of the Concertgebouw hall itself as a dominant influence on his career. He is presently Artistic Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony orchestras and has held the position of Chief Conductor for many major orchestras in Holland. James Gaffigan is Chief Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Gürzenich orchestras. He spent three years as Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony orchestra, where he assisted Music Director and LSO Principal Guest Conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas. In recent years he has made debuts at many of Europe’s major opera houses and has a long-running relationship with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Daniele Gatti has established a reputation as a conductor equally at home in symphonic and operatic work. He is currently Music Director of the Orchestre National de France and has held the positions of Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor at the Royal Opera House. He has a long-standing and fruitful relationship with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, with whom he has performed at the Edinburgh and Lucerne Festivals and the BBC Proms. Pablo Heras-Casado is Principal Conductor of New York’s Orchestra of St Luke’s. The Spanish-born conductor has previously founded an early music choir, an ensemble devoted to avant-garde contemporary music and a Baroque orchestra, and names both Harry Christophers and Pierre Boulez as particularly influential mentors. His career has encompassed everything from traditional repertoire and premieres of new works to projects devoted to the revival of little-known Baroque composers. Leonidas Kavakos, not content with being one of the most sought-after violinists performing today, now devotes an increasing amount of his career to conducting, and held the position of Artistic Director of the Camerata Salzburg between 2007–09. After enjoying glowing reviews for his UBS Soundscapes: LSO Artist Portrait performances as violin soloist in 2012, this season marks Kavakos’ conducting debut with the LSO. Fabio Luisi has enjoyed a distinguished conducting career for close to three decades, previously working as Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden, Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and, currently, General Music Director of Zurich Opera. In 2011, after working as Principal Guest Conductor, he became Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Jonathan Nott trained as a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge and in singing and flute at the RNCM, before moving to Germany,
LSo Invites: Thu 19 Sep 2013 7.30pm
Sun 27 Apr 2014 7.30pm
Mozart Rondo for Solo Piano K511 Mozart Piano Concerto No 17 K453 Dvorˇák Symphony No 5
Mahler Symphony No 7
Robin Ticciati conductor Mitsuko Uchida piano
Thu 1 May 2014 7.30pm
Daniele Gatti conductor
Strauss Don Juan Brahms Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Wed 25 Sep 2013 7.30pm Strauss Burleske for Piano and Orchestra Mahler Symphony No 6 Thomas Dausgaard conductor Barry Douglas piano
Nikolaj Znaider conductor Roman Simovic violin Tim Hugh cello
Thu 5 Dec 2013 7.30pm Beethoven Violin Concerto Dvorˇák Symphony No 7 Nikolaj Znaider violin / conductor
Wed 14 May 2014 7.30pm
Wed 5 Feb 2014 7.30pm
Ravel Alborada del gracioso Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2 Shostakovich Symphony No 10
UBS Soundscapes
DVORˇÁK
Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra Dvorˇák Violin Concerto Panufnik Lullaby Dvorˇák Symphony No 9 (‘From the New World’) Michael Francis conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
Pablo Heras-Casado conductor Roman Simovic violin Fri 6 Jun 2014 7.30pm Beethoven Overture: Prometheus Beethoven Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra Beethoven Symphony No 3 (‘Eroica’) Leonidas Kavakos violin/conductor Enrico Pace piano Tim Hugh cello
Sun 9 Feb 2014 7.30pm UBS Soundscapes: LSO Artist Portrait
Thu 19 Jun 2014 7.30pm
YUJA WANG
Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 K488 Bruckner Symphony No 8
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Fabio Luisi conductor Lise de la Salle piano
Jaap van Zweden conductor Yuja Wang piano
Sun 22 Jun 2014 7.30pm
Thu 13 Feb 2014 7.30pm
Strauss Ein Heldenleben Beethoven Mass in C major
UBS Soundscapes: LSO Artist Portrait
YUJA WANG
Fabio Luisi conductor
Debussy La mer Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2 Ravel Daphnis and Chloé – Suites I & II
Sun 29 Jun 2014 7.30pm Beethoven Symphony No 2 Messiaen Turangalîla-symphonie
James Gaffigan conductor Yuja Wang piano
Jonathan Nott conductor Steven Osborne piano Cynthia Millar ondes-Martenot
where he immersed himself in its Kapellmeister system and became a conductor. Since 2000 he has been Principal Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and is known particularly for his creative programmes. Michael Francis was a member of the LSO’s Double Bass section before turning his hand to conducting. He now holds the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of Sweden’s Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and guest conducts major orchestras across the globe, including the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony. Robin Ticciati, a British conductor of Italian ancestry, grew up playing violin and percussion
in the National Youth Orchestra and took up conducting at the age of 15, receiving mentoring from Sir Colin Davis. He studied music at the University of Cambridge, where he co-founded the Aurora Orchestra, and, at the age of 22, became the youngest conductor to perform at La Scala, Milan. He is currently Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and will begin his tenure as Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2014.
LSO INVITES Eleven conductors / thirteen concerts 25 Sep 2013 to 29 Jun 2014
full programme and soloist details on pages 38 to 43
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