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A symphony is not just a composition; it is an inner confession at different stages of one’s life. Jean Sibelius
sibelius symphony cycle
FUNHARMONICS
Backstage
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Osmo Vänskä looks ahead to this autumn’s Sibelius journey
Magical family concerts at Royal Festival Hall
Meet the Orchestra’s new Principal Flute, Juliette Bausor
New on the LPO Label Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 3 10 Songs (arr. Jurowski)
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In lieblicher Bläue | Alleluia The Stations of the Sun Vladimir Jurowski conductor Carolin Widmann violin London Philharmonic Choir £9.99 LPO-0089 | Released March 2016
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elcome to the Autumn 2016 edition of the London Philharmonic Orchestra newsletter, Tune In. Our 2015/16 Royal Festival Hall concert season may have finished on a high back in April, but the Orchestra has been busy with a packed summer of tours, festivals, fundraising events including our most successful Gala ever, two sell-out BBC Proms, and of course our annual residency at Glyndebourne: read a round-up on pages 4–5. As this edition goes to print, we’re busy gearing up for the opening of our 2016/17 season at Royal Festival Hall on 23 September. One of the highlights in store this autumn is a complete cycle of all seven Sibelius symphonies, conducted by renowned Sibelius interpreter and fellow Finn Osmo Vänskä. The symphonies will be paired with works by British composers of the same period including Walton, Vaughan Williams and Elgar, with a fantastic array of soloists including cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Tasmin Little. Read an interview with Osmo Vänskä on page 8, in which he talks to Andrew Mellor about a lifetime conducting these symphonies, and what he has learnt – and is still learning – from them. Looking ahead to the New Year, nearly all our 2017 concerts from January to December will form part of Belief and Beyond Belief, a year-long, multi-artform Southbank Centre festival exploring music, art, culture, science, philosophy, rituals and traditions that have informed belief, religion and spirituality: more on this in the next issue. Needless to say it promises to be a fascinating, exciting and thought-provoking festival year, with numerous pre- and post-concert talks and
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events planned to add extra depth and insight to our concerts. The January–May concerts are on sale now, and the September– December concerts will be announced when our 2017/18 season is launched at the end of January. As well as our live performances, our LPO recording label – now into its second decade – continues to go from strength to strength, with over 90 titles now available on CD and to stream or download. Turn to page 9 to read more about our latest releases and future plans. It goes without saying that the musicians of the Orchestra are among the most talented in the world, but they couldn’t do their jobs without the support of a dedicated and hard-working team of around 30 administrative and backstage staff, who look after everything from finance, to IT, to driving
Contents summer 2016 roundup 04–05 new & noteworthy 06–07 sibelius symphony cycle 08 recordings news 09 staff picks 10–11 funharmonics 12 Concert listings 13–15 Backstage: juliette bausor 16
the truck! All are inspired by a passion for music and the talent of the players they work alongside. Turn to pages 10–11 to meet a few of them and find out which pieces they’re looking forward to hearing this season. In our regular ‘Backstage’ interview feature on page 16 we get to know one of the Orchestra’s newest members, Juliette Bausor, who joined us recently as Principal Flute. If you’d like to give us feedback on anything in this issue – or about any of our concerts or activities – we’d love to hear from you. Join the conversation on Twitter or Facebook (links below), email us at admin@lpo.org.uk, or call 020 7840 4200. Alternatively, come and chat to us at the LPO information desk in the Royal Festival Hall foyer on concert nights. If you haven’t already got a copy of our 2016/17 season brochure, do pick one up next time you’re at Royal Festival Hall, or give us a call to request one. In the meantime, turn to page 13 for full listings for the autumn both in the UK and abroad. I hope you will be able to join us this season. Thank you for your support of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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lpo news
summer 2016 roundup
sounds & sweet airs – 2016 gala
Pieter Schoeman and Andrew Storey perform Bach’s Double Violin Concerto
a royal occasion Tuesday 14 June heralded an extraordinary concert at Apethorpe Palace, a magnificent Jacobean building in Northamptonshire. Previously owned by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Palace truly came into its own in the 17th century under James I, an ardent bon viveur renowned for hosting evenings of music at which centre stage was given to ‘instruments which faint spirits and muses cheer’. The Orchestra was honoured to be invited by the present owners, Baron and Baroness Pfetten-Iseux, to perform the first concert at the royal residence for centuries, for an intimate audience of special guests. In the beautiful Long Gallery, in the presence of the Orchestra’s Royal Patron, His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, the Orchestra performed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Bach’s Double Violin Concerto and Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. LPO Leader Pieter Schoeman was joined on stage by Andrew Storey (Principal Second Violin, pictured above with Pieter) and guest leader Philippe Honoré, as well as members of the Orchestra. The unseasonal downpours did nothing to dampen spirits and the Orchestra received a rapturous reception, after which delighted guests were invited to explore the state rooms and grounds of this beautiful historic palace.
