2024/25 season at the Southbank Centre FREE CONCERT PROGRAMME
Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen
Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis
Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski KBE 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
Friday 29 November 2024 | 7.30pm
Swan Lake Weber
Overture, Oberon (10’)
Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme (18’)
Interval (20’)
Tchaikovsky
Selections from Swan Lake (40’)
Tianyi Lu conductor
Zlatomir Fung cello
*Please note that Tianyi Lu replaces Sir Andrew Davis after the sad news of his death.
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Brand new recordings: Tippett & Dean on the LPO Label
Today (29 November) sees the release of two new titles on the LPO’s own record label. The first features works by Michael Tippett conducted by Edward Gardner, pairing the Piano Concerto, performed by Steven Osborne, and the Symphony No. 2.
The second is a compilation of works by former LPO Composer-in-Residence Brett Dean, capturing seven performances – including several premiere recordings –from during his residency, including In spe contra spem, Amphitheatre, The Players, and the viola and cello concertos.
Both releases are available as physical CDs from retailers, as well as to stream or download via all major platforms including Apple Music Classical, Spotify and Amazon Music. Scan the QR codes below to listen now!
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First Violins
Pieter Schoeman* Leader
Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Alice Ivy-Pemberton Co-Leader
Vesselin Gellev Sub-Leader
Kate Oswin
Chair supported by Eric Tomsett
Lasma Taimina
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik
V. G. Cave
Minn Majoe
Chair supported by Dr Alex & Maria Chan
Elizaveta Tyun
Katalin Varnagy
Martin Höhmann
Yang Zhang
Cassandra Hamilton
Thomas Eisner
Chair supported by Ryze Power
Katherine Waller
Eve Kennedy
Second Violins
Tania Mazzetti Principal
Claudia Tarrant-Matthews
Ashley Stevens
Nynke Hijlkema
Fiona Higham
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Kate Birchall
Marie-Anne Mairesse
Joseph Maher
Nancy Elan
Sioni Williams
Ricky Gore
Sheila Law
Violas
Rachel Roberts Guest Principal
Katharine Leek
Lucia Ortiz Sauco
Martin Wray
Chair supported by David & Bettina Harden
Benedetto Pollani
Shiry Rashkovsky
Stanislav Popov
Raquel López Bolívar
Alistair Scahill
James Heron
On stage tonight
Cellos
Kristina Blaumane Principal
Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden
Leo Melvin
Waynne Kwon
Henry Hargreaves
David Lale
Jane Lindsay
Francis Bucknall
Silvestrs Kalniņš
Helen Thomas
George Hoult
Double Basses
Kevin Rundell* Principal
Hugh Kluger
George Peniston
Tom Walley
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Laura Murphy
Chair supported by Ian Ferguson & Susan
Tranter
Lowri Estell
Flutes
Juliette Bausor Principal
Alberta Brown
Piccolo
Stewart McIlwham* Principal
Oboes
Ian Hardwick* Principal
Alice Munday
Clarinets
Thomas Watmough Principal
Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Paul Richards*
Bassoons
Simon Estell*
Helen Storey*
Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Horns
John Ryan* Principal
Martin Hobbs
Mark Vines Co-Principal
Gareth Mollison
Amadea Dazeley-Gaist
Trumpets
Paul Beniston* Principal
Anne McAneney*
Chair supported in memory of Peter Coe
Cornets
Tom Nielsen Co-Principal
Tony Cross
Trombones
Mark Templeton* Principal
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
David Whitehouse
Bass Trombone
Lyndon Meredith Principal
Tuba
Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Timpani
Simon Carrington* Principal
Chair supported by Victoria Robey CBE
Percussion
Andrew Barclay* Principal
Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins
Karen Hutt
Oliver Yates
Harp
Suzy Willison-Kawalec
Guest Principal
*Professor at a London conservatoire
The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Sir Nigel Boardman & Prof. Lynda Gratton | Dr Barry Grimaldi | Sir Simon Robey
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Uniquely groundbreaking and exhilarating to watch and hear, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been celebrated as one of the world’s great orchestras since Sir Thomas Beecham founded it in 1932. Our mission is to share wonder with the modern world through the power of orchestral music, which we accomplish through live performances, online, and an extensive education and community programme, cementing our position as a leading orchestra for the 21st century.
Our home is at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, where we’re at the beating heart of London’s cultural life. You’ll also find us at our resident venues in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and on tour worldwide. In 2024 we celebrated 60 years as Resident Symphony Orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, combining the magic of opera with Glyndebourne’s glorious setting in the Sussex countryside.
