LPO concert programme: 23 Feb 2022 - Escape Velocity (Klaus Mäkelä/Javier Perianes) by London Philharmonic Orchestra

2021/22 concert season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall

Concert programme

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 Wednesday 23 February 2022 | 7.30pm

Escape Velocity John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine (4’) Jimmy López Bellido Ephemerae: Concerto for piano and orchestra (world premiere) (30’) Interval (20’) Kaija Saariaho Asteroid 4179: Toutatis (4’) R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (32’) Klaus Mäkelä conductor Javier Perianes piano

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

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Welcome LPO news On stage tonight London Philharmonic Orchestra Leader: Pieter Schoeman Klaus Mäkelä Javier Perianes Programme notes Recommended recordings Next concerts New on the LPO Label: Jessye Norman sings Strauss LPO Annual Appeal 2022 Sound Futures donors Thank you LPO administration

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LPO Young Composers 2022/23: Applications now open

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The LPO Young Composers programme aims to find and support the progression of talented orchestral composers, offering a platform to develop their orchestral compositional voice and wider music industry knowledge. Working under the mentorship of the LPO’s Composer-in-Residence (currently Brett Dean), the Young Composers spend a season with the LPO, each creating a new work for chamber orchestra that is performed by Foyle Future First musicians and LPO players at a showcase concert.

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The deadline to apply for the 2022/23 programme is 11.59pm on Friday 11 March 2022. To be eligible to apply, composers need to:

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Be over 18 years of age and not in full-time education Compose at postgraduate level or beyond, or at an equivalent standard Be based in the UK, able to attend London-based dates on the scheme (c.10–12 dates over the year) and have the time to dedicate to the opportunity Be unpublished by a major publisher Have not had a work performed by a professional symphonic orchestra in concert (unless as part of an emerging composer programme or scheme).

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On stage tonight First Violins

Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich

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 Yang Zhang

Chair supported by Eric Tomsett

Morane Cohen-Lamberger Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler

Nilufar Alimaksumova Martin Höhmann

Chair supported by Chris Aldren

Sophie Phillips Caroline Sharp Gabriela Opacka Joanne Chen Gavin Davies

Second Violins

Tania Mazzetti Principal Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan

Emma Oldfield Ashley Stevens Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham

Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley

Nynke Hijlkema Sioni Williams Joseph Maher Emma Crossley Caroline Simon Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Jessica Coleman Jamie Hutchinson Alison Strange

Violas

Piccolos

David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal

Stewart McIlwham* Principal

Marta Santamaria

Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp

Ting-Ru Lai Katharine Leek Laura Vallejo Joseph Fisher Michelle Bruil Kim Becker Raquel Bolivar Shiry Rashkovsky

Oboes

Cellos

Clarinets

Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Jennifer Brittlebank

Cor Anglais

Sue Böhling* Principal

Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi

Kristina Blaumane Principal

Benjamin Mellefont

Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden

Principal

Thomas Watmough Elliot Gresty Paul Richards*

Pei-Jee Ng Co-Principal

Chair supported by The Candide Trust

Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue David Lale Gregory Walmsley Susanna Riddell George Hoult Helen Thomas David Bucknall Sibylle Hentschel Leo Melvin

E-flat Clarinet

Thomas Watmough Principal

Chair supported by Roger Greenwood

Bass Clarinet

Paul Richards* Principal

Bassoons

Double Basses

Jonathan Davies Principal

Kevin Rundell* Principal Sebastian Pennar

Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey

Gareth Newman Emma Harding

Co-Principal

Hugh Kluger George Peniston Laura Murphy Charlotte Kerbegian Sam Rice David Johnson

Contrabassoon

Simon Estell* Principal

Horns

Flutes

Guest Principal

Imogen Royce Stewart McIlwham*

Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney* David Hilton Tom Nielsen Tony Cross