Our annual fundraising Gala, this year christened ‘Sounds & Sweet Airs’, took place on 27 April in the stunning surroundings of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. In homage to 2016’s ‘Shakespeare400’ celebrations, the beautiful Chapel played host to performances inspired by the Bard in the quatercentenary of his death. Guests enjoyed music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet, including a star turn from Vladimir Jurowski on the harpsichord. Simon Callow was also on hand as a gregarious Master of Ceremonies. The dinner, served in the glorious Painted Hall (above), featured further entertainment in the form of a sassy brass rendition of music from West Side Story, another nod to Shakespeare’s profound influence on the arts. Rousing and competitive bidding in the live and silent auctions resulted in our most successful Gala to date: over £233,000 was raised towards the core work of the Orchestra. FIND OUT MORE lpo.org.uk/support/gala
Between this season’s Glyndebourne performances, the Orchestra’s members threw themselves into an action-packed summer of sporting fundraising events. On 10 July a team of 24 musicians, staff and supporters – both seasoned runners and complete beginners – took part in the Vitality British 10K London Run in aid of our BrightSparks schools concerts series. They raised over £20,000, which will allow over 2200 young people from our South London communities and further afield to attend one of our live schools concerts, many for the very first time. Thank you to everyone who sponsored and supported our runners! If you’re inspired to get your trainers on for next year you can pre-register your interest now with Helen Yang: helen.yang@lpo.org.uk 19 July saw the second annual LPO Charity Golf Day at The Berkshire Golf Club. Sporting players Stewart McIlwham (piccolo), Gareth Newman (bassoon), Lee Tsarmaklis (tuba) and George Peniston (double bass) were joined as captains by special guest Bryn Terfel CBE. lpo.org.uk – 04 –
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from the Cayman Islands ... In February a quintet of LPO brass players jumped at the chance to escape the London drizzle and jet off to the Caribbean, where they were invited to perform at the Cayman Arts Festival. The musicians also led a workshop with young brass players at a local school and attended a reception at the Governor’s House. where are we off to next? lpo.org.uk/tours
GLYNDEBOURNE 2016
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The Orchestra has been resident at Glyndebourne Festival Opera since 1964, spending the summer months performing at this beautiful opera house in the Sussex countryside. Surrounded by glorious gardens in which the audience can picnic during the long dinner interval, Glyndebourne is one of the most magical experiences of the English summer season. It’s a real annual highlight for the LPO players, who work incredibly hard to maintain the same flawless standard in the pit night after night, but also find time to relax between rehearsals and performances, enjoying leisurely pursuits from fishing to kite-flying! Between May and September this year the Orchestra gave performances of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under conductor Michael Güttler; Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Enrique Mazzola; Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict with Antonello Manacorda; and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream under Jakub Hrůša. Il barbiere di Siviglia and Beatrice et Bénédict were broadcast live to cinemas around the UK and streamed online, and Beatrice et Bénédict was also recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3. This summer saw the release of two new DVDs from the 2015 Festival, Donizetti’s Poliuto and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia – see page 9 for full details. FIND OUT MORE
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BBC PROMS 2016 This summer the LPO gave two sold-out BBC Proms performances at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert on 24 July, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, opened with the world premiere of Two Episodes by the LPO’s Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg, followed by Beethoven’s epic Symphony No. 9 (Choral) with the London Philharmonic Choir. The following evening the Royal Albert Hall welcomed the annual Glyndebourne Prom, this year a semi-staged concert performance of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with soloists and chorus from this summer’s Glyndebourne production, conducted by Enrique Mazzola. The Orchestra will give a second performance of Lindberg’s Two Episodes on 6 May at Royal Festival Hall. lpo.org.uk – 05 –
On 19 July the Orchestra gave a free public outdoor performance at Canada Square Gardens as part of the Canary Wharf Summer Gala concert series. The programme of Beethoven, Mozart and Rossini was conducted by Matthew Coorey.
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new & noteworthy tours coming up This autumn is a busy one for European tours, with visits to Germany and Hungary in late September followed by a major tour of Germany, France and Austria (ten venues in 11 nights!) in mid-November, with conductor Robin Ticciati and violinist AnneSophie Mutter. December sees a tour of Spain taking in Madrid, Valencia and Alicante before the Orchestra returns to Germany and Austria in the run-up to Christmas. Full tour details are on page 15. Future plans include two concerts at New York’s Lincoln Center on 26 & 27 February 2017, as well as mutiple tours to other European destinations. lpo on tour lpo.org.uk/tours
pandemonium at the lpo Who could forget cabaret sensation Meow Meow’s acclaimed performance in the Orchestra’s 2013 production of Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera? Since then Meow’s triumphed as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe, and on 1 November she returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall. She’ll be joined by members of crossgenre band Pink Martini for a whirlwind tour of cabaret history featuring Piazzolla, Weill, Brecht, Brel, Radiohead and original chansons from the singer herself. Entitled Meow Meow’s Pandemonium, the show promises to be a spectacular night of ‘orchestrated chaos’. find out more and book online lpo.org.uk/meowmeow
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ravi shankar: Sukanya In May 2017 the Orchestra will give the world premiere performances of Sukanya by Indian legend Ravi Shankar, on which he was working at the time of his death in 2012. Shankar envisaged Sukanya as a groundbreaking piece of musical theatre exploring common ground between the music, dance and theatre of India and the West. British composer and conductor David Murphy has collaborated with novelist Amit Chaudhuri to bring the project to fruition. The four performances will take place in Leicester, Manchester, Birmingham and London. Sukanya is a co-production between The Royal Opera, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Curve, Leicester. more details lpo.org.uk/sukanya
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It’s always a privilege to work with living composers and bring their new works to fruition. This season we’re looking forward to a new Flute Concerto by American maverick Aaron Jay Kernis, which receives its UK premiere on 11 February under Andrés Orozco-Estrada with flautist Marina Piccinini, for whom the work was composed. Marina explains: ‘The Concerto is almost Wagnerian in its scope, which isn’t what you think of when you think about the flute ... it’s not a simple little pastoral work.’ 22 March sees an all-Finnish event, as cellist Anssi Karttunen gives the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with the LPO under Jukka-Pekka Saraste. And on 6 May there’s a second chance to hear Lindberg’s latest orchestral work Two Episodes, which received its world premiere at the 2016 BBC Proms with the LPO in July. find out more and book online lpo.org.uk/performances
LPO on instagram We’re now on Instagram! Follow us @londonphilharmonicorchestra for exclusive backstage access. We’re sharing behind-thescenes content to give you an insight into all things LPO, from the musicians themselves, to the On The Road team, and to the audiences at our concerts – tag us #londonphilharmonicorchestra
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New members Sebastian, Tania and Jonathan
Congratulations to LPO Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski, who was presented with an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Music by HRH The Prince of Wales at the College’s Annual Awards Ceremony on 10 March 2016. Other recipients of the honour alongside Jurowski were conductor Sir Roger Norrington and composer Steve Reich.
