Concerts & Events

Cathedral concert at Three Choirs Festival, seen through a window shaped like a clover
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Mass for the Endangered

Samuel Hudson – conductor
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Biles-Liddell Yr Afon Yn Yr Awyr (UK premiere)
  • Weir O Sweet Spontaneous Earth
  • Elgar Serenade for Strings
  • Snider Mass for the Endangered
Worcester Cathedral

Opera

Garsington Opera: A Trip to the Moon

Douglas Boyd – conductor
Karen Gillingham – director
Rhiannon Newman Brown – designer
Ben Pickersgill – lighting designer
Garsington Opera Adult Company
Garsington Opera Youth Company
Primary School Youth Company

 

George Méliès – Robert Murray
Eoa – Jennifer France

  • Norman A Trip to the Moon
Garsington Opera

Anna Lapwood sat at the organ looking into the camera and smiling
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Anna Lapwood and BBC Singers

Sofi Jeannin – conductor
Mark Padmore – tenor
Charles Gibbs – narrator
BBC Singers
Anna Lapwood – organ
Nicholas Freestone – organ

  • Arakelyan Seascapes
  • Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (trans. Lapwood)
  • Poulenc Figure Humaine
  • Weir In the Land of Uz
Worcester Cathedral

Philharmonia Orchestra performing at Three Choirs Festival
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Venables's Requiem

Adrian Partington – conductor
Ben Cooper – narrator
Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir

  • McDowall Shipping Forecast
  • Stanford/Dibble Sonata for String Orchestra
  • Venables Requiem
Worcester Cathedral

Philharmonia Orchestra performing at Three Choirs Festival
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Elgar's The Kingdom

Adrian Partington – conductor
Anita Watson – soprano
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones – mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence – tenor
Ross Ramgobin – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Elgar The Kingdom
Worcester Cathedral

Concert

Mikkeli Music Festival 2024

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Ville Matvejeff – conductor
Erkki Lasonpalo – conductor
Ava Bahari – violin
Jonathan Roozeman – cello

  • Brahms Academic Festival Overture
  • Brahms Violin Concerto
  • Schumann Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’
  • Bruckner Symphony No. 7
  • Smetana Die Moldau
  • Elgar Cello Concerto
  • Sibelius Symphony No. 1
Martti Talvela Hall, Mikkeli

Conductor Marin Alsop in white shirt sitting on a chair.
Concert

Edinburgh International Festival: Fire in my mouth

Marin Alsop – conductor
Sopranos and Altos of the National Youth Choir of Scotland
NYCOS National Girls Choir

  • Wolfe Fire in my mouth (UK premiere)
Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Concert

Edinburgh International Festival: Santtu conducts Verdi's Requiem

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Soloists to be announced
Edinburgh Festival Chorus

  • Verdi Requiem
Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Violinist Nicola Benedetti playing the violin onstage at the Battersea Arts Centre
Family concert

Edinburgh International Festival: Family Concert

Conductor to be announced
Lucy Drever – presenter
Nicola Benedetti – violin

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Concert

Edinburgh International Festival: Capriccio

Countess – Malin Byström
Count – Bo Skovhus
Flamand – Sebastian Kohlhepp
La Roche – Peter Rose
Clairon – Dame Sarah Connolly
Taupe – TBC
Italian Singer – Emily Birsan
Italian Singer – John Irvin
Major Domo – Reinhard Hagen
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
James Grossmith – chorus director

  • Strauss Capriccio
Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Philharmonia Orchestra performing at Bold Tendencies
Concert

Bold Tendencies: Oliver Leith

Naomi Woo – conductor

  • Leith Cartoon Sun
  • Ives 'The Housatonic at Stockbridge' from Three Places in New England
  • Leith Honey Siren for Strings
  • Schubert Symphony No. 4, 'Tragic', I. Adagio molto – Allegro vivace
  • Leith Pearly, goldy, woody, bloody, or, Abundance
Bold Tendencies, Peckham

Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducting the Philharmonia at the BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall
Concert

BBC Proms: Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Douglas Boyd – conductor
Netia Jones – director & designer

 

Oberon – Iestyn Davies
Tytania – Lucy Crowe
Puck – Jerone Marsh-Reid
Bottom – Richard Burkhard
Lysander – Caspar Singh
Demetrius – James Newby
Hermia – Stephanie Wake-Edwards
Helena – Camilla Harris
Theseus – Nicholas Crawley
Hippolyta – Christine Rice
Quince – John Savournin
Flute – James Way
Snug – Frazer Scott
Starveling – Geoffrey Dolton
Snout – Adam Sullivan
Garsington Opera

  • Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream
Royal Albert Hall

Philharmonia Orchestra performing at Bold Tendencies
Concert

Bold Tendencies: Mahler Symphony No. 2

Nefeli Chadouli – conductor

  • Mahler Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
Bold Tendencies, Peckham

Virtual Reality experience

Virtual Orchestra: Sibelius

Southbank Centre

Santtu-Matias Rouvali standing in the snow surrounded by bare trees, looking up towards the sky
Friends event

Open Rehearsal: Santtu conducts Sibelius and Grieg

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Stephen Hough – piano
Johanna Rusanen – soprano
Tommi Hakala – baritone
Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat Male Voice Choir

  • Sigfúsdóttir Oceans (London premiere)
  • Grieg Piano Concerto
  • Sibelius Kullervo
Royal Festival Hall