2023/24 concert season at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre
Concert programme
Principal Conductor Edward Gardner supported by Aud Jebsen Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski Patron HRH The Duke of Kent KG Artistic Director Elena Dubinets Chief Executive David Burke Leader Pieter Schoeman supported by Neil Westreich
Congress Theatre, Eastbourne Sunday 26 November 2023 | 3.00pm
Mozart & Beethoven Beethoven Overture, Fidelio (6’) Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 (28’) Interval (20’) Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 (32’) Bertie Baigent conductor Benjamin Mellefont clarinet
The timings shown are not precise and are given only as a guide. Concert presented by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in association with Eastbourne Borough Council
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Welcome LPO news 3 On stage today 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra 6 Bertie Baigent 7 Benjamin Mellefont 8 Programme notes 11 On the LPO Label 12 Next concerts 13 LPO BrightSparks 14 Thank you 16 LPO administration
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 26 November 2023 • Mozart & Beethoven
Welcome to the Congress Theatre
LPO news
Theatre Director Chris Jordan
Tour news
Welcome to this afternoon’s concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. As always, we are pleased to welcome back the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its patrons to the Congress Theatre.
The Orchestra have just returned from a busy 10-concert tour of Germany – plus a date in Paris – with Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, pianist Hélène Grimaud and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. They performed in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Freiburg and Friedrichshafen, as well as at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
This season we celebrate 60 years since the LPO gave the first ever performance at the newly-opened Congress Theatre in 1963. The Orchestra has now given over 350 concerts here in Eastbourne, performing with countless esteemed conductors and soloists, as well as introducing many exciting new artists to the stage for the first time.
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The historic theatre in which you are now seated is unique in that it is conceived to be a perfect cube and has fantastic acoustics to enhance your experience of live music. Whether this is your first visit or you are a season regular, we hope you enjoy your experience at our venue. We thank you for continuing to support the concert series. Please sit back in your seats and enjoy the concert and your visit here.
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Out now: The Damnation of Faust on Apple Music Classical
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 26 November 2023 • Mozart & Beethoven
On stage today First Violins
Alice Ivy-Pemberton Leader Lasma Taimina
Chair supported by Irina Gofman & Mr Rodrik V. G. Cave
Martin Höhmann Cassandra Hamilton Elizaveta Tyun Maeve Jenkinson Ruth Schulten Alison Strange Amanda Smith Will Hillman Kay Chappell Gavin Davies
Second Violins
Claudia Tarrant-Matthews Principal Chair supported by Friends of the Orchestra
Fiona Higham
Chair supported by David & Yi Buckley
Ashley Stevens Nancy Elan Joseph Maher Lyrit Milgram Caroline Heard Nicole Stokes Anna Croad Emma Martin
Violas
Rebecca Chambers Guest Principal Benedetto Pollani Julia Doukakis Alistair Scahill Kate de Campos Raquel López Bolívar Jisu Song Anita Kurowska
Cellos
Kristina Blaumane Principal
Chair supported by Bianca & Stuart Roden
Sue Sutherley Tom Roff Auriol Evans Pedro Silva Deni Teo
Horns
John Ryan* Principal Martin Hobbs Jonathan Farey Gareth Mollison
Trumpets
Double Basses
Kevin Rundell* Principal George Peniston Tom Walley
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Laura Murphy
Paul Beniston* Principal Tom Nielsen Co-Principal Anne McAneney*
Trombone
Mark Templeton* Principal
Chair supported by William & Alex de Winton
Bass Trombone
Flutes
Stewart McIlwham* Principal Lok-yin Hui
Lyndon Meredith Principal
Timpani
Oboes
Peter Facer Guest Principal Lydia Griffiths
Clarinets
Simon Carrington* Principal
Chair supported by Victoria Robey OBE
* Professor at a London conservatoire
Thomas Watmough Principal
Chair supported by Roger Greenwood
Paul Richards*
Bassoons
Jonathan Davies* Principal Chair supported by Sir Simon Robey
Patrick Bolton
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The LPO also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: Gill & Garf Collins Sonja Drexler Mr B C Fairhall Dr Barry Grimaldi Victoria Robey OBE Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp Eric Tomsett Neil Westreich
London Philharmonic Orchestra • 26 November 2023 • Mozart & Beethoven
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
Our conductors
Uniquely groundbreaking and exhilarating to watch and hear, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been celebrated as one of the world’s great orchestras since Sir Thomas Beecham founded it in 1932. With every performance we aim to bring wonder to the modern world and cement our position as a leading orchestra for the 21st century.
Our Principal Conductors have included some of the greatest historic names like Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. In 2021 Edward Gardner became our 13th Principal Conductor, taking the Orchestra into its tenth decade. Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his impact as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is our current Principal Guest Conductor and Tania León our Composer-in-Residence.
Our home is at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, where we’re at the beating heart of London’s cultural life. You’ll also find us at our resident venues in Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden, and on tour throughout the UK and internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. Each summer we’re resident at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, combining the magic of opera with Glyndebourne’s glorious setting in the Sussex countryside.
Soundtrack to key moments Everyone will have heard the London Philharmonic Orchestra, whether it’s playing the world’s National Anthems at every medal ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, our iconic recording with Pavarotti that made Nessun Dorma a global football anthem, or closing the flotilla at The Queen’s Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. And you’ll almost certainly have heard us on the soundtracks for major films including The Lord of the Rings.
Sharing the wonder You’ll find us online, on streaming platforms, on social media and through our broadcast partnership with Marquee TV. During the pandemic period we launched ‘LPOnline’: over 100 videos of performances, insights and introductions to playlists, which led to us being named runner-up in the Digital Classical Music Awards 2020. During 2023/24 we’re once again be working with Marquee TV to broadcast selected live concerts, so you can share or relive the wonder from your own living room.
We also release live, studio and archive recordings on our own label, and are the world’s most-streamed orchestra, with over 15 million plays of our content each month.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 26 November 2023 • Mozart & Beethoven
Alice Ivy-Pemberton Leader
Next generations There’s nothing we love more than seeing the joy of children and families enjoying their first musical moments, and we’re passionate about equipping schools and teachers through schools’ concerts, resources and training. Reflecting our values of collaboration and inclusivity, our OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Our LPO Junior Artists programme is leading the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, and our LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts schemes support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers. We also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, supporting the development of outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds currently under-represented in the profession.
Alice Ivy-Pemberton joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Co-Leader in February 2023. Praised by The New York Times for her ‘sweet-toned playing’, Alice has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician to international acclaim. While growing up in New York City and studying with Nurit Pacht, Alice made a nationally televised Carnegie Hall debut aged ten, and was a finalist at the Menuhin International Competition at the age of 12.
Looking forward The centrepiece of our 2023/24 season is our spring 2024 festival The Music in You. Reflecting our adventurous spirit, the festival embraces all kinds of expression – dance, music theatre, and audience participation. We’ll collaborate with artists from across the creative spectrum, and give premieres by composers including Tania León, Julian Joseph, Daniel Kidane, Victoria Vita Polevá, Luís Tinoco and John Williams.
Alice earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho as a fully-funded recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. During her studies she won Juilliard’s Violin Concerto Competition, performed extensively with the New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and led orchestras under the baton of Barbara Hannigan, Xian Zhang and Matthias Pintscher. Upon graduating in 2022 she was awarded the Polisi Prize and a Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant in recognition of ‘tremendous talent, promise, creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the performing arts’.
Rising stars making their debuts with us in 2023/24 include conductors Tianyi Lu, Oksana Lyniv, Jonathon Heyward and Natalia Ponomarchuk, accordionist João Barradas and organist Anna Lapwood. We also present the long-awaited conclusion of Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski’s Wagner Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung, and, as well as our titled conductors Edward Gardner and Karina Canellakis, we welcome back classical stars including Anne-Sophie Mutter, Robin Ticciati, Christian Tetzlaff and Danielle de Niese.
An avid chamber musician, Alice has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Anthony Marwood, Gil Shaham and members of the Belcea, Doric, Juilliard and Brentano string quartets, and performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Moritzburg and Yellow Barn. Also a passionate advocate for new music and its social relevance, Alice created Drowning Monuments, a noted multimedia project on climate change that brought together five world premieres for solo violin.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 26 November 2023 • Mozart & Beethoven
Bertie Baigent
© Benjamin Ealovega
conductor
In June 2022 Bertie Baigent won the Grand Prix at the inaugural International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam, along with the Classical and Symphonic prizes. Since then he has gone on to conduct the Rotterdam Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony and Royal Scottish National orchestras, the Orchestre National de Lille, and Phion Orchestra at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
Born in Oxford in 1995, Bertie read music at the University of Cambridge, going on to study conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with Sian Edwards and graduating with distinction. He is also a composer, his music having been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and performed by Aurora Orchestra, Fretwork, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
Today’s concert is Bertie’s debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to returns to Rotterdam, Birmingham and Glasgow, the 2023/24 season also sees Bertie debut with the Detroit Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic and Luxembourg Philharmonic orchestras, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Bertie has been Music Director of Waterperry Opera Festival since 2017. There and elsewhere he has conducted productions of Die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Carmen, Dido and Aeneas and Partenope – directing the latter two from the harpsichord. He made his Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut in summer 2023, stepping in to conduct Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore with the LPO, and returns to Glyndebourne this winter for Handel’s Messiah. Bertie is a former assistant conductor of the Colorado Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras. His many awards include the Royal Academy of Music’s Sir Henry Wood Scholarship and Ernest Read Prize in 2017. He was also given the Orchestra Prize by the New Japan Philharmonic at the Tokyo International Conducting Competition in 2021.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 26 November 2023 • Mozart & Beethoven
Benjamin Mellefont
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clarinet
Benjamin Mellefont has been Principal Clarinet of the LPO since 2019, and we are delighted to welcome him to step out of the Orchestra as soloist today. Ben was born in Sydney, Australia, and prior to joining the LPO was Principal Clarinet of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he also appeared as a soloist. He has also played as Guest Principal with many of the orchestras in the UK and Australia, and at festivals such as Salzburg, Edinburgh and Aldeburgh. A keen proponent of contemporary music, Benjamin has been a core and founding member of Explore Ensemble since 2012, with whom he has been involved in numerous premieres and commissions. With them, in 2019 he gave the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Figura for solo clarinet and ensemble. He is also a member of Ensemble Vindeleia, a collective that meets biannually in La Rioja, Spain, to present chamber music to remote villages in the region. Benjamin graduated in 2015 from the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours as the Tegner Scholar, having studied with Barnaby Robson, Richard Hosford, Timothy Lines and Michael Collins. Whilst there he won the Clarinet Prize and Concerto Competition. He has examined and given classes at several of the UK’s conservatoires, and since 2019 has been a Professor of Clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music. When not playing clarinet, he enjoys producing electronic music, and can be occasionally found moonlighting as a barista in London coffee shops and markets.
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Programme notes Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Overture, Fidelio 1814
Photo courtesy of the Royal College of Music, London
In all of Beethoven’s output, nothing was subjected to quite the same torturous process of composition as the overture to his only opera, Fidelio. As he later lamented to his biographer Anton Schindler, the opera was a challenge in itself: ‘Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.’ But the overture was more problematic still. It was only after eight years and three abandoned attempts that the version we hear today was completed. To complicate matters further, this version of the overture – the ‘definitive’ overture in Beethoven’s eyes – features none of the themes from the opera itself, and it is not the version preferred by concertgoers (that honour falls to the Leonore Overture No. 3, which retains the opera’s original title). It is, however, a magnificent curtain-raiser. Abandoning the opera’s themes altogether affords Beethoven a creative freedom more befitting an overture’s function – which is to set the stage for, rather than pre-empt, the drama to follow. It is compact, punchy, and full of suspense, pairing grandiose melodies and sinuous lyricism with dramatic fanfares and pregnant pauses. Though the score may have undergone several false starts, it has all the ingredients of a perfect overture. Programme note © Jo Kirkbride
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Programme notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–91
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 1791
Benjamin Mellefont clarinet 1 Allegro 2 Adagio 3 Rondo: Allegro But Mozart had a remarkable ability to keep his daily life separate from his inner world, and in writing this Concerto he produced a work that embraces both light and shade, producing brilliant fireworks and lyrical melodies in the clarinet’s upper register and exploring the rich, expressive sound of its bottom octave with equal ease. This gives the Concerto its searching, bittersweet quality, and Mozart enhances the effect with a soft-edged orchestral setting, with flutes but no oboes or trumpets. These colours give the concerto a specially warm, intimate tone (luminous in the Adagio), and make its expressive, gently curving melodies particularly moving. Mozart may not have meant this Concerto to be his swansong, but its subtle beauty of sound, ripe abundance of melody and compassionate tenderness of feeling make it as moving a testament to his genius as anything he ever wrote.
Mozart wrote his last concerto in the autumn of 1791 for his friend and fellow Freemason Anton Stadler – probably, at that point, the greatest player in the clarinet’s brief history. In 1784 a critic had written to him that ‘I would not have thought that a clarinet could imitate the human voice so deceptively as you imitate it. Your instrument is so soft, so gentle in tone that no-one who has a heart can resist it.’ Mozart, typically, took a rather more down-to-earth approach. His nickname for Stadler was Ribisel: ‘redcurrant-face’. That didn’t stop him writing a string of masterpieces for Stadler. Clarinets (and their predecessors, basset horns) give a wonderfully rich, expressive colour to many of Mozart’s most personal later works, including the Requiem. The Clarinet Concerto was no farewell to life, however. On the day he completed it, 8 October 1791, Mozart wrote to his wife that he’d played two games of billiards, ‘smoked a marvellous pipe of tobacco’, ordered a black coffee and then ‘orchestrated almost the whole Rondo for Stadler’. Not exactly a composer on his deathbed.
Programme note © Richard Bratby
Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra • 26 November 2023 • Mozart & Beethoven
Programme notes Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 1806
1 Adagio – Allegro vivace 2 Adagio 3 Allegro vivace 4 Allegro ma non troppo When it gets going, there is little doubt that the Fourth has more in common with the effervescence of the Second than it does with the bombast of the Third, its lightness shared with the other works Beethoven completed that same summer – the Violin Concerto and the Fourth Piano Concerto. But in symphonic terms the Fourth is still far from straightforward. Most surprising of all is its mysterious, almost torturous introduction, which opens in the ‘wrong key’ of B flat minor. It takes almost three minutes before Beethoven finds his feet and, emerging from the gloom with a start, announces the opening of the Allegro proper with an earth-shattering timpani roll and series of sforzando chords.
When Beethoven began work on his Fourth Symphony in the summer of 1806, he might well have wondered, as the Viennese public did, what next? After the astonishing dynamism of the ‘Eroica’, with its unprecedented length and heroic ‘new manner’, he appeared to have set in train a new era in the symphonic tradition. Balance, poise and grace had all been superseded by grandeur, surprise and defiance, the last vestiges of Classicism apparently now buried along with any traces of the 18th century. His next symphony, his Fourth, would surely continue this line of expansion and development. Had Beethoven not decided to spend that summer in the company of Prince Carl von Lichnowsky, things might well have been different. Beethoven had already begun work on a new symphony – the work which we now know as his Fifth – when he accepted the Prince’s invitation, but he broke off work on that score to compose a new symphony for Count Franz von Oppersdorff, a relative of the Prince and a long-time admirer of Beethoven’s music. When Beethoven and Oppersdorff were treated to a performance of his Second Symphony at the Prince’s country estate, Beethoven appears to have taken his cue for Oppersdorff’s new commission: this would not be a symphony of vehemence and heroism, but a return to more modest, even Classical, proportions. As Robert Schumann would later call it, the Fourth is ‘a slender Greek maiden between two Norse Gods’.
This is to be a work of dynamic extremes. Even the tender Adagio that follows is not immune to the sense of unrest, the persistent accompaniment always threatening to throw the delicate lyricism of the central theme off course – at the movement’s centre, as the key darkens and the trumpets and drums re-enter, it almost does. A spirited scherzo follows, its bucolic theme again almost overshadowed by a lurking sense of unease, but Beethoven’s real surprise here is to double the traditional tripartite design to bring the opening theme back not once but twice – and, at the last moment, to shatter the recapitulation with a surprise blast from the horns. Beethoven, it seems, cannot resist the element of surprise. Even in the light-hearted finale, one of the most joyful in his symphonic output, Beethoven repeatedly wrong-foots the listener with a stormy
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Programme notes interjection that temporarily stops this perpetuum mobile movement in its tracks, as though a theatrical villain were waiting in the wings, ready at any moment to sabotage the drama. Programme note © Jo Kirkbride
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Next LPO concerts at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre ELGAR’S CELLO CONCERTO Sunday 14 January 2024 | 3.00pm Smetana Overture, The Bartered Bride Elgar Cello Concerto Dvořák Symphony No. 7 Gabriella Teychenné conductor Laura van der Heijden cello
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Sunday 11 February 2024 | 3.00pm Brahms Violin Concerto Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Kahchun Wong conductor Francesca Dego violin
RANDALL GOOSBY PLAYS MOZART Sunday 24 March 2024 | 3.00pm
Mozart Ballet Music from Idomeneo Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) Gemma New conductor Randall Goosby violin
Tickets from £16 Students £7 (exc. premium seats) eastbournetheatres.co.uk Ticket Office: 01323 412000
BrightSparks Schools’ Concert Coming to Eastbourne in 2024!
Thursday 9 May 2024 Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
Tickets £3 per pupil (accompanying teachers free of charge). This includes a free INSET session and written resources for teachers.
This season we’re very excited to bring our popular BrightSparks schools’ concerts to Eastbourne for the first time! This daytime performance is an opportunity for Key Stage 2 children to experience the thrill of hearing a full orchestra.
Booking for schools opens in the spring – for updates sign up at lpo.org.uk/brightsparks
New on the LPO Label Edward Gardner conducts
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust LPO-0128
Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, 4 Feb 2023
Out now Exclusively on Apple Music Classical
Karen Cargill Marguerite John Irvin Faust Christopher Purves Mephistopheles Jonathan Lemalu Brander London Philharmonic Choir London Symphony Chorus London Youth Choirs
General release: 3 February 2024
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Concert Management
Hannah Smith Education and Community Co-ordinator
Roanna Gibson Concerts and Planning Director
Claudia Clarkson Regional Partnerships Manager
Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager Maddy Clarke Tours Manager
Development Laura Willis Development Director
Madeleine Ridout Glyndebourne and Projects Manager
Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager
Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator
Siân Jenkins Corporate Relations Manager Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager
Robert Winup Concerts and Tours Assistant Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant
Katurah Morrish Development Events Manager
Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager
Eleanor Conroy Al Levin Development Co-ordinators
Sarah Thomas Martin Sargeson Librarians Laura Kitson Stage and Operations Manager
Nick Jackman Campaigns and Projects Director
Stephen O’Flaherty Deputy Operations Manager
Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate
Benjamin Wakley Assistant Stage Manager
Marketing
Felix Lo Orchestra and Auditions Manager
Kath Trout Marketing and Communications Director
Finance
Sophie Harvey Marketing Manager
Frances Slack Finance Director
Rachel Williams Publications Manager
Dayse Guilherme Finance Manager
Gavin Miller Sales and Ticketing Manager
Jean-Paul Ramotar Finance and IT Officer
Ruth Haines Press and PR Manager Hayley Kim Residencies and Projects Marketing Manager
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Greg Felton Digital Creative Alicia Hartley Digital and Marketing Co-ordinator Isobel Jones Marketing Assistant
Archives Philip Stuart Discographer Gillian Pole Recordings Archive
Professional Services Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Hon. Orthopaedic Surgeon London Philharmonic Orchestra 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP Tel: 020 7840 4200 Box Office: 020 7840 4242 Email: admin@lpo.org.uk lpo.org.uk Cover illustration Selman Hoşgör 2023/24 season identity JMG Studio Printer John Good Ltd