player playlists Over the last few months the LPO players have been creating Spotify playlists of music that mean something special to them, from their most memorable LPO recordings to music they walk the dog to! Find out what inspired percussionist Henry Baldwin’s GCSE art project; which piece changed oboist Alice Munday’s mind about Sibelius; and which pop band partied with violinist Kate Birchall aboard their tour bus ... listen to the playlists lpo.org.uk/news
buy your concert programme online Don’t forget you can save time by buying your MUSIC IS OUR WORLD. concert programme when WE WANT TO SHARE you book your concert ITS ASTONISHING tickets at lpo.org.uk. At POWER AND WONDER the checkout stage, just WITH YOU. choose the option to add a £3 programme voucher to your basket, which you can exchange at Royal Festival Hall for a programme on the night. You can also now redeem LPO credit vouchers and gift vouchers online for LPO concert tickets and CDs at lpo.org.uk Concert programme lpo.org.uk
We’ve welcomed four new members to the Orchestra since the last edition of Tune In. Sebastian Pennar joined us in April as Sub-Principal Double Bass, and Juliette Bausor in July as Principal Flute [meet Juliette in our Backstage interview on page 16]. In September Tania Mazzetti joined the Second Violin section and in October Jonathan Davies joins us as Principal Bassoon. At the end of the 2015/16 season we said goodbye to Co-Principal Trumpet Nicholas Betts, who moved on after 14 years with the Orchestra. meet our members
in the office In April our Development team said goodbye to Kathryn Hageman, Individual Giving Manager, and welcomed her successor Rosie Morden. The team also welcomed Amy Sugarman – previously PA to the Chief Executive – to the role of Development Assistant, after Rebecca Fogg left earlier in the year. In June we said hello to new Digital Projects Manager Martin Franklin and Tours Manager Sophie Kelland, stepping into the shoes of Alison Atkinson and Jenny Chadwick respectively. We also welcomed our new Marketing Intern Oli Frost in September, after Natasha Berg completed her year with us. We were delighted to welcome back Rachel Williams (Publications Manager) and Isabella Kernot (Education & Community Director) from maternity leave in the spring, and are very grateful to Sarah Breeden and Clare Lovett respectively for covering the posts while they were on leave. find a staff member
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farewell bob! At the end of last season we bade a fond farewell to Principal Clarinet Robert Hill, who retired from the Orchestra after an impressive 44 years. LPO President and Principal Piccolo Stewart McIlwham paid tribute to Bob’s extraordinary career: ‘Bob joined the LPO as Principal Clarinet in 1972 and he has graced the woodwind section ever since. As a colleague it’s been a privilege to share a part of that time with him on the concert platform and to experience his extraordinary and rare musicianship. Despite the pressures and the ups and downs of life on the London music scene, Bob’s constant good humour and approach have been a source of inspiration and a model of how to survive the demands of the job. There are not really the words to properly do justice to the contribution that Bob has made to the London Philharmonic Orchestra over his long and distinguished career. We acknowledge with sincere thanks a truly exceptional achievement.’ lpo.org.uk – 07 –
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wedding bells
Congratulations to Libby Papakyriacou (née Northcote-Green), LPO Marketing Manager, who married Alex on 4 June in Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire (pictured). Congratulations too to Co-Principal Percussionist Henry Baldwin, who married Lucy Saunders on 20 August in Penn, Buckinghamshire.
new arrival Congratulations to LPO Librarian Sarah Thomas and her husband Jon on the birth of their second child, George Albert Benton, on 31 January 2016.
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OSMO Vänskä on sibelius This October Osmo Vänskä conducts the Orchestra in a complete cycle of Sibelius’s seven symphonies. Andrew Mellor talks to the Finnish conductor about the journey ahead... AM: Why combine Sibelius’s symphonies with British string concertos? OV: It’s a natural direction to go in. England was one of the first countries where Sibelius’s music was played and understood, and we wanted an extra strand to these concerts: it was more about the audience than anything musicological.
The symphonies present quite a journey. The First and Seventh are separated by a quarter of a century and a huge stylistic gulf … … but the First Symphony is quite a statement, no? It’s a wild piece by a young composer who really wanted to announce his arrival. That is why the tempo markings are so important. Sibelius stipulated extremely fast speeds that almost nobody does, but they are important as they underline the Symphony’s provenance. With slower speeds, the Symphony sounds as though it was composed by an old master, which it wasn’t. It’s fascinating what follows – the very different sort of momentum of the Seventh Symphony and before that, the occasional inertia of the Fourth. That work’s silence
Conductor Osmo Vänskä
and space is something that orchestras have struggled with … An orchestra’s struggle is connected always to a conductor’s struggle! And that’s the thing. Sometimes if there’s something you don’t understand the easiest thing is to speed up, and wait for a passage that you understand better. But I’m stubborn enough to believe in the score and to follow the score even if I don’t understand it. That way of thinking can deliver great results. You’re famous for following the score to the letter, so has anything changed in your approach to these pieces since your last complete cycle with the LPO in 2010? We get older, and even the same ideas can sound different. I don’t know what it is exactly, but when I’m conducting nowadays I sometimes feel as though I have more time – more time to breathe. So perhaps the ideas are the same, but the colours have altered slightly.
