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We're delighted to announce the appointment of Pieter Schoeman as Leader, alongside our existing Leader, Boris Garlitsky. Pieter has been Co-Leader of the Orchestra since 2002, regularly leading the Orchestra in concerts and recordings and at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Pieter's appointment reflects his outstanding contribution to the Orchestra. Congratulations Pieter!
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that Yannick
Nézet-Séguin will take up the position of Principal
Guest Conductor at the start of the Orchestra’s 2008/09
season.
Timothy Walker, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the
London Philharmonic Orchestra said today: “Many
who witnessed Yannick’s impressive debut with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra will understand the motivation for
this appointment. Taking outstanding musicality, knowledge
and technique as a given Yannick’s brilliance lies in
his ability to move players to exceptional performance and
to communicate a strength and vitality of vision to the listener
that is totally engrossing”.
A full press release is available here:
Press
Release 20 November 2007 > (36Kb
pdf file)
The jury's announcement ran:
'Vladimir Jurowksi: A profoundly
intelligent musician who has produced fresh and compelling
interpretations across a wide range of repertoire. The intensity
of his music-making, particularly with the LPO and at Glyndebourne
has illuminated the experience of) audiences and musicians
alike.'
Link
to Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards >
Introduction from Timothy Walker
AM
Three major milestones are occurring simultaneously as our
2007/08 season begins: we celebrate our seventy-fifth anniversary
season with a move back into our splendidly restored home,
the Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre, with our new
Principal Conductor, Vladimir Jurowski.
The Orchestra first worked with Vladimir Jurowski in 2001.
Since then the relationship has proved unstoppable - both
in our work at Glyndebourne Festival Opera where Vladimir
is Music Director and in memorable concerts at the Royal Festival
Hall pre-closure, not to mention the wonderful creative partnership
that has been our time at the Queen Elizabeth Hall from 2005
to 2007. With the Orchestra's four-month residency at Glyndebourne,
we are in the lucky position of having a partnership with
our Principal Conductor which will be stronger than that enjoyed
by almost any other orchestra worldwide.
In appointing Vladimir we have recognised that he is the right
musician to build on the Orchestra's famed and distinctive
sound: to mould it, refine it, and make it something even
greater. Known for its performances of music by Mahler, the
Orchestra opens the season with a performance of Das klagende
Lied conducted by Vladimir, and will go on to play the composer's
first five symphonies, works appropriate for the re-opening
of our splendid home venue, and which suitably herald the
coming seventy-five years whilst respectfully acknowledging
the last.
Other highlights include the five Beethoven piano concertos
with four strikingly different pianists; a chance to enter
the glorious sound world of Erich Wolfgang Korngold who died
fifty years ago; a feast of music from this island including
a tribute to Edward Elgar in his anniversary year; contemporary
music from Mark-Anthony Turnage, Matthias Pintscher, Hans
Werner Henze and Jennifer Higdon; a host of legendary soloists
and conductors with welcome returns from previous regulars
Christoph Eschenbach, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and Neeme Järvi;
and perhaps most excitingly, the chance to hear some great
new talents - all selected for their musicianship, presence
and ability to communicate: among them conductors Joseph Wolfe
and Stamatia Karampini, violinists Nicola Benedetti, Julia
Fischer, Lisa Batiashvili and Yossif Ivanov, pianists Sigurd
Slåttebrekk, Sunwook Kim, Dejan Lazic and Martin Helmchen,
as well as a four-concert residency from Marisol Montalvo,
a very special soprano. Watch out for them - they are all
bound to impress.
On 7 June 2008, in celebration of our groundbreaking education
and community work, community musicians and choirs come together
with the Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski to
perform classical works and a new piece by Principal Horn
Richard Bissill and Eugene Skeef. This will be a unique and
unmissable performance.
Finally my thanks are due to our loyal and supportive audiences.
Without you, the London Philharmonic Orchestra would not be
celebrating its 75th anniversary year, and I thank you for
your significant support. I do hope you will join us for this
special season.
Timothy Walker AM | Chief Executive
and Artistic Director
Position supported by Macquarie
Bank
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