Page 655 - Liverpool Philharmonic 22-23 Season Coverage Book

Other highlights in the Youth Orchestras programme include performances with Domingo
Hindoyan and violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason (26 November), and with Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra oboist and past MYO member Ruth Davies (10 March).

Liverpool Philharmonic Youth and Childrens Choirs will perform a specially commissioned
piece Plastic Theatre by Joanna Marsh, joining voices of youth choirs across the world (24
March). Also in celebration of new works, the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company and
Equilibrium Quartet will showcase new music from the young creatives in the Rushworth
Young Composers and Songwriters programme (26 April).

Festive Season

Looking ahead to the festive season, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason returns to the Liverpool
Philharmonic to present Spirit of Christmas (16, 19, 21 & 22 December) along with
conductor Ian Tracey and mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge. Pianist Alexandra
Dariescu brings her musical celebration of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker to Liverpool. The
Nutcracker: Reimagined will tell the magical story of young girl Clara and her Nutcracker
through an hour-long concert with the brass and percussion of the Orchestra, with
narrator Lucy Drever and two ballet dancers (23 December).

Other performances

This season also highlights a wide range of music with the Orchestra available at Liverpool’s
iconic Philharmonic Hall, from Queen : A Kind of Magic (14 October) to What the World
Needs Now: A Tribute to Burt Bacharach (10 February). American conductor and
presenter Richard Kaufman will also return for an evening celebrating The Best of John
Williams (14 February).

Two film screenings with live orchestras will invite fans of Harry Potter to join the orchestra
on a trip to Hogwarts (30 December), whilst horror fanatics can enjoy Hitchcock’s
sinister Psycho (31 October).

In addition, seven concerts this season will be signed by a BSL interpreter: Queen: A Kind of
Magic (14 October), Santa and The Snowman (17 December), Spirit of Christmas (21
December), The Nutcracker: Reimagined (23 December), Messiah (6 January), What The
World Needs Now: A Tribute to Burt Bacharach (10 February) and Britten’s The Young
Person’s Guide (24 March).

In September, the Orchestra will join Echo & The Bunnymen on tour to celebrate the
band’s seminal album, Ocean Rain, in the M&S Arena, Liverpool (16 September), Royal Albert
Hall, London (18 September), Usher Hall, Edinburgh (14 September) and Royal Concert Hall,
Nottingham (12 September).

Michael Eakin, Chief Executive of Liverpool Philharmonic, says: “It is wonderful to be
launching our new 2023/24 season, our third with Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan,
during such a culturally significant week for Liverpool. As the largest music organisation in
the city, we are central to that cultural offering all year round, and I am incredibly proud of