Concerts & Events

Ksenija Sidorova credit Janis Spigovskis
Friends event

Open Rehearsal: Marin Alsop conducts Bernstein and Piazzolla

Marin Alsop – conductor
Ksenija Sidorova – accordion
Adrien Bariki-Alaoui – tango dancer
Iro Davlanti-Lo – tango dancer

  • Gershwin Cuban Overture
  • Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • Lobo (orch. Nelson Ayres) Pé de Vento
  • Piazzolla Aconcagua Concerto
  • Piazzolla Tanti Anni Prima
  • Piazzolla (arr. John Lenehan) Libertango
Royal Festival Hall

Concert

Marin Alsop conducts Bernstein and Piazzolla

Marin Alsop – conductor
Ksenija Sidorova – accordion
Adrien Bariki-Alaoui – tango dancer
Iro Davlanti-Lo – tango dancer

  • Gershwin Cuban Overture
  • Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • Lobo (orch. Nelson Ayres) Pé de Vento
  • Piazzolla Aconcagua Concerto
  • Piazzolla Tanti Anni Prima
  • Piazzolla (arr. John Lenehan) Libertango
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Community performance

Free Argentine Tango Workshop

Adrien Bariki-Alaoui – tango dancer
Iro Davlanti-Lo – tango dancer

Clore Ballroom, RFH, Level 2

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Close up of Philharmonia wind section in concert at Royal Festival Hall
Concert

Canterbury: Philharmonia at the Movies

Michael Seal – conductor

The Marlowe, Canterbury

Headshot of Pau Hernández Santamaria
Small-ensemble performance

St Paul's Church, Bedford: Fellow Lunchtime Recital

Pau Hernández Santamaria – trombone

  • Guilmant Morceau Symphonique for trombone and piano
  • Bach Suite No 2: Prelude, Minuetto 1 & 2 and Gigue
  • Grondahl Concerto for Trombone
  • Albéniz Granada from Suite Española No. 1
  • Bozza Ballade
St Paul's Church, Bedford

Friends event

Open Rehearsal in Basingstoke: Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony

Tugan Sokhiev – conductor
Daniel Lozakovich – violin

  • Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
The Anvil, Basingstoke

Daniel Lozakovich holding violin up against dark background
Concert

Basingstoke: Rachmaninov's Second Symphony

Tugan Sokhiev – conductor
Daniel Lozakovich – violin

  • Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
The Anvil, Basingstoke

Small-ensemble performance

Philharmonia Chamber Players: Spotlight on the Clarinet

Mark van de Wiel – clarinet  
Eugene Lee – violin 
Fiona Cornall – violin  
Scott Dickinson – viola  
Karen Stephenson – cello  

  • Gipps Rhapsody in E flat Op. 23 for clarinet and string quartet
  • Weber Clarinet Quintet
Royal Festival Hall.

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Concert

Rachmaninov and Prokofiev with Daniel Lozakovich

Tugan Sokhiev – conductor
Daniel Lozakovich – violin

  • Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Friends event

Open Rehearsal: Järvi conducts Stravinsky’s The Firebird

Paavo Järvi – conductor
Nicolas Altstaedt – cello

  • Stravinsky Petrushka
  • Erkki-Sven Tüür Cello Concerto No. 2 ‘Labyrinths of Life’ (UK premiere)
  • Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919)
Royal Festival Hall

Concert

Järvi conducts Stravinsky’s The Firebird

Paavo Järvi – conductor
Nicolas Altstaedt – cello

  • Stravinsky Petrushka
  • Erkki-Sven Tüür Cello Concerto No. 2 ‘Labyrinths of Life’ (UK premiere)
  • Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919)
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Concert

Nemanja Radulović: Journeys with a violin

Nemanja Radulović – director / violin
Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay – violin
String players of the Philharmonia Orchestra

  • Bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
  • Bach Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052R
  • Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
  • Interspersed with:
  • Hristovski (arr. Sedlar & Radulović) Makedonsko devojče
  • De Falla (arr. Sedlar, Kreisler & Radulović) Spanish Dance from La Vida Breve
  • Muréna (arr. Sedlar & Radulović) Indifférence
  • Šišić (arr. Sedlar) Hommage à Aleksandar Šišić
Queen Elizabeth Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Concert

Mao Fujita plays Mozart Part 1

Giedrė Šlekytė – conductor
Mao Fujita – piano

  • Kodály Dances of Galánta
  • Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 K. 595
  • Brahms Symphony No. 1
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 22 October. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Michelle Cann playing a piano
Concert

Leicester: Ryan Bancroft conducts Beethoven & Strauss

Ryan Bancroft – conductor
Michelle Cann – piano

  • Ives The Unanswered Question
  • Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
  • Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
De Montfort Hall

Philharmonia Orchestra Unwrapped London c. Belinda Lawley
Schools concert

London: Orchestra Unwrapped

Charlotte Politi – Conductor
Lucy Drever – Presenter
Angie Newman – BSL Interpreter

  • Grieg Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - 'Morning Mood' 
  • Sibelius Finlandia 
  • Sigfúsdóttir Oceans
  • Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov) Night on a Bare Mountain
  • Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Suite (1st Mvt - Scene) 
  • Harding I Hear You
  • Montgomery Starburst
  • Moberg Sunrise Orchestral Suite: Evening 
  • John Powell (arr. Sean O'Loughlin) How to Train Your Dragon
Royal Festival Hall