LPO concert programme: 1 Oct 2022 - Grand Passions, High Ideals (Edward Gardner/Inbal Segev)

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Join us tonight: Free late-night chamber concert

Tonight marks the first of three late-night chamber events with artists from our main season showcasing their creative talents in an up-close and personal setting. Tonight at 10pm, pianist and composer Vijay Iyer gives a free post-concert performance of his own music with cellist Inbal Segev and LPO musicians Kate Oswin and Richard Waters. It will take place on The Clore Ballroom (Level 2, Royal Festival Hall) and is free of charge with no ticket required. Please do stay and join us!

The next event is on 9 November, when, following the evening’s Royal Festival Hall concert featuring the world premiere of her Piano Concerto No. 2, Polish composer and singer Agata Zubel will perform her own music alongside Berio’s Folk Songs with members of the LPO. On 18 January, following the UK premiere of his Clarinet Concerto, Syrian clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh performs his own music alongside LPO musicians. 9 November and 18 January are ticketed events in the Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall: for full details or to book, please visit lpo.org.uk/202223season

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Last month saw our release of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage on the LPO Label –the first commercial recording of the opera in over 50 years. It was recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall on the opening night of the LPO’s 2021/22 season, which also marked Edward Gardner’s first concert as Principal Conductor. The cast includes Robert Murray, Rachel Nicholls, Ashley Riches, Jennifer France, Toby Spence, the London Philharmonic Choir and the English National Opera Chorus. As well as being available to stream or download on all the major platforms, the release is also available from all good retailers as a premium three-CD box set including a 52-page booklet with full libretto and articles by Oliver Soden and Edward Gardner.

Supported by the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation in memory of Dennis Marks

On stage tonight

First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader

Chair supported by Neil Westreich Ania Safonova

Kate Oswin

Lasma Taimina

Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave

Sophie Phillips Minn FannyMajoeFheodoroff

Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett Elizaveta Tyun

Katalin Varnagy

Chair supported by Sonja Drexler Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner

Martin Hohmann

Laura Ayoub

Eleanor Bartlett

Rasa Zukauskaite

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Co-Principal Nancy Elan Nynke Hijlkema

Joseph Maher Kate Birchall

Ashley Stevens

Linda JuliaDanielKidwellCornfordDoukakis

Rachel Robson

Cellos

Pei-Jee Ng Principal Chair supported by The Candide Trust

Francis Bucknall Sue IainTamakiAuriolSibylleHeeHelenSusannaSutherleyRiddellThomasYeonChoHentschelEvansSuguimotoWard

Double Basses

Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar Co-Principal George Peniston Tom Walley

Chair supported by William & Alex de LowriLauraWintonMurphyMorgan

Charlotte Kerbegian Gabriel Rodrigues

Cor Anglais

Peter Facer

Clarinets

Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough Chair supported by Roger PaulGreenwoodRichards*

Bass Clarinet

Paul Richards* Principal

Bassoons

Paul Boyes Guest Principal Shelly Organ Simon Estell*

Contrabassoon Simon Estell* Principal Horns

John Ryan* Principal James Pillai Guest Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison

Timpani

Antoine Bedewi

Guest PercussionPrincipal

Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Garf & Gill Collins

Karen JamesHuttBower

Harp Rachel Masters Principal Assistant Conductor James Ham

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the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert:

David & Yi Buckley

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Kate Cole Lyrit Milgram

Matthew Bain Anna Croad

Violas

Richard Waters Principal Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Martin Wray Katharine Leek Lucia Ortiz Sauco Benedetto Pollani

Kate de Campos

Laura Vallejo Jisu Song

Flutes

Juliette Bausor Principal Clare Childs

Piccolos

Maja Persson Clare Childs

Alto Flute

Clare Childs Oboes

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Peter Facer

Trumpets

Paul Beniston* Principal Jack Wilson Guest Principal Anne McAneney*

Trombones

Mark Templeton* Principal Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton David Whitehouse

Bass Trombone

Lyndon Meredith Principal Tuba

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Dr Barry Grimaldi

Sir Simon Robey

Victoria Robey OBE

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Our Principal Conductors have included some of the greatest historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, taking the Orchestra into its tenth decade. Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his impact as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is our current Principal Guest Conductor and Brett Dean our Composer-in-Residence.

