2021/22 concert season Filmed live at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
Digital concert programme War and Peace Broadcast Saturday 4 June 2022 Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 Edward Gardner conductor Generously supported by Aud Jebsen
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3 On stage 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 5 Leader: Pieter Schoeman 6 Edward Gardner 7 Marquee TV 8 Programme notes 11 LPO 2022/23 concert season: now on sale 12 Thank you 14 Sound Futures donors 15 LPO administration
Concert performed at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 27 April 2022 and filmed by Intersection. This concert was generously supported by The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
The LPO would like to acknowledge the generosity of all of its members, supporters and donors. Thank you for your support. This performance has been made possible through a grant from the Cultural Recovery Fund from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. #HereForCulture
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On stage First Violins
Pieter Schoeman* Leader
Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader Kate Oswin
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Sophie Phillips Lasma Taimina
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe Thomas Eisner Nilufar Alimaksumova Catherine Craig Will Hillman Yang Zhang
Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Gabriela Opacka Katalin Varnagy
Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Alice Hall Martin Höhmann
Chair supported by Chris Aldren
Amanda Smith
Second Violins
Tania Mazzetti Principal
Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan
Helena Smart Kate Birchall Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Nancy Elan Ashley Stevens Clarice Curradi Fiona Higham
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Sioni Williams Lyrit Milgram Eleonora Consta Sarah Thornett Jessica Coleman
Violas
Flutes
David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal
Katie Bedford Guest Principal Imogen Royce Stewart McIlwham*
Chair supported by Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp
Ting-Ru Lai Stanislav Popov Laura Vallejo Kate De Campos Katharine Leek Michelle Bruil Julia Doukakis Mark Gibbs Pamela Ferriman Linda Kidwell
Piccolo
Cellos
Cor Anglais
Stewart McIlwham* Principal
Alto Flute
Stewart McIlwham*
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday Sue Böhling* Principal
Kristina Blaumane Principal
Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi
Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden
Pei-Jee Ng Co-Principal
Clarinets
Chair supported by The Candide Trust
Benjamin Mellefont Principal Thomas Watmough Paul Richards*
David Lale Gregory Walmsley Susanna Riddell Helen Thomas Sibylle Hentschel Iain Ward Louise Dearsley Gregory Duggan
E-flat Clarinet
Thomas Watmough Principal Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Bass Clarinet
Double Basses
Paul Richards* Principal
Kevin Rundell* Principal Hugh Kluger George Peniston Charlotte Kerbegian Adam Wynter Simon Oliver Catherine Ricketts Michael Fuller
Alto Saxophone Martin Robertson
Bassoons
Jonathan Davies Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Gareth Newman
Contrabassoon
Simon Estell* Principal
Horns
John Ryan* Principal Mark Vines Co-Principal Martin Hobbs Duncan Fuller Gareth Mollison Alexander Boukikov Jonathan Lipton
Trumpets
Paul Beniston* Principal Anne McAneney* David Hilton
Trombones
Mark Templeton* Principal
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass Trombone
Lyndon Meredith Principal
Tuba
Stuart Beard Guest Principal
Timpani
Simon Carrington* Principal
Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE
Percussion
Andrew Barclay* Principal Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins
Paul Stoneman Jeremy Cornes Karen Hutt Feargus Brennan
Harps
Rachel Masters Principal Tamara Young
Piano
Catherine Edwards
Assistant Conductor Tom Seligman
* Holds a professorial appointment in London
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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.
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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, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.
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. Looking ahead to its 2022/23 season, 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; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.
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Edward Gardner Principal Conductor, London Philharmonic Orchestra
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In demand as a guest conductor, recent seasons have seen Edward debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony. He also continues his longstanding collaborations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010–16, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Night of the BBC Proms. Music Director of English National Opera for ten years (2006–15), Edward has an ongoing relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where he has conducted productions of La damnation de Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier and Werther. In London he has future plans with the Royal Opera House, where he made his debut in 2019 in a new production of Káťa Kabanová and returned for Werther the following season. The 2021/22 season saw Edward make his debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper in a new production of Peter Grimes. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Chicago Lyric Opera, Den Norske Opera and Ballet, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opéra National de Paris.
Edward Gardner began his tenure as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2021; he is also Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, a position he has held since 2015. From February 2022 he also became Artistic Advisor at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, and will take up the position of Music Director in August 2024. During the 2021/22 season Edward conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in eleven concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, opening with an acclaimed performance of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage in which the London Philharmonic Choir was joined by the ENO Chorus. On 31 August he conducts the Orchestra in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at the BBC Proms, with the LPC and the Hallé Choir. He returns to the Royal Festival Hall on 24 September to open the Orchestra’s 2022/23 season with Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder. Other LPO programmes next season include Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony, Lutosławski’s Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an Elgar symphony cycle, and – with the London Philharmonic Choir – Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass and Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust.
A passionate supporter of young talent, Edward founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with The Juilliard School of Music and with the Royal Academy of Music, who appointed him their inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Conducting Chair in 2014. Born in Gloucester in 1974, Edward was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. He went on to become Assistant Conductor of the Hallé and Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include being named Royal Philharmonic Society Award Conductor of the Year (2008), an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009) and receiving an OBE for Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).
Edward opened the Bergen Philharmonic’s 2021/22 season with a performance of John Adams’s Harmonium. Further highlights include an all-Stravinsky programme and new commissions by Thomas Larcher, Ryan Wigglesworth and Rebecka Ahvenniemi. Following recent tours to Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam and at the BBC Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, the orchestra performs in Barcelona and Paris this season.
Edward Gardner’s position at the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.
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Programme notes Benjamin Britten 1913–1976
Sinfonia da Requiem 1940
1 Lacrymosa 2 Dies irae 3 Requiem aeternam the founding of the imperial dynasty. The occasion was to include new compositions by Richard Strauss, Jacques Ibert and Sándor Veress, but Britten’s symphony was rejected by the commissioning committee, who took exception to the nature of the work and its apparent Christian content, although it had initially received approval. Britten had, in any case, resolved to write a composition imbued with as much of the spirit of pacifism as was possible. The official concert duly took place in Tokyo, with Britain unrepresented, and Strauss at his most bombastic. In the event, the Sinfonia da Requiem, dedicated to the memory of Britten’s parents, had its first performance in March 1941 at Carnegie Hall in New York, with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli.
Born in the East Anglian seaside town of Lowestoft in 1913, Britten showed early gifts as a composer, studying with Frank Bridge before a less fruitful time at the Royal College of Music in London. His association with the poet W H Auden, with whom he undertook various collaborations, was in part behind his departure with Peter Pears in 1939 for the United States, where opportunities seemed plentiful, away from the petty jealousies and inhibitions of his own country, where musical facility and genius often seemed the objects of suspicion. The outbreak of war brought its own difficulties. Britten and Pears were firmly pacifist in their views, but were equally horrified at the excesses of National Socialism and sufferings that the war brought. Britten’s nostalgia for his native country and region led to their return to England in 1942, when they rejected the easy option of nominal military service as musicians in uniform in favour of overt pacifism, but were able to give concerts and recitals, often in difficult circumstances, offering encouragement to those who heard them. The re-opening of Sadler’s Wells and the staging of Britten’s opera Peter Grimes started a new era in English opera. The English Opera Group was founded and a series of chamber operas followed, with larger scale works that established Britten as a composer of the highest stature, a position recognised shortly before his early death by his elevation to the peerage, the first English composer ever to be so honoured.
Britten, in his programme notes for the first performance, described the opening movement, Lacrymosa, as a slow marching lament with three principal motifs, the first heard from the cellos answered by a solo bassoon, the second based on the interval of a major seventh and the third alternating chords on flute and trombones. The first section leads to an extended crescendo and a climax based on the first motif. The second movement, Dies irae, which follows without a break, he describes as a Dance of Death. It leads directly to the final Requiem aeternam, with its principal melody announced by the flutes, finally returning before the sustained clarinet note with which the work ends.
