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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 beperforming 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 50 anniversary of his death by Liverpool
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Philharmonic Conductor Laureate Vasily Petrenko with Suite for Variety OrchestraI, and
Lidiya Yankovskaya with Symphony No.6. Pierre Boulez is honoured by Ensemble 10:10 for
what would have been his 100 Birthday. 50 years on from their Eurovision-winning song
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‘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 presenter for the
series. Spirit of Christmas will be conducted by the Director of Choirs and Singing, Matthew
Hamilton.
Pops Concerts and Screenings
Celebrating music from all decades and genres, the Orchestra presents ‘Symphonic 90s’,
an evening of classics from that decade including tracks by Take That, Steps, Oasis and the
Spice Girls performed by the Orchestra and show-stopping vocalists, conducted by Steve
Bell. After the phenomenal success of last year’s event, Liverpool Philharmonic are once
again celebrating Eurovision with the return of ‘Douze Points’. This season will also see the
Orchestra team up with West End vocalists for ‘A Night at the Musicals’,as well as a
celebration of music made and inspired by the city the Orchestra call home in ‘The
Liverpool Songbook’.