THE OPERA
Ravi Shankar’s mythical love story told through music & dance
15 JANUARY 2020 ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
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Njabulo Madlala as Aswini Twin 2 Susanna Hurrell as Sukanya and Michel de Souza as Aswini Twin 1 in rehearsal for the world premiere of Sukanya, 2017 Š Bill Cooper/ArenaPAL
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI Principal Conductor Designate EDWARD GARDNER Leader PIETER SCHOEMAN supported by Neil Westreich Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER CBE AM
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall Wednesday 15 January 2020 | 7.30pm
RAVI SHANKAR
SUKANYA
David Murphy conductor & arranger Suba Das director Susanna Hurrell Sukanya Alok Kumar Chyavana Jonathan Lemalu King Sharyaati Michel de Souza Aswini Twin 1 Njabulo Madlala Aswini Twin 2 Natasha Agarwal Sukanya’s Friend Synergy Vocals London Philharmonic Orchestra Gauri Diwakar choreographer Matt Haskins lighting designer There will be a 20-minute interval after Part 1, at approximately 8.15pm. The performance will end at approximately 9.30pm.
Part of Southbank Centre’s Shankar 100 celebrations The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. CONCERT PRESENTED BY THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Contents 4 Welcome 5 Cast & production team 6 Programme note 8 Synopsis 10 David Murphy Suba Das 11 Cast 13 Production team 15 Musicians 16 Dancers 17 Synergy Vocals 18 London Philharmonic Orchestra 20 Supporters 22 LPO administration 23 Ravi Shankar on the LPO Label
WELCOME
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H
appy New Year, and welcome to tonight’s London Philharmonic Orchestra performance. Tonight is a very special occasion as, following our world premiere performances of Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya in 2017, we revive what was described by The Telegraph as ‘a delightful evening of pure escapism’, with tonight’s semi-staged performance combining traditional Indian instruments, Western orchestra, singers and dance. We are delighted that many of the original soloists are returning to reprise their roles, and we also welcome a number of talented artists who are tonight making their LPO debuts, within both the cast and the production team. We hope you enjoy this evening’s performance. On 8 February it’s time for something completely different, as we launch our brand new series: 2020 Vision. Throughout 2020 at Royal Festival Hall we’ll explore the journey of music with pioneering works that have defined the sound of the 21st century, alongside pieces written exactly 100 and 200 years before: to find out more visit lpo.org.uk/2020vision As we enter the New Year, we are delighted to share the news that Her Majesty The Queen has granted Timothy Walker, the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Executive and Artistic Director, the honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Services to the Arts and Music in the 2020 New Year’s Honours. We are sure that all our audiences and supporters will join musicians and staff in congratulating Tim and thanking him for his exceptional commitment to the LPO in the first instance, and more broadly to classical music throughout the UK and internationally. Read more: lpo.org.uk/news
LPO 2020/21 season launch Booking for our 2020/21 season will open on Tuesday 3 March 2020 online and via the LPO Ticket Office. To take advantage of priority booking (from Tuesday 25 February), become a Friend of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for as little as £60 a year. Call Izzy Keig on 020 7840 4225 or visit lpo.org.uk/support/memberships
CAST & PRODUCTION TEAM
THE CHARACTERS The Aswini Twins Michel de Souza & Njabulo Madlala Chyavana, a sage Alok Kumar King Shaariyati Jonathan Lemalu Princess Sukanya, his daughter Susanna Hurrell Sukanya’s Friend Natasha Agarwal
PERFORMERS Conductor and arranger David Murphy Sitar Parimal Sadaphal Shehnai Ashwani Shankar Mridangam & Konnokol M Balachander Ghatam, Morsing, Mridangam & Konnokol Pirashanna Thevarajah Tabla Rajkumar Misra Chorus Director Micaela Haslam Chorus Synergy Vocals Dancers Gauri Diwakar, Gaurav Bhatti, Vidya Patel, Prachi Saathi, Subhash Viman Gorania
PRODUCTION TEAM Director Suba Das Choreographer Gauri Diwakar Lighting Designer Matt Haskins Librettist Amit Chaudhuri Assistant Director Ruth Knight Deputy Stage Manager Gwennan Taylor Costume Supervisor Kitty Callister Lighting Programmer Stuart Cross Sound RNSS Surtitles Damien Kennedy Repetiteur Anthony Legge Cast Costume Design 59 Productions Dancers’ Costumes Sandhya Raman Score posthumously completed by David Murphy. The production was originally developed and directed for the stage by Suba Das for Curve Leicester, The Royal Opera and London Philharmonic Orchestra. Originally co-produced by The Royal Opera, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Curve, Leicester. Original choreography by Aakash Odedra. The premiere performances of Sukanya in 2017 were generously supported by Arts Council England and the Bagri Foundation.
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PROGRAMME NOTE
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noushka Shankar says she laughed when her 90-year-old father Ravi Shankar said he was going to write an opera. Everything about this great Indian maestro was extraordinary, but one of the most extraordinary things was his ground-breaking determination to bring the musical traditions of East and West into an organic fusion. West Meets East, the LP that he released with Yehudi Menuhin in 1967, marked the first time leading classical musicians from different cultures had collaborated on an equal footing. Following that record came three concertos for sitar and orchestra plus a symphony, but Sukanya – the opera he left uncompleted, and which the British violinist-conductor David Murphy, with help from Shankar’s wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka, completed – reflects Ravi’s boldest stroke of all. The inspiration for this work dates back to when Ravi’s mother-in-law came to stay in 1995, and it hinged on the fact that her daughter Sukanya – Ravi’s wife – was three decades younger than him. At one point, her mother commented that she had named her daughter right, and when Ravi asked why, she replied that their situation was like that of a story in the ancient Sanskrit Mahābhārata epic. Since he didn’t know the story, he was told it: a young princess named Sukanya marries an older man, who is a sage; twin demi-gods try to tempt her away from her new husband by making him identical to them; the gods ask Sukanya to choose the one who is her real husband, and she chooses correctly. Thus was the idea of the opera born in Ravi’s mind. We in the West don’t need telling about the beauties of our classical tradition, but Yehudi Menuhin became the cheerleader for the music of the East: ‘The most moving and exciting quality of Indian music is the innocence of its rapture,’ he said, ‘the ecstatic and spontaneous delight that binds performers and audience alike’. David Murphy, who studied with Yehudi, says: ‘I became fascinated by the whole idea of Indian music, and its holistic philosophy of life. I was also seized with the idea that as the world gets smaller – as globalisation speeds up – musics would meet and merge. I was concerned that they should keep their identity’. One interesting facet of that historic collaboration between
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Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin was that neither abandoned his own style – for example, Yehudi kept his characteristic vibrato. Likewise, Ravi absolutely didn’t want the Western singers in his opera to compromise their natural mode of expression – he didn’t want them to imitate Indian singers in any way. But with Sukanya, alongside a Western chorus and orchestra, and Western singer-soloists, we also get a five-piece Indian instrumental ensemble consisting of sitar, shehnai oboe, tabla, plus mridangam and ghatam percussion. And here there is a huge gulf to be bridged – the tuning. Western music proceeds according to a scale in which seven sharply-defined whole-step intervals constitute an octave; North Indian music is microtonal, proceeding via an almost infinite number of finely-calibrated pitchgradations from one octave to another. ‘And it’s the journey through the microtones which is the expressive heart of the music,’ says Murphy. ‘Gradually you realise you are hearing all the overtones of a note, so that each note becomes, in effect, a chord’. This disjunction is indeed a challenge, which Murphy reckons he has met successfully: ‘The singers in Sukanya don’t sing microtonally, yet the audience won’t be aware of a clash of tuning systems. But the singers will enter into the improvisations.’ And that’s another can of worms, given that Western musicians find it exceptionally difficult to improvise, while Indian musicians, who don’t
work from scores, improvise all the time. Moreover, those improvisations are cast in the form of ragas, and a raga represents a concept that has absolutely no Western equivalent: it’s most accurately described as a map of the melodic terrain that lies between ‘scale’ and ‘tune’, and each has its own colouring, character, and emotional connotations. These Western singers, coached by both Murphy and Anoushka Shankar, indeed sing Indian ragas, and have the opportunity to improvise as they go.
Conductor & arranger David Murphy and director Suba Das in rehearsal, 2017 © Bill Cooper/ArenaPAL
If there is much that is musically new in this work, it’s because Ravi was still discussing new ideas for it with Murphy as he lay ill for the last time in hospital: he was combining Indian spoken percussion – a kind of scat singing called konnakol – with a touch of Western harmony and counterpoint, to explore the Indian rhythms in a way that had never been done before. Meanwhile Murphy and librettist Amit Chaudhuri had to marry libretto and music, since the libretto too was far from finished when Ravi passed away. ‘The piece has a complex structure, and amazing drive and energy,’ says Murphy, ‘and my responsibility has been the continuity, filling in the gaps. We would play the ragas together – just sitar and violin – and explore their possibilities, to the point where I would know how he would develop them’. The opera begins with a solo sitar playing an alap, a slow introduction that contains all the main melodic phrases that will run through the work. This moves into a vocal introduction from the Aswini Twins, leading to the overture. Then the action begins, with Sukanya and her father plus their entourage singing a celebration of springtime, revelling Indian-style in the sheer beauty of their vocal sound. This is a sound-world in which it is a pleasure to dwell. The vocal lines are simple but gracefully turned, with periodic moments of rich ornamentation, and with Murphy’s beat connecting the disparate elements into an organic whole. Sukanya received its world premiere at Curve, Leicester, on 12 May 2017, directed by Suba Das. David Murphy conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Singers. © Michael Church Michael Church is a music critic and editor of The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions, published by the Boydell Press.
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SYNOPSIS
PART I
PRESENT-DAY INDIA, THE TEMPLE OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE The Aswini Twins – two beautiful, young demigods, ayurvedic physicians to the gods – break into the temple and sing a song to the Goddess. They celebrate her power and describe love’s effects on the human world, including some of the extreme and absurd lengths the lovestruck man can go to. They ask the Goddess to show them love at its most true. In answer to the Aswini Twins’ question, the Goddess of Love transports them through time and space. They witness a young bereaved man named Chyavana meditating in the forest; he is so immersed in his meditation that ants build a nest around him and a huge ant hill is formed. A hundred years pass. One beautiful spring day King Sharyaati goes to the forest to celebrate the new season, accompanied by his daughter Princess Sukanya, her friend and the royal
entourage. An intrepid explorer, Sukanya discovers the ant hill and what looks like two jewels glowing from within. She pokes them with her fan and a cry of agony comes from the mound. The glow fades and storm clouds gather. As Chyavana emerges, now an old man, Sukanya, the King and Court realise what has happened. The King, learning of Chyavana’s spiritual stature, promises to make amends, offering Chyavana Sukanya’s hand in marriage. Sukanya accepts this decision, knowing it is for the good of the kingdom but also feeling that some mystical force is at work. As the Aswini Twins continue to look on, a wedding is hastily arranged. Sukanya’s friend sings a song and all present join in: who can foresee the outcome?
Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.
Susanna Hurrell as Sukanya in rehearsal, 2017
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PART II The Aswini Twins, captivated by Sukanya’s beauty, declare their outrage at how events are unfolding and how unworthy man is to love and be loved by a woman. As they spy on the life of the now married Sukanya and Chyavana they comment that things would be different if a woman had the opportunity to love a god.
Sukanya refuses to talk to the Twins and scorned, they then propose a test: they will restore Chyavana’s eyesight and youth, make him look exactly like them, and she must choose which one is her husband. Chyavana overhears the exchange and accepts the challenge on Sukanya’s behalf.
In the music room at Chyavana and Sukanya’s, the couple listen to a recital. Afterwards, Chyavana teaches Sukanya to tune the tanpura while recounting his life as a student musician. Chyavana describes how Indian and Western music differ as they sing the Raag Yaman Kalyan together. Sukanya realises she has found peace and contentment in her marriage to Chyavana, much to the disgust of the Aswini Twins who now decide to burst into the story.
The Twins and Chyavana step outside of the house and walk into a lake as Sukanya anxiously watches. After several minutes submerged in the lake the Aswini Twins and Chyavana emerge as three identical, god-like young men, seemingly in a trance. Sukanya must choose ‘the only one who walks on earth’. Knowing her husband’s soul, Sukanya immediately and correctly identifies Chyavana and they each sing a song for the other.
The Twins ask Sukanya why she stays with her aged husband when, young and beautiful as she is, she could be with one of them. The Goddess of Love and her attendants suddenly appear. The Twins think she is there to support them, but Sukanya now realises the depth of her feeling for Chyavana.
As the Goddess of Love looks on, Sukanya’s friend, King Sharyaati and the royal entourage celebrate the reunion of Sukanya and the restored Chyavana as they begin their new life together. The Aswini Twins finally return to the Goddess’s temple, having witnessed a true and extraordinary human love.
Michel de Souza and Njabulo Madlala as the Aswini Twins Photographs © Bill Cooper/ArenaPAL
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DAVID MURPHY
SUBA DAS
CONDUCTOR
DIRECTOR
With roots in the Western classical tradition, his work focuses on connecting diverse people and communities through the shared experience of sound. This pioneering musical journey was inspired by the combined forces of three musical greats: Yehudi Menuhin (leading to an exploration of Indian music and philosophy), Léon Barzin (giving him a direct line to the great conductors of the early 20th century, notably Toscanini, Furtwangler and Kleiber) and Pandit Ravi Shankar, with whom David had a close performing and composing relationship. David’s conducting career began as assistant to Charles Mackerras, and he is now a regular guest conductor with orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra (with whom he gave the world premiere of Ravi Shankar’s Symphony in 2010, recorded for the LPO Label); the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (including the world premiere of Amjad Ali Khan’s sarod concerto Samaagam, recorded for Harmonia Mundi); the Residentie Orkest (including the European premiere of Holst’s Indra); the London Sinfonietta (including Holst’s Savitri); the Philharmonia Orchestra (including the London premiere of Indra); the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; and Britten Sinfonia. He is Musical Director of Sinfonia Verdi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. David posthumously completed the score for Shankar’s Sukanya, and conducted the world premiere performances of the opera in May 2017 at Curve, Leicester, The Lowry in Salford, Symphony Hall Birmingham and Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.
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Suba Das is an awardwinning theatre director, producer and dramaturg. He is Artistic Director and Chief Executive of HighTide, one of the UK’s leading new writing theatre companies; and a trustee of the North Music Trust, which operates the iconic Sage Gateshead building and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. From 2012–18 Suba was Associate Director at Leicester Curve, one of the UK’s major producing theatres. Directing credits at Curve included the world premieres of Wipers by Ishy Din and Pink Sari Revolution by Purva Naresh, the European premiere of Shiv by Aditi Brennan Kapil, and new productions of Abigail’s Party and The Cat In The Hat (with Rose Theatre Kingston and the National Centre for Circus Arts). At Curve, Suba also established the prestigious Inside Out festival, developing new drama, dance and spoken word by artists in the East Midlands, raising over £1.5m for new work seen in Leicester and internationally by over 500,000 people. In 2017 Suba made his opera debut directing the posthumous world premiere of Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya, receiving a WhatsOnStage nomination for Breakthrough Artist in UK Opera. A Cambridge English graduate and previous Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and English Touring Theatre, Suba has also directed for major UK venues including Theatre Royal Stratford East, Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse, the Young Vic and the Roundhouse; and internationally at The Vineyard Theater, New York; and the National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai.
David Murphy © Johnny Grieg – Suba Das © Pamela Raith
David Murphy was born in Pembrokeshire, trained as a violinist at The Purcell School and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician. He subsequently spent two years in research and teaching at Wichita State University, then studied conducting with Jay Decker, Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa and Léon Barzin.
