Encore Magazine Autumn 2017

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News from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Autumn 2017

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Awardwinning

BBC Music Magazine Awards The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Vasily Petrenko won two awards at the prestigious BBC Music Magazine Awards 2017 for their recording of Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies 1, 2 and 5, released in 2016 on the ONYX Classics label.

In the words of BBC Music Magazine, the recording is ‘a triumphant celebration of ten years since Petrenko became the youngest ever principal conductor in the Liverpool

ensemble’s history, and an affirmation of a brilliant musical partnership.’

The recording took the BBC Music Magazine Awards’ most prestigious title, crowned Recording of the Year 2016 as voted by the BBC Music Magazine Jury. The recording was also Orchestral Recording of the Year – a category decided by public vote. Thank you to everyone who voted.

Vasily Petrenko is Gramophone Classical Music Awards Artist of the Year Our Chief Conductor, Vasily Petrenko, who was the Gramophone Classical Music Awards Young Artist of the Year in 2007, was voted Artist of the Year in the only publicly-chosen Award in the prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017 – the ‘Oscars’ of the classical music world.

The Award is a great accolade for Vasily and the Orchestra; Gramophone paid particular tribute to their ‘extraordinary work’ together on their critically-acclaimed recordings of Tchaikovsky and Elgar symphonies on Onyx, which have been received with universal acclaim.

The recording of Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 and 6 year clinched Gramophone’s Recording of the Month in March.

Gramophone’s review said: ‘Petrenko’s fast and furious approach once again pays off with invigorating performances. The RLPO play their socks off and must rank as one on the finest “Russian Orchestras” in the UK today.’

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Honorary Graduate, Thelma Handy Congratulations to joint leader of the Orchestra, Thelma Handy who has been conferred with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Music by the University of Liverpool.

On accepting her degree, Dr. Handy gave a short recital to a packed graduation congregation at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

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Classic FM: Celebrating 25 Years Goes Global!

Classic FM and Liverpool Philharmonic have enjoyed an award-winning partnership since 2001 as the Classic FM Orchestra in North West England.

The station celebrated their 25th birthday and started our 2017-2018 season with a sold out concert on 7 September at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall performed by the Orchestra and Choir and presented

by Bill Turnbull. It was broadcast live and for the first time, Classic FM live-streamed a concert on Facebook, presenting a unique platform for both partners to reach a global audience.

Composer Dani Howard with presenter Bill Turnbull

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Classic FM’s John Brunning broadcast his Drivetime show live, backstage from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall before the station’s 25th birthday concert

Listening live on Classic FM broadcasting to 5.6 million listeners Facebook Live Stream Reached 521,475 people Attracted 9,609 reactions, comments and shares – approx. one comment every 10 seconds for the duration of the concert.

23% of all viewers were under 35 Our international viewers were watching in South Africa, Slovenia, America, Spain, Mexico, the Netherlands, Malta, Canada, Hungary, Brazil.

As well as this concert and a series of other special concerts and events, in partnership with the

Royal Philharmonic Society, Classic FM have commissioned seven brand new pieces of classical music written by composers who are no older than Classic FM itself. One of those composers Dani Howard heard the world premiere of her work Argentum during the concert.

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Silver Service

Celebrating 25 years as musicians with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and pictured here with Classic FM presenter Bill Turnbull are left to right: Rhys Owens (trumpet), Hilary Browning and Ian Bracken (cellos), Chris Morley (horn), Nigel Dufty and Ashley Frampton (basses). They’re all now Honorary Members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Congratulations and thank you to them all.

L to R: Janet Carver, Elspeth Christie and Penny Morton

50 years

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And congratulations and thank you to Janet Carver, Elspeth Christie and Penny Morton who have recently celebrated 25 years singing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir.

They too are now Honorary Members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

Distinguished Service Congratulations and thank you to Colin Smith on an incredible 50 years singing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir.

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Ensemble 10/10’s concert in October also featured the world premiere of one of the seven composers commissioned for Classic FM’s 25th birthday, Alexia Sloane’s Elegy for Aylan.

Vasily Petrenko with Richard Miller

In early October, our new music group Ensemble 10/10, under the baton of Clark Rundell performed the premiere of 24-year-old Richard Miller’s Nighthawks as part of our concert series at St. George’s Hall Concert Room.

Richard is our 2016 Christopher Brooks Composition Prize winner, supported by The Rushworth Foundation.

