JULIA FISCHER P L AY S M O Z A R T LPO Artist-in-Residence Spring 2022
CONCERT PROGR AMME
Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG Artistic Director Elena Dubinets Chief Executive David Burke Leader Pieter Schoeman supported by Neil Westreich
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Saturday 12 February 2022 | 7.30pm
Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Adventures and Homages Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K207 (20’) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K211 (21’) Interval (20’) Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 (29’) Julia Fischer violin/director With the support of
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On stage tonight First Violins
Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Kate Oswin
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Lasma Taimina
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner Katalin Varnagy
Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Yang Zhang
Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Martin Höhmann
Chair supported by Chris Aldren
Morane Cohen-Lamberger Amanda Smith
Second Violins
Tania Mazzetti Principal
Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan
Emma Oldfield Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens Eriko Nagayama Sarah Thornett
Cellos
Pei-Jee Ng Principal
Chair supported by The Candide Trust
Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue David Lale Sue Sutherley Helen Thomas Sibylle Hentschel David Bucknall
Double Basses
Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal George Peniston Tom Walley
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday
Horns
John Ryan* Principal Martin Hobbs * Holds a professorial appointment in London
Violas
David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal
Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp
Ting-Ru Lai Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Michelle Bruil Martin Wray Joseph Fisher Katharine Leek Julia Doukakis
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded many blockbuster film scores, 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 100 releases available on CD and to download. Recent highlights include Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Vladimir Jurowski, and a commemorative box set of historic recordings with former Principal Conductor Sir Adrian Boult.
The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and has since been headed by many great conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In September 2021 Edward Gardner became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, succeeding Vladimir Jurowski, who became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his transformative impact on the Orchestra as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor and Brett Dean is the Orchestra’s current Composer-in-Residence.
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Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. He is also a Professor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. 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 London’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, JeanGuihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Martin Helmchen.
September 2021 saw the opening of a new live concert season at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring many of the world’s leading musicians including Sheku KannehMason, Klaus Mäkelä, Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and this season’s Artist-in-Residence, Julia Fischer. The Orchestra is delighted to be continuing to offer digital streams to selected concerts throughout the season through its ongoing partnership with Intersection and Marquee TV.
Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim.
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Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras, and the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras. Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.
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Julia Fischer violin/director LPO Artist-in-Residence Spring 2022
tour of major European venues with pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, as well as with her own Julia Fischer Quartet. During the 2020/21 season Julia Fischer appeared in concert with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Alan Gilbert, the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski and the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrůša, and premiered a new piece by Pascal Zavaro with the Orchestre national de France under Cristian Măcelaru. In 2011 Julia Fischer founded her own Quartet with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Mönkemeyer and Benjamin Nyffenegger, and continues to tour extensively in this formation. Her concert at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in 2010 marked her debut as a pianist: she performed Grieg’s Piano Concerto in the second half of the concert, having played Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in the first half. The performance is available on a Decca-released DVD.
One of the world’s leading violinists, Julia Fischer is a versatile musician also known for her extraordinary abilities as a concert pianist, chamber musician and violin teacher. Born in Munich to German-Slovakian parents, she received her first violin lessons at the age of three and her first piano lessons shortly after from her mother, Viera Fischer. At the age of nine she started studying with renowned violin professor Ana Chumachenco, later becoming her successor. Winning First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in 1995 was one of the milestones in her early career and she has since performed with top orchestras worldwide.
Teaching is another integral part of Julia’s musical life, as she continues to nurture and guide young talent including performances alongside her students. She regularly gives masterclasses at Musikferien at Lake Starnberg (Starnberger See). In 2019 she founded a children’s orchestra, the Kindersinfoniker, teaming up with conductor Johannes X. Schachtner and pianist Henri Bonamy in her hometown of Munich. Over the course of her artistic career Julia Fischer has released numerous critically acclaimed and awarded CD and DVD recordings, first under the Pentatone label and later under Decca. Breaking new ground in the classical music market, in 2017 she launched her own music platform, the JF CLUB, which offers exclusive audio and video footage and previews of her new recordings as well as personal insights into music and her work. Franck’s Sonata in A major, Szymanowski’s Sonata in D minor and Beethoven’s String Trio in C minor are all available exclusively on JF CLUB. In August 2021 Julia Fischer released a limited vinyl recording of Ysaÿe’s Sonatas as an exclusive JF CLUB edition in collaboration with Hänssler Classic.
