2024/25 London Season

This autumn, explore the music of the Nordic countries in our series Nordic Soundscapes, with our Principal Conductor Santtu. And enjoy great music from Mozart to Mahler, featuring some of the most inspiring musicians in the business.

Marin Alsop conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra

Welcome to our 2024/25 season at our home in the heart of London.

You can hear our Principal Conductor Santtu’s interpretation of a wide range of repertoire, from Debussy to Shostakovich’s first and last symphonies.
Charismatic violinist Nemanja Radulović is our Featured Artist this season. He’s playing Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto in October, Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in April, and in February he play-directs a deeply personal programme of Bach and melodies from his native Serbia, France and Spain.
On 14 February, our Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop is joined by two champion tango dancers in a programme with a South American flavour. And on 24 April, as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival, she conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, with an animated film by artist William Kentridge.

Our Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen returns in November to conduct the UK premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto, and in March Riccardo Muti, our Principal Conductor back in the 1970s, makes a long-anticipated return with Verdi’s powerful Requiem.

We hope to see you there.

Multibuy offer:

Book 3 – 5 concerts and get 10% off
Book 6 – 8 concerts and get 15% off
Book 9 – 10 concerts and get 20% off
Book 11 or more concerts and get 30% off

Small-ensemble performance

CANCELLED: Philharmonia Chamber Players: Salonen and Nielsen

Philharmonia Wind Quintet

  • Salonen Memoria
  • Nielsen Wind Quintet
Royal Festival Hall.

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

More info Cancelled
Concert

Marin Alsop conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony

Marin Alsop – conductor
Sasha Cooke – mezzo-soprano

  • Gustav Mahler Blumine
  • Alma Mahler Selection of songs (orch. David & Colin Matthews), including:
  • Die stille Stadt
  • Bei dir ist es traut
  • Laue Sommernacht
  • In meines Vaters Garten
  • Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Community performance

Morning Song

Sigrún Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths – workshop leader
Philharmonia musicians

Clore Ballroom, RFH, Level 2

More info Sold out
Landscape shot of a forest in the daylight
Insights

Notes on Nature 2: The Forest

Julian Glover (journalist) – host
Vidya Patel (dancer, Philharmonia Artist in Residence) – host
Annika Lindskog (musicologist) – host
Sigrun Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths (Icelandic musician) – host

Level 5 Function Room, RFH

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

More info Sold out
Concert

Sibelius & Grieg: In the Land of the Mountain King

Emilia Hoving – conductor

  • Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
  • Outi Tarkiainen Mosaics (UK premiere, with film)
  • Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Small-ensemble performance

Philharmonia Chamber Players: Turina and Ravel

Rebecca Chan – violin
David López Ibáñez – violin
Sylvain Séailles – viola
Ella Rundle – cello

  • Turina La oración del torero
  • Ravel String Quartet
Royal Festival Hall.

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Nemanja Radulović playing violin in the outdoors, his hair blowing in the wind
Concert

Santtu and Nemanja Radulović

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nemanja Radulović – violin

  • Khachaturian Three Pieces from the ballet 'Gayaneh': Dance of the Rose Maidens, Lullaby, Sabre Dance
  • Khachaturian Violin Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Daydreams'
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Reindeer strolling in greenery
Insights

Notes on Nature 3: Wildlife

Santtu-Matias Rouvali (Philharmonia Principal Conductor) – host
Laurence Rose (conservationist, composer) – host
Ruth Padel (poet, novelist) – host

Level 5 Function Room, RFH

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

More info Sold out
Concert

María Dueñas plays Sibelius

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
María Dueñas – violin

  • Larsson Gothe Submarea (UK premiere, with film)
  • Sibelius Violin Concerto
  • Nielsen Symphony No. 5
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

A scuba diver under water
Insights

Notes on Nature 4: The Human Dimension

Andrew Mellor (journalist, critic) – host
Love Ssega (musician) – host

Feimatta Conteh (Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager) – host

Clore Ballroom, RFH, Level 2

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

More info Sold out
Concert

Salonen conducts Sibelius and Lindberg

Esa-Pekka Salonen – conductor
Lawrence Power – viola

  • Wennäkoski Flounce
  • Lindberg Viola Concerto (UK premiere)
  • Sibelius Symphony No. 1
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Close up shot of Herbert Blomstedt conducting in concert
Concert

Herbert Blomstedt and Leonidas Kavakos

Herbert Blomstedt – conductor
Leonidas Kavakos – violin

  • Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4, K. 218
  • Mahler Symphony No. 9
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Concert

Santtu and Jess Gillam

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophone

  • Shostakovich (arr. Cornall) Suite from Moscow, Cheryomushki
  • Glazunov Saxophone Concerto
  • Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Concert

Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Chopin

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii – piano

  • Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
  • Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking is now open. General booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 23 April. Join the Friends to book your tickets now.

Concert

Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Beethoven

Manfred Honeck – conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard – piano

  • Weber Overture, Der Freischütz
  • Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Dvořák Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

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 for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Small-ensemble performance

Philharmonia Chamber Players: Spotlight on the Clarinet

Mark van de Wiel – clarinet  
Rebecca Chan – 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 for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

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 for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

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 for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

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 for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Bancroft conducts Also sprach Zarathustra

Ryan Bancroft – conductor
Michelle Cann – piano

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

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Mao Fujita plays Mozart Part 2

Osmo Vänskä – conductor
Mao Fujita – piano

  • Mazzoli These Worlds In Us
  • Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 K. 503
  • Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 ‘Reformation’
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Muti conducts Verdi’s Requiem

Riccardo Muti – conductor
Juliana Grigoryan – soprano
Elīna Garanča – mezzo-soprano
Piotr Beczała – tenor
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo – bass
Philharmonia Chorus

  • Verdi Requiem
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Santtu conducts French masterpieces

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Javier Perianes – piano
Mark van de Wiel – clarinet

  • Debussy Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
  • Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Egyptian’
  • Franck Symphony in D minor
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Small-ensemble performance

Philharmonia Chamber Players: Spotlight on the Harp

Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay – violin
Rebecca Chan – violin
Scott Dickinson – viola
Karen Stephenson – cello
Sam Coles – flute
Maura Marinucci – clarinet
Heidi Krutzen – harp

  • Mozetich Angels in Flight
  • Ravel Introduction and Allegro
Royal Festival Hall.

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Santtu conducts Prokofiev and Shostakovich

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nemanja Radulović – violin

  • Prokofiev Classical Symphony
  • Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 1
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Santtu conducts Shostakovich and Mendelssohn

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Arabella Steinbacher – violin

  • Rossini William Tell Overture
  • Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 15
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Oh To Believe in Another World: Shostakovich 10

Marin Alsop – conductor
William Kentridge – director
Philharmonia Chorus

  • Bernstein Chichester Psalms
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 10, with Oh To Believe in Another World, a film by William Kentridge
Royal Festival Hall

Concert

The Bach Choir: Belshazzar’s Feast

David Hill – conductor
Christopher Purves – baritone
The Bach Choir

  • Delius The Song of the High Hills
  • Blackford La Sagrada Familia Symphony (World premiere)
  • Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.

Concert

Santtu and Nikolai Lugansky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Nikolai Lugansky – piano

  • Ravel Alborada del gracioso
  • Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Ravel La Valse
  • Respighi Pines of Rome
Royal Festival Hall

Priority booking for Friends of the Philharmonia opens on Wednesday 16 October at 10am. Friends also get access to open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the players, and pay no booking fees. Join now from £5 per month.