Richard’s travel during his tenure is supported by a Help Musicians UK travel bursary. Liverpool-born Richard sang in the Royal

Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and is currently studying at the Royal College of Music.

We’re delighted to announce Grace Evangeline Mason as our 2017 Christopher Brooks Composition Prize winner.

And in the same month, the orchestral version of Jack Pepper’s Signal, also a Classic FM birthday commission, was given its world premiere by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko.

Congratulations to Bethan Morgan-Williams, the winner of our first annual Christopher Brooks Composition Prize who has been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society to write a new work for Cheltenham Festival.

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Liverpool Philharmonic Celebrates Sgt Pepper, the Mersey Sound and the 1967 ‘Summer of Love’ 1967 saw some of the biggest cultural shifts of a generation, one of the defining moments in modern culture and creativity in which Liverpool played a big part in the outpouring of cultural energy and creativity.

It was the year that Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released by four local lads, The Mersey Sound poetry anthology

was published and the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral opened.

Liverpool Philharmonic has been playing our part in celebrating that famous year as part of Liverpool’s 67-17: 50 Summers of Love, a season of events and performances inspired by the golden anniversary of the Summer of Love.

Photos on page 8 & 9 from It Was 50 Years Ago Today: A Celebration of Sgt Pepper and the Summer of Love.

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today – Celebrating Sgt Pepper

Following three sold out dates at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and a tour to prestigious UK venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Sage Gateshead, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall, and Portmeiron’s Festival No. 6 marking the fiftieth anniversary of arguably the most influential album of all time, this unique production is back, bigger and better than ever. The Orchestra and the nation’s premier Beatle group The Bootleg Beatles will be teaming up again on Saturday 13 January 2018 at Liverpool Echo Arena to reprise their performance of

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

During Echo Arena Liverpool’s 10th birthday year, the show will be one of the highlights of Liverpool 2018, a UNESCO City of Music, and the city-wide cultural celebrations marking a decade since Liverpool was European Capital of Culture. The Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko with many guest artists including Ringo Starr performed the first ever concert in Liverpool Echo Arena to kick-start that memorable year.

The show will be presented as before, by legendary Liverpool poet and ex-member of The Scaffold, Roger McGough

and conducted by Richard Balcombe and will include new visuals not seen on the 2017 tour. (See back page for ticket details)

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‘Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper, the real band would have struggled to fake it as well as this… it was as exhilarating as that remarkable album itself.’

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George Harrison Within You Without You: The Story of The Beatles and Indian Music This unique, one-off performance explored George Harrison’s discovery of Indian music and the unique impact it had on The Beatles. It introduced musicians that were part of a Beatles story that has

never fully been told, aiming to recognise and acknowledge their contribution in helping to create the iconic Beatles album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Those musicians were the late Anna Joshi and Amrit Gajjar (dilruba); and Buddhadev Kansara (tamboura) and Natwar Soni (tabla) – pictured left with Liverpool Philharmonic’s Richard Haswell, the last two, surviving musicians who with their late colleagues, performed on George Harrison’s composition, ‘Within You, Without You’ on the landmark Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Buddhahadev and Natwar joined a hand-picked Liverpoolbased band starring Thomas McConnell, together with an ensemble of outstanding Indian classical musicians playing Indian classical music, to perform Beatles’ classics.

Roger McGough with Ensemble 10/10 Summer with Monika ‘I spent the summer with Monika and Monika spent the summer with me’. This concert marked the 50th anniversary too of The Mersey Sound, the game-changing anthology of verse written by the Mersey Poets, Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri. Liverpool Philharmonic’s new music group Ensemble 10/10 presented three performances of Summer with Monika, Roger McGough’s classic sequence of love poems, (republished by Penguin in the summer, along with The Mersey Sound) with original arrangements by composer and guitarist Andy Roberts.

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Liverpool International Music Festival As they have since the Festival began in 2012, the Orchestra performed an outdoor concert in the beautiful setting of Liverpool’s Sefton Park, and as part of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper and the 1967 Summer of Love, the concert once again featured music by The Beatles and popular music from 1967.

Big in Japan After a triumphant first tour to Japan in 2015, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Vasily Petrenko return in May 2018, performing seven concerts including one at Tokyo’s legendary Suntory Hall. The tour will feature three different concert programmes performed with Japanese soloists Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) and Fumiaki Miura (violin) including Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5.