Trombones

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

David Whitehouse

Bass Trombone

Lyndon Meredith Principal

Tubas

Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal Adam Collins

Timpani

Simon Carrington* Principal Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE

Jeremy Cornes

Percussion

Andrew Barclay* Principal

Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins

Keith Millar Tom Edwards Stefan Beckett

Harps

Rachel Masters Principal Tamara Young

Celeste

Catherine Edwards

John Ryan* Principal Diego Incertis Sánchez

Organ

Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison Duncan Fuller Jonathan Lipton

Synthesizers

Guest Principal

Charlotte Ashton

Trumpets

Ian Tindale Catherine Edwards Ian Tindale * Holds a professorial appointment in London

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 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.

One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its concert performances, the Orchestra also records film soundtracks, releases CDs and downloads on its own label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities.

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; a commemorative box set of historic recordings with former Principal Conductor Sir Adrian Boult; and works by Richard Strauss under Klaus Tennstedt, featuring soprano Jessye Norman.

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.

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 Orchestra is resident at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. It also enjoys flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer

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Pieter Schoeman

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians, and recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Education and Community department, whose work over three decades has introduced so many people of all ages to orchestral music and created opportunities for people of all backgrounds to fulfil their creative potential. Its dynamic and wide-ranging programme provides first musical experiences for children and families; offers creative projects and professional development opportunities for schools and teachers; inspires talented teenage instrumentalists to progress their skills; and develops the next generation of professional musicians. The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital technology has enabled it to reach millions of people worldwide. Over the pandemic period the LPO further developed its relationship with UK and international audiences through its ‘LPOnline’ digital content: over 100 videos of performances, insights, and introductions to playlists, which collectively received over 3 million views worldwide and led to the LPO being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. From Autumn 2020 the Orchestra was delighted to be able to return to its Southbank Centre home to perform a season of concerts filmed live and streamed free of charge via Marquee TV.

Leader

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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Klaus Mäkelä conductor

the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and will tour to the UK and France.

With the Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Mäkelä performed at the 2021 summer festivals of Granada and Aix-enProvence. For his first concert in the 2021/22 season he conducted a new work by Unsuk Chin entitled Spira, Strauss’s Four Songs, Op. 27, with soloist Lise Davidsen, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. His first season as Music Director also features the music of Ligeti and Dutilleux alongside Biber, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky. In the 2021/22 season Klaus appears as a Portrait Artist at the Vienna Konzerthaus, conducting the Vienna Symphony and Oslo Philharmonic orchestras, and playing cello in chamber music. He also guest conducts the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Munich Philharmonic. Last season he appeared with the Concertgebouworkest, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Tapiola Sinfonietta. As Artist-in-Residence at Spain’s Granada Festival he conducted the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and Orchestre de Paris. At the Verbier Festival he conducted, and played cello in a chamber music programme.

Klaus Mäkelä is Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Turku Music Festival. An exclusive Decca Classics artist, he has recorded Sibelius’s complete symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic as his first project for the label, to be released in 2022. Klaus Mäkelä made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this season, when on 24 November 2021 he conducted the Orchestra in a programme of Messiaen, Debussy and Saint-Saëns with cellist Truls Mørk. He returns to the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 26 February 2022 to conduct Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Daniel Lozakovich.

Klaus Mäkelä studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula and cello with Marko Ylönen, Timo Hanhinen and Hannu Kiiski. As a cellist he has performed with several Finnish orchestras and as a chamber musician with members of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

Klaus Mäkelä launched the Oslo Philharmonic’s 2021/22 season in August with a special concert featuring Kaija Saariaho’s Asteroid 4179: Toutatis, Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, two new works by Norwegian composer Mette Henriette, and Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen. A similarly wide range of repertoire is presented throughout his second season in Oslo, including major choral works by Bach, Mozart and Walton, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, and Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 10 and 14 with soloists Mika Kares and Asmik Grigorian. Recent and new works include compositions by Sally Beamish, Unsuk Chin, Jimmy Lopez, Andrew Norman and Kaija Saariaho. In spring 2022 Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic will perform the complete Sibelius symphony cycle at the Wiener Konzerthaus and

