London Philharmonic Choir Patron HRH Princess Alexandra | President Sir Mark Elder | Artistic Director Neville Creed Accompanist Jonathan Beatty | Chairman Ian Frost | Choir Manager Tessa Bartley
Founded in 1947, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest choirs, consistently meeting with great critical acclaim. It has performed under leading international conductors for almost 70 years and made numerous recordings for CD, radio and television. Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the UK and abroad. The Choir had a busy last season performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 under the Orchestra’s new Principal Guest Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada; Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Vasily Petrenko; and three performances with the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski, including works by Verdi, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. This season the Choir was delighted to perform Taneyev’s St. John of Damascus and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater. The Choir appears annually at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and performances have included the UK premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s A Relic of Memory and Goldie’s Sine Tempore in the Evolution! Prom. The Choir has been engaged by the BBC for all the Doctor Who Proms and, in recent years, has given
Sopranos Catherine Allum, Annette Argent, Jane Awdry, Tessa Bartley, Hilary Bates, Catherine Boxall, Laura Buntine, Carole Cameron, Charlotte Cantrell, Olivia Carter, Paula Chessell, Alana Clark, Olivia Clark, Eve Commander, Sally Cottam, Harriet Crawford, Sarah Deane-Cutler, Victoria Denard, Jessica Dixon, Jessica Eucker, Rachel Gibbon, Lydia Grant, Jane Hanson, Rebecca Harries, Sally Harrison, Laura Hunt, Jenni Kilvert, Olivia Knibbs, Suzannah Lipmann, Martha MacBean, Ros Mann, Janey Maxwell, Katie Milton, Harriet Murray, Mariana Nina, Carmel Oliver, Angelina Panozzo, Lydia Pearson, Marie Power, Danielle Reece-Greenhalgh, Rebecca Schendel, Rebecca Sheppard, Victoria Smith, Victoria Sutcliffe, Susan Thomas, Rachel Topham, Jenny Torniainen, Sarah van Staveren, Jessica Watson, Susan Watts, Joanna Webster, Charlotte Wielgut Altos Jenny Adam, Christine Allison, Phye Bell, Sally Brien, Andrei Caracoti, Lara Carim, Isabelle Cheetham, Noel Chow, Liz Cole, Emily Dankworth, Andrea Easey, Carmel Edmonds, Pauline Finney, Regina Frank, Kathryn Gilfoy, Emily Hill, Kristi Jagodin, Marjana Jovanovic Morrison, Charlotte Kingston, Marissa Landy, Andrea Lane, Elaine Lewis, Lisa MacDonald, Laetitia Malan, Marj McDaid, Kristen Mooy, Sophie Morrison, Annabeth Murphy-Thomas, Rachel Murray, 8 | London Philharmonic Orchestra
performances of works by Beethoven, Elgar, Howells, Liszt, Orff, Vaughan Williams, Verdi and Walton. A well-travelled choir, it has visited numerous European countries and performed in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Perth, Australia. The Choir has appeared twice at the Touquet International Music Masters Festival, performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Mozart’s Requiem. It recently returned from a trip to Brussels, performing Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater and Zemlinsky’s Psalm 23, Op. 14. The Choir prides itself on achieving first-class performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life. For more information, including details about how to join, please visit lpc.org.uk In 2006 the Choir performed Brahms’s A German Requiem in St Paul’s Cathedral under the baton of Kurt Masur. Many members of the Choir fondly remember being inspired by Maestro Masur’s love of this Requiem, at one time advising them ‘Life is beautiful, die smiling!’ We were very sorry to hear of Maestro Masur’s passing in December last year and would like to dedicate the Choir’s performance this evening to his memory.
Monika Okreglicka-Mazur, Miranda Ommanney, Magdalen Peel, Sheila Rowland, Carolyn Saunders, Rima Sereikiene, Rachel Taylor, Catherine Travers, Susi Underwood, Snezhana Valcheva, Jenny Watson, Emma Windle Tenors David Aldred, Geir Andreassen, Christopher Beynon, James Clarke, Tom Dalglish, Kevin Darnell, Robert Geary, Alan Glover, Joshua Haley, Iain Handyside, David Hoare, Stephen Hodges, Patrick Hughes, Andrew Mackie, Tony Masters, Javier Ruiz, Knut Olav Rygnestad, Keith Saunders, Jaka Škapin, Claudio Tonini, Jeremy Wong, Tony Wren, Martin Yates Basses Jonathon Bird, Peter Blamire, Filipe Caetano, Geoff Clare, John Clay, Phillip Dangerfield, Marcus Daniels, Neville Filar, Halldor Fosså, Ian Frost, Christopher Gadd, Paul Gittens, Christopher Harvey, Nicholas Hennell-Foley, Mark Hillier, David Hodgson, Yaron Hollander, Martin Hudson, Ashley Jacobs, David Kent, John Luff, Anthony McDonald, Richard Miller, John D Morris, John G Morris, Ashley Morrison, Luke Murphy, Will Parsons, Johan Pieters, John Salmon, Ed Smith, Tom Stevenson, Peter Taylor, Alex Thomas, James Torniainen, Trevor Watson