Welcome to our New Principal Bassoon With the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra playing to critical and audience acclaim, and its 2017-2018 concert season now underway, we’re delighted to welcome Nina Ashton as Principal Bassoon.

Nina went to the Purcell School of Music, before studying at Cambridge University, the Royal College of Music, and at the Musikhochschule in Munich. Her inaugural concert as a member of the Orchestra in May was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 with a ‘boozy bassoon’ solo in Elgar’s Falstaff.

Nina is particularly proud of this because she is tee-total.

When not destroying bassoon reeds, Nina enjoys cycling through beautiful countryside, celebrating veganism and getting up to mischief with her little nephew. She is particularly interested in social and environmental justice and intersectional solutions to the climate crisis.

Her brother, Kim Ashton, is a composer and lecturer (and gardener!) and Nina, along with her orchestral colleagues in the bassoons, Rebekah Abramski and Gareth Twigg, are planning a special concert for the 2018-2019 season of Close Up concerts in Music Room.

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Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Great Northern Tour Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra were on tour during the summer for the first time since 2008, performing across the North of England in July 2017.

Their Great Northern Tour included performances at Ripon Cathedral, Sage Gateshead and Lancaster University.

Our talented musicians, aged 13-23 years, performed Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Dukas’ Fanfare, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (1919) and Berlioz’s Marche Hongroise conducted by Liverpool Philharmonic’s Youth Ensembles Artistic Director, Simon Emery. Our musicians also worked with young people from In Harmony NewcastleGateshead

for their support of this fantastic opportunity for the Youth Orchestra.

Liverpool Philharmonic is grateful to donors Robin Bloxsidge and Nick Riddle

Photos of Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Sage Gateshead and Ripon Cathedral

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Liverpool Cathedral and Liverpool Philharmonic harmonise through Volunteer Programme Acting Dean and Canon Precentor The Very Reverend Myles Davies, and Employment and Foodbank Coordinator at Liverpool Cathedral Paul O’Brien have been working with Liverpool Philharmonic in providing support, and notice of work opportunities for Liverpool Cathedral volunteers.

Since 2014, Liverpool Cathedral’s Volunteer Programme has helped 95 people back into work, providing over 300 qualifications and 184 people have completed the programme.

Andrew Choyce, Liverpool Philharmonic’s HR Manager said: ‘Liverpool Philharmonic has been working with Liverpool Cathedral for some time on their Volunteer Programme and we’ve been delighted to recently appoint one of their volunteers to a paid role in our company.

We’re pleased to formalise our partnership with Liverpool Cathedral, and to continue supporting people in our city back into work.’

New Home for Adagio Adagio, the kinetic sculpture by Marianne Forrest, which hung in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall from 1995-2014, has a new home at the University of Liverpool’s Harold Cohen Library on Ashton Street.

began plotting an Adagio revival in a new setting, an adventure with ups and downs, best read about on his entertaining blog saveadagio.wordpress.com

Peter Goodhew mbe, Liverpool Philharmonic patron and Emeritus Professor of Engineering at the University of Liverpool, and his wife Gwen Goodhew, a freelance consultant on Gifted and Talented Education, had spent many an evening admiring Adagio’s role as a musical focal point and were dismayed to find out it would not be returning post-refurbishment.

With this news, Peter’s industrious brain

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CD RELEASES

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Rachmaninov Spring Cantata Debussy Printemps Vasily Petrenko conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir ONYX released 20 October 2017

Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals Alan Rawsthorne Practical Cats Vasily Petrenko conductor Alexander Armstrong narrator WARNER CLASSICS

The first release in Vasily Petrenko’s cycle of Stravinsky ballet scores with the Orchestra.

Children’s classics for narrator and orchestra, with comedian / actor Alexander Armstrong.

Beethoven Violin Concerto, Romances Schubert Rondo

Prokofiev Piano Concertos 1 & 3, Overture on Hebrew Themes

Andrew Manze conductor James Ehnes violin ONYX released late October 2017

2016-17 Artist in Residence James Ehnes in a programme of early-Romantic violin showpieces.

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Vasily Petrenko conductor Simon Trpčeski piano ONYX ‘Fiery articulation, brazen rhythms … the RLPO sounds seriously good.’

