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No.6. Pierre Boulez is honoured by Ensemble 10:10 for what would have been
his 100th Birthday. 50 years on from their Eurovision-winning song
‘Waterloo’, ABBA will be celebrated in style by the Orchestra on New Year’s

Eve with four West End artists.

New Music

Continuing their history of championing new music, Liverpool Philharmonic

will honour a long-standing commitment by giving the world premiere of a

new song cycle by composer Grace-Evangeline Mason. Husband and wife
team, conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan (who the

piece was written especially for) will present this powerful new piece.

Domingo Hindoyan will make his debut with Ensemble 10:10, Liverpool
Philharmonic’s dedicated contemporary music ensemble, conducting the

world premiere of a new work by the 2023 Rushworth Composition Prize
winner, Sam Kane. Ensemble 10:10 will also give world premieres of works by

Phoenix Rousiamanis and Nneka Cummins. The Orchestra will continue its

longstanding association with the Leeds International Piano Competition,
welcoming the winner as soloist during an Orchestra concert, and the

second and third prize winners for lunchtime solo recitals. The Orchestra
will also give the UK premieres of Robin Haigh’s Concerto for Orchestra,

Daniel Freiberg’s Historias de Flores y Tangos, Widman’s Schumannliebe
and Matilde Wantenaar’s Prélude à une nuit américaine.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

In addition to their annual performances in Handel’s Messiah, the
outstanding Choir will also perform alongside the Orchestra in Holst’s The

Planets conducted by Andrew Manze; Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with
Sir Bryn Terfel; Mahler’s Symphony No.3 and Verdi’s Requiem conducted by

Domingo Hindoyan; and Janáček’s ear-tingling Glagolitic Mass. In the
annual Spirit of Christmas concerts the choir will be joined by the Liverpool

Philharmonic Youth Choir and guest artist Roderick Williams will be the