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We also release live, studio and archive recordings on our own label, and are the world’s most-streamed orchestra, with over 15 million plays of our content each month. Recent releases include music by Richard Strauss under Klaus Tennstedt with legendary soprano Jessye Norman; the first volume of a Stravinsky series with Vladimir Jurowski including The Rite of Spring

Pieter Schoeman Leader

and The Firebird; and Tippett’s complete opera

The Midsummer Marriage under Edward Gardner, captured in his first concert as LPO Principal Conductor in September 2021 (see page 2).

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We’re committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians and music-lovers: there’s nothing we love more than seeing the joy of children and families enjoying their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about equipping schools and teachers through schools’ concerts, resources and training. Reflecting our values of collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Today’s young instrumentalists are the orchestral members of the future, so we’re committed to offering them opportunities to progress. Our LPO Junior Artists programme is leading the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers.

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We believe in the relevance of our music, and that our programmes must reflect the narratives of modern times. This season we’re exploring themes of belonging and displacement in our series ‘A place to call home’, delving into music by composers including Austrians Erich Korngold and Paul Hindemith, Hungarian Béla Bartók, Cuban Tania León, Ukrainian Victoria Vita Polevá and Syrian Kinan Azmeh. As we celebrate our 90th anniversary we perform works premiered by the Orchestra during its illustrious history. This season also marks Vaughan Williams’s 150th anniversary and we’ll be celebrating with four of his works, as well as both symphonies by Elgar and music by Tippett and Thomas Adès. Our commitment to everything new and creative includes premieres by Brett Dean, Mark Simpson and Heiner Goebbels, as well as new commissions from composers from around the world including Agata Zubel, Elena Langer and Vijay Iyer.

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, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.

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.

Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.

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.

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Edward Gardner

Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Edward Gardner became Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2021. He is also Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he will relinquish at the end of the 2023/24 season. From August 2024 he will undertake the Music Directorship of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet (DNO&B), having commenced the role of Artistic Advisor in February 2022.

This season Edward will lead the London Philharmonic Orchestra in celebrating its 90th anniversary with music originally written for the LPO, including Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. He opened the Orchestra’s season last weekend with Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, bringing the Orchestra and soloists together with the London Philharmonic Choir and London Symphony Chorus. Future highlights this season include Lutosławski’s Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an Elgar symphony cycle, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass and Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust. He will premiere works by Mark Simpson, LPO Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean, Vijay Iyer and Agata Zubel, and will tour with the Orchestra throughout the UK and Benelux as well as undertaking an extensive tour of

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LPO’s 2021/22 season with an acclaimed performance of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage, which has just been released on the LPO Label (see page 2). In August 2022 he conducted the Orchestra in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at the BBC Proms with the LPC and the Hallé Choir.

Edward opened the Bergen Philharmonic season with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica); further

symphonic highlights include works by Stravinsky, Brahms and Nielsen. Choral projects include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) and a staged performance of Wagner’s Parsifal. Following recent tours to Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam, and appearances at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, the orchestra looks forward to touring projects in Germany and Belgium. In demand as a guest conductor, Edward will also return to the Cleveland and Chicago symphony orchestras, and conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin in its Sommerkonzert. Following the announcement of Edward’s appointment at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, the 2022/23 season will see him conduct a new production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera alongside two concert performances of Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust. He will also conduct the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra in a programme of Dvořák and Rachmaninoff.

Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007–15), Edward has an ongoing relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where he has conducted productions of The Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther. In London he has future plans with the Royal Opera House, where he made his debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová and returned for Werther the following season. During the 2021/22 season Edward made his debut with Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production of Peter Grimes. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris.

A passionate supporter of young talent, Edward founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with The Juilliard School of Music, and with the Royal Academy of Music who appointed him their inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014.

Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. He went on to become Assistant Conductor of the Hallé and Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include being named Royal Philharmonic Society Award Conductor of the Year (2008), an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009) and an OBE for Services to Music in The Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).

Edward Gardner’s position at the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.

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Inbal Segev is ‘a cellist with something to say’ (Gramophone). Combining a rich tone and technical mastery with rare dedication and intelligence, she has appeared with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, St Louis Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony, collaborating with such prominent conductors as Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Măcelaru and Zubin Mehta. Tonight is her concert debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire, Inbal has commissioned concertos from today’s leading composers including Timo Andres, Anna Clyne, Avner Dorman, Vijay Iyer and Dan Visconti. Recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Marin Alsop for Avie Records, her 2020 premiere recording of Clyne’s cello concerto, DANCE, was an instant success, topping the Amazon Classical Concertos chart and inspiring glowing praise from The Guardian, BBC Radio 3 and other outlets; its opening movement was chosen as one of NPR Music’s ‘Favourite Songs of 2020’, receiving eight million listens on Spotify, and Inbal has continued to tour extensively with the piece. At the start of the pandemic she launched ‘20 for 2020’, a commissioning, recording and video project featuring 20 cutting-edge composers including John Luther Adams, Viet Cuong and Molly Joyce.

Inbal Segev’s premiere recordings crown a rich and wide-ranging discography. Having studied Bach’s solo cello suites for many years, she recorded the complete cycle over a six-month period with Grammy-winning producer Da-Hong Seetoo at New York City’s Academy of Arts and Letters for release by Vox Classics in 2015; documenting this process behind the scenes,

a companion film by Nick Davis Productions was screened at Lincoln Center and in Maine and Bogotá. Her other recordings include a Romantic programme of Schumann, Chopin and Grieg with pianist Juho Pohjonen (Avie, 2018); Dohnányi Serenades with the Amerigo Trio (Navona, 2011); and cello sonatas by Beethoven and Boccherini with pianist Richard Bishop (Opus One, 2000). Inbal can also be heard playing music by Peter Nashe on the soundtrack of Bee Season, a 2005 feature film starring Richard Gere and Juliette

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Israel, at 16 Inbal Segev was invited by Isaac Stern to continue her cello studies in the US, where she earned degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School, before co-founding the Amerigo Trio with former New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus.

Inbal Segev’s cello was made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1673.

Programme notes

Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (‘Tannhäuser and the Singing Contest on the Wartburg’) was Wagner’s fifth opera, first produced at the Dresden Court Theatre in October 1845. Its plot combines two German medieval subjects – the legendary crusader knight and minstrel Tannhäuser, and a singing contest – to fashion a story of the pull between sacred and earthly love. After discovering Venus’s underground realm (the Venusberg) and enjoying its excesses, Tannhäuser tears himself away, but when he takes part in a song competition at the Wartburg (where he hopes to win the hand of the Landgrave’s daughter Elisabeth) he sacrilegiously offers a hymn to Venus. He is sent on a pilgrimage to Rome to seek forgiveness, but in the end it is only the death of the heartbroken, ever-loving Elisabeth that brings redemption.

The Overture to Tannhäuser has long been one of the most popular Wagnerian extracts in the concert hall, and presents a strongly characterised opposition of the story’s main strands using music from the opera itself, in the manner Wagner learned from Gluck, Beethoven and Weber. The opening is a solemn march for the pilgrims, intoned quietly at first before swelling to a majestic restatement with a string accompaniment fluttering like pennants. As this subsides, however, a quicker tempo suggests the first stirrings of sensual love, before leading to the bold and forthright melody that is Tannhäuser’s hymn to Venus. A tranquil central passage then shows Tannhäuser languishing in the Venusberg, but after things have hotted up even more, it is the pilgrims’ march that finally re-emerges to end the overture in noble triumph.

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Vijay Iyer

born 1971

Human Archipelago

Concerto for cello and orchestra, 2022 (world premiere)

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1 Scenes in Free Fall

2 Xenia

3 To be one of many

Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Boise Philharmonic, Illinois Philharmonic and Inbal Segev.

Human Archipelago draws its inspiration from the 2019 book of the same name by author Teju Cole and photographer Fazal Shaikh, which addresses two urgent, entangled global phenomena: climate change and mass migration. Through its series of loving portraits and mini-essays, we are led to reconsider our ethical responsibilities to our fellow human beings in the present and future – indeed to rethink our very notion of ‘us’. (Or, as my father used to say, ‘The guest is God.’) The piece uses the concerto format to stage a series of precarious encounters among the soloist, the orchestra, and the ‘travellers’, a group of performers who play only by ear. The first movement, ‘Scenes in Free Fall’, sets a single melody in a series of unstable environments; the next, ‘Xenia’, imagines a blessed visit from strangers; and the last, ‘To be one of many’, builds a fugue-like collective polyphony before giving way to a coda where the soloist and travellers unite.

I am grateful to Inbal Segev for initiating this project and believing in my work; to Teju Cole and Peter Sellars, who helped me feel my way through the ideas; and to all of the performers for embodying the music with virtuosity and grace.

Programme note © Vijay Iyer, 2022

Interval – 20 minutes

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

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Human Archipelago addresses the entangled processes of climate change and migration, and the societal imbalances that are both their cause and their result.’

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Composer profile: Vijay Iyer

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Described by The New York Times as a ‘social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, historicalrhapsodist,thinkerand multicultural gateway’, Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, shape-shifting presence in 21st-century music. A composer and pianist active across multiple musical communities, he has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last 25 years. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artist Fellowship, a Grammy nomination, the Alpert Award in the Arts and two German Echo Awards.

Vijay Iyer’s musical language is grounded in the rhythmic traditions of South Asia and West Africa, the African American creative music movement of the 60s and 70s, and the lineage of composerpianists from Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk to Alice Coltrane and Geri Allen. He has released 24 albums of his music, most recently Uneasy with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh (ECM Records, 2021).

Iyer is an active composer for classical ensembles and soloists. His works have been premiered by the Brentano Quartet, Imani Winds, Parker Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, Sō Percussion, International Contemporary Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the LA Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, and virtuosi Matt Haimowitz, Mishka Rushdie Momen, Claire Chase, Shai Wosner and Jennifer Koh. He has served as Composer-in-Residence at London’s Wigmore Hall, Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival, and Artist-in-Residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A longtime New Yorker, Iyer lives in central Harlem with his wife and daughter. He is a professor at Harvard University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies. He is a Steinway Artist.

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works by Laurie Watt

Wagner: Overture, Tannhäuser London Philharmonic Orchestra | Klaus Tennstedt (LPO Label LPO-0003)

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Edward Gardner (Chandos)

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Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 (Reformation)

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Despite its numbering and opus number, Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony was actually his second for full orchestra, predating both the ‘Scottish’ and ‘Italian’. He began it in December 1829, just after returning to Berlin from his first visit to the British Isles, his intention being to use it to mark the following year’s 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, the assembly that had defined the core beliefs of Lutheran Protestantism. A number of factors conspired to prevent it from fulfilling this purpose, however, and the Symphony was eventually premiered in Berlin in 1832.

It may seem odd that a Jewish-born composer should have chosen the Protestant Reformation as a subject, but religious tolerance had been strong in the Mendelssohn family at least since his grandfather, the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, had helped Prussian Jews obtain social equality; what is more, Felix and his siblings were baptised into the Christian faith in 1816, and grew up in an atmosphere of considerable spiritual enlightenment. But there may have been a musical impulse for the work too: since his midteens Mendelssohn had studied and enjoyed Bach, including some of the vocal works that at the time were considered impractical to perform, and in March 1829 he had conducted the first performance since Bach’s day of the St Matthew Passion; furthermore, he had himself composed a number of works based on Lutheran hymn-tunes (or chorales). In this context, a symphony with a finale based on one of the bestknown of all chorales – ‘Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott’ –must have seemed a natural enough progression.

The first movement opens with a slow introduction in which slowly curling counterpoint and increasingly urgent fanfares lead to two ethereal renditions on high strings of a rising six-note figure known as the ‘Dresden Amen’. It has been suggested that this reference to the Catholic liturgy was meant to denote the old church beset by controversy, and certainly when the music plunges straightaway into the main body of the movement – now in the minor – it is with a sense of struggle and upheaval. At the end of the central development section the ‘Amen’ figure reappears, this time ushering in a recapitulation which is muted in tone, but which builds again to a stormy climax.

