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September), Nicholas Altstaedt (16 & 19 November), Victor Julien-Laferrière (23
November) and Sheku Kanneh-Mason (4 April), and violinists Christian Li (19 October)
and Arabella Steinbacher (21 March). Internationally renowned pianists include Elisabeth
Brauss (8 February), Simon Trpčeski (22 February), Alim Beisembayev (25 April)
and Nobuyuki Tsuji (4 May). Guest singers include soprano Sonya Yoncheva (30
November & 25 May), baritone Jaques Imbrailio (11 November), soprano Daniella
Sicari (20 April) and tenor Riccardo Massi (25 May). In addition, the National Symphony
Orchestra of Ukraine perform a special concert at the Hall (3 November) as part of their
UK tour.

Conductors

Conductor Laureate Vasily Petrenko returns with two epic works from the Russian
repertoire, Shostakovich’s musical revolution Symphony No. 11 ‘The Year 1905’ (19
October)– conducted by Petrenko for the first time in concert in Liverpool – and Stravinsky’s
complete ballet suite The Firebird (22 February). Principal Guest Conductor Andrew
Manze willpresent a showcase of British composers throughout the season, including works
by William Walton (16 November), Vaughan Williams (19 November), Coleridge-Taylor (4
April) and Ruth Gipps (11 April).

Conductors making guest appearances in the 2023/24 season include debuts
from Matthew Halls (5 October), Volodymyr Sirenko with the National Symphony
Orchestra of Ukraine (3 November), Ben Glassberg (11 November), Karen Kamensek (7
December), Bernard Labadie (6 January), Paolo Bortolameolli (8 February) and Ariane
Matiakh (20 April); returning visits from Nil Venditti (27 January), Lawrence Foster (21
March) and, for a special youth orchestras reunion concert, Sir Simon Rattle (25 February).

New Music

Pianist Alim Beisembayev, winner of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition, will
perform the world premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Piano Concerto (25 April) which has been
commissioned for the pianist as the prizewinner of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society
Contemporary Prize.

Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choirs will perform the world premiere of Joanna
Marsh’s Plastic Theatre, with text by Katie Schaag (24 March). Conducted by Ellie Slorach,
the work examines the damaging effects of plastic on our earth. This has been
commissioned by Liverpool Philharmonic in a consortium with other youth choirs from
Denmark, Norway, Peru, Australia and USA.

Other world premieres include Timothy Jackson’s Traffic Jams and Anagrams (19 June), a
new work from Rushworth Competition Prize winner Christopher Cook (11 October) and
works from Michael Betteridge (4 November) and Stephen Pratt (19 June), all with Ensemble
10:10. The Ensemble will also give the UK premieres of Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ Creation of
the Hymn (11 October), Samy Moussa’s Violin Concerto (17 February) with leader Thelma
Handy as soloist, Jacques Hétu’s Symphony No. 3 (17 February) and Skye
Macklay’s Microvariations (19 June).