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Javier Perianes piano

the Boulez Saal in Berlin, and returns to the San Francisco Symphony, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno. Play-direct appearances include a return to the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Real Filarmonía de Galicia, the Asturias Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. He also visits South America, returning to the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP) to perform the Jimmy López Piano Concerto, and give a solo recital. © Igor Studio

Javier Perianes frequently appears in recital across the globe and is also a natural and keen chamber musician, regularly collaborating with violist Tabea Zimmermann and the Quiroga Quartet. This season he takes on tour a programme titled ‘Love and Death’, featuring works by Chopin, Granados, Liszt and Beethoven.

The international career of Javier Perianes has led him to perform in the most prestigious concert halls with the world’s foremost orchestras, collaborating with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, Klaus Mäkelä, Sakari Oramo, Yuri Temirkanov, Gianandrea Noseda, Gustavo Gimeno, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Simone Young, Juanjo Mena, Ivan Fischer, Vladimir Jurowski, David Afkham, François-Xavier Roth and Daniel Harding. He has appeared at festivals such as the BBC Proms, Lucerne, La Roque d’Anthéron, Grafenegg, Prague Spring, Ravello, Stresa, San Sebastián, Santander, Granada, Vail, Blossom and Ravinia. Javier was awarded the National Music Prize in 2012 by the Ministry of Culture of Spain, and named Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2019. In June 2021 he was awarded the Granada Festival Medal of Honour in recognition of his longstanding relationship with the Festival, where he was also Artist-in-Residence for 2021.

Career highlights have included concerts with the Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Washington’s National, Yomiuri Nippon and Danish National symphony orchestras; the London, Vienna, Oslo, New York, Los Angeles and Czech Philharmonic orchestras; the Philharmonia Orchestra; the Orchestre de Paris; the Cleveland Orchestra; the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester; the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal; the Swedish and Norwegian Radio orchestras; the Mahler Chamber Orchestra; the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Recording exclusively for Harmonia Mundi, Javier Perianes has developed a diverse discography ranging from Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Grieg, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Bartók to Blasco de Nebra, Mompou, Falla, Granados and Turina. 2020 saw the release of Jeux de Miroirs and Cantilena. The former centres around Ravel’s Concerto in G, recorded with the Orchestre de Paris and Josep Pons, and includes the piano and orchestral versions of Le tombeau de Couperin and Alborada del gracioso. Together with Tabea Zimmerman, he released Cantilena in April 2020, a celebration of music from Spanish and Latin America. His other recent albums pay tribute to Claude Debussy on the centenary of his death, with a recording of the first book of Préludes and Estampes, and Les Trois Sonates – The Late Works, which won a Gramophone Award in 2019. In July 2021 Perianes released his latest album, featuring Chopin’s Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3 interspersed with the three Mazurkas from Op. 63.

Javier Perianes last appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in February 2019, when he performed Beethoven’s complete Piano Concertos with the Orchestra and conductor Juanjo Mena over two consecutive evenings at the Royal Festival Hall, and subsequently on tour in Spain. The 2021/22 season features an array of high-profile concerts including debuts with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra (where he begins a multi-year complete Beethoven Concertos cycle) and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. Javier also gives his first recital at

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Programme notes John Adams born 1947

Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Fanfare for orchestra) 1986

The most famous American fanfare is Hail to the Chief. Next comes Aaron Copland’s thumping huff and puff in honour of the ‘the Common Man’. Most fanfares are brilliant, some even aggressive (etymologists disagree whether the word ‘fanfare’ is onomatopoetic or actually connected with the verbal family that gives us ‘fanfaronade’, meaning blustering and bragging behaviour), though John Adams has also explored the possibilities of the restrained and pianissimo fanfare in his Tromba lontana. Short Ride in a Fast Machine is a joyfully exuberant piece, brilliantly scored for a large orchestra. The steady marking of a beat is typical of Adams’s music. Short Ride begins with a marking of crotchets (woodblock, soon joined by the four trumpets) and quavers (clarinets and synthesizers); the woodblock is fortissimo and the other instruments play forte. Adams sees the rest of the orchestra as running the gauntlet through that rhythmic tunnel. About the title: ‘You know how it is when someone asks you to ride in a terrific sports car, and then you wish you hadn’t?’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine features the usual minimalist earmarks: repetition, steady beat, and, perhaps most crucially, a harmonic language with an emphasis on consonance unlike anything in Western art music in the last 500 years. Adams is not a simple – or simple-minded – artist. His concern has been to invent music at once familiar and subtle. For all of their minimalist features, works such as Harmonium, Harmonielehre and El Dorado are full of surprises, always enchanting in the glow and gleam of their sonority, and bursting with the energy generated by their harmonic movement.

Programme note © Michael Steinberg (from The John Adams Reader), reprinted with kind permission of www.earbox.com

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Programme notes Jimmy López Bellido born 1978

Ephemerae: Concerto for piano and orchestra world premiere Javier Perianes piano 1 Bloom 2 Primal Forest 3 Spice Bazaar Fragrances may be amongst the most fleeting and ethereal sensations most sentient beings experience in their daily lives. They come in a myriad of varieties, making them incredibly hard to verbalise and categorise. Although elusive, they are also capable of making lasting impressions, remaining in our memory long after they are gone. The perfume industry has found ways to harness their power by meticulously studying them and classifying them. Michael Edwards’s Fragrance Wheel is perhaps the most known successful attempt and has become an industry standard.

which might have long vanished from Earth, but whose eerie and imperceptible vestiges can still be sensed by an imaginary, and highly sensitive, olfactory device. I cannot overstate how virtually impossible it would have been to conceive this movement had I not been inspired by Javier Perianes’s otherworldly touch. Not only is Javier capable of reaching the nether regions that exist beyond pianos and pianissimos – regions which most pianists find impenetrable – he thrives within them and is capable of producing an astonishing variety of tones and timbres. The movement swells into colossal heights only to dissolve again into the thinnest textures. After taking us through an extended transition, the movement does not end per se, but instead leads directly into our last fragrance chamber.

Divided into three movements, Ephemerae journeys along the whole fragrance spectrum, from the high floral, fruity, and marine tones, all the way to the dark tones of dry and mossy woods. It all begins with a subdued motif on the piano, an oscillating minor second between C and B natural that starts in earnest, but seems to faint with each passing repetition, like a fleeting scent. After a two-minute expository passage, ‘Bloom’, the first movement, goes on to evoke both the vigorous act of blooming and the freshness of the scents associated with spring. It is a splash of orchestral colours mirroring the piano’s relentless energy, zest and effervescence, all framed by the ever-present minor second motif.

Oriental and spicy scents overwhelm our senses during the first five minutes of ‘Spice Bazaar’. Sensuous melodies and rhythms seduce us into a trance, blurring our senses and overloading our bodies to the point of abandon and ecstasy. The room fills with an intoxicating mix of cinnamon, sandalwood, incense, patchouli and jasmine, later fusing with oak moss and lavender. Inebriated, this hypnotic trance comes to an end, leading us into fast and relentless rhythms evoking the first movement but tinged with the darkest colours of the fragrance wheel. With only a few minutes to spare, a cadenza begins, at first diaphanous, but then increasingly gaining in might and power until it reaches symphonic proportions, even though the orchestra

In ‘Primal Forest’ we explore the lush and dark dwellings of musk and wooden undertones. Here we enter an ancient realm, replete with suggestive aromas, some of

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Programme notes remains silent. The last minute harkens back to the first five minutes of this movement, bringing the work to a decisive conclusion. Ephemerae is dedicated to Javier Perianes, whom I have had the privilege to know for almost 20 years and whose exceptional sensibility and artistry have not ceased to astonish me ever since. Jimmy López Bellido © 2021 Co-commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo-Filharmonien, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and Philadelphia Orchestra.