Available to buy online at www.liverpoolphil.com

Vaughan Williams Symphonies 3 ‘Pastoral’ & 4 Andrew Manze conductor ONYX

‘Persuasive mix of poetry, raw splendour and poignancy, with exceptional playing from the RLPO … fine orchestral ensemble and excellent brass.’ *****

Tchaikovsky Symphonies 3, 4 and 6 Vasily Petrenko conductor ONYX

‘In No.6 … from the soulful opening bassoon solo, warm strings and alert woodwind detail … a reading of depth and passion … No.4 blazes, the RLPO brass in glowing form.’

Tchaikovsky

Vaughan Williams Symphonies 2 ‘London’ & 8 Andrew Manze conductor ONYX

‘… immaculate tuning and ensemble ... expressive and atmospheric playing ... a very special recording.’ *****

Symphonies 1, 2 and 5 Vasily Petrenko conductor ONYX

‘Orchestral Recording of the Year’ and ‘Jury Award: Recording of the Year’ at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2017.

‘Petrenko’s Tchaikovsky is authentically Russian… fine quality of the Liverpool players … splendidly vivid performances.’

Happy 8th Birthday In Harmony Liverpool Young musicians of In Harmony Liverpool took to the stage at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 20th March alongside musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for the now annual concert celebrating Liverpool Philharmonic’s ground-breaking project in Everton and the success and musical achievements of our young musicians.

A close to capacity audience for the concert included families and representatives from Everton, schoolchildren from schools in Liverpool and across the North West and invited guests.

One of six Sistema England programmes, In Harmony Liverpool was established in 2009 at Faith Primary School in Everton. From

initially working with 84 children in its first year, In Harmony Liverpool now has a weekly reach to 720 children aged 0-18 and their families in 2016, all taking part in orchestral music-making of the highest quality every week, free of charge, in and out of school.

Congratulations to Everton Nursery & Family Centre One of our three In Harmony Liverpool partner schools, Everton Nursery is the Times Educational Supplement Awards Early Years Setting of the Year 2017. The award cited that staff led by Head

Teacher Dr. Lesley Curtis recognised the importance of cultural experiences in children’s education particularly noting the centre’s participation in In Harmony Liverpool.

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Schools’ In! Schools’ Concerts have been performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra since the 1940s. Now an annual series, this year Liverpool Philharmonic welcomed more than 18,500 children from across the North West for 13 Schools’ Concerts for Key Stage 1, 2 & 3 pupils.

Concerts are devised and presented by our popular family concerts presenter Alasdair Malloy; with popular author and CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell, collaborating and presenting Key Stage 1 concerts.

The concerts are designed, through carefully chosen works to provide an inspirational introduction to classical music for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 pupils, linked

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to the wider National Curriculum; and Liverpool Philharmonic provides teaching resources before the concerts and followup resources once schools have attended.

For further information on booking tickets for Liverpool Philharmonic Schools’ Concerts 2018, visit www.liverpoolphil.com/school-concerts

Hitting the Right Note with Mersey Care Over 50 professional musicians have been involved with delivering the programme.

Liverpool Philharmonic’s Musician in Residence programme in partnership with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust supports some of the most vulnerable people in Liverpool and improves the recovery, health and wellbeing of participants through music, benefiting 10,000 service users and their families and carers since 2008.

A specially commissioned report, Partnerships for Recovery; Musicians in Residence, has outlined has outlined the positive impacts of our innovative and far reaching partnership which is now in its 10th year.

and get time to enjoy their loved one.’

Occupational Therapist

The commissioning of the report, researched and authored by Dr Susanne Burns has been made possible through the generous support of Liverpool Philharmonic’s Premier Sponsor, Hill Dickinson.

‘It can be a traumatic time for them – visiting can be difficult – if they are invited to music, they can relax, hold hands and communicate in a different way. We get to know more about the loved one and they feel supported and relaxed

‘My community mental health team recommended this to me and I’ve really enjoyed it.

I found I’ve enjoyed the music and it’s helped me rediscover things that I used to enjoy which I stopped doing because I was not feeling well.’

Mersey Care Service User

Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Cllr Malcolm Kennedy; Mersey Care Chairman, Beatrice Fraenkel and Chief Executive Joe Rafferty; Vasily Petrenko and the Musician in Residence lead musicians team attended the launch of the special report in Music Room in September.

Photos of lead musicians at Mersey Care’s The Life Rooms, Walton and Clock View Hospital

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Classical Music is the Business The University of Liverpool and Liverpool Philharmonic have launched a new postgraduate Masters programme in the Business of Classical Music that will prepare students to become the next generation of global music industry professionals.

Students will study key aspects of the classical music business. They will see them play out in the real-world setting of Liverpool Philharmonic with the opportunity to become familiar with the operation, management and development of a professional symphony orchestra. They will also gather insights from

Liverpool Philharmonic company members through guest seminars and specialise in one of the key aspects of the business of classical music as part of a work placement programme with Liverpool

Philharmonic. The first cohort of students, pictured here with University of Liverpool Music Industry Lecturer Dr. Mike Jones, began the inaugural course in September 2017.

In Partnership with Resonate Music Studio 300 young musicians from Liverpool are set to benefit from a new weekly afterschool programme at Resonate Music Studio based at Bellerive FCJ Catholic College in South Liverpool.

Part of Resonate, Liverpool’s Music Education Hub, the new site will offer places for young people to develop their musical creativity, play in bands, sing in choirs and regularly work with musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, building on the success of existing Resonate Music Studios at Notre Dame Catholic College, Everton 18 | encore

and Gateacre School.

At Bellerive and Notre Dame, Liverpool Philharmonic musicians will lead 2 new weekly after-school orchestras for young people playing at Grade 2-6 standard, called Resonate Youth Philharmonics.

The new symphony orchestras will provide a bridge for young musicians into Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Academy Orchestra (Grade 4-7 holiday courses) and on to Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (Grade 7+).

Love Music: From the First Note Over the years, thousands of donors have supported Liverpool Philharmonic’s work with schools and young people.

This vital work is a fundamental part of Liverpool Philharmonic’s mission.

Our Schools’ Concert series, now in its 8th decade, our groundbreaking music education and social change programme, In Harmony Liverpool, and our youth orchestra, ensembles and choirs are fortunate to have many friends whose generosity helps each year to nurture talent and sustain musical excellence.

With your help, we will grow our investment in young people’s music-making, all made possible through the ongoing financial support of people who believe, as we do, in the power of music to change lives.

“I enjoyed The Firebird so much – you could say it melted my heart. I almost cried! I would 100% love to hear the orchestra again”.

Pupil aged 9, attending a Schools’ Concert for the first time.

Every donation will be used directly to support music for young people.

If you are able to make a gift please: Visit liverpoolphil.com/firstnote Call 0151 210 2921 Email fundraising@liverpoolphil.com Post cheques (payable to RLPS) to Development Dept, Liverpool Philharmonic, Freepost LV7371, Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BR encore | 19

WEDDINGS, PARTIES, MEETINGS, RECEPTIONS & CONFERENCES at Liverpool Philharmonic

The Art Deco splendour of Liverpool’s iconic Grade II* listed Liverpool Philharmonic Hall or the ultra-contemporary Music Room, is the perfect place for summer parties, weddings, private dining, meetings, receptions and conferences.

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What’s On in

MUSIC ROOM Close-Up Concerts

In the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2017-2018 concert season

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To our Principal Partners Investec Wealth & Investment and Liverpool John Moores University who will continue to sponsor the Henry E Rensburg and Liverpool John Moores University Series respectively.

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Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita

Wednesday 15 November 8pm – A musical collaboration between the seven-time Grammynominated pianist, composer and bandleader Omar Sosa from Cuba, and the award-winning Senegalese kora master and singer Seckou Keita.

Seafoam Green & Mellowtone

The Last Waltz

Friday 1 & Saturday 2 December 8pm – Celebrating the anniversary of The Band’s last ever concert, Seafoam Green & Mellowtone present songs from the set list of 25 November 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco.

Connie Lush

Wednesday 13 & Thursday 14 December 8pm – Connie and her band are back again for Christmas. These gigs have sold out for the past four years so get your tickets early!

Jesús León tenor and guitar

Monday 18 December 8pm – “León leaps up to that closing trio of top notes with all the swaggering confidence of the young Pavarotti” - BBC Music Magazine

Nathalie Forget ondes martenot

Friday 28 January 8pm – One of the new young exponents of the ondes martenot, an early electronic music instrument that Messiaen famously used in the Turangalîla Symphony, performed by the Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko on 25 January.

The first Close Up concert of the 2017-2018 season in September, performed by the Mishima Quartet (Kate Richardson violin, Kate Marsden violin, Rachel Jones viola and Hilary Browning was a great success and included a collaborative concert with local composer, John McHugh, featuring his piece Hidden Voice, a unique music and multimedia composition that gives a voice to people living with dementia by setting their speech patterns to music.

Our Premier Sponsor, Hill Dickinson, is sponsor of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto (21 & 22 September) Mahler One (15 & 16 March) and Petrenko’s Shostakovich (26 & 27 April).

The Rushworth Foundation will sponsor Verdi’s Requiem (19 November) and Grieg’s Piano Concerto (4 February); and David M Robinson Jewellers will be supporting the Spirit of Christmas concerts again this year (16‑23 December).

Weightmans will sponsor The Birds (5 October) and Maestro! Tour Management is again sponsoring Lunchtime Concerts in Music Room.

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TOUR MANAGEMENT

We are delighted to announce that Sutcliffe has joined our corporate membership scheme for the 2017/18 season. Based in Liverpool City Centre, Sutcliffe provides high quality civil and structural engineering services nationally. We look forward to welcoming Sutcliffe and their clients to Liverpool Philharmonic Hall this year and look forward to a continuing partnership.

Liverpool Philharmonic is grateful for the support of our established and new partners.

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Sunday 18 February 2018 7.30pm – Legendary Sheffield-born singer, songwriter and former frontman of Ace, Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics, Paul is undoubtedly a key figure in British pop history.

Friday 3 November 7.30pm – Performing all their greatest hits and being joined by special guests, Kid Creole and The Coconuts.

DISNEY IN CONCERT

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

CHRISTMAS WITH

KATHERINE JENKINS

Wednesday 13 December 7.30pm – Start your Christmas celebration in style with singing sensation Katherine Jenkins, as she performs a magnificent concert of seasonal music and songs.

Monday 9 April 2018 7.30pm – Enjoy the spellbinding story of Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast unfold live in concert with The Novello Orchestra performing the magical scores alongside the film on screen.

Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts ©.

All rights reserved.

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Get into the Spirit of Christmas with the Box Office 0151 709 3789 liverpoolphil.com Series

A Russian Christmas Thursday 7 December 7.30pm Friday 8 December 1.30pm – Prokofiev Suite from Lieutenant Kijé Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 Rimsky-Korsakov Suite from The Snow Maiden Delius Sleigh Ride Tchaikovsky Suite from The Nutcracker Elim Chan conductor Kathryn Stott piano

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Spirit of Christmas Saturday 16, Sunday 17, Monday 18, Tuesday 19, Thursday 21, Friday 22 December, 7.30pm; Saturday 23 December, 2.30pm – Ian Tracey conductor Jesús León tenor John Suchet presenter Simon Emery Artistic Director, Youth Ensembles Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir – Sponsored by

Abba on New Year’s Eve Saturday 31 December 7.30pm – All your ABBA favourites to ring in the New Year!

Handel Messiah

Saturday 6 January 7pm (please note start time) – Nicholas Kraemer conductor Sarah Tynan soprano Robin Blaze countertenor Nicholas Mulroy tenor Christopher Purves baritone Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Perfect for all the Family………

JUST ANNOUNCED Sing-Along with Santa Back to the Future: Saturday 16 December Peter and the Wolf Film with Live 11.30am & 2.30pm with Alexander Armstrong Orchestra Sunday 17 December Thursday 14 December 6.30pm – Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Tchaikovsky Theme from Swan Lake Stravinsky Firebird (excerpt) John Williams Hedwig’s theme from Harry Potter Rawsthorne Practical Cats An entertainment for speaker and orchestra Alexander Armstrong narrator Perfect for ages 7+

11.30am & 2.30pm – Alasdair Malloy presenter Michael Seal conductor Liverpool Philharmonic Children’s Choirs and Melody Makers

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Saturday 30 December 2.30pm & 7.30pm – Dirk Brossé conductor

Power up your DeLorean… rechange to flux capacitor and get ready to celebrate this movie Christmas treat filled with seasonal classic as you’ve never seen or heard it before. songs that everyone will know.

Plus a few surprises too – whether Back to the Future™ & you’ve been naughty or nice! © Universal Studios and U-Drive Joint Venture.

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‘Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper, the real band would have struggled to fake it as well as this…. it was as exhilarating as that remarkable album itself.’

The Times, June 2017, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall