London Philharmonic Orchestra 2 Dec 2018 Eastbourne concert programme

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Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor VLADIMIR JUROWSKI supported by the Tsukanov Family Foundation Principal Guest Conductor ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA Leader pieter schoeman supported by Neil Westreich Patron HRH THE DUKE OF KENT KG Chief Executive and Artistic Director TIMOTHY WALKER AM

Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne Sunday 2 December 2018 | 3.00pm

A Celebration of Christmas Neville Creed conductor London Philharmonic Choir Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Today's concert includes a 20-minute interval and will end at approximately 4.55pm.

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

Contents 2 Welcome

Orchestra news 3 Neville Creed 4 London Philharmonic Choir 5 LPO Brass Quintet 6 About the Orchestra 7 Die Walküre: January 2019 8 Programme notes 12 2018/19 LPO Eastbourne Appeal 13 Next concerts 14 Supporters 16 LPO administration

Welcome

Welcome to the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne Artistic Director Chris Jordan General Manager Gavin Davis Welcome to this afternoon’s performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Please sit back and enjoy the concert and your visit here. As a courtesy to others, please ensure mobile phones and watch alarms are switched off during the performance. Thank you.

We are excited to welcome the London Philharmonic Orchestra back to our atmospheric Victorian playhouse, the Devonshire Park Theatre, for this season of afternoon chamber concerts. The historic surroundings and delightful acoustics provide a wonderful backdrop for these much-loved concerts. We’ve worked closely with the Orchestra and its specialists to ensure the venue enhances the orchestral sound and thank you, our audience, for continuing to support the concert series.

We welcome comments from our customers.

Should you wish to contribute, please speak to the House Manager on duty, email theatres@lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk or write to Gavin Davis, General Manager, Eastbourne Theatres, The Point, College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4JJ.

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Orchestra news

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elcome to this afternoon's concert with the London Philharmonic Choir and a quartet of brass soloists from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Christmas is the richest and most varied musical season of the church year, and this afternoon’s concert presents a delightful and varied selection for the festive combination of choir and brass.

We hope you enjoy the concert and will be able to join us again in the spring: see page 13 for details of our next concerts. In the meantime, we wish you a very happy Christmas and look forward to seeing you in Eastbourne in 2019!

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The Nutracker at the Royal Albert Hall The London Philharmonic Orchestra has long been renowned for its prowess in the opera pit at Glyndebourne, but this Christmas we’ll be branching out into ballet. The Orchestra has been invited to accompany Tchaikovsky’s festive favourite The Nutcracker with Birmingham Royal Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall from 28–31 December. For more information and booking visit royalalberthall.com or call the Royal Albert Hall Box Office on 020 7589 8212.

Neville Creed

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Artistic Director, London Philharmonic Choir

Neville Creed has held the position of Chorus Director of the London Philharmonic Choir since 1994, and in 2002 he was appointed Artistic Director. His work involves preparing the Choir for the choral concerts given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by many distinguished conductors including Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. He has also conducted the Choir and Orchestra in performances at home and abroad including the LPO Chamber Orchestra in Britten’s War Requiem in Moscow, Vienna and London.

He studied music at Cambridge and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music. Teaching roles have included Director of Choral Music at Tiffin School in Kingston upon Thames and Director of Cultural Activities at St Edward’s Oxford.

Previous appointments have included Conductor of the Guildford Philharmonic Choir and Chorus Director of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, which won two major awards under his direction – the Gramophone Choral Recording of the Year for a CD of Delius’s music conducted by Richard Hickox, and a Grammy Award for its recording of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with Andrew Litