Concerts & Events

Gabriela Ortiz
Small-ensemble performance

Music of Today: Gabriela Ortiz curates

Musicians to be announced

  • Cortés-Álvarez Transcendiendo Muros
  • Vázquez Son Crepuscular
  • Ortiz Corpórea
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Alisa Weilerstein
Concert

Marin Alsop conducts Scheherazade

Marin Alsop – conductor
Alisa Weilerstein – cello

  • Márquez Danzón No. 2
  • Ortiz Cello Concerto, 'Dzonot' (London premiere)
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein
Concert

Manchester: Marin Alsop conducts Scheherazade

Marin Alsop – conductor
Alisa Weilerstein – cello

  • Márquez Danzón No. 2
  • Ortiz Cello Concerto, 'Dzonot'
  • Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Bridgewater Hall

Kent Nagano conducting
Friends event

Open Rehearsal: Nagano conducts Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony

Kent Nagano – conductor
Jane Archibald – soprano
Christina Bock – mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Chorus

  • Hildegard of Bingen O vis aeternitatis
  • Mahler Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
Royal Festival Hall

Woman holding a microphone with other audience members in discussion
Insights

Philharmonia debates... Music & Belief

David Newsholme – host
Hari Trivedi – host
Teddy Prout – host

St Johns Waterloo, SE1 8TY

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Kent Nagano conducting
Concert

Nagano conducts Mahler's Resurrection Symphony

Kent Nagano – conductor
Jane Archibald – soprano
Christina Bock – mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Chorus 

  • Hildegard of Bingen O vis aeternitatis
  • Mahler Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Lisa Batiashvili playing the violin
Friends event

Open Rehearsal: Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Lisa Batiashvili – violin

  • Bacewicz Divertimento
  • Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
  • Walton Symphony No. 1
Royal Festival Hall

Lisa Batiashvili playing the violin
Concert

Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Lisa Batiashvili – violin

  • Bacewicz Divertimento
  • Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
  • Walton Symphony No. 1
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Philharmonia Orchestra on stage at Royal Festival Hall, during an Orchestra Unwrapped concert
Schools concert

London: Orchestra Unwrapped

Matthew Lynch – conductor
Lucy Drever – presenter

  • Mozart Overture, Don Giovanni
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (1st movement)
  • Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) (Finale)
  • Elgar Enigma Variations (Theme, IV, XI, VII)
  • Ortiz Papalotes
  • Shigihara Grasswalk from Plants vs. Zombies
  • Silvestri The Avengers (Theme)
  • Bizet Carmen Suite (Les Toreadors) 
Royal Festival Hall

Small-ensemble performance

Philharmonia Chamber Players: Bach

Players to include:

Rebecca Chan – violin  
Scott Dickinson – viola  
Richard Birchall – cello 

Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Denis Kozukhin standing next to a piano
Concert

Denis Kozhukhin plays Beethoven

Ruth Reinhardt – conductor
Denis Kozhukhin – piano

  • Ortiz Tzam (UK premiere)
  • Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor'
  • Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, 'Scottish'
Royal Festival Hall

General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Barts Choir singing behind the Philharmonia
Concert

Barts Choir: Verdi Requiem

Ivor Setterfield – conductor

  • Verdi Requiem
Royal Festival Hall

Sheku sitting on the floor with cello on his right shoulder, looking up.
Concert

Roundhouse Three Sixty: Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Harry Baker & the Philharmonia Orchestra

Tom Fetherstonhaugh – conductor  
Sheku Kanneh-Mason – cello  
Harry Baker – piano

  • Mvula Green Garden
  • Traditional Lochnagar
  • Martyn May You Never
  • Finzi Fear no more the heat of the sun, Op. 18, No. 3
  • Baker Fare Thee Well
  • Kanneh-Mason Melody
  • Coleridge-Taylor Solemn Prelude
  • Purcell Music for a While
  • Mvula Sing to the Moon
  • La Havas Sour Flower
  • Traditional Myfanwy
  • The Beatles Here comes the Sun
  • The Beatles Come Together
Roundhouse

Bruce Liu sat at a piano
Friends event

Open Rehearsal in Bedford: Bruce Liu plays Ravel

Ryan Bancroft – conductor
Bruce Liu – piano

  • Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
  • Ravel Piano Concerto in G
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Bedford Corn Exchange