In March 2019 Julia embarked on a major tour of China, Taiwan and South Korea with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, and in September 2019 performed Britten’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestra, again under Jurowski, at the Royal Festival Hall and Saffron Hall. This spring she is Artist-in-Residence with the Orchestra, performing Mozart’s Concertos with Thomas Søndergård, as well as play-directing a Mozart programme and joining LPO Principal players in a chamber music concert. She returns to the Royal Festival Hall on 13 April to perform Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski. This season Julia also embarks on an extensive tour with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, an ensemble with whom she has enjoyed a long-standing relationship. Other tours include with the Royal Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko, and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski. Julia also collaborates with the Lucerne Symphony under its new Chief Conductor Thomas Sanderling, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. She embarks on a recital
Julia Fischer holds numerous awards including the Federal Cross of Merit, a Gramophone Award and the German Culture Prize. She plays a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1742) as well as an instrument made by Phillipp Augustin (2018).
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Programme notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–91
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K207 1773 Julia Fischer violin 1 Allegro moderato 2 Adagio 3 Presto and applause, he announced “You have been hearing the compositions of a good friend who is no longer with us.” Whereupon they all cried out: “What a pity that we have lost him!” The concert took place in Eisenberger’s hall. When it was over they all got drunk and shouldered one another in processions round the room, knocking against the lustres, or rather against the large chandelier which hangs from the middle of the ceiling, so that they broke the centre bowl and other pieces, which will now have to be sent to Venice to be replaced.’
Mozart’s First Violin Concerto is also his first original concerto for any instrument. While a handful of earlier keyboard concertos were based on material by other composers, this work – dated 14 April 1773 – is entirely the product of his own imagination. Yet while a long way from attaining the greatness of his best concertos, it shows few signs of compositional inexperience. At 17, Mozart had already written more than 20 symphonies and seven operas, and his ready grasp of the skills of structural clarity, effective orchestral writing and affecting lyrical invention are certainly on display here.
Programme note © Lindsay Kemp
The first movement is as bouyant as such a movement should be, the orchestra poised and formal and the soloist mixing graceful melody with more angular fast-note figuration, while the slow movement is a gentle Adagio whose rich but placid air clearly owes something to Mozart’s operatic experience. The finale is a dialogue between soloist and orchestra which bustles with violinistic athletics, and whose scampering main theme recalls the mood of mid-century concertos by Haydn. This Concerto has sometimes been identified (albeit without any real evidence) as the work referred to by Leopold Mozart in a letter he wrote to Wolfgang in Munich in 1777, chronicling an unexpectedly boisterous Salzburg evening: ‘Last Friday Herr Kolb gave a grand concert to the foreign merchants. He played on the fiddle your Concerto and your Serenade and, as the music was so much praised and won extraordinary acclamation
A teenage Mozart composing at the piano, c. 1770
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Programme notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-91
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K211 1775 Julia Fischer violin 1 Allegro moderato 2 Adagio 3 Rondeau: Allegro with only the upper orchestral strings – helps the whole work breathe a bright, clean air.
The Second Violin Concerto is the first of the four composed in rapid succession during the second half of 1775, and was completed on 14 June. It is not clear why violin concertos should have been such a preocupation at this time, but in Mozart’s day it was common practice to publish instrumental works in sets, and it is possible that he was hoping to get a decent number together for print.
The first movement’s mood is set by the little downward fanfare and the brief question-and-answer session that immediately follows it. The steady tread scarcely lets up from then on, and if the result can seem a little four-square, this is attractive music nonetheless. The Andante second movement is a tender stream of melody, with great warmth in the orchestral episodes and an effectively touching melancholy to the solo part.
A fair bit of water had flowed under the compositional bridge since the First Concerto of 1773. As well as two operas and ten symphonies, Mozart had produced in that time his first piano concerto, a bassoon concerto and also two orchestral serenades, both containing within their eight-movement structure a complete three-movement violin concerto. If this suggests that Mozart had settled into the groove of writing for violin and orchestra, as well as of concerto-writing in general, there is also enough about the work itself to indicate a greater level of experience. This is a grander concerto than its predecessor, more urbane and with a keener social polish. Mozart finds a new economy with his melodic material here, the orchestration is delicate, and a predominantly high solo part – coupled with a Vivaldian penchant for accompanying the soloist
The finale, like those of all the violin concertos of 1775, is entitled ‘rondeau’, evidence perhaps that Mozart was aware of the concertos of Parisian violinists such as Gaviniès and Saint-Georges. More recognisably Mozartian, however, is the way in which the minuet-style main theme is stated first by the soloist, then taken up gladly by the full orchestra. The alternation between returns of this theme and lightly contrasted intervening episodes is also managed with a hint of the flair and charm that was to distinguish many of his later concertos, whether for violin, piano or clarinet. Programme note © Lindsay Kemp
Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.
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Programme notes Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–93
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 1880 1 Pezzo in forma di Sonatina – Andante non troppo 2 Waltz – Moderato Tempi di Valse 3 Elégie – Larghetto elegiaco 4 Finale (Tema Russo) – Andante – Allegro con spirito As he strained to give birth to his gargantuan 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky had another piece on the boil whose arrival was rather smoother. ‘It poured from the heart’, wrote the composer of his Serenade for Strings, which he completed in October 1880. So confident was Tchaikovsky of its quality that he urged his confidante Nadezhda von Meck to play through the parts he sent her on the piano. Tchaikovsky also mentioned to von Meck that he’d written the first movement in homage to Mozart, and the slow introduction is an obvious reference to Mozart’s Serenades.
violently in love with this work and I cannot wait until it is played’, wrote the composer to his publisher when he finished the piece. Programme note © Andrew Mellor
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The broad melodic sweep that Tchaikovsky brings to the Serenade is more Romantic than Classical, as is the quite breathtaking range of sonorities he coaxes from an all-string ensemble. The first of those melodies makes its entrance after the slow opening of the first movement. There’s a salon-style élan to Tchaikovsky’s second movement, which exposes his lifelong love of the waltz with its effortless sophistication.
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The mood changes in the third movement, Elégie, in which the timbres are initially more shimmering and it is a haunting rather than rapturous melody that emerges. The finale is based on two Russian folk themes, infused with the carefree spirit of much of Tchaikovsky’s children’s music and including a pizzicato passage that evokes the sound of Russian balalaikas (guitar-like instruments). But not wanting to grind his gears after the elegiac third movement, Tchaikovsky introduces this finale with a brief passage of quiet, dulcet music. ‘I am
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Anonymous donors Michael Allen Dr Manon Antoniazzi Julian & Annette Armstrong Roger & Clare Barron Mr Philip Bathard-Smith Sir Peter Bazalgette Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Mr Bernard Bradbury Sally Bridgeland In memory of Julie Bromley Desmond & Ruth Cecil Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington John & Sam Dawson Cameron & Kathryn Doley David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE Virginia Gabbertas MBE David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Mrs Dorothy Hambleton J Douglas Home The Jackman Family Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza Jamie & Julia Korner Rose & Dudley Leigh Drs Frank & Gek Lim Nicholas & Felicity Lyons Geoff & Meg Mann
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Thank you
Mr Peter Faulk Mr Joe Field Ms Chrisine Louise Fluker Mr Kevin Fogarty Mr Richard France Mr Bernard Freudenthal Mrs Adele Friedland & Friends Will Gold Mrs Alison Goulter Mr Andrew Gunn Mr K Haines Mr Martin Hale Roger Hampson Mr Graham Hart Mr & Mrs Nevile Henderson The Jackman Family Martin Kettle Mr Justin Kitson Ms Yvonne Lock Mrs Sally Manning Belinda Miles Dr Joe Mooney Christopher & Diane Morcom Dame Jane Newell DBE Oliver & Josie Ogg Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Nadya Powell Ms Caroline Priday Mr Richard Rolls Mr Richard Rowland Mr & Mrs Alan Senior Tom Sharpe Mr Kenneth Shaw Ruth Silvestre Barry & Gillian Smith Mr David Southern Ms Mary Stacey Mr Simon Starr Mrs Margaret Thompson Philip & Katie Thonemann Mr Owen Toller Mrs Rose Tremain Ms Mary Stacey Ms Caroline Tate Mr Peter Thierfeldt Dr Ann Turrall Michael & Katie Urmston Dr June Wakefield Mr Dominic Wallis Mrs C Willaims Joanna Williams Mr Kevin Willmering Mr David Woodhead
Hon. Benefactor
Hon. Life Members
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:
Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Laurence Watt
Simon Freakley Chairman Jay Goffman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Damien Vanderwilt Elizabeth Winter Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP
LPO International Board of Governors
Natasha Tsukanova Chair Martin Höhmann Co-Chair Mrs Irina Andreeva (Russia) Steven M. Berzin (USA) Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya (Cyprus) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Aline Foriel-Destezet (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Jay Stein (USA)
Corporate Donors
Barclays CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture Pictet Bank
LPO Corporate Circle Leader freuds Sunshine
Thomas Beecham Group Members
Principal Berenberg Bloomberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce
Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley Gill & Garf Collins William & Alex de Winton Sonja Drexler The Friends of the LPO Irina Gofman Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Countess Dominique Loredan Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker
Tutti Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole
Trialist Allianz Musical Insurance Sciteb
Preferred Partners Gusbourne Estate Lidl Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd OneWelbeck Steinway
Elliott Bernerd
In-kind Sponsor Google Inc
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Trusts and Foundations The Boltini Trust Borrows Charitable Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The London Community Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The Fidelio Charitable Trust Foyle Foundation Garrick Charitable Trust The Leche Trust Lucille Graham Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust John Thaw Foundation The Idlewild Trust Kirby Laing Foundation The Marchus Trust Adam Mickiewicz Institute PRS Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation The R K Charitable Trust Romanian Cultural Institute Rothschild Foundation RVW Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Sir William Boreman’s Foundation Souter Charitable Trust The Stanley Picker Trust The Thomas Deane Trust The Thriplow Charitable Trust The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust The Victoria Wood Foundation The Viney Family The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation
and all others who wish to remain anonymous. The LPO would also like to acknowledge all those who have made donations to the Play On Appeal and who have supported the Orchestra during the COVID-19 pandemic.
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 12 February 2022 • Julia Fischer plays Mozart: Adventures and Homages
London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Martin Höhmann* President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Mark Vines* Vice-President Kate Birchall* David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Deborah Dolce Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Al MacCuish Tania Mazzetti* Stewart McIlwham* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) *Player-Director
Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown Simon Callow CBE Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport Guillaume Descottes Cameron Doley Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Marianna Hay MBE Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Andrew Neill Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith
Finance
Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter
Frances Slack Finance Director Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager
General Administration
Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer
Elena Dubinets Artistic Director David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive
Education and Community Talia Lash Interim Education and Community Director
Concert Management
Rebecca Parslow Education and Community Project Manager
Roanna Gibson Concerts Director Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager
Hannah Foakes Tilly Gugenheim Education and Community Project Co-ordinators
Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager
Development
Grace Ko Tours Manager
Laura Willis Development Director
Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Scott Tucker Development Events Manager
Christina Perrin Concerts and Tours Assistant Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager
Marketing Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager
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Greg Felton Digital Creative Kiera Lockard Marketing Assistant
Archives Philip Stuart Discographer Gillian Pole Recordings Archive
Professional Services Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor
Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon
Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate
Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager
Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager
Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager
Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director
Freddie Jackson Assistant Stage Manager
Ruth Knight Press and PR Manager
Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon
Priya Radhakrishnan Georgia Wiltshire Development Assistants
Laura Kitson Stephen O’Flaherty Stage Managers
Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager
Stef Woodford Corporate Relations Manager
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians
Harrie Mayhew Website Manager
London Philharmonic Orchestra 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP Tel: 020 7840 4200 Box Office: 020 7840 4242 Email: admin@lpo.org.uk lpo.org.uk Cover photo Felix Broede 2021/22 season identity JMG Studio Printer John Good Ltd