2024/25 – What a season!
Thank you for joining us across our 2024/25 Season!
We’ve welcomed so many of you…
At our residency venues in London, Bedford, Leicester, Canterbury and Basingstoke, we performed live for 71,000 people. Many of you got in touch to tell us how much you enjoyed hearing us play.
“Truly a once in a lifetime, soulful and emotional experience.” Audience member
We transported the magic of the Nordic countries to the Royal Festival Hall
In autumn 2024 we brought the creativity of the Nordic countries to UK concert halls in a series that addressed the environmental crisis, through the lens of music making and videography.
We carried on the conversation with Notes on Nature – a series that saw over 700 of you engage in healthy debate of environmental issues, and consumption of cinnamon rolls…
Herbert Blomstedt conducted Mozart and Mahler, radiating joyful energy at the age of 97
We welcomed back some of the world’s most admired conductors, who performed to sold out concert halls, delighting millions in person and online.
“…the collective performance of a lifetime” The Guardian
Maestro Muti made his long-awaited return
Riccardo Muti, Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia from 1972 to 1982, returned to London to conduct Verdi’s Requiem.
Marin continued to do things differently
Marin Alsop conducted a concert with a Latin American flavour on Valentine’s day, featuring two fabulous tango dancers. And in April, as part of the Southbank Centre’s first Multitudes featival, she conducted Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony No. 10 with a film by artist William Kentridge.
And of course our Principal Conductor Santtu had a busy schedule with us, conducting repertoire ranging from Sibelius and Shostakovich to Debussy and Franck.
We welcomed some starry soloists
Our Featured Artist Nemanja Radulović, young Spanish violinist María Dueñas, pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii and accordionist Ksenija Sidorova were among the soloists who delighted Philharmonia audiences. We closed our 2024/25 London season last week with roof-raising Rachmaninov from pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
And we dipped into the world of podcasts
Beyond our residencies in London, Bedford, Leicester, Canterbury and Basingstoke, our busy UK schedule took us to Camden for the first Roundhouse360 festival, Bold Tendencies in a multi-storey car park in Peckham, and the Royal Albert Hall for Classic FM Live and a live collaboration with The Rest is History podcast. Over the summer, we’re back at Garsington Opera and at the Three Choirs Festival.
We continued to grow our global audience
Further afield, we’ve toured the globe with concerts in Spain, Italy, Finland and Japan. We’ve been joined by Santtu, Marin, Nobuyuki Tsujii, María Dueñas, and many others, bringing our Philharmonia sound to audiences across the world.
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We brought music to thousands of children
Orchestra Unwrapped introduced over 5,000 primary school children in London, Bedford, Leicester and Basingstoke to the wonderful world of orchestral music.
Hear and Now, our award-winning project bringing together young musicians with people living with dementia and their carers, celebrated its 15th anniversary this year.
And we reached millions of you away from the concert hall
The Philharmonia’s reach stretched far beyond the concert hall this season, with over 22 million listeners and 130 million streams on Spotify alone. And our music has been played 35.2 million times on Apple Music.
On our label Philharmonia Records, we released live recordings of Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 6, 9 and 10, Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
What was your favourite moment of the 2024/25 season?
We’re looking forward to welcoming you back for our 2025/26 season. What are you looking forward to the most?
