London Philharmonic Orchestra 22 Mar 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 Wednesday 22 March 2017 | 7.30pm

Magnus Lindberg Cello Concerto No. 2 (UK premiere) (25’) Interval (20’) Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1951 Nowak edition) (59’)

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Anssi Karttunen cello

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

Contents 2 Welcome Orchestra news 3 On stage tonight 4 Belief and Beyond Belief 6 About the Orchestra 7 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 8 Jukka-Pekka Saraste 9 Anssi Karttunen 10 Programme notes 13 Recommended recordings Next concerts 14 New on the LPO Label 15 LPO 2017/18 season 17 Sound Futures donors 18 Supporters 20 LPO administration

Welcome

Welcome to Southbank Centre We hope you enjoy your visit. We have a Duty Manager available at all times. If you have any queries please ask any member of staff for assistance. Eating, drinking and shopping? Southbank Centre shops and restaurants include Foyles, EAT, Giraffe, Strada, YO! Sushi, wagamama, Le Pain Quotidien, Las Iguanas, ping pong, Canteen, Caffè Vergnano 1882, Skylon, Feng Sushi and Topolski, as well as cafes, restaurants and shops inside Royal Festival Hall. If you wish to get in touch with us following your visit please contact the Visitor Experience Team at Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, phone 020 7960 4250, or email customer@southbankcentre.co.uk We look forward to seeing you again soon. Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery are closed for essential refurbishment until 2018. During this period, our resident orchestras are performing in venues including St John's Smith Square. Find out more at southbankcentre.co.uk/sjss 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. 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. MOBILES, PAGERS AND WATCHES should be switched off before the performance begins.

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Orchestra news

2017/18 LPO 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.

Chamber music at Wigmore Hall next month On Saturday 22 April 2017 at 7.30pm, Principal players from within the Orchestra will present Schubert’s hugely popular ‘Trout’ Quintet alongside Brahms’s haunting Horn Trio in a one-off performance at Wigmore Hall. Tickets from £15: visit lpo.org.uk or call the LPO Ticket Office on 020 7840 4242.

2017 London Marathon: Support Team LPO! On Sunday 23 April 2017 a team from the wider LPO community will take part in the Virgin Money London Marathon in aid of the Orchestra’s schools concerts, BrightSparks. All money raised will help to enable over 12,000 young people to attend one of our live schools concerts, many for the very first time. Next Monday, 27 March, we will be holding a Marathon fundraising event at the Virgin Money Lounge in London’s Haymarket featuring interesting insights from the Orchestra’s players (and runners!), music, wine and canapés. Tickets are priced at £30. To find out more or book tickets, visit virg.in/LPO If you can’t make the event but would like to find out more about our runners or make a donation, visit uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fund/LPOLondonMarathon

New on the LPO Label: Dvořák Recently released on the LPO Label (LPO-0095) is a disc of works by Dvořák: the Othello Overture and Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7. Conducted by Yannick NézetSéguin and recorded live in concert at Royal Festival Hall, the double CD is priced at £10.99 and is available from lpo.org.uk/recordings, the LPO Ticket Office (020 7840 4242) and all good CD outlets. Download or stream online via iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and others. See page 14 for more details.

On stage tonight

First Violins Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich

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

Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Catherine Craig Thomas Eisner Martin Höhmann Geoffrey Lynn Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Robert Pool Sarah Streatfeild Yang Zhang Tina Gruenberg Grace Lee Rebecca Shorrock Morane Cohen-Lamberger Caroline Frenkel Second Violins Helena Smart Guest Principal Jeongmin Kim Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra

Tania Mazzetti Kate Birchall Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Ashley Stevens Katie Littlemore Robin Wilson Sioni Williams Harry Kerr Sheila Law Alison Strange

Violas Jon Thorne Guest Principal Robert Duncan Susanne Martens Laura Vallejo Naomi Holt Isabel Pereira Daniel Cornford Martin Wray Stephanie Edmundson Miriam Eisele Cristina Gestido Charles Cross 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 Elisabeth Wiklander Chair supported by Drs Oliver & Asha Foster

Sue Sutherley Susanna Riddell Helen Rathbone Philip Taylor Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar George Peniston Laurence Lovelle Damián Rubido González Tom Walley Charlotte Kerbegian Laura Murphy

Flutes Sue Thomas* Principal

Wagner Tubas John Ryan* Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Meilyr Hughes

Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Rocco Smith Stewart McIlwham*

Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal Tom Osbourne Guest Principal Anne McAneney*

Oboes Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling* Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

Toby Street

Clarinets Thomas Watmough Principal Emily Meredith Paul Richards

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

David Whitehouse Bassoons Jonathan Davies Principal Gareth Newman Simon Estell*

Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith Principal Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal

Horns David Pyatt* Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal

John Ryan* Principal Chair supported by Laurence Watt

Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Jonathan Quaintrell-Evans Corinne Bailey Meilyr Hughes Adam Howcroft

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

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: David & Yi Buckley • Andrew Davenport • Eric Tomsett

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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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Jurowski and the LPO, keyed up to a high level of concentration, delivered [John Adams’s Harmonielehre] with the shattering force of the Big Bang. Richard Fairman, Financial Times, 31 January 2017

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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Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor

Saraste assumes full risk here, chasing the orchestra into a trapeze act without a net … much ventured, much gained!

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Jukka-Pekka Saraste has established himself as one of the leading conductors of his generation, demonstrating remarkable musical depth and integrity. Born in Heinola, Finland, he began his career as a violinist before training as a conductor with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Saraste has received the Pro Finlandia Prize, the Sibelius Medal and the Finnish State Prize for Music. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from York University, Toronto and, recently, an honorary doctorate from the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.

He has served as Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne since 2010. His previous positions include Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (2006–13), as well as the Principal Conductorships of the Scottish Chamber, Finnish Radio Symphony and Toronto Symphony orchestras. He was also Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He founded the Finnish Chamber Orchestra and its annual Tammisaari Festival, of which he is Artistic Director.

Strong will and experience in music are a conductor’s most important qualities. It takes a kind of general talent and ideal personality to become a leader of an orchestra. A conductor has to master an instrument, he needs to have experience in playing in an orchestra and education in conducting. There’s a bond between the conductor and the orchestra which may be described as a kind of telepathy. In order to convince the musicians, the conductor must have a strong conviction of the work.

As guest conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste has led many international major orchestras, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Paris, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco symphony orchestras, as well as the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonic orchestras.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, taken from the book Kapellimestari by Pekka Tarkka & Jukka-Pekka Saraste, published by Siltala 2009

His extensive discography includes the complete symphonies of Sibelius and Nielsen with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has also made a number of critically acclaimed recordings with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. His recordings with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, of works by Mahler, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Brahms, have received widespread praise.

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Anssi Karttunen cello

Anssi Karttunen displayed every possible playing technique of the cello with presence and confidence.

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Anssi Karttunen has always been at the cutting edge of classical music performance, and is one of the most innovative cellists on today’s international music scene. He started learning the cello as a four-year-old in Finland, a uniquely fertile ground for music and musicians, and subsequently built up a worldwide reputation both as soloist and chamber musician. He takes a fresh look at the work of well-known composers and brings forgotten masterpieces to the public ear, as well as his own original transcriptions. He plays on modern, classical, and baroque cellos, as well as the violoncello piccolo. A concert at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo kicked off Anssi’s 2016/17 season. Other highlights of the season include his fifth project with the Argentinian choreographer Diana Theocharidis at Teatro Colón and concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, both featuring works by Pascal Dusapin. Following tonight’s UK premiere of Lindberg’s Cello Concerto No. 2, next week he will give the work’s German premiere with the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, again conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. He gave the world premiere of the Concerto in 2013 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Anssi Karttunen is a passionate advocate of contemporary music. He has performed over 160 world premieres, and an astounding 29 concertos have been written for him. He premiered Magnus Lindberg’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestre de Paris (1999), Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Mania with Avanti! (2000), Martin Matalon’s Cello Concerto with the Orchestre National de France (2001) and Luca Francesconi’s Rest with the RAI Torino (2004). Kaija Saariaho wrote the concerto Notes on Light for Karttunen, which he premiered with the

Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Future premieres will include works by Denis Cohen, Jérôme Combier, Betsy Jolas, Oliver Knussen, Fred Lerdahl and Thierry Pécou. Anssi Karttunen has worked with world-renowned orchestras such as the BBC Symphony, NHK, Munich Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic and Philadelphia orchestras. He also performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician at Europe’s most important music festivals including Edinburgh, Salzburg, Berlin, Venice and Helsinki. Anssi’s recordings traverse a broad musical spectrum, including Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano on period instruments, 20th-century solo works, and concertos performed with the London Sinfonietta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen. Born in 1960, Anssi Karttunen studied with Erkki Rautio, William Pleeth, Jacqueline du Pré and Tibor de Machula, among others. From 1990–2005 he was Principal Cellist of the London Sinfonietta. He was Artistic Director of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra from 1994–98 and of the Suvisoitto Festival in Porvoo, Finland from 1994–97. He was Artistic Director of the Helsinki Biennale in 1995 and 1997, and the Festival Musica Nova Helsinki in 2015. Anssi Karttunen plays on a Francesco Ruggeri cello. karttunen.org

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Programme notes

Magnus Lindberg born 1958

Time was when a composer was automatically a performer, but Enescu and Rachmaninoff were probably the last major composers who were also great instrumentalists. In our day, instead, collaborative relationships grow up between composers and the musicians who give voice to their music. One of the closest and most fruitful of such partnerships in recent years has been that between Magnus Lindberg and Anssi Karttunen. They’ve been friends since their student days in Helsinki in the mid-1970s, and Lindberg has now written over a dozen works for Karttunen – two of them, indeed, for them to perform together, since they occasionally appear as a piano/ cello duo called Dos Coyotes. Another was the First Cello Concerto, which Karttunen premiered in Paris in 1999, and it was Karttunen who first performed this evening’s work, in Los Angeles in October 2013. In a note written for the first performance of the First Concerto, Karttunen drew attention to the perennial problem of cello concertos: ‘The cello has a wider range than most other instruments, but the most commonly used part of it falls precisely in the zone where a large part of the orchestra also earns their living.’ That wasn’t a problem with Lindberg’s early Concerto, and it isn’t here either. There are two main reasons: first, the orchestration is restrained (double woodwind, two horns, one each of trumpet and trombone, and strings); and when the cello interacts with the other instruments, its line is generally sustained by the strings, and its dialogues with the woodwind and brass usually involve only one or two other lines of colour in the discussion. Far from being overscored, this Concerto is striking in its clarity. In the few tuttis, the cello simply sits back for a breather and lets the rest of them get on with it.

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Cello Concerto No. 2 (UK premiere) Anssi Karttunen cello I II III

This Second Concerto has some other features in common with the First. They are both in single spans of music built from linked panels anchored around a central cadenza – improvised in No. 1, fully written out here; and variation technique is an important element in both works, too. In the mid-1980s Lindberg was one of the very first of the generation of young modernist composers who rebelled against the exclusion of classical, directional harmony from modern music, and from then on his works became more and more firmly underpinned by a clear sense of harmonic direction. The harmonic procedures in the music of the greatest of all Nordic composers, Sibelius, often suggests the large-scale unfolding of natural processes; given that Lindberg is also a Nordic composer, it was perhaps inevitable that, as his music began to merge tonal concerns with the intervallic pre-occupations of the serialist, it, too, started to become strongly suggestive of the natural world – and this Concerto is no exception. Might it mirror the passage of a day? It begins as if albeggiante, at dawn, the cello presenting the intervals on which the piece will be built – a minor third (B–D) and perfect fourth (B flat–E flat) – before slowly awakening the orchestra, soon rousing it to one of the most overtly Romantic climaxes in all of Lindberg’s music: one could almost imagine it as an evocation of the rising sun. As the music unfolds in a passacaglia-like series of variations towards the central climax, it becomes increasingly animated, not least by the semitonal runs that are characteristic of Lindberg’s orchestral writing. A quasi-cadenza unemphatically accompanied by the strings leads into the second movement – at least, that’s what’s indicated in the score, but the music continues without a break and soon leads to the central cadenza, where once again

the cello, recalling the opening B–D minor third sul ponticello [on the bridge], is offered a little gentle help from the upper strings. The cello then, with a darkening emphasis on its low C string, suddenly remembers that the tango is Finland’s national dance, and the remaining part of the cadenza does its best to tug the music in that direction; instead, it inspires the orchestra to a passage of the most glorious sea-music, rising and falling figures in woodwind and strings suggesting the heaving of the waves, with flashes of sunlight from the brass – high noon? The aspirations of the cadenza now find their release, as insistent tango rhythms open the

third movement and drive the music forward, with the cello in constant, whirling exchange with the rest of the orchestra. As the basses repeatedly pull the texture downwards, the music slows into a kind of golden sunset, during which the score instructs the soloist ‘tune C-string to B’ – and the Concerto comes to rest on an exquisite perfect fifth, B and F sharp. It’s another example of Lindberg’s highly individual reconciliation of the serialist focus on intervals with the classical goal of tonal resolution, but there’s something more important than such technical considerations: it sounds gorgeous. Programme note © Martin Anderson