Soundtrack to key moments
Everyone will have heard the Grammy-nominated London Philharmonic Orchestra, whether it’s playing the world’s National Anthems for every medal ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, our iconic recording with Pavarotti that made Nessun Dorma a global football anthem, or closing the flotilla at The Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. And you’ll almost certainly have heard us on the soundtracks for major films including The Lord of the Rings
Sharing the wonder worldwide
We’re one of the world’s most-streamed orchestras, with over 15 million plays of our content each month. In 2023 we were the most successful orchestra worldwide on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with over 1.1m followers across all platforms, and in spring 2024 we featured in a TV documentary series on Sky Arts: ‘Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra’, still available to watch via Now TV. During 2024/25 we’re once again working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts to enjoy from your own living room.
Our conductors
Our Principal Conductors have included some of the greatest historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, and Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his impact as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is our current Principal Guest Conductor, and Tania León our Composer-in-Residence.
Next generations
We’re committed to nurturing the next generation of musicians and music-lovers: we love seeing the joy of children and families experiencing their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about inspiring schools and teachers through dedicated concerts, workshops,
resources and training. Reflecting our values of collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with disabilities and special educational needs.
Today’s young instrumentalists are the orchestra members of the future, and we have a number of opportunities to support their progression. Our LPO Junior Artists programme leads the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers. We also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, supporting the development of two outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds under-represented in the profession.
2024/25 season
Principal Conductor Edward Gardner leads the Orchestra in an exciting 2024/25 season, with soloists including Joyce DiDonato, Leif Ove Andsnes, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Víkingur Ólafsson and Isabelle Faust, and works including Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis joins us for three concerts including Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, and Mozart with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. We’ll also welcome back Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski, as well as guest conductors including Mark Elder, Lidiya Yankovskaya, Robin Ticciati and Kevin John Edusei.
Throughout the season we’ll explore the relationship between music and memory in our ‘Moments Remembered’ series, featuring works like Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony, Strauss’s Metamorphosen and John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls. During the season there’ll be the chance to hear brand new works by composers including Freya Waley-Cohen and David Sawer, as well as performances by renowned soloists violinist Gidon Kremer, sarod player Amjad Ali Khan, soprano Renée Fleming and many more. The season also features tours to Japan, the USA, China and across Europe, as well as a calendar bursting with performances and community events in our Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden residencies. lpo.org.uk
Pieter Schoeman 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 Rachmaninoff Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he regularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music partners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter, Veronika Eberle, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Boris Garlitsky, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.
Pieter has performed numerous times as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have included an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at the Royal Festival Hall, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristina Blaumane, Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the Britten Double Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim.
Pieter has appeared as Guest Leader with the BBC, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Lyon and Baltimore symphony orchestras; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Pieter’s chair in the LPO is generously supported by Neil Westreich.
Internationally known for her thrilling energy on the podium, her deeply creative approach to the repertoire, and her open-hearted style of leadership, Chinese-born New Zealander Tianyi Lu collaborates with major orchestras and opera houses worldwide. Her work is driven by an ethos of empowerment, creating connection and compassion across diverse communities through music.
After winning First Prize in 2020 at both the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition and the International Conducting Competition ‘Guido Cantelli’ in Italy, Tianyi Lu was appointed Conductor-inResidence with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway, a position she held until the end of the 2023/24 season. She was Principal Conductor of the St Woolos Sinfonia in Wales until 2024, and Assistant Conductor of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra from 2017–19.
Tianyi Lu made her London Philharmonic Orchestra debut last December, when she conducted a programme of Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov at the Royal Festival Hall. Other recent highlights include concerts and recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. A former Dudamel Fellow, Tianyi made her Hollywood Bowl debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2021, and returned for her Disney Hall debut in April 2023. In autumn 2021, she conducted performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, and in 2023 she appeared at Theater Basel to conduct the world premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s production of ‘Marie & Pierre’, composed for the Theater Basel by Celeste Oram.
In August 2024 Tianyi Lu made her BBC Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and cellist Sol Gabetta. This season also sees debuts with the New York Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt and Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Return engagements include the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Seattle Symphony and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, among others.
