Greene Simon & Vero Turner Mrs Dorothy Hambleton The late Mr K Twyman Tony & Susie Hayes Malcolm Herring Solti Patrons Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Ageas Mrs Philip Kan John & Manon Antoniazzi Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Gabor Beyer, through BTO Rose & Dudley Leigh Management Consulting AG Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Jon Claydon Miss Jeanette Martin Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Duncan Matthews QC Suzanne Goodman Diana & Allan Morgenthau Roddy & April Gow Charitable Trust The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Dr Karen Morton Charitable Trust Mr Roger Phillimore Mr James R.D. Korner Ruth Rattenbury Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia The Reed Foundation Ladanyi-Czernin The Rind Foundation Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust Sir Bernard Rix David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) Mr Paris Natar

Carolina & Martin Schwab Dr Brian Smith Lady Valerie Solti Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Miss Anne Stoddart TFS Loans Limited Lady Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson Guy & Utti Whittaker Pritchard Donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Mrs Arlene Beare Mr Patrick & Mrs Joan Benner Mr Conrad Blakey Dr Anthony Buckland Paul Collins Alastair Crawford Mr Derek B. Gray Mr Roger Greenwood The HA.SH Foundation Darren & Jennifer Holmes Honeymead Arts Trust Mr Geoffrey Kirkham Drs Frank & Gek Lim Peter Mace Mr & Mrs David Malpas Dr David McGibney Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Mr Christopher Queree The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust Timothy Walker AM Christopher Williams Peter Wilson Smith Mr Anthony Yolland and all other donors who wish to remain anonymous

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Thank you

We are extremely grateful to all donors who have given generously to the LPO over the past year. Your generosity helps maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.

Artistic Director’s Circle An anonymous donor Victoria Robey OBE

Eric Tomsett Laurence Watt Michael & Ruth West

Orchestra Circle Natalia Semenova & Dimitri Gourji The Tsukanov Family

Silver Patrons Mrs Molly Borthwick Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Mrs Irina Gofman David Goldstone CBE LLB FRICS Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe John & Angela Kessler Vadim & Natalia Levin Mrs Elena Lileeva & Dr Adrian Pabst The Metherell Family Mr Brian Smith The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker

Principal Associates An anonymous donor Mr Peter Cullum CBE Alexander & Elena Djaparidze Dr Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Sergey Sarkisov & Rusiko Makhashvili Neil Westreich Associates Oleg & Natalya Pukhov Sir Simon Robey Stuart & Bianca Roden Barry Grimaldi William & Alex de Winton Gold Patrons An anonymous donor Mrs Evzen Balko David & Yi Buckley Garf & Gill Collins Andrew Davenport Georgy Djaparidze Sonja Drexler Mrs Gillian Fane Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Drs Oliver & Asha Foster Simon & Meg Freakley David & Victoria Graham Fuller Wim & Jackie Hautekiet-Clare The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Alexandra Jupin & John Bean James R D Korner Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Geoff & Meg Mann Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Virginia Slaymaker

Bronze Patrons An anonymous donor Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Dr Christopher Aldren Michael Allen Mr Jeremy Bull Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Bruno De Kegel David Ellen Mrs Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Bueil Igor & Lyuba Galkin Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr Gavin Graham Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Mr Martin Hattrell Mr Colm Kelleher Rose & Dudley Leigh Drs Frank & Gek Lim Mrs Angela Lynch Peter MacDonald Eggers William & Catherine MacDougall Mr & Mrs David Malpas Mr Adrian Mee Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva Mrs Rosemarie Pardington Ms Olga Pavlova Mr Michael Posen Mrs Karmen Pretel-Martines Dr Eva Lotta & Mr Thierry Sciard

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Tom & Phillis Sharpe Mr & Mrs G Stein Sergei & Elena Sudakova Captain Mark Edward Tennant Ms Sharon Thomas Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Grenville & Krysia Williams Christopher Williams Mr Anthony Yolland Principal Supporters Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Roger & Clare Barron Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs A Beare Mr Charles Bott Mr Graham Brady Mr Gary Brass Mr Richard Brass Mr Frederick Brittenden David & Patricia Buck Dr Anthony Buckland Sir Terry Burns GCB Mr Alan C Butler Richard Buxton Mr Pascal Cagni Mrs Alan Carrington Dr Archibald E Carter The Countess June Chichester Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen Mr Alistair Corbett Mr Alfons Cortés Mr David Edwards Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Mr Timothy Fancourt QC Mr Richard Fernyhough Mr Derek B Gray Mr Roger Greenwood Mr Chris Grigg Malcolm Herring Amanda Hill & Daniel Heaf J Douglas Home Ivan Hurry Mr Glenn Hurstfield Mr Peter Jenkins Per Jonsson Mr Frank Krikhaar Mr Gerald Levin

Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr John Long Mr Nicholas Lyons Mr Peter Mace Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski Elena Mezentseva Andrew T Mills Dr Karen Morton Mr & Mrs Andrew Neill Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin Pavel & Elena Novoselov Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr Roger Phillimore Mr James Pickford Andrew & Sarah Poppleton Oleg Pukhov Miss Tatiana Pyatigorskaya Mr Robert Ross Martin & Cheryl Southgate Peter Tausig Mr Jonathan Townley Andrew & Roanna Tusa Lady Marina Vaizey Howard & Sheelagh Watson Des & Maggie Whitelock Bill Yoe Supporters Mr Clifford Brown Miss Siobhan Cervin Miss Lynn Chapman Mr Joshua Coger Mr Geoffrey A Collens Timothy Colyer Miss Tessa Cowie Lady Jane Cuckney OBE Ms Holly Dunlap Mr Nigel Dyer Ms Susanne Feldthusen Mrs Janet Flynn Mr Nick Garland Dr Geoffrey Guy The Jackman Family Mrs Svetlana Kashinskaya Niels Kroninger Mr Christopher Langridge Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington

Miss S M Longson Mr David Macfarlane Mr John Meloy Miss Lucyna Mozyrko Mr Leonid Ogarev Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Mr Ivan Powell Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr Christopher Queree Mr James A Reece Mr Olivier Rosenfeld Mr Kenneth Shaw Mr Kevin Shaw Mr Barry Smith Ms Natalie Spraggon James & Virginia Turnball Michael & Katie Urmston Timothy Walker AM Mr Berent Wallendahl Edward & Catherine Williams Mr C D Yates Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd Hon. Life Members Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE We are grateful to the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who assist with fundraising for our activities in the United States of America: Jenny Ireland Co-Chairman William A. Kerr Co-Chairman Xenia Hanusiak Alexandra Jupin Jill Fine Mainelli Kristina McPhee David Oxenstierna Natalie Pray Robert Watson Antonia Romeo Hon. Chairman

Noel Kilkenny Hon. Director Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP Stephanie Yoshida Corporate Donors Fenchurch Advisory Partners LLP Goldman Sachs Linklaters London Stock Exchange Group Morgan Lewis Phillips Auction House Pictet Bank Corporate Members Gold Sunshine Silver Accenture After Digital Berenberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce Bronze Ageas BTO Management Consulting AG Charles Russell Speechlys Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Willis Towers Watson Preferred Partners Corinthia Hotel London Heineken Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd London Orthopaedic Clinic Sipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

Trusts and Foundations Axis Foundation The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Borletti-Buitoni Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The Ernest Cook Trust Diaphonique, Franco-British Fund for contemporary music The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Equitable Charitable Trust The Foyle Foundation The Goldsmiths’ Company Lucille Graham Trust Help Musicians UK Derek Hill Foundation John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Leverhulme Trust The London Community Foundation London Stock Exchange Group Foundation Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust Marsh Christian Trust The Mercers’ Company Adam Mickiewicz Institute The Stanley Picker Trust The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust RVW Trust The Sampimon Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust Souter Charitable Trust Spears-Stutz Charitable Trust The John Thaw Foundation The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation UK Friends of the FelixMendelssohn-BartholdyFoundation

Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

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Administration

Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham* President Gareth Newman* Vice-President Roger Barron Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Bruno de Kegel Dr Catherine C. Høgel Rachel Masters* Al MacCuish Julian Metherell George Peniston* Kevin Rundell* Natasha Tsukanova Mark Vines* Timothy Walker AM Neil Westreich David Whitehouse* * Player-Director

Chief Executive

Education and Community

Public Relations

Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Isabella Kernot Education Director

Albion Media (Tel: 020 3077 4930)

Talia Lash Education and Community Project Manager