And are those things you talk to the Orchestra about in rehearsal – or do they stay in your head? They are mostly in my head. I sometimes try to tell the musicians how I feel, to explain why I’m asking them to do something and perhaps to encourage them to go deeper. Generally musicians hate conductors who talk too much. But a piece like the Fourth Symphony needs some explanation – the fact that Sibelius really thought he was going to die. You can use that to explain how some passages should be as slow and as minimalistic as possible. But some things are more difficult to explain – like the flow of the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, where the orchestra really has to listen, as if there’s no conductor at all … That’s one of the reasons why it’s important to do the symphonies as chronologically as possible, because by the time you come to the Sixth and Seventh, you’ve learnt so many things from their predecessors. And that’s one of the results: that the orchestra sounds by itself. I think it’s possible to put everything together from the score’s tempo markings, dynamics, phrasing and such. If you do that well, you get that natural flow. If the music sounds like it’s man-made – if you don’t feel that it’s about life – then maybe something is wrong. Watch a video of Osmo and Andrew in conversation lpo.org.uk/sibelius
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Osmo Vänskä © Greg Helgeson
These concertos were written during Sibelius’s lifetime, and two of them – Britten’s and Walton’s – after he stopped composing, during his famous silence. Music was advancing without him … Yes, there is a chronological connection, and in some cases a musical one too. I think you can hear something in the way Walton uses the orchestra that might be connected to Sibelius’s Sixth and Seventh Symphonies and a late piece like Tapiola. Walton was an international composer like Sibelius – more so than Vaughan Williams – a composer whose music is coming from somewhere discernible but doesn’t stay there.
Each symphony has its own context in Sibelius’s personal life. Do the historical facts shape your approach to them? His life is a very influential part of how I understand the music – his good days and his bad days.
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lpo label
recordings news new: stravinsky, wagner & beethoven
‘Bruckner’s Fifth as you’ve never heard it before’ February 2016 saw the LPO Label release the first ever digital recording of Rachmaninoff’s 10 Songs, delicately orchestrated by conductor Vladimir Jurowski’s grandfather (also called Vladimir). Pairing the Songs with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3, the release received fantastic reviews: BBC Music Magazine awarded it five stars for an account of the Symphony ‘standing with Rachmaninoff’s own performance at the top of a long list’. The release also featured on Classic FM’s Album Review show, with presenter David Mellor noting: ‘This is more than young Jurowski paying homage to a close relative; this is very worthwhile music indeed’. London-based Julian Anderson is one of the leading British composers of his generation and a former LPO Composer in Residence, so it was fitting to release his second disc on the LPO Label in March 2016. The Telegraph has described Anderson’s music as possessing ‘a naive glow ... a pearly new-drawn iridescence, as if the world has returned to a state of primal innocence’; qualities clearly evident in these live concert recordings. Two of the three pieces were composed especially for these musicians: Alleluia for the London Philharmonic Choir, the LPO and Vladimir Jurowski to premiere at the re-opening concert of Royal Festival Hall in 2007; and In lieblicher Bläue for Carolin Widmann, one of the leading violinists of her generation. The disc was shortlisted in the Contemporary category of the 2016 Gramophone Awards. In June we were thrilled to announce our latest release with 93-year-old Stanisław Skrowaczewski, under whose baton the Orchestra has performed on numerous occasions. Showcasing Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, this is a performance in which the listener can clearly sense this remarkable connection, Fanfare magazine praising it as ‘a unique and revelatory experience—Bruckner’s Fifth as you’ve never heard it before’. All LPO Label single CDs are priced £9.99 (double CDs £10.99) and are available including free postage from the LPO Ticket Office – call 020 7840 4242 or buy at lpo.org.uk/recordings. All of our recordings are also available to download from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and others. browse all recordings and buy online lpo.org.uk/recordings
GÓRECKI symphony no. 4 world premiere The Orchestra’s posthumous world premiere of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 4 at Royal Festival Hall in April 2014 was one of the most eagerly anticipated premieres of recent years, and the live recording made that evening has now been released on the Nonesuch label. The composer had drafted the Symphony in short score at the time of his death in 2010, and left instructions for the orchestration with his son Mikołaj – himself a successful composer. The CD is available to buy from all good retailers, and as a download from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and others.
Our latest release on the LPO Label is a disc of orchestral works by Stravinsky, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. The disc includes Orpheus, Symphonies of Wind Instruments and the colourful ballet Petrushka. These live recordings were made at Royal Festival Hall in 2014 and 2015 (LPO-0091, released 1 September 2016). October 2016 will see the release of a Wagner disc featuring Act 1 of Die Walküre, recorded in October 1991, with Klaus Tennstedt conducting – his 16th release on the LPO Label – and soloists Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Sieglinde), René Kollo (Siegmund) and John Tomlinson (Hunding) (LPO-0092). This will be followed in November by a recording of Kurt Masur conducting Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4, recorded in 2004 (LPO-0093). All three releases are priced £9.99.
new dvds from glyndebourne
New on the Opus Arte label are DVD and Blu-ray editions of Donizetti’s Poliuto and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, filmed live at the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival and both featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This was the first professional production of Poliuto ever staged in the UK, and it was hailed as ‘a superb musical performance’ (The Telegraph) offering ‘lucent accounts of the principal roles and an incandescent London Philharmonic Orchestra’ (New York Times). Seventy years after its Glyndebourne world premiere, Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia was welcomed home in 2015 with ‘a performance of enthralling emotional power and physical beauty’ underpinned by ‘febrile playing from members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’ (The Telegraph). Find out more and buy online glyndebourneshop.com
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LPO 2016/17 season
staff picks There’s something for everyone in the new season. A few of the LPO’s ‘behind-the-scenes’ staff choose their highlights ...
MARTIN FRANKLIN DIGITAL PROJECTS MANAGER
SOPHIE KELLAND TOURS MANAGER
Amy sugarman development assistant
Martin’s role spans all things digital and media including management of the LPO website, producing video and audio material for our online channels, and brokering new partnerships for the LPO in the digital world.
Sophie works closely with the LPO’s Concerts department and the ‘On the Road’ team of transport, library and stage management staff to ensure smooth sailing for all our international tours.
Having joined the LPO in 2014, Amy has recently taken on a new role as Development Assistant. She is looking forward to working with our individual and corporate supporters and assisting with major fundraising events.
I was immediately grabbed by the programme for 10 February, which features György Ligeti’s Atmosphères. My entry-point for Ligeti’s music was watching Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the shimmering tone-wall of Atmosphères is used to represent the unfathomable intelligence behind the mysterious monolith. Premiered in 1961, Atmosphères seems to be the product of a new kind of immersive compositional ambition, one that doesn’t want its listener just to experience the music remotely, but to be right inside it. This makes a live performance a very different experience to even the best recording. In the Royal Festival Hall, the full complexity of the instrumentation and the sound reflections from the environment of the hall itself will bring the composer’s intention fully to life and Atmosphères will wrap around the audience, immersing us in its otherworldly moods.
My pick of the season is ‘Mutter Plays Beethoven’ in November: not only do I get to hear Anne-Sophie Mutter play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at Royal Festival Hall on 9 November, but I also have the pleasure of travelling with the Orchestra, Anne-Sophie and Robin Ticciati on tour later in the month and hearing them perform in multiple spectacular concert halls in Germany, France and Austria – ten venues in total, all with completely different stage set-ups, acoustics and logistical challenges! A long-time favourite of mine is Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony, which also features in the 9 November concert and on the tour, so I’m thrilled that I’ll be able to experience it almost daily for two weeks. Let’s hope it remains a firm favourite after November ...
This season is full to the brim with the world’s best soloists, who are always an immense privilege to hear. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Raphael Wallfisch, Steven Isserlis, Julian Bliss, Tasmin Little ... not to mention Nicola Benedetti opening the season! Milhaud’s La Création du monde on 28 January is something I’m really looking forward to, having played the piece at university. It’s a small chamber work, so we’ll have the chance to hear the individual brilliance of our musicians. The rest of that programme [Rebel and John Adams] is new to me – I always recommend taking a punt on an unfamiliar concert, as they’re often the ones that move you most deeply. Further ahead, Strauss’s Four Last Songs (28 April) always gives me goosebumps. I first heard the LPO perform it at Snape Proms in 2015, and I’m sure Angel Blue singing under the baton of John Mauceri will be just as spectacular.
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TALIA LASH education & community project manager
NICK JACKMAN DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
LIBBY PAPAKYRIACOU MARKETING MANAGER
Talia is one of two Education & Community Project Managers at the LPO, working on music-making projects in schools and with young people across south London, and the BrightSparks schools concert series at Royal Festival Hall.
Nick and a dedicated team of fundraisers at the LPO are responsible for securing around £1.8 million a year in sponsorship and donations to keep the LPO on the road.
As Marketing Manager, Libby looks after the marketing and promotion of the LPO’s London series of concerts at Royal Festival Hall, through online and offline channels from advertising to e-bulletins.
Throughout every LPO season there’s a range of free pre-concert events, often the culmination of our projects with young people. I’m really looking forward to our ‘New Horizons’ performance on 10 February at 6.00pm, when GCSE Music students from two local secondary schools will perform their original compositions based on that evening’s concert repertoire on the Royal Festival Hall stage. We’ll have worked with the students over the weeks beforehand to compose, shape and rehearse their pieces, under the guidance of an animateur and three LPO players. It’s always really exciting to hear how creatively students interpret traditional orchestral repertoire and how brilliantly they perform, and the sessions in school throughout the creative process are always really fun and inspiring. I’m also looking forward to hearing the Orchestra play John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony on 11 February. I’ve always enjoyed minimalism – for me the music somehow has a deep emotional intensity and you can get completely lost in the sound. You can really sense the despair and dread in this particular piece, which is based on the testing of the atomic bomb in 1945, and still feels relevant in today’s uncertain world.
For years I, along with the rest of the LPO audience, spent concerts looking into the great black void of the Royal Festival Hall’s empty organ case. Remembering that, I now relish the occasions when we hear its mighty voice. Back, in all its visual and aural splendour, from the Durham warehouse where it has been painstakingly restored, it plays a vital role on 10 February. What could be more appropriate than the organ for a festival of spiritual music, Belief and Beyond Belief, which is running throughout 2017? Perhaps it’s not so straightforward. Poulenc’s Organ Concerto is the music of a man only just finding his devout late-life faith; but to me this Concerto is still the music of the fairground, the movies, the entertainer; moments of introspection, yes, but above all, exuberant fun that shows off the reedy sound of this magnificent instrument alongside the Orchestra’s lush strings and our top-class timpanist Simon Carrington. The same concert includes Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. In this the organ is far from centre stage, but just listen as it adds unplumbed depths to the elemental C major of the work’s famous sunrise opening. We’ll feel it before we hear it. I can’t wait!