The Sinfonia da Requiem was written in response to a commission in the autumn of 1939 from the Japanese government for a work to mark the 2600th anniversary of
Programme note © Keith Anderson, reproduced by kind permission of Naxos Records
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Programme notes Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872–1958
Symphony No. 5 in D major 1938–43
1 Preludio. Moderato 2 Scherzo. Presto misterioso 3 Romanza. Lento 4 Passacaglia. Moderato Throughout his long career, Ralph Vaughan Williams never lost his ability to surprise. Just when everyone had him safely pigeonholed as a romantic English pastoralist, the 62-year-old composer startled the British musical scene with his violently dissonant and fiercely concise Fourth Symphony (1931–34). As he entered his seventies, Vaughan Williams discovered an unexpected flair for writing film music. His score for Scott of the Antarctic then provided material for the Sinfonia Antartica (1949–52), in which the composer – now approaching his 80th birthday – opened up a world of new sounds, unlike anything in his work before. The Fifth Symphony (1938–43) also surprised many of its audience at its London premiere in 1943 – but for slightly different reasons. After the Fourth, and the dark-hued choral work Dona nobis pacem (1937), there was speculation as to whether the reassuring contemplative Vaughan Williams of the Tallis Fantasia and The Lark Ascending had been outgrown. This new VW seemed to be less the visionary dreamer, more the kind of artist who held a mirror up to increasingly troubled times. Yet the Fifth revealed – not so much a return to the old ways as an enrichment and development of them. The pastoral tone is unmistakable: in the quiet horn-calls at the opening of the Preludio, in the cor anglais solo haloed by ethereal string chords that begins the Romanza. But these beautifully evocative ideas acquire extra power and memorability through the way Vaughan Williams expertly ‘places’ them within a subtle and
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Programme notes a single pianissimo timpani stroke at the end. Then comes the Romanza, the heart of the Symphony, which draws on idea from Vaughan Williams’s major ongoing operatic project The Pilgrim’s Progress (composed between 1925 and 1951). Vaughan Williams was no conventional believer, but he was pleased when a friend described him as ‘The Christian Agnostic’. It was clear that he found some kind of transcendent meaning in John Bunyan’s famous tale of the Christian ‘Pilgrim’, and he distils its essence touchingly in this movement – offering it, perhaps, as a word of comfort and encouragement to a country then in the midst of a terrible war. The final movement is a ‘Passacaglia’, a movement built up over a constantly repeated theme, first presented in the bass. This builds to a grand climax at which the Symphony’s opening horn-calls are recalled by the full orchestra in great waves of sound. This vision also fades, to be followed by radiant tranquil counterpoint led by strings – Vaughan Williams’s modern recreation of the soundworld of the great Elizabethan church composers. The ending comes as near to perfect peace as any 20th-century symphony.
economically worked-out symphonic argument – the experience of concentrating his thoughts in the Fourth Symphony had had a lasting, beneficial effect. There is no need to understand the mechanics of the symphonic argument to appreciate it – Vaughan Williams hated the idea of writing for the cognoscenti alone. Still, it is worth pointing out how he plants his musical seed in the Symphony’s magical opening. The soft horn-calls are in the home key, D major; but underneath, cellos and basses play a C – a note foreign to the scale D, and thus slightly clashing with the horns. This sets up a tension, an ambiguity, which is worked through in a variety of ways in the Symphony, and only finds full resolution in the serene ending. The first movement has its more shadowy moments, especially the faster build-up at the heart of the movement, with nervous tremolando strings. The climax is a magnificent affirmation, based on a figure very like the ‘Alleluia’ from Vaughan Williams’s hymn tune Sine nomine – famous as ‘For All the Saints’. But the splendour fades, gradually returning to the hushed ambiguity of the opening.
Programme note © Stephen Johnson
A fleet-footed, ghostly Scherzo follows, its muted opening string figures disappearing deliciously into
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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
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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
London Philharmonic Orchestra on Marquee TV • 4 June 2022 • War and Peace
London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Board of Directors Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair Martin Höhmann* President Mark Vines* Vice-President Kate Birchall* David Buckley David Burke Bruno De Kegel Deborah Dolce Elena Dubinets Tanya Joseph Hugh Kluger* Katherine Leek* Al MacCuish Minn Majoe* Tania Mazzetti* Jamie Njoku-Goodwin Andrew Tusa Neil Westreich Simon Freakley (Ex officio – Chairman of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Barry Smith Martin Southgate Chris Viney Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter
Finance
Marketing
Frances Slack Finance Director
Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director
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
Hannah Foakes Tilly Gugenheim Education and Community Project Co-ordinators
Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager
*Player-Director
Fabio Sarlo Glyndebourne and Projects Manager
Advisory Council
Grace Ko Tours Manager
Martin Höhmann Chairman Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Roger Barron Richard Brass Helen Brocklebank YolanDa Brown Simon Burke 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
Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager
Development Laura Willis Development Director Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager
Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager
Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians
Mairi Warren Marketing Manager Rachel Williams Publications Manager Harrie Mayhew Website Manager Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager Ruth Haines (née Knight) Press and PR Manager Sophie Harvey Digital and Residencies Marketing Manager Greg Felton Digital Creative Kiera Lockard Marketing Assistant
Archives Philip Stuart Discographer Gillian Pole Recordings Archive
Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Professional Services
Priya Radhakrishnan Georgia Wiltshire Development Assistants
Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors
Laura Kitson Stephen O’Flaherty Stage Managers
Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director
Freddie Jackson Assistant Stage Manager
Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate
Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors
Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon London Philharmonic Orchestra 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP Tel: 020 7840 4200 Box Office: 020 7840 4242 Email: admin@lpo.org.uk lpo.org.uk
Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager
Cover photo James Wicks 2021/22 season identity JMG Studio
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