Passionately committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and to building a more empathetic world through the arts, Tianyi Lu is on the Board of Directors for the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and an Artist Ambassador for Opera for Peace. She is regularly invited to speak about her experiences in empowering leadership, transforming cultures, resilience and wellbeing. She has appeared on Welsh National Opera’s Podcast ‘The O Word’; has spoken as a guest for London Marathon Events and the ‘Do More Good’ podcast; and conducted and hosted ‘Ears Wide Open’ concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Tianyi Lu completed her Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting with Distinction at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2015, where she studied with David Jones. She has assisted and attended masterclasses with Sir Andrew Davis, Xian Zhang, Daniele Gatti and Bernard Haitink, and is an alumnus of the Hart Institute for Women Conductors at The Dallas Opera. Other teachers and mentors have included Sian Edwards, Carlo Rizzi, Neemi Järvi, Alexander Polianichko, Kenneth Kiesler, Carlo Montanaro and Alice Farnham.
Sir Andrew Davis CBE, 1944–2024
Tonight’s concert was originally scheduled to be conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Following the sad news of Sir Andrew’s death in April 2024, we were grateful to Tianyi Lu for stepping in to conduct this concert. Sir Andrew was a mentor to Tianyi at the very beginning of her career, and also a dear friend. She would like to dedicate tonight’s concert ‘in remembrance of the profound impact he had on so many lives’.
Astounding audiences with his boundless virtuosity and exquisite sensitivity, Zlatomir Fung is poised to become one of the preeminent cellists of our time. He made his London Philharmonic Orchestra debut in February 2023, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in Brighton and Eastbourne under conductor Gergely Madaras. Tonight marks his Royal Festival Hall debut.
Last season saw Zlatomir as Artist-in-Residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, appearing in three concerts at London’s Cadogan Hall and touring the UK with the orchestra. In North America, he made his concerto debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Festival and with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Further afield, he made debuts with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and with the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra at the WeiWuYing Festival, and embarked on extensive tours of Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Other recent concerto highlights include his debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille, BBC Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
This season sees debuts with the Polish National Radio Symphony, Barcelona Symphony and George Enescu Philharmonic orchestras. Further afield, Zlatomir returns to Taiwan to perform the Rococo Variations with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden, and with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with Andreas Delfs. On the recital stage, he appears in New York and Boston, and tours France, Italy and Japan.
Zlatomir Fung made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2021, and was described by Bachtrack as being ‘one of those rare musicians with a Midas touch: he quickly
envelops every score he plays in an almost palpable golden aura’. Other recent highlights include returns to the Wigmore Hall and appearances at the Verbier, Dresden, Janáček May and Tsinandali festivals, Cello Biennale, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, ChamberFest Cleveland and Aspen Music Festival.
Alongside demonstrating a mastery of the canon, Zlatomir brings an exceptional insight into the depths of contemporary repertoire, championing composers such as Unsuk Chin, Katherine Balch and Anna Clyne. In 2023, with the Dallas Symphony under the baton of Gemma New, he gave the world premiere of Katherine Balch’s Whisper Concerto with ‘jaw-dropping brilliance’ (Dallas Morning News), as dedicatee of the work.
In 2019 Zlatomir Fung became the youngest cellist ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. A winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2017 Astral National Auditions, he has also taken top prizes at the 2018 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, the 2016 George Enescu International Cello Competition, the 2015 Johansen International Competition for Young String Players, the 2014 Stulberg International String Competition and the 2014 Irving Klein International Competition. He was selected as a 2016 US Presidential Scholar for the Arts, and was awarded the 2016 Landgrave von Hesse Prize at the Kronberg Academy Cello Masterclasses.
Of Bulgarian and Chinese heritage, Zlatomir Fung began playing cello at the age of three, and later earned fellowships at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Heifetz International Music Institute, MusicAlp, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. A proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, he studied at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy, and in 2024 was appointed to the cello faculty there.
Zlatomir Fung was announced as a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Winner in 2022. He plays a circa 1730 cello by Domenico Montagnana, on loan from a generous benefactor.
Programme notes
Carl Maria von Weber
1786–1826
Overture, Oberon
1826
In August 1824 Weber – dangerously ill with tuberculosis but worried for his family’s financial future – accepted an invitation to compose and conduct a new opera for London’s Covent Garden Theatre. Of the two subjects proposed – Goethe’s Faust and Christoph Martin Wieland’s verse romance Oberon – Weber chose the latter, with its juxtaposition of two stories: a quarrel between the fairy-king Oberon and his queen Titania, and the more earthly concerns of Sir Huon of Bordeaux, a knight of Charlemagne.