I always enjoy Vladimir Jurowski’s programmes as they really make you think – you can’t just sit back and let everything wash over you! The concert on 25 January is a case in point: a collection of works I hadn’t heard before, and I was curious about them. Each is hauntingly beautiful, with an incredibly moving story behind it. Martinů’s Memorial to Lidice is a particularly poignant elegy to the destruction of the Czech village of Lidice by the Nazis during the Second World War. Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 9, in the same concert, was supposedly influenced by one of my favourite books: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, so I’ll be listening with a keen ear! I’m incredibly excited about Steve Reich’s Music for Eighteen Musicians on 15 March. I think it’ll be a fantastic introduction to the concert hall for less familiar audiences, and Reich has worked with some of my favourite artists including Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead. The piece itself is an incredibly meditative experience: something so rare in the hustle and bustle of the city. Plus it’s fun watching all the percussionists dovetail with one another to create a seamless work of minimalism.
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Free pre-concert ARTharmonics activities
Rounding off our family series on Sunday 30 April, All Aboard the LPO will give us an Principal Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis finds himself bewitched by a fairy (Emma Pallant) in Bottom’s Dream, 5 June 2016 insight into the world of the LPO on tour through music, stories and pictures collected by our intrepid players throughout s the lights dim in the Royal or two along the way, and even the year. Did you know that on Festival Hall, gentle snores can be Sibelius himself. average the Orchestra heard drifting from the stage and The second family concert My family and I love embarks on more than ten the conductor slumps down on of the season takes us from international tours a year, every minute of it. his podium and falls into a deep trolls to test tubes, as we flying all over the world to sleep. The Orchestra tunes nervously, hoping collaborate with science The whole experience bring music to audiences he’ll wake up, but no luck – what music and presenter and comedian is one that no child overseas? Presenter mischief is he dreaming of? Helen Arney in Conducting should miss out on (or Rachel Leach will be our So began Bottom’s Dream, our most recent Science (Saturday 18 tour guide as we globegrown-up either). FUNharmonics concert, a caper through the February at Royal Festival hop from New York to magical forest of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Hall and Sunday 19 March Audience member Budapest, with plenty of Night’s Dream, brought to life through a new at Saffron Hall, Saffron stops in between. adaptation for orchestra and actors in Waldon). Sure to get young Each concert begins at 12 collaboration with Globe Education at brains fizzing, the concert will noon and lasts around an hour. Before Shakespeare’s Globe. Our family audience give the audience a chance to participate in each show, FUNharmonics audiences are was entertained by magic tricks, mistaken real science experiments, exploring the invited to join in a range of free foyer activities identities and, of course, an enchanted talking secrets of sound and the superpowers of our including ‘Have a Go’ sessions – a chance to donkey, while the Orchestra played music musicians. Expect the unexpected in our first try out a real orchestral instrument under inspired by Shakespeare – a magical end to ever concert hall laboratory! expert guidance – and ‘ARTharmonics’: arts both our 2015/16 FUNharmonics season and and crafts workshops linked to the concert the LPO’s wider series of events within the theme. While the main concerts and foyer Shakespeare400 celebrations. activities are suitable for children aged 6 and In 2016/17, our FUNharmonics series will over, for very young families we continue our continue to develop new partnerships and to partnership with the Orchestra of the Age of connect with the main LPO season repertoire Enlightenment, who will be running their – the latter highlighted in our opening intimate, interactive ‘OAE Tots’ sessions for concert, Tales from the North (Sunday 9 children aged 2–5. October), whose programme is inspired by the Orchestra’s autumn celebration of Finnish FUNharmonics foyer activities are generously composer Jean Sibelius. Presenter Chris Jarvis supported by The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust and Stentor Music Co. Ltd. will take to the stage as a travelling storyteller, guiding the audience on a journey through Scandinavia’s icy landscapes, meeting a troll Free ‘Have a Go’ session before the concert
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concert listings southbank centre Unless otherwise stated, standard prices £10–£46 Premium seats £65 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ticket Office 020 7840 4242 Mon–Fri 10am–5pm lpo.org.uk Transaction fees: £1.75 online, £2.75 telephone Southbank Centre Ticket Office 020 7960 4200 Daily 9am–8pm southbankcentre.co.uk Transaction fees: £1.75 online, £2.75 telephone No transaction fee for bookings made in person
Saturday 8 October 2016 | 7.30pm Sibelius Suite, King Kristian II Panufnik Violin Concerto* Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Thomas Søndergård conductor Sergej Krylov violin * Organised in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music programme
Free pre-concert event | 6.15–6.45pm Royal Festival Hall Lady Camilla Panufnik joins actor and music enthusiast Simon Callow to share an insight into her late husband’s life and music.
JTI Friday Series is supported by Sunday 9 October 2016 | 12.00 noon FUNharmonics Family Concert: Tales from the North Friday 23 September 2016 | 7.30pm Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune Szymanowski Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2* Bartók Suite, The Miraculous Mandarin Vladimir Jurowski conductor Nicola Benedetti violin * Organised in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music programme
Free pre-concert event | 6.15–6.45pm Royal Festival Hall Professor Jim Samson from Royal Holloway, University of London, looks at the two very different violin concertos by Szymanowski. Wednesday 28 September 2016 | 7.30pm Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1* Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Valery Afanassiev piano * Generously supported by Gourji
Sunday 2 October 2016 | 7.00pm 2001: A Space Odyssey Film screening with live orchestra Robert Ziegler conductor Philharmonia Voices London Philharmonic Orchestra Part of Southbank Centre’s Film Scores Live. LPO series discounts do not apply.
Tickets £20–£55 Book via Southbank Centre Ticket Office only: 020 7960 4200 Daily 9am–8pm southbankcentre.co.uk
Come on a magical journey through the weird and wonderful world of folk tales from the northern lands of Scandinavia! We will follow in the footsteps of Norwegian folk hero Peer Gynt as he travels through Norway, Finland and beyond. We’ll also bump into composer Sibelius and find out how the Finnish landscape, fairy stories and mighty storms inspired him! Join in the free pre-concert foyer activities from 10.00am–12.00 noon Recommended for children aged 6 and over
Adults £10–18, children £5–9 Wednesday 12 October 2016 | 7.30pm Haydn Overture, The Apothecary Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491 Mahler Symphony No. 4 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Lucas Debargue piano Sofia Fomina soprano Saturday 15 October 2016 | 7.30pm Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version) Stravinsky Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam) Zimmermann Violin Concerto Henze Symphony No. 7 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Thomas Zehetmair violin Free pre-concert event | 6.15–6.45pm Royal Festival Hall Gramophone critic and Henze biographer Guy Rickards looks at Henze’s importance as a 20th-century symphonist.
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Sibelius Symphony Cycle 19–28 October 2016 lpo.org.uk/sibelius Wednesday 19 October 2016 | 7.30pm Sibelius Karelia Suite Britten Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 1 Osmo Vänskä conductor Simone Lamsma violin
Friday 21 October 2016 | 7.30pm Sibelius Symphony No. 3 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Osmo Vänskä conductor Yu-Chien Tseng violin Wednesday 26 October 2016 | 7.30pm Elgar Cello Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 4 Sibelius Symphony No. 5 Osmo Vänskä conductor Raphael Wallfisch cello Free pre-concert performance | 6.00–6.45pm Royal Festival Hall The first concert with our 2016/17 Foyle Future Firsts, conducted by Osmo Vänskä, includes a rarely heard octet arrangement of Sibelius’s En Saga, by Jaakko Kuusisto. Friday 28 October 2016 | 7.30pm Sibelius The Oceanides Walton Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 6 Sibelius Symphony No. 7 Osmo Vänskä conductor Tasmin Little violin
Tuesday 1 November 2016 | 7.30pm Meow Meow’s Pandemonium See page 6 lpo.org.uk/meowmeow Tickets £25/£35/£45 LPO series discounts do not apply.
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concert listings continued Saturday 5 November 2016 | 7.30pm Beethoven Missa Solemnis Sir Mark Elder conductor Lucy Crowe soprano Paula Murrihy mezzo soprano Allan Clayton tenor Peter Rose bass London Philharmonic Choir Please note there will be no interval during this performance.
Wednesday 9 November 2016 | 7.30pm
around the uk Saturday 24 September 2016 | 7.30pm Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden Box Office: 0845 548 7650 saffronhall.com Brahms Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Nicola Benedetti violin
Beethoven Violin Concerto Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
Sunday 16 October 2016 | 7.45pm The Anvil, Basingstoke Box Office: 01256 844244 anvilarts.org.uk
Robin Ticciati conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
Beethoven Violin Concerto Mahler Symphony No. 4
Tickets £12–£49 (premium seats £75)
Thomas Zehetmair violin/conductor Sofia Fomina soprano
Wednesday 30 November 2016 | 7.30pm Weber Overture, Der Freischütz Mozart Clarinet Concerto Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
Sunday 23 October 2016 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre Box Office: 01323 412000 eastbournetheatres.co.uk
Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Julian Bliss clarinet
Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 1
Friday 2 December 2016 | 7.30pm
Jamie Phillips conductor Alexander Sitkovetsky violin
Weber Overture, Euryanthe Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Hilary Hahn violin Wednesday 7 December 2016 | 7.30pm Glinka Spanish Overtures Prokofiev Cello Concerto Dargomyzhsky Baba-Yaga (Fantasy-Scherzo) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Steven Isserlis cello Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | 7.30pm Glinka Waltz Fantasy Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1
Saturday 29 October 2016 | 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Box Office: 01273 709709 brightondome.org Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela Walton Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 6 Sibelius Symphony No. 7 Osmo Vänskä conductor Tasmin Little violin
Saturday 26 November 2016 | 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Box Office details as above Glinka Waltz Fantasy Walton Cello Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Dima Slobodeniouk conductor Dane Johansen cello
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Jan Lisiecki piano
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Sunday 27 November 2016 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre Box Office details as above Programme as Brighton, 26 November Saturday 3 December 2016 | 7.30pm Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Box Office: 0115 989 5555 trch.co.uk Weber Overture, Euryanthe Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Brahms Symphony No. 2 Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Hilary Hahn violin Sunday 4 December 2016 | 3.00pm Eastbourne Congress Theatre Box Office details as above Weber Overture, Der Freischütz Mozart Clarinet Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Michael Seal conductor Raphaël Sévère clarinet
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INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS Sunday 25 September 2016 | 7.00pm Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany alteoper.de Traditional music for Japanese shakuhachi Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 1 Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments [1947 version] Debussy Images Vladimir Jurowski conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin Tadashi Tajima shakuhachi
Saturday 12 November 2016 | 8.00pm Tonhalle, Düsseldorf, Germany tonhalle.de
Friday 9 December 2016 | 10.30pm Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, Spain auditorionacional.mcu.es
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) [1878/80 Haas edition]
Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor Mahler Symphony No. 4
Robin Ticciati conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin Sunday 13 November 2016 | 6.00pm Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany festspielhaus.de/en Schumann Manfred Overture Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
Monday 26 September 2016 | 8.00pm Gasteig, Munich, Germany gasteig.de | bartokforeurope.com
Robin Ticciati conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Debussy Ibéria (No. 2 from Images) Bartók Suite, The Miraculous Mandarin
