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Following her recent debut with the English National Opera, Liverpool-born
mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston returns to perform Mahler’s Symphony
No. 3 with the Orchestra under the baton of Domingo Hindoyan. In a

moving farewell, Kathryn Stott will give her final recital performance in the

city where her career began. Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass will feature an
international soloist line up including three Czech singers: soprano Evelina

Dobračeva, tenor Aleš Briscein and bass Jan Martiník, with mezzo-soprano
Katarina Karnéus and Liverpool-born and trained organist Daniel

Greenway.

Continuing to introduce the city to new talent, the Orchestra will welcome
many rising stars of the conducting world. Making their Liverpool

conducting debuts are British conductor Adam Hickox who leads

programmes featuring works by Anna Meredith, Barber, Rachmaninov and
Walton; Joseph Young who brings the sounds of New York to Liverpool with

Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; and Erina Yashima
with works by Mathilde Wantenaar, Shostakovich and Dvořák. Fast-rising

conductors Matthew Lynch and Manchester based Ellie Slorach will be
conducting Family Concerts; and Denis Sousa and Lidiya Yankovskaya will

lead the Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Janáček’s Glagolitic
Mass and works by Missy Mazzoli, Brahms and Shostakovich respectively.

A host of artists return to perform with the Orchestra this season including
Sir Bryn Terfel with a triumphant rendition of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast

alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. Trumpeter Pacho Flores
will bring the sounds of South America to the heart of Liverpool with the

world premiere of a new work by Daniel Freiberg. Pianists Simon Trpčeski,
Víkingur Ólafsson and Paul Lewis will be performing a range of repertoire by

Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Schubert. Violinists Chloë Hanslip and Michael
Barenboim return for works by Glass, Roustom and Bartók.

This season’s programming pays tribute to significant musical
anniversaries. Shostakovich is commemorated on the 50th anniversary of

his death by Liverpool Philharmonic Conductor Laureate Vasily Petrenko
with Suite for Variety OrchestraI, and Lidiya Yankovskaya with Symphony