Although Oberon is considered by some to be Wieland’s finest creation, the English libretto prepared for Weber by James Robinson Planché is a much less perfect work which turns the poem into a nonsensical mixture of pantomime and spectacle, yet the opera was warmly received at its première on 12 April 1826. For its ailing
composer, however, the strain of the journey and of numerous rehearsals, performances and social events was too much: on 5 June – the day before he was due to return to Germany – he was found dead in his lodgings in Great Portland Street.
Weber composed the overture to Oberon last, completing it only three days before the premiere. Like his overtures to Der Freischütz and Euryanthe, it presents in concentrated form some of the elements of the ensuing drama, distilling them into a loose sonata structure. In the slow introduction we hear the short horn figure associated with Oberon himself, followed by fragments of fairy music and the march of Charlemagne’s court. The main body of the piece also contains music from the opera, the surging first theme coming from a quartet in Act 2 and the tender second from one of Huon’s arias, while also included is part of the opera’s best-known number, ‘Ocean! Thou mighty monster’.
In the cello, Tchaikovsky found the ideal vehicle for his own brand of melancholy-tinged Romanticism. And in the cellist Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, the composer encountered the human inspiration he needed to write a handful of works for the instrument. Fitzenhagen, a German, became a student at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1870 where he struck up a friendship with Tchaikovsky, playing the cello in the first performances of the composer’s string quartets. Soon enough, Tchaikovsky was persuaded to write a series of works for his friend.
The first was this set of miniatures for cello and orchestra, based on a theme which the composer labelled Rococo – implying the sort of intricacy and grace associated with a certain form of florid late Baroque architecture and design. Tchaikovsky invented
the theme himself, which was probably intended as a salute to Mozart. Its cheerful, skipping disposition conceals the severe depression Tchaikovsky was experiencing when he wrote it. His new opera Vakula the Smith and his ballet Romeo and Juliet had both been lampooned by a faction of hostile critics. Emotional highs and lows were common in Tchaikovsky’s life. They almost always informed the nature of his music, but not always in the most obvious ways. There’s little overt tragedy in the Variations, which tend to move between wistful lyricism and virtuoso sparkle.
Before the premiere in Moscow in 1877, Fitzenhagen suggested certain changes, and eventually the composer sanctioned a wholesale re-arrangement by the cellist. Fitzenhagen’s version, which is used today despite the publication of Tchaikovsky’s original some
years ago, jettisons one of Tchaikovsky’s original variations (there were originally nine) and changes the order of the others.
Fitzenhagen’s edition of the piece came to irritate Tchaikovsky, but there’s no denying it gives the work the feel of a full concerto in its clearer sense of shape and of a journey completed. The original theme is easily traceable through the seven variations even when it’s not technically there: it’s merely implied through
snippets in the orchestra-soloist exchanges of Variation 2 and outlined with skeletal suggestions in the penultimate Andante (in Variation 5 it’s not heard on the cello at all, but the flute). The piece’s delicacy and inventiveness – and its sense of space and freedom – raise it high above the status of a musical distraction. When Franz Liszt heard the variations in 1879, he declared that ‘here, at last, is music again.’
An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Programme notes
In his three great ballet scores, Tchaikovsky brought to the world of the dance his unique gifts as a melodist and an orchestral colourist, and also a ‘symphonic’ approach to narrative continuity that emancipated music from its previous role in the Russian ballet as mere accompaniment to a series of divertissements. This must have come as a shock to the audiences of his first ballet, the darkly Romantic Swan Lake, when it was produced at the Imperial Theatre in Moscow in 1877. Tchaikovsky first had the idea of compiling a concert suite from the score at the time of its first revival in 1882, but apparently never carried it out. There are various suites in existence: tonight’s selection is a sequence chosen by conductor Sir Andrew Davis for tonight’s concert before his untimely death earlier this year.
The (anonymous) scenario of Swan Lake is based on a German fairytale. The Princess Odette and her attendants have been captured by the evil magician Rothbart, and during the day appear only as swans on an enchanted lake. Tonight’s music begins with the atmospheric ‘Scene’ that begins the second of the four acts, set by the lakeside at nightfall. In a castle near the lake lives Prince Siegfried, who is coming of age and must now choose a bride. Act I is set at his birthday celebrations, and includes the familiar Waltz, with its graceful main melody and ingenious syncopations.
In Act II, Siegfried, out on a night hunt, sees Odette in human form, and falls in love with her. From the extended ‘Dance of the Swans’ at this point, this selection includes the attractive number that in later productions was renamed ‘Dance of the Cygnets’. This is followed by the scene (or ‘Pas d’action’) for the Prince and Odette, with its lyrical solo writing for violin and, later, cello.
Act III takes place at a ball in the castle, at which Siegfried is expected to choose a bride. The guests are entertained by a series of national dances, beginning with a Hungarian Dance or czardas, in the traditional slow–fast form, followed by a Russian Dance (a virtuoso violin showpiece), a Spanish Dance and a Neapolitan Dance. At the ball, Siegfried is tricked by Rothbart into pledging himself to the magician’s daughter Odile, disguised by magic as Odette. When the deception is revealed, he rushes through a storm to the lakeside. In the dramatic final Scene, he begs Odette’s forgiveness, and they are united in death beneath the waves, thus vanquishing Rothbart’s magic and freeing the other swans from the spell.
Weber: Overture, Oberon The Hanover Band | Anthony Halstead (Nimbus Records: download via Presto Classical)
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) | Berlin Philharmonic | Herbert von Karajan
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’ | Vladimir Jurowski (Pentatone)
Courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London
Strauss, Berg & Brahms
Wednesday 15 January 2025 | 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
R Strauss Metamorphosen
Berg Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No. 2
Edward Gardner conductor
Isabelle Faust violin
On the Transmigration of Souls
Saturday 18 January 2025 | 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall
Haydn Missa in tempore belli
György Kurtág Petite musique solennelle
John Adams On the Transmigration of Souls
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Anna Devin soprano
Hanna Hipp mezzo-soprano
Rupert Charlesworth tenor
Trevor Eliot Bowes bass
London Philharmonic Choir
Tiffin Youth Choir
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Wednesday 22 January 2025 | 7.30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Perry Requiem for Orchestra
Evan Williams Dead White Man Music
(Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble)
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Richard Egarr conductor/harpsichord
Alice Ivy-Pemberton violin
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
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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.
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Thank you
Preferred Partners
Jeroboams
Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd
Neal’s Yard Remedies
OneWelbeck
Sipsmith
Steinway & Sons
In-kind Sponsor Google Inc
Trusts and Foundations
ABO Trust
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Cockayne Grants for the Arts in London
Dunard Fund
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Jerwood Foundation
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Institute Adam Mickiewicz
Kirby Laing Foundation
The John S Cohen Foundation
The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust
Kurt Weill Foundation
Lord and Lady Lurgan Trust
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Scops Arts Trust
Sir William Boreman’s Foundation
TIOC Foundation
Vaughan Williams Foundation
The Victoria Wood Foundation
The Viney Family
The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust
and all others who wish to remain anonymous.
Board of the American Friends of the LPO
We are grateful to the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who assist with fundraising for our activities in the United States of America:
Simon Freakley Chairman
Kara Boyle
Jon Carter
Jay Goffman
Alexandra Jupin
Natalie Pray MBE
Damien Vanderwilt
Marc Wassermann
Elizabeth Winter
Catherine Høgel Hon. Director
LPO International Board of Governors
Natasha Tsukanova Chair
Mrs Irina Andreeva
Steven M. Berzin
Shashank Bhagat
Irina Gofman
Olivia Ma
George Ramishvili
Florian Wunderlich
Redefining Healthcare Redefining Healthcare
Situated in the heart of London’s Marylebone district, OneWelbeck is one of the UK’s largest private medical facilities for outpatient diagnostics, therapies and minimally invasive surgeries. With over 300 consultants partnered across 17 specialist centres of practice, OneWelbeck delivers a better standard of treatment to our patients
Our facilities include:
Our facilities include:
9-storey facility in central London
UK’s only 3D mole mapping service
Dedicated chronic pain clinic
Dedicated sleep centre
In-house pharmacy
Cutting edge imaging machines
London Philharmonic Orchestra Administration
Board of Directors
Dr Catherine C. Høgel Chair
Nigel Boardman Vice-Chair
Mark Vines* President
Kate Birchall* Vice-President
Emily Benn
David Buckley
David Burke
Michelle Crowe Hernandez
Deborah Dolce
Elena Dubinets
Simon Estell*
Tanya Joseph
Katherine Leek*
Minn Majoe*
Tania Mazzetti*
Jamie Njoku-Goodwin
Neil Westreich
David Whitehouse*
Simon Freakley (Ex officio –Chairman of the American Friends of the LPO)