Monday 14 November 2016 | 8.00pm Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, France theatrechampselysees.fr/en
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Valery Afanassiev piano Thursday 29 September 2016 | 7.30pm Kodály Centre, Pécs, Hungary kodalykozpont.hu Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) [1874 1st version, ed. Nowak] Vladimir Jurowski conductor Kristóf Baráti violin Friday 30 September 2016 | 7.30pm Erkel Theatre, Budapest, Hungary opera.hu Programme as 29 September Thursday 10 November 2016 | 7.30pm Congress Centrum, Hanover, Germany hcc.de Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) [1878/80 Haas edition] Robin Ticciati conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Friday 11 November 2016 | 7.30pm Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, Germany elbphilharmonie.de/en
Programme as 13 November Tuesday 15 November 2016 | 8.00pm Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany alteoper.de Programme as 13 November Thursday 17 November 2016 | 8.00pm Gasteig, Munich, Germany gasteig.de Schumann Manfred Overture Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No. 4 (Romantic) [1878/80 Haas edition] Robin Ticciati conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin Friday 18 November 2016 | 8.00pm Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany berliner-philharmoniker.de Programme as 17 November Saturday 19 November 2016 | 8.00pm Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany frauenkirche-dresden.de/en Programme as 13 November Sunday 20 November 2016 | 7.30pm Musikverein, Vienna, Austria musikverein.at Programme as 13 November
Vladimir Jurowski conductor Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas cello Sofia Fomina soprano Saturday 10 December 2016 | 10.30pm Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, Spain auditorionacional.mcu.es Glinka Valse-Fantasie Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Jan Lisiecki piano Sunday 11 December 2016 | 7.30pm Palau de la Música, Valencia, Spain en.palaudevalencia.com Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Mahler Symphony No. 4 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Jan Lisiecki piano Sofia Fomina soprano Monday 12 December 2016 | 7.30pm Auditorio de la Diputación, Alicante, Spain diputacionalicante.es Programme as 11 December Sunday 18 December 2016 | 6.00pm Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Germany konzerthaus-dortmund.de Glinka Waltz Fantasy Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1 Vladimir Jurowski conductor Jan Lisiecki piano Monday 19 December 2016 | 7.30pm Konzerthaus, Vienna, Austria konzerthaus.at/en Programme as 18 December Tuesday 20 December 2016 | 8.00pm Liederhalle, Stuttgart, Germany liederhalle-stuttgart.de Programme as 18 December Wednesday 21 December 2016 | 8.00pm Konzerthaus, Freiburg, Germany konzerthaus.freiburg.de Programme as 18 December
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backstage the repertoire! So I’m very excited and a little nervous with anticipation about that! There are some really great programmes coming up throughout the season and I’m looking forward to playing a lot of the repertoire for the first time, since I’ve spent the last 11 years mainly playing smaller scored pieces for chamber orchestra [Juliette is also Principal Flute with the London Mozart Players and a member of the chamber group Ensemble 360].
Have you always wanted to be a professional musician? When did you decide that it was the career for you? I think that I set my heart on a career as a professional musician at that very early age, but opportunities such as studying at The Purcell School of Music and being part of the National Youth Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra made me even more determined to work hard enough to succeed as a professional player. What are the best and worst things about life as an orchestral musician? The best thing is definitely spending every day doing something I love, as well as the overwhelming journey of emotions when playing an amazing piece of music and the feeling of high following a great performance! The less enjoyable side of things is that we work fairly antisocial hours, plus an exhausting amount of travelling – but getting to visit lots of amazing places is obviously a perk! What are your first impressions of the atmosphere in the LPO, and the wind section in particular? It’s an extremely warm, friendly orchestra, and everyone has been so welcoming. The wind section is really supportive and they are all brilliant people as well as players, so I feel very honoured to be joining such a great team. What’s your favourite music to listen to when you’re not working? I generally put on something to wind down and chill out to like Norah Jones or
– juliette bausor – Juliette is one of the Orchestra’s newest members, having been appointed Principal Flute in July 2016. She joins us from Royal Northern Sinfonia, based at Sage Gateshead, where she was Principal for the past 11 years. We got to know her and her first impressions of the LPO ... Goldfrapp, but I’m always up for a boogie to some old cheesy dance numbers or having a singalong to musicals! In which LPO concerts this season should we listen out for your solos? The season begins on 23 September with a concert conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, and the very first piece we’ll play is Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, the opening of which is probably the biggest flute solo in
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Had you not become a musician, what other career might you have liked to do instead? My whole family is quite ‘arty’, and in fact my brother, Jon Bausor, is a very talented and successful set designer who has some truly amazing and brilliantly clever ideas. I haven’t got his talent but do enjoy craft and design, so I think I’d probably have liked to have done something in the field of interior design. I’m slightly obsessed with reading home magazines in my spare time, and enjoy watching TV programmes about home renovation and design. I also find painting and decorating quite therapeutic, which is lucky, as I’m about to start work on our new house ...! As a newcomer to London, what are you most looking forward to exploring in the city in your time off? I’ve just moved down from Gateshead to Kent and there’s a lot of lovely countryside to explore nearby, but I’m really looking forward to being able to get into London easily for the theatre and exhibitions. I’ve just recently bought my husband a book about some more unusual quirky places to explore on our days off in London! Juliette on Twitter @juliettebausor
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When did you begin playing the flute? Can you remember what attracted you to the instrument? I started playing the flute when I was about five years old. My mother’s a music teacher so there was a lot of music in my life from the very beginning, but it was seeing James Galway playing his golden flute on television and hearing his recordings that made me desperate to play the flute!