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Magnus Lindberg: LPO Composer in Residence Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg became the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Composer in Residence for three years from the beginning of the 2014/15 season. Last season's highlights with the LPO at Royal Festival Hall included a performance of his Gran Duo, and the world premiere of his Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann. His Two Episodes, premiered by the LPO at last year’s BBC Proms, will be performed once again by the Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall on 6 May 2017, alongside Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Lindberg also plays an active role in the Orchestra’s education activities, mentoring the five participants on the LPO Young Composers scheme, and will conduct the annual Debut Sounds concert on 12 July 2017 showcasing the young composers' new works.

Lindberg was born in Helsinki in 1958. Following piano studies, he entered the Sibelius Academy where his composition teachers included Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen. His compositional breakthrough came with two large-scale works, Action–Situation– Signification (1982) and Kraft (1983–85), which were inextricably linked with his founding with Esa-Pekka Salonen of the experimental Toimii Ensemble. Lindberg was Composer in Residence of the New York Philharmonic from 2009–12, with new works including the concert-opener EXPO premiered to launch Alan Gilbert’s tenure as the orchestra’s Music Director, Al Largo for orchestra, Souvenir for ensemble, and Piano Concerto No. 2 premiered by Yefim Bronfman in 2012. Lindberg’s music has been recorded on the Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, Ondine, Da Capo and Finlandia labels. He is published by Boosey & Hawkes. Reprinted by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes

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Anton Bruckner

Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1951 Nowak edition) 1 2 3

Feierlich [Solemn], Misterioso Scherzo: Bewegt, lebhaft [With movement, lively] – Trio: Schnell [Fast] – Scherzo Adagio: Langsam, feierlich [Slow, solemn]

1824–96

Bruckner started work on his Ninth Symphony in August 1887. He was still working on it on the day he died, nine years later. It’s not hard to find reasons why. Bruckner’s physical health was declining, and along with it his mental stability. As his anxiety about the Ninth increased, so did the strange obsessive behaviour that had so worried friends in the past. And he would keep finding distractions: major revisions of four symphonies and two of his Masses; plus the composition of two big choral works: Psalm 150 and the cantata Helgoland. Perhaps the main problem was that Bruckner had raised the bar particularly high for his Ninth Symphony. It was to be nothing less than a summing up of his life’s achievement, with an added element of tribute to one of his musical idols: ‘I’ll write my last symphony in D minor, just like Beethoven’s Ninth’, Bruckner told his students at Vienna University. ‘Beethoven won’t object.’ Above all, the devoutly Roman Catholic Bruckner intended to dedicate his Ninth Symphony ‘dem lieben Gott’ (‘to dear God’). At the same time, there are hints that Bruckner’s confidence in his ‘dear God’ was wavering. His doctor, Richard Heller, felt sure that Bruckner ‘had drawn up a contract’ with the Almighty. ‘If He willed that the Symphony … should be finished, He should give Bruckner the time he needed for his task; if he died too soon and his musical offering was left incomplete, God had only himself to blame.’ It was to be a very close-run thing. When Bruckner died on 11 October 1896, he was almost certainly working on the last pages of the sketch-score. If so, where they ended up is anyone’s guess. Dr Heller remembered Bruckner playing the end of the Symphony on the piano. Bruckner’s biographer Max Auer also claimed that he saw a page of the sketch-score, at or near the end of the finale. Alas, this crucial page has also vanished.