Susanna Hurrell © Harry Livingstone – Alok Kumar © Kirstin Hoebermann – Jonathan Lemalu © Sussie Ahlburg
CAST
SUSANNA HURRELL
ALOK KUMAR
JONATHAN LEMALU
Sukanya
Chyavana
King Sharyaati
Susanna Hurrell is highly regarded as one of the most versatile singers of her generation. Since her critically acclaimed debut with the Royal Opera House as Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi) in 2016, her pure, clear tone and warm stage presence have garnered praise from audiences and critics throughout Europe and the UK. Recent highlights include Micaela (Carmen) for the Royal Opera House, Mélisande (Pelleas et Mélisande) for the Norwegian National Opera, and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) for English National Opera/Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Born in India and raised in upstate New York, Alok Kumar trained at the Peabody Institute, the Shepherd School of Music and the Boston University Opera Institute. His debut with the Metropolitan Opera in Puccini’s La fanciulla del West led to return invitations for Gianni Schicchi, Die Rosenkavalier, Der fliegende Holländer and Kát’a Kabanová. Other appearances include with the Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre; at the Domaine Forget, Sanibel and Spoleto festivals; with the Boston and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras; and at Carnegie Hall, Hong Kong City Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall. His operatic roles include Rodolfo (La bohème), Don José (Carmen), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Lensky (Eugene Onegin) and Duca (Rigoletto).
Jonathan Lemalu, a New Zealand born Samoan, graduated from a Postgraduate Diploma Course in Advanced Performance on the London Royal Schools Opera Course at the Royal College of Music, and was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier award and the recipient of the 2002 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Award for Young Artist of the Year. He has performed at the Munich, Edinburgh, Ravinia and Tanglewood Festivals and at the BBC Proms. He is in great demand from the major opera houses, orchestras and recital venues of the world.
Equally at home with contemporary repertoire, Susanna sang Isabel in the Russian premiere of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence at the Mariinsky Concert Hall, and in Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis for the Royal Opera House, the Prototype Festival in New York and Opéra national du Rhin, a role she originated in 2016. Susanna is reprising the title role of Sukanya, following her highly acclaimed performance in the 2017 premiere.
Concert appearances include works by Beethoven, Dvořák, Mahler, Rossini and Verdi. A proponent of new music, he recently collaborated with composers Ricky Ian Gordon and Frederic Chaslin on commissions by the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater and Los Angeles Opera, respectively.
In 2008 Jonathan released a debut recital disc on EMI with Roger Vignoles to great critical acclaim, which won a Gramophone Debut Disc of the Year award. Other recordings include an operatic arias disc with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and a disc of English and American songs with Malcolm Martineau. Tonight’s performance is Jonathan’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Apart from his singing career, Alok Kumar is a licensed attorney.
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CAST CONTINUED
MICHEL DE SOUZA
NJABULO MADLALA
NATASHA AGARWAL
Aswini Twin 1
Aswini Twin 2
Sukanya’s Friend
Born in Brazil, Michel de Souza won the Maria Callas Vocal Competition in São Paulo and joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He was an Emerging Artist at Scottish Opera and went on to appear with the Royal Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Grange Park Opera, Chelsea Opera Group and Music Theatre Wales. He appears regularly in Brazil with Teatro Argentino de la Plata, Theatro São Pedro and Teatro Municipal de São Paulo. His roles include Escamillo (Carmen), Grand Prêtre (Samson et Dalila), Athanaël (Thaïs), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Prus (The Makropulos Case).
Born in Durban, Njabulo Madlala studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Wales International Academy of Voice. He is a former Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Samling Artist, and in 2010 won the Kathleen Ferrier Award.
Born in Liverpool, Natasha recently completed a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music, studying with Nuccia Focile and Chad Vindin.
Michel is tonight reprising his role of Aswini Twin 1 from the 2017 world premiere performances of Sukanya.
Notable concert appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra), and Messiah and Belshazzar’s Feast (Philharmonia Orchestra). Njabulo sang the role of Aswini Twin 2 in the 2017 world premiere performances of Sukanya.
Natasha is also a trained dancer in styles including ballet, tap, contemporary and Bharatanatyam. She was a Senior Associate of the Royal Ballet School, and was All England Young Dancer of the Year in 2013. Natasha is delighted to be making her LPO debut tonight.
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Natasha Agarwal © Nick Rutter
His concert engagements include Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music (BBC Proms), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Orchestre National de Lyon, and Handel’s Messiah and Bernstein’s Mass with the Orquestra Municipal de São Paulo.
His operatic appearances include roles in The Nose and How the Whale Became for The Royal Opera; Jim (Porgy and Bess) for English National Opera and Dutch National Opera; Don Giovanni for Mid Wales Opera; Schaunard (La bohème) for English Touring Opera and Opera Holland Park; Bartolomeo (Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo) for English Touring Opera; and Mel (The Knot Garden) at the Montepulciano Festival.
She has performed principal roles at the Royal Opera House Mumbai and Warwick Arts Centre. She was a principal in the world premiere of Paul McGrath’s opera Evidence Frontiéres in Arras and Naples, and created the role of Selena in Apollo’s Mission by Edward Lambert at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival. This summer she joins Opera Holland Park as Frou Frou/Chorus in The Merry Widow and Margot la Rouge/Le Villi. Concerts include Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Trevor Pinnock, Handel’s Messiah at Ripon Cathedral, and recitals at the Italian Cultural Institute and Leeds Lieder Festival.
PRODUCTION TEAM
GAURI DIWAKAR
MATT HASKINS
AMIT CHAUDHURI
choreographer & dancer
lighting designer
librettist
Gauri Diwakar is an acclaimed Kathak dancer and choreographer based in New Delhi, India. She was trained by eminent Gurus Ms Sumita Chowdhary, Pandit Birju Maharaj, Shri JaiKishan Maharaj and Ms Aditi Mangaldas.
Matt Haskins works as a lighting designer for theatre, opera, concerts and site-specific corporate events. His opera credits include The Snow Maiden, Hansel and Gretel, La Cenerentola, La traviata, Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw and the children’s opera Cautionary Tales (Opera North); Der fliegende Holländer (Estonian National Opera); Albert Herring (Maggio Musicale, Florence); La Cenerentola (Teatro Regio, Turin); Roberto Devereux (Teatro Real, Madrid); Glare (The Royal Opera); The Virtues of Things, The Commission and Café Kafka (Royal Opera/Opera North/Aldeburgh Festival); Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux and Maria Stuarda (Welsh National Opera); Into the Little Hill (Hamburg Laeiszhalle); and Babur in London (The Opera Group). His many theatre credits include Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre), Kiss Me (Hampstead Theatre), Death of a Salesman (UK tour), Crocodiles (Manchester Royal Exchange), Aladdin (Salisbury Playhouse) and Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse).
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven novels, the latest of which is Friend of My Youth. His first major work of non-fiction, Calcutta: Two Years in the City, was published in the UK and India in 2013. It was published by Knopf in the USA in September 2013. His first book of critical essays, the influential Clearing a Space, was published in 2008. His second book of essays, Telling Tales, was published in the UK in August 2013.
Gauri’s recent production Hari Ho Gati Meri (‘Let My Salvation Be In You’) was showcased in the Darbar Festival at Sadler’s Wells, at the Sydney Dance Festival and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as many performances in India. Her other major productions include Samratri – The Night of Divine Union, Dancing Emptiness and Mugdha – A Celebration of Beauty & Womanhood. Her contribution as a Kathak expert in a theatrical adaptation of Mughal-E-Azam is also being widely appreciated. Gauri forms part of the teaching team at Akram Khan Company’s Intensive programme, teaching Kathak technique. In recognition of her work, Gauri has been awarded a Senior Fellowship by Kalavaahini Trust, Chennai for 2019. In 2008 she was awarded ‘Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar’ by India’s premier cultural body, Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Chaudhuri is also a critic, musician, composer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His awards for his fiction include the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, a Betty Trask Award, the Encore Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Indian government’s Sahitya Akademi Award. In 2013 he was awarded the first Infosys Prize in the Humanities for his outstanding contribution to literary studies. He is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Matt worked as Lighting Designer on the world premiere production of Sukanya in 2017.
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PRODUCTION TEAM CONTINUED
RUTH KNIGHT
GWENNAN TAYLOR
KITTY CALLISTER
assistant director
deputy stage manager
costume supervisor
Alongside her work for Salon Opera (Tosca, Hung Up, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Phaedra, Madam Butterfly, Carmen and Worthy is the Lamb), Ruth regularly assists at the UK’s top opera companies, including The Royal Opera (Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, The Monstrous Child), Garsington Opera (Semele, Die Zauberflöte, Fantasio) and Opera Holland Park (The Queen of Spades).
Gwennan graduated with a First Class degree in Music from the University of Birmingham, before going on to gain her Masters in Stage and Events Management from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Her Stage Management career has revolved around her love of contemporary music and, in particular, opera.
Kitty Callister is a multidisciplinary set and costume designer working across opera, theatre and television. She is also Associate Artist for Silent Opera.
This is Ruth’s first engagement with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Alongside this work, Gwennan is a tutor for young people who have struggled with mainstream education. She also teaches rock/pop vocals through The Rock Project UK, and writes her own music. This is Gwennan’s first engagement with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Kitty has previously worked with the LPO as Costume Supervisor for the Orchestra’s semi-stagings of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in November 2018 and Wagner’s Die Walküre in January 2019, both at Royal Festival Hall.
Gwennan Taylor © Sarah Feigin – Kitty Callister © E. Gregoriades
Ruth is working as a Staff Director at English National Opera in the 2019/20 season, assisting Wayne McGregor (Orpheus and Eurydice), Netia Jones (Orphée), and Glen Sheppard (Madam Butterfly). She will also be assisting Michael Boyd on Rusalka in the Garsington Opera 2020 season, which will also tour to the Edinburgh Festival.
Gwennan has worked frequently with the Royal Opera House, Aldeburgh Music and Music Theatre Wales, with whom she has been involved in the premieres of many contemporary operas. Most notably, she was Deputy Stage Manager for the world premieres of Philip Glass’s The Trial and Harrison Birtwistle’s The Cure. She has toured internationally, including taking Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek to the Tongyeong International Music Festival in South Korea.
Previous engagements include theatre design for Sounds and Sorcery (The Vaults Theatre); Vixen in London/Helsinki/Beijing/Trento (Silent Opera); Lucio Papirio Dittatore (Buxton International Festival); Mozart vs Machine, The Rattler and Church Parables (Mahogany Opera Group); Second Star To The Right and The Snow Queen (Hijinx/Odyssey); Macbeth (Glyndebourne); Nye and Jennie (Theatr na nÓg); and The Yellow Sofa (Glyndebourne On Tour).
MUSICIANS
PARIMAL SADAPHAL sitar
Parimal Sadaphal started playing the sitar at the age of seven. Later on, Pandit Ravi Shankar took him directly under his tutelage and trained him for almost 25 years. Now himself a senior disciple of the sitar, Parimal travelled widely with Shankar while assisting him on stage, as well as performing independently. Parimal also has a Masters degree in Agricultural Engineering and works as a senior consultant for international development organisations such as the World Bank and UNDP.