Composer profile: Jimmy López Bellido

An ‘undeniably exciting composer’ (Opera News), with ‘a virtuoso mastery of the modern orchestra’ (The New Yorker), Jimmy López has created works performed by leading orchestras around the world and in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Kennedy Center, Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Konzerthaus Berlin, Nordic Music Days, the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games, the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, and the Aspen, Tanglewood and Grant Park music festivals. Fiesta!, one of his most famous works, has received over 100 performances worldwide, making it one of the most performed contemporary orchestral works. Bel Canto, a full-length opera commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago as part of the Renée Fleming initiative and based on Ann Patchett’s bestselling novel, was premiered in December 2015 to wide critical acclaim and was broadcast across the United States on PBS’s ‘Great Performances’. Dreamers, an oratorio that he wrote in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Nilo Cruz, was premiered by Ana María Martínez, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2019. ‘Aurora & Ad Astra’, his most recent album featuring Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Leticia Moreno and the Houston Symphony, was released in January 2022 on Pentatone. Jimmy López completed his three-year tenure as the Houston Symphony’s Composer-in-Residence in spring 2020. A native of Lima, Jimmy López studied at the city’s National Conservatory of Music prior to graduating from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki with a Master of Music degree. He completed his PhD in Music at the University of California-Berkeley. He is published by Filarmonika and Birdsong.

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

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Programme notes Kaija Saariaho born 1952

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis 2005

Asteroid 4179: Toutatis dates from 2005. In this orchestral work, Saariaho’s inspiration is astronomical: a stony asteroid classified as a near-Earth object. Bulbous and irregular, a bit like a natural stone pestle or an elongated potato, Toutatis is named for a Celtic god worshipped in ancient Gaul and Britain, probably as a protector.

Composer profile: Kaija Saariaho Born in Helsinki, Kaija Saariaho is a prominent member of a group of Finnish composers and performers who are now, in mid-career, making a worldwide impact. She studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by combining live music and electronics.

Saariaho notes: ‘I first became interested in Toutatis when reading that it is the asteroid whose orbit passes closest to Earth. When reading more and then seeing pictures of it, I started to find its unusual shape and complex rotation interesting – different areas of it rotate at different speeds. One consequence of this is that Toutatis does not have a fixed North pole like the Earth; instead, its North pole wanders along a curved path roughly every 5.4 days. The stars viewed from Toutatis wouldn’t repeatedly follow circular paths, but would crisscross the sky, never following the same path twice. So Toutatis doesn’t have anything you could call a “day”. Its rotation is the result of two different types of motion with periods of 5.4 and 7.3 Earth days that combine in such a way that Toutatis’s orientation with respect to the solar system never repeats. All these peculiarities, and the fact that Toutatis already has had many collisions with other heavenly objects, inspired me to write this small work.’

Although much of her catalogue comprises chamber works, from the mid-1990s she has turned increasingly to larger forces and broader structures, such as the operas L’Amour de Loin, Adriana Mater and Emilie. Saariaho has claimed the major composing awards including the Grawemeyer Award, the Wihuri Prize, the Nemmers Prize, the Sonning Prize and the Polar Music Prize. Always keen on strong educational programmes, she was the music mentor of the 2014–15 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, and was in residence at U.C. Berkeley Music Department in 2015. Saariaho continues to collaborate for the stage: Only The Sound Remains, an opera collaboration with Peter Sellars, was premiered in Amsterdam in 2016. Her new opera, Innocence, received its world premiere at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2021.

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Programme notes Richard Strauss 1864–1949

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 1896

1 Einleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang (Introduction, or Sunrise) 2 Von den Hinterweltlern (Of those in Backwaters) 3 Von der großen Sehnsucht (Of the Great Longing) 4 Von den Freuden und Leidenschaften (Of Joys and Passions) 5 Das Grablied (The Song of the Grave) 6 Von der Wissenschaft (Of Science and Learning) 7 Der Genesende (The Convalescent) 8 Das Tanzlied (The Dance Song) 9 Nachtwandlerlied (Song of the Night Wanderer) strategy of two contrasting sets of ideas in sharply opposed keys: C major representing nature, and the Superman who can become at one with nature; B minor and major for fallible, questioning mankind.

Richard Strauss established himself in the avant-garde of his generation with the series of tone-poems that he composed in his twenties and early thirties, bold in their effects, and striking in their use of very large orchestral forces. The most modernist of the series in many respects is the fifth, Also sprach Zarathustra, written in 1896. It was inspired by one of the most radical literary works of the 1890s, Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical poem Thus spake Zarathustra. In the poem, which has as its central figure the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra or Zoroaster, Nietzsche postulated the overthrow of all the modes of thought by which humanity had previously lived, and the emergence of a new, transcendentally self-reliant kind of being. Strauss derived from it a plan ‘to convey in music an idea of the evolution of the human race from its origin, through the various phases of development, religious as well as scientific, up to Nietzsche’s idea of the Superman’.

The work begins with its most famous passage, a glorious, elemental C major representation of a brilliant sunrise, based on a simple rising figure that throughout the work stands for nature. This is followed by four episodes concentrating on humanity and human emotions: these are shaped in a gradual acceleration to a climax, followed by a winding-down to stillness. ‘Of the Backworldsmen’ (the German Hinterweltlern puns on ‘backwoodsmen’ and ‘afterworldsmen’, or believers in an afterlife) introduces the principal theme representing fearful humanity, on pizzicato cellos and basses, and satirises religious aspirations with a mocking ‘Credo’ on muted horns and a sentimental passage for muted strings and organ. ‘Of the Great Longing’ represents man’s struggles to free himself from religious superstition. ‘Of Joys and Passions’ is a thrilling depiction of the sensual side of man’s nature;

This progressive scheme in itself virtually ruled out the traditional formal structures that underlie most of Strauss’s other tone-poems. But it did suggest an overall

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Programme notes but at the climax there is a new chromatic motif in the trombones suggesting ‘disgust’ or ‘satiety’. ‘The Song of the Grave’ is dominated by the theme of fearful mankind, and dies down to a sustained low-lying chord.

and the motif of disgust. The impasse is resolved by the theme of mankind in a more confident mood, and the section picks up impetus once more in a mood of increasingly feverish excitement.

There follow four longer episodes exploring alternatives to traditional beliefs and ingrained emotions. ‘Of Science and Learning’ begins as a slow fugue, on a theme that contains all twelve notes of the chromatic scale and several disparate rhythmic patterns – a remarkably prophetic conception for its time, even if it was intended as a parody of dry academic thought. The fugue is cut off by the return of the theme of humanity, inaugurating an episode developing earlier ideas. But the fugue is resumed with renewed vigour at the start of ‘The Convalescent’ – Strauss’s equivalent of the key passage in Nietzsche’s poem in which Zarathustra, after fasting for seven days, reaches a full understanding of his mission. This episode reaches a climax with the C major theme of nature ringing out triumphantly, only to be answered directly by the B minor voice of humanity,

A swift transition leads into ‘The Dance Song’, in which the rising figure of the nature theme becomes caught up in the rhythms of the Viennese waltz, and is combined with earlier ideas in a sustained expression of Dionysian ecstasy. The dance is still at its height when the midnight bell sounds: in Nietzsche’s poem, this is the cue for Zarathustra’s climactic statement of his message, represented here as ‘Song of the Night Wanderer’. The motif of disgust asserts itself, but is then gradually eroded; the dance rhythms die down; man’s spirit begins an ascent into the heights. But at the quiet, extraordinarily original ending, high, bright chords of B major are stubbornly opposed by the persistent low Cs of nature. Programme note © Anthony Burton

Recommended recordings of tonight’s works

Richard Strauss

by Laurie Watt John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Peter Oundjian (Chandos) Kaija Saariaho: Asteroid 4179: Toutatis Berlin Philharmonic | Simon Rattle (Warner) R Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Vienna Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan (Decca) or NHK Symphony Orchestra | Paavo Järvi (Sony download)

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Saturday 26 February 2022

Wednesday 16 March 2022

Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25, K503 R Strauss Aus Italien

Klaus Mäkelä conductor Daniel Lozakovich violin

David Zinman conductor Richard Goode piano

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Wednesday 9 March 2022

Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Brahms Four Serious Songs, Op. 121 Schoenberg Pelleas und Melisande

Judith Weir Forest Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2 Daniel Kidane Sirens Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello

Saturday 19 March 2022

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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

Welser-Möst Circle William & Alex de Winton John Ireland Charitable Trust The Tsukanov Family Foundation Neil Westreich

Tennstedt Circle Valentina & Dmitry Aksenov Richard Buxton The Candide Trust Michael & Elena Kroupeev Kirby Laing Foundation Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Alexey & Anastasia Reznikovich Sir Simon Robey Bianca & Stuart Roden Simon & Vero Turner The late Mr K Twyman

Solti Patrons Ageas John & Manon Antoniazzi Gabor Beyer, through BTO Management Consulting AG Jon Claydon Mrs Mina Goodman & Miss Suzanne Goodman Roddy & April Gow The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Mr James R.D. Korner Christoph Ladanyi & Dr Sophia Ladanyi-Czernin Robert Markwick & Kasia Robinski

The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust Mr Paris Natar The Rothschild Foundation Tom & Phillis Sharpe The Viney Family

Haitink Patrons Mark & Elizabeth Adams Dr Christopher Aldren Mrs Pauline Baumgartner Lady Jane Berrill Mr Frederick Brittenden David & Yi Yao Buckley Mr Clive Butler Gill & Garf Collins Mr John H Cook Mr Alistair Corbett Bruno De Kegel Georgy Djaparidze David Ellen Christopher Fraser OBE David & Victoria Graham Fuller Goldman Sachs International Mr Gavin Graham Moya Greene Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Tony & Susie Hayes Malcolm Herring Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Mrs Philip Kan Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Rose & Dudley Leigh Lady Roslyn Marion Lyons Miss Jeanette Martin Duncan Matthews QC Diana & Allan Morgenthau Charitable Trust Dr Karen Morton Mr Roger Phillimore Ruth Rattenbury The Reed Foundation The Rind Foundation Sir Bernard Rix

David Ross & Line Forestier (Canada) 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 Querée The Rosalyn & Nicholas Springer Charitable Trust Timothy Walker CBE 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 Anonymous donors Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Mrs Christina Lang Assael In memory of Mrs Rita Reay Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE

Orchestra Circle

The Candide Trust William & Alex de Winton Aud Jebsen Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Principal Associates

An anonymous donor Richard Buxton Gill & Garf Collins In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Hamish & Sophie Forsyth The Tsukanov Family

Associates

Anonymous donors Mrs Irina Andreeva In memory of Len & Edna Beech Steven M. Berzin Ms Veronika BorovikKhilchevskaya Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave The Lambert Family Charitable Trust Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden Julian & Gill Simmonds In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Deanie & Jay Stein

Gold Patrons

An anonymous donor Chris Aldren David & Yi Buckley David Burke & Valerie Graham David & Elizabeth Challen In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Sonja Drexler The Vernon Ellis Foundation Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Mr Roger Greenwood Malcolm Herring

John & Angela Kessler Dame Theresa Sackler Scott & Kathleen Simpson Eric Tomsett Andrew & Rosemary Tusa The Viney Family Guy & Utti Whittaker

Silver Patrons

Mrs A Beare The Rt Hon. The Lord Burns GCB Bruno De Kegel Jan & Leni Du Plessis Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Simon & Meg Freakley Pehr G Gyllenhammar The Jeniffer & Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle Wg. Cdr. & Mrs M T Liddiard OBE JP RAF Sofiya Machulskaya Mrs Elizabeth Meshkvicheva The Metherell Family Andrew Neill Peter & Lucy Noble Marianne Parsons Tom & Phillis Sharpe Laurence Watt Grenville & Krysia Williams

Geoff & Meg Mann Harriet & Michael Maunsell Marianne Parsons Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr Gerald Pettit Mr Roger Phillimore Gillian Pole Mr Michael Posen Mr Christopher Querée Sir Bernard Rix Mr Robert Ross Priscylla Shaw Patrick & Belinda Snowball Charlotte Stevenson Mr Robert Swannell Joe Topley Tony & Hilary Vines Mr & Mrs John C Tucker Mr & Mrs John & Susi Underwood Marina Vaizey Jenny Watson CBE Mr John Weekes Christopher Williams

Andrew T Mills Simon & Fiona Mortimore Mrs Terry Neale John Nickson & Simon Rew Mr James Pickford Michael & Carolyn Portillo Mr David Russell Colin Senneck & the Hartley and District LPO Group Mr John Shinton Nigel Silby Mr Brian Smith Martin & Cheryl Southgate Mr & Mrs G Stein Dr Peter Stephenson Mr Ian Tegner Dr June Wakefield Howard & Sheelagh Watson Joanna Williams Roger Woodhouse Mr John Wright

Principal Supporters

Anonymous donors Ralph & Elizabeth Aldwinckle Alexander & Rachel Antelme Julian & Annette Armstrong Lindsay Badenoch Mr Mark Bagshaw & Mr Ian Walker Mr John Barnard Mr John D Barnard Damaris, Richard & Friends Mr David Barrett Diana Barrett Mr Simon Baynham Harvey Bengen Nick & Rebecca Beresford Mr Paul Bland Mr Keith Bolderson Mr Andrew Botterill Julian & Margaret Bowden & Mr Paul Michel Richard & Jo Brass Mr & Mrs Shaun Brown Mr Alan C Butler Lady Cecilia Cadbury Mrs Marilyn Casford Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington J Clay Mr Joshua Coger Mr Martin Compton Mr Martin Connelly Mr Stephen Connock Miss Tessa Cowie Mr David Davies Mr Roderick Davies Mr David Devons Anthony & Jo Diamond Miss Sylvia Dowle Patricia Dreyfus Mr Andrew Dyke

Anonymous donors Dr R M Aickin Mr Mark Astaire Sir John Baker Tessa Bartley Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs Julia Beine Mr Anthony Boswood Dr Anthony Buckland Dr Carlos Carreno Mr Julien Chilcott-Monk Mr & Mrs Stewart Cohen David & Liz Conway Mr Alistair Corbett Andrew Davenport Mr Simon Douglas Mr B C Fairhall Mr Richard Fernyhough Mrs Janet Flynn Mrs Ash Frisby Jason George Mr Stephen Goldring Mr Daniel Goldstein Mr Milton Grundy Prof. Emeritus John Gruzelier Nerissa Guest & David Foreman Michael & Christine Henry Mark & Sarah Holford Ivan Hurry Per Jonsson Alexandra Jupin & John Bean Mr Ian Kapur Ms Kim J Koch Richard & Briony Linsell Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Nicholas & Lindsay Merriman

Bronze Patrons

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

Supporters

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Thank you

Mr Declan Eardly Mrs Maureen Erskine 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. 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

Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd

In-kind Sponsor Google Inc

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.

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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

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

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