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Fortunately for us, the three movements Bruckner did complete in full orchestral score comprise a satisfying musical experience in their own right. In fact the structure they present – two long, slow-paced movements framing a compact, faster Scherzo with central trio – is remarkably well balanced. The Adagio’s terrifying dissonance is surely a long way from the triumphant ‘hymn of praise’ Bruckner intended as the culmination of his last symphony. Yet the movement’s quietly resigned coda, with its fleeting tender references to some of his most successful earlier works, can be experienced as a kind of answer to the dark probing of the first movement and the nightmare visions of the Scherzo. The first movement’s structure may initially seem baffling. In marked contrast to the concentrated, economical first movement of the Eighth Symphony, there is a profusion of themes here, with many sudden changes in tempo and direction. At times the very tonal foundations of this ‘cathedral in sound’ seem to shake under our feet, and yet Bruckner draws everything together in the movement’s awe-inspiring final crescendo. Formally the central Scherzo is clarity itself. This is a big A–B–A structure, with a weirdly animated central trio section. This Scherzo’s pounding repetitive rhythms and harsh dissonances have invited comparison with Bartók, Prokofiev or Shostakovich. But the central trio section inhabits a very different world: feverish, disturbingly sensual, this too seems to peer half-nervously, halfexcitedly into the 20th century. The Adagio begins with more restless searching, initiated by an anguished violin motif, leaping upward just over an octave then plunging back downward. In the impassioned spiritual journey that follows, there are

Next concerts at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall saturday 25 March 2017 7.30pm R Strauss Death and Transfiguration Mozart Requiem (Süssmayer completion)

moments of radiance amid tormented crescendos and long wintry melodies. But the final build-up contains the most agonising music in the whole Symphony, with trombones, tuba and the other bass instruments bellowing out the Adagio’s opening violin theme, now stretched even wider. The culminating discord is left hanging in the air, unresolved. Somehow the coda manages to bring a sense of peace and long-sought stability. Bruckner never intended this to be the ending of his last symphony, but it is hard to imagine a more moving farewell. Programme note © Stephen Johnson

Recommended recordings Many of our recommended recordings, where available, are on sale this evening at the Foyles stand in the Royal Festival Hall foyer. Magnus Lindberg: Cello Concerto No. 2 Anssi Karttunen | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hannu Lintu (Ondine)

Nathalie Stutzmann conductor Kateryna Kasper soprano Sara Mingardo contralto Robin Tritschler tenor Leon Košavić baritone London Philharmonic Choir

saturday 8 April 2017 7.30pm SOLD OUT: returns only Tallis Spem in Alium Mahler Symphony No. 8 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Melanie Diener soprano Anne Schwanewilms soprano Sofia Fomina soprano* Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Patricia Bardon mezzo-soprano* Torsten Kerl tenor Matthias Goerne baritone Matthew Rose bass* London Philharmonic Choir Tiffin Boys’ Choir London Symphony Chorus Choir of Clare College, Cambridge *Please note changes of artists to originally advertised. Concert supported by an anonymous donor.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 Claudio Abbado | Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) or Bruno Walter | Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Sony)

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Latest release on the LPO Label: Dvořák Dvořák Othello Overture Symphony No. 6 Symphony No. 7 Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra

‘Nézet-Séguin drew a ripe string sound from the LPO and unleashed fearsome brass playing in the score’s violent denouement.’ Bachtrack, February 2016

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BE M OV E D 2017/18 Concert Season at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE Belief and Beyond Belief – the continuation of our year-long festival with Southbank Centre exploring what it means to be human in the 21st century

Changing Faces: Stravinsky’s Journey – we explore the life and music of Igor Stravinsky as he reacted to the 20th century’s upheavals and innovations

Soloists including Diana Damrau, Daniil Trifonov, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Julia Fischer, Leif Ove Andsnes and Gil Shaham

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A Gala performance of Wagner’s Das Rheingold in celebration of Vladimir Jurowski’s 10th season as Principal Conductor

A SPRING AWAKENING 9 April 2017, 7pm Barbican, London Carlos Miguel Prieto Conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason Soloist A totally teenage musical adventure featuring Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1 alongside his awesome Symphony No.5.

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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 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 Richard Buxton 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 Noel Otley JP and Mrs Rachel Davies Mrs Rosemarie Pardington Ms Olga Pavlova

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Mr Michael Posen Mrs Karmen Pretel-Martines Dr Eva Lotta & Mr Thierry Sciard 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 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 Randall & Maria Moore 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 Mr Christopher Stewart Peter Tausig Mr Jonathan Townley Andrew & Roanna Tusa 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 David Russell 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 Kristina McPhee

David Oxenstierna Natalie Pray 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

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Talia Lash Education and Community Project Manager