RAJKUMAR MISRA tabla
Pandit Rajkumar Misra, one of the most renowned tabla players in Indian classical music, studied with his father, Pandit Ramgopal Misra, and with Pandit Jnan Prakash Gosh. He has performed with leading artists in India and around the world, including Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pt VG Jog, Ustad Rashid Khan and Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and performed in the UK with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and at Buckingham Palace for HM The Queen. Rajkumar is a Fellow of Trinity Laban Conservatoire and is the resident Guru at The Bhavan.
M BALACHANDAR
mridangam & konnokol From a musical family, ‘Bala’ (as he is known in the music fraternity) began his mridangam studies at the age of nine with Coimbatore N. Ramaswamy Pillai. He works in many different genres of dance and music including Carnatic classical music, Bharatanatyam, Kathak,
Hindustani classical music, jazz and fusion. He has performed at many prestigious festivals worldwide and appeared on international television and radio with noted Indian musicians and dancers including Pandit Ravi Shankar, Dr M Balamuralikrishna, Prof. TV Gopalakrishnan, Pandit Jasraj, TH Vikku Vinayakram, Dr Padma Subramaniam, Alarmel Valli and Saswati Sen. He has been the resident mridangam teacher at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London, since 1995. He has won many prestigious awards and was awarded a Fellowship of Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2005.
ASHWANI SHANKAR Shehnai
Born into a family of musicians of the Banaras Gharana school of shehnai and flute, Ashwani received his initial training under his grandfather, Pandit Anant Lal, and his father, Pandit Daya Shankar. He also had the privilege of studying under sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Ashwani has performed at numerous music festivals in India and across the world, and has touched the hearts of listeners worldwide.
PIRASHANNA THEVARAJAH
ghatam, morsing, mridangam & konnokol Pirashanna Thevarajah is a senior disciple of mridanga vidwan Sri M. Balachandar. He performs on various Indian percussion instruments including the mridangam, kanjira, ghatam and morsing, and is also proficient in the art of konnakol (Indian spoken rhythm). He has collaborated and performed with many of the world’s foremost Indian musicians and dancers including the late Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Mandolin U. Shrinivas and Akram Khan, to name a few. He has appeared at many venues and festivals across Europe, India, the USA and Canada, and featured on many albums and film soundtracks including Anoushka Shankar’s Grammy nominated albums Traveller, Traces of You and Land of Gold.
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GAURAV BHATTI
PRACHI SAATHI
Gaurav Bhatti has been working as a repertory member at Drishtikon Dance Foundation based in Delhi, run by Aditi Mangaldas. Over the past year he has travelled across three continents, performing with famous artists such as Anoushka Shankar, Hema Malini and Aakash Odedra. His Kathak training has been under the fine tutelage of his gurus Saveeta Sharma and Lata Bakalkar. His expertise is not only in Kathak, but he has been placed in the top four in Canadian reality TV show ‘Bollywood Star’. Gaurav is also a qualified visual artist from Ottawa University, Canada.
Prachi Saathi is an accomplished Bharata Natyam dancer and has been practising this art for the past two decades. After her initial training with Guru Vaibhav Arekar she received further guidance under Guru Lata Raman, and is currently mentored under Smt Rama Vaidyanathan. She has completed her Masters in Bharata Natyam. Prachi is a graded DD artist and is also empanelled with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Prachi has to her credit many prestigious awards and performances at reputed venues worldwide. She has been awarded the prestigious titles such as ‘Shringarmani’, ‘Nrityashiromani’, ‘Girnar Ratna’, ‘Nalanda Nritya Nipuna’, ‘Sundri Samrat Yuva Puraskar’ and many more.
VIDYA PATEL
SUBHASH VIMAN GORANIA
Vidya Patel is a Dance Artist based in Birmingham with training background in Kathak, learning with Guru Sujata Banerjee. After graduating from the Birmingham DanceXchange Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) South Asian strand in 2014, she represented the South Asian Category in the inaugural BBC Young Dancer 2015 Grand Final held at Sadler’s Wells. Since then she has worked with a range of artists, choreographers and organisations including Gary Clarke, Shobana Jeyasingh, Richard Alston Dance Company and Akademi, touring nationally and internationally, and has been nominated for the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. She enjoys working collaboratively across disciplines and styles, most recently creating work About the Elephant co-choreographed with contemporary artist Connor Scott, music composer Shammi Pithia commissioned by Serendipity Arts Festival and Sampad Arts. Vidya is supported on the Associate Artist programme at Deda Derby & is a member of Aakash Odedra 2 Company. She is currently shortlisted for the Sadlers Wells Young Associates programme.
Subhash is a cutting-edge British choreographer and dancer. Shifting deftly between Indian classical, urban and contemporary dance, he combines seamless movement with a dose of provocative humour, giving his work an unorthodox and quirky edge. His immersion in a rich plethora of dance training feeds a wide range of movement vocabulary into his choreographic work, with characteristic physicality, floor work, swift spins, humorous gesture and expression. Subhash trained in Bharatanatyam with Chitraleka Bolar and Chaaya Kanavate, and Kathak with Nilima Devi MBE and Asha Joglaker. His performance credits include the award-winning production The Troth – Usne Kaha Tha, produced by Akademi and choreographed by Gary Clarke, winning the Herald Angel Award from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018. He performed in the Bessie Awardwinning choreography Ecstasy for the German tour of Get on the Good Foot produced by Apollo Theatre in New York, and in Kiran Nagarkar’s novel God’s Little Soldier produced by Theater Freiburg. For his company, Morph Dance Company, he has created his own contemporary works, Gamechanger and Classic Encounters.