The second movement is graceful and lighthearted, but though seemingly set apart from the general mood of the Symphony – it is more bucolic than reverent –it retains thematic links with the falling woodwind motifs of the very opening. The solemn third movement is short, the feeling that it is at least half-conceived as an introduction to the finale reinforced by its recitativelike violin line. That finale opens with a warmly harmonised statement of ‘Ein’ feste Burg’, the prelude to a sonata movement with themes of its own interlaced with occasional guest appearances from the chorale, the last of which brings the work nobly to a finish.

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Countess Dominique Loredan

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In memory of Hazel Amy Smith

The Tsukanov Family

The Viney Family

Gold Patrons

An anonymous donor

Chris Aldren

David & Yi Buckley

In memory of Allner Mavis Channing

Sonja Drexler

Jan & Leni Du Plessis

The Vernon Ellis Foundation

Peter & Fiona Espenhahn

Hamish & Sophie Forsyth

Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring

Thank you

John & Angela Kessler Julian & Gill Simmonds

Eric AndrewTomsett&Rosemary Tusa

Guy & Utti Whittaker

Mr Florian Wunderlich

Silver Patrons

Dame Colette Bowe

David Burke & Valerie Graham

John & Sam Dawson

Bruno De Kegel

Ulrike & Benno Engelmann

Virginia Gabbertas MBE

Dmitry & Ekaterina Gursky

The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust

Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle

Sir George Iacobescu Jamie & Julia Korner

Mr & Mrs Makharinsky

Mr Nikita Mishin

Andrew Neill

Tom & Phillis Sharpe

Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Laurence Watt Grenville & Krysia Williams