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Vidya Patel © Indy Sagoo
DANCERS
SYNERGY VOCALS MICAELA HASLAM director
Sopranos Altos Tenors Basses
Micaela Haslam, Amy Haworth, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange Heather Cairncross, Carris Jones, Rachel Weston Phillip Conway Brown, Andrew Busher, Benedict Hymas Andrew Fellowes, Oliver Hunt, Timothy Murphy
Synergy Vocals is an elite pool of singers able to deliver a broad repertoire in a variety of styles. The group specialises in close-microphone singing and is often associated with the music of Steve Reich, John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Steven Mackey and Luciano Berio. Synergy has given concerts all over the world with orchestras and ensembles including the Boston, Chicago, St Louis, New World and San Francisco symphony orchestras, the Los Angeles, Brooklyn and New York Philharmonic orchestras, Remix, Nexus, Steve Reich & Musicians, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Asko|Schönberg, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Ictus, London Sinfonietta, the London Symphony Orchestra, and all five of the UK’s BBC orchestras. They have also collaborated with dance companies including the Royal Ballet (London) and Rosas (Belgium).
Synergy Vocals © Will Priestman
In March 2017 Micaela Haslam conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance at Royal Festival Hall of Gavin Bryars’s The Sinking of the Titanic, and directed rehearsals for both Bryars’s Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet and Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, in which Synergy Vocals also performed. The group’s world premieres include Reich’s Three Tales and Daniel Variations, Steven Mackey’s Dreamhouse, Louis Andriessen’s video opera La Commedia, David Lang’s writing on water and James MacMillan’s Since it was the day of Preparation…, as well as the UK premiere of Nono’s monumental Prometeo at Royal Festival Hall.
As well as live concerts and recordings, the group has undertaken educational and outreach projects in the UK, The Netherlands, the USA and South America. Micaela Haslam regularly coaches ensembles for Steve Reich in the preparation of his Music for 18 Musicians and has given numerous talks and workshops about Reich’s work. Synergy Vocals is featured on a variety of film soundtracks including Nanny McPhee, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, Severance, Triangle and Jane Eyre, and television signature tunes including the Home Fires series for ITV. Commercial recordings of the group include the Grammy-winning Dreamhouse by Steven Mackey, Since it was the day of Preparation… by James MacMillan (with Hebrides Ensemble), De Staat by Louis Andriessen (with London Sinfonietta), Three Tales by Steve Reich (with Steve Reich & Musicians), La Commedia by Louis Andriessen (with Asko|Schönberg), John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music conducted by the composer (with San Francisco Symphony), Kompendium’s Beneath the Waves, These New Puritans’ Field of Reeds, Rob Reed’s Sanctuary and Steven Wilson’s Grace for Drowning. The group’s most recent releases are Berio’s Sinfonia with BBCSO conducted by Josep Pons (winner of the BBC CD Awards Vocal category), Steve Reich’s Proverb with the Colin Currie Group, and The Desert Music with Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson. synergyvocals.com
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LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has performed at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall since it opened in 1951, becoming Resident Orchestra in 1992. It also has flourishing residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer it plays for Glyndebourne Festival Opera,
where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In summer 2012 the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed as part of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames, and was also chosen to record all the world’s national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. The Orchestra broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and has recorded soundtracks for numerous blockbuster films including The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It has made many distinguished recordings over the last eight decades and in 2005 began releasing live, studio and archive recordings on its own CD label.
RAVI SHANKAR’S SYMPHONY WITH THE LPO Wednesday 22 April 2020 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall John Corigliano Stomp Philip Glass Double Concerto for violin and cello Shankar Symphony Karen Kamensek conductor Daniel Hope violin | Alban Gerhardt cello | Anoushka Shankar sitar Generously supported by Cockayne and the London Community Foundation.
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LPO © Benjamin Ealovega – Anoushka Shankar © Yuval Yen/DG
One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1932 by Sir Thomas Beecham. Since then, its Principal Conductors have included Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2017 Vladimir Jurowski celebrated his tenth anniversary as the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor. Edward Gardner is currently Principal Conductor Designate, and will take up the position when Jurowski’s tenure concludes in September 2021.