Bronze Patrons

Anonymous donors

Michael Allen

Mr Mark Astaire Nicholas & Christine Beale

Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley

Mr Anthony Blaiklock

Lorna & Christopher Bown

Mr Bernard Bradbury

Simon Burke & Rupert King Desmond & Ruth Cecil

Mr Evgeny Chichvarkin

Mr John H Cook

Mr & Mrs Ralph Kanza

Mrs Elena & Mr Oleg Kolobov Rose & Dudley Leigh

Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE

JP RAF

Drs Frank & Gek Lim

Mr Nicholas Little Geoff & Meg Mann

Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva

Andrew T Mills

Peter & Lucy Noble

Mr Roger Phillimore

Mr Michael Posen

Mr Anthony Salz

Ms Nadia Stasyuk

Charlotte Stevenson Joe Topley Mr & Mrs John C Tucker

Timothy Walker CBE AM Jenny Watson CBE Grenville & Krysia Williams

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors

Dr Manon Antoniazzi

Julian & Annette Armstrong

Mr John D Barnard

Mr Geoffrey Bateman

Mr Philip Bathard-Smith

Mrs A Beare

Dr Anthony Buckland

Dr Simona Cicero & Mr Mario

MrAltieriPeter Coe

Mrs Pearl Cohen

David & Liz Conway

Mr Alistair Corbett

Ms Mary Anne Cordeiro

Ms Elena Dubinets

Mr Richard Fernyhough

Jason George

Mr Christian Grobel

Martin & Cheryl Southgate

Mr & Mrs G Stein

Dr Peter Stephenson

Joanna

MsChristopherWilliamsWilliamsElenaZiskind

Supporters

Anonymous donors

Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle

Mr & Mrs Robert Auerbach

Mrs Julia Beine

Harvey Bengen

Miss YolanDa Brown

Miss Yousun Chae

Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk

Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington

Mr Joshua Coger

Miss Tessa Cowie

Mr David Devons

Patricia Dreyfus

Mr Martin Fodder

Christopher Fraser OBE

Will Gold

Ray Harsant

Mr Peter Imhof

The Jackman Family

Mr David MacFarlane

Dame Jane Newell DBE

Mr Stephen Olton

Mari Payne

Mr David Peters

Ms Edwina Pitman

Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh

Mr Giles Quarme

Mr Kenneth Shaw

Mr Brian Smith

Ms Rika Suzuki

Tony & Hilary Vines

Dr June Wakefield

Mr John Weekes

Mr C D Yates

CameronDeborahDjaparidzeDolce&Kathryn Doley

Georgy

Mariana Eidelkind & Gene

Moldavsky

David Ellen

Mr B C Fairhall

Mr Richard & Helen Gillingwater

Mr Daniel Goldstein

David & Jane Gosman

Mr Gavin Graham

Lord & Lady Hall

Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Martin & Katherine Hattrell

Michael & Christine Henry

Mr Steve Holliday

J Douglas Home

Prof Emeritus John Gruzelier Mark & Sarah Holford

Mrs Maureen Hooft-Graafland

Per Jonsson

Mr Ian Kapur

Ms Kim J Koch

Ms Elena Lojevsky

Mrs Terry Neale

John Nickson & Simon Rew Oliver & Josie Ogg

Ms Olga Ovenden

Mr James Pickford

Filippo Poli

Sir Bernard Rix

Mr Robert Ross Priscylla Shaw

Hon. Benefactor

Elliott Bernerd

Hon. Life Members

Alfonso CarolKennethAijónGoodeColburnGrigor CBE

Pehr G Gyllenhammar

Robert Hill

Victoria Robey OBE

Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE

Timothy Walker CBE AM

Laurence Watt

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.

Thank you

Thomas Beecham Group Members

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

Corporate Donor

LPO Corporate Circle

Trusts and Foundations

ABO BlueSparkTrust Foundation

The Boltini Trust

Borrows Charitable Trust

The Candide Trust

Cockayne – Grants for the Arts

The London Community Foundation

The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Dunard Fund

Ernst von Siemens Music

GarrickFoyleFoundationFoundationCharitable Trust

John Horniman’s Children’s Trust

John Thaw Foundation Institute Adam Mickiewicz

Kirby Laing Foundation

The Marchus Trust

The Radcliffe Trust Rivers ScopsRVWRothschildFoundationFoundationTrustArtsTrust

Sir William Boremans' Foundation

The John S Cohen Foundation

The Stanley Picker Trust

The Thriplow Charitable Trust

The Vaughan Williams Charitable TheTrustVictoria Wood Foundation

Board of the American Friends of the LPO

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:

Simon Freakley Chairman

Jon Carter

Jay Goffman

Alexandra Jupin

Natalie Pray

Damien ElizabethVanderwiltWinter

Catherine Høgel Hon. Director Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP

LPO International Board of Governors

Natasha Tsukanova Co-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) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Jay Stein (USA)

Tutti

Lazard

Trialist

Sciteb

Preferred Partners

Gusbourne Estate

LindtJeroboams&Sprüngli Ltd

SteinwayOneWelbeck

In-kind Sponsor

Google Inc

The Viney Family The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration

Board of Directors

Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair

Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Vice-Chair

Martin Höhmann* President Mark Vines* Vice-President

Kate ElenaDeborahBrunoDavidDavidBirchall*BuckleyBurkeDeKegelDolceDubinets

Tanya Joseph

Hugh KatherineKluger*Leek*

Al MacCuish

Minn Majoe*

Tania JamieMazzetti*Njoku-Goodwin

Andrew Tusa

Neil SimonWestreichFreakley (Ex officio –Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic *Player-DirectorOrchestra)

Advisory Council

Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren

Dr Manon Antoniazzi

Roger

Andrew

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 Martin Southgate Chris LaurenceVineyWatt

Elizabeth Winter

General Administration

Elena Dubinets

Artistic Director

David Burke Chief Executive Chantelle Vircavs PA to the Executive

Concert Management

Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager

Maddy Clarke Tours Manager

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant

Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant

Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager

Sarah MartinThomasSargeson

Librarians

Laura Kitson Stage and Operations Manager

Stephen O’Flaherty

Deputy Operations Manager

Freddie Jackson Deputy Stage Manager Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager

Finance Frances Slack Finance Director Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager

Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer

Education Communityand

Talia Lash Education and Community Director

Hannah RebeccaFoakesParslow

Education and Community Project Managers

Lowri Davies Education and Community Co-ordinator

Development Laura Willis Development Director Rosie Morden

Individual Giving Manager

Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager

Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager Eleanor Conroy Al Levin

Development Assistants

Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director

Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate Marketing

Kath Trout Marketing Communicationsand Director

Mairi Warren Marketing Manager

Rachel Williams Publications Manager

Harrie Mayhew Website Manager

Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager

Ruth Haines

Press and PR Manager

Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies

Marketing Manager

Greg Felton

Digital Creative

Alicia Hartley

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 Chris Aldren

Honorary ENT Surgeon

Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone

Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon

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