ON STAGE
First Violins Pieter Schoeman* Leader Chair supported by Neil Westreich
Lasma Taimina Katalin Varnagy Chair supported by Sonja Drexler
Catherine Craig Martin Höhmann Robert Pool Sarah Streatfeild Tina Gruenberg Second Violins Tania Mazzetti Principal
Cellos Pei-Jee Ng Principal Francis Bucknall Laura Donoghue David Lale Gregory Walmsley Double Basses Kevin Rundell* Principal Hugh Kluger Tom Walley
Chair supported by Countess Dominique Loredan
Flutes Juliette Bausor Principal Stewart McIlwham*
Helena Smart Kate Birchall Nancy Elan Fiona Higham
Piccolo Stewart McIlwham* Principal
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Nynke Hijlkema Joseph Maher Marie-Anne Mairesse Violas David Quiggle Principal Richard Waters Co-Principal Susanne Martens Chair supported by Gill & Garf Collins
Benedetto Pollani Laura Vallejo Alistair Scahill
Horns John Ryan* Principal Martin Hobbs Mark Vines Co-Principal Gareth Mollison
Chair supported by Donors to the 2019 Gala Player Appeal
Anne McAneney* David Hilton Trombones David Whitehouse Principal Carol Jarvis Bass Trombone Lyndon Meredith Principal Tuba Lee Tsarmaklis* Principal
Cor Anglais Sue Böhling* Principal
Timpani Simon Carrington* Principal
Clarinets Thomas Watmough Principal Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE
Percussion Andrew Barclay* Principal
Paul Richards*
Chair supported by Andrew Davenport
Bassoons Jonathan Davies Principal
Henry Baldwin Co-Principal Keith Millar
Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Pieter Schoeman © Benjamin Ealovega
Simon Estell*
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leader
Trumpets Paul Beniston* Principal
Oboes Ian Hardwick* Principal Alice Munday
Chair supported by Dr Barry Grimaldi
PIETER SCHOEMAN
The Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: The Candide Trust The Chiltern Friends of the LPO William & Alex de Winton Friends of the Orchestra Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Eric Tomsett
Pieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. Born in South Africa, Pieter has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall, Capella Hall in St Petersburg, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. He has also recorded numerous solos for film and television, and led the LPO in its soundtrack recordings for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Pieter’s chair in the London Philharmonic Orchestra is supported by Neil Westreich.
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THANK YOU
We are extremely grateful to all donors who have given generously to the LPO over the past year. Your generosity helps maintain the breadth and depth of the LPO’s activities, as well as supporting the Orchestra both on and off the concert platform.
Artistic Director’s Circle An anonymous donor Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE Orchestra Circle The Candide Trust Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich Principal Associates Richard Buxton In memory of Brenda Lyndoe Casbon In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Associates Steven M. Berzin Kay Bryan William & Alex de Winton Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Mrs Irina Gofman Countess Dominique Loredan Mr & Mrs Makharinsky George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Gold Patrons An anonymous donor David & Yi Buckley In memory of Allner Mavis Channing The Chiltern Friends of the LPO Gill & Garf Collins Andrew Davenport Sonja Drexler Mrs Gillian Fane Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Virginia Gabbertas MBE Mr Roger Greenwood The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Geoff & Meg Mann Francis & Marie-France Minkoff Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett The Viney Family Laurence Watt
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Silver Patrons Ms Terri Borain Andrea d’Avack Georgy Djaparidze Ulrike & Benno Engelmann Peter & Fiona Espenhahn Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe John & Angela Kessler Jamie & Julia Korner The Metherell Family Denis & Yulia Nagy Mikhail Noskov & Vasilina Bindley Tom & Phillis Sharpe Andrew & Rosemary Tusa Guy & Utti Whittaker Grenville & Krysia Williams Bronze Patrons Anonymous donors Michael Allen Mr Mark Astaire Margot Astrachan Mr Geoffrey Bateman Mrs A Beare Dr Anthony Buckland Mr Alan C Butler Desmond & Ruth Cecil The Earl & Countess of Chichester Mr Michael Cole-Fontayn Mr John H Cook Howard & Veronika Covington Mrs Maria Danilova Guy Davies Bruno De Kegel Cameron & Kathryn Doley Jill Dyal David Ellen Ignor & Lyuba Galkin Mr Daniel Goldstein David & Jane Gosman Mr Gavin Graham Lord & Lady Hall Mrs Dorothy Hambleton Wim & Jackie Hautekiet-Clare Eugene & Allison Hayes Ms Elena Heinz Malcolm Herring Catherine Høgel & Ben Mardle J Douglas Home Rose & Dudley Leigh
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Candace Procaccini Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr David Russell Deb & Jay Shaw Ms Elizabeth Shaw Mr Kenneth Shaw Ms Natalie Spraggon & Mr David Thomson Mrs John E Stauffer Ronald & Davidde Strackbein Mr John Weekes Joanna Williams Hon. Benefactor Elliott Bernerd Hon. Life Members Alfonso Aijón Kenneth Goode Carol Colburn Grigor CBE Pehr G Gyllenhammar Robert Hill Mrs Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Laurence Watt LPO International Board of Governors Natasha Tsukanova Chair Steven M. Berzin (USA) Veronika Borovik-Khilchevskaya (Cyprus) Kay Bryan (Australia) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Aline Foriel-Destezet (France) Irina Gofman (Russia) Joyce Kan (China/Hong Kong) Countess Dominique Loredan (Italy) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA)
Thomas Beecham Group Members David & Yi Buckley The Candide Trust The Chiltern Friends of the LPO Gill & Garf Collins Andrew Davenport William & Alex de Winton Donors to the 2019 Gala Player Appeal Sonja Drexler The Friends of the LPO Irina Gofman Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi Mr & Mrs Philip Kan John & Angela Kessler Countess Dominique Loredan Sir Simon Robey Victoria Robey OBE Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Julian & Gill Simmonds Eric Tomsett Natasha Tsukanova Neil Westreich Guy & Utti Whittaker We are grateful to the Board of the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, who assist with fundraising for our activities in the United States of America: Simon Freakley Chairman Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Stephanie Yoshida Antony Phillipson Hon. Chairman Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP
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ADMINISTRATION
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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RAVI SHANKAR ON THE LPO LABEL WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS WITH THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
RAVI SHANKAR SUKANYA David Murphy conductor Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 19 May 2017.
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£14.99 (2 CDs) | LPO-0115 Released January 2020
RAVI SHANKAR SYMPHONY David Murphy conductor Anoushka Shankar sitar Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 1 July 2010. £6.99 | LPO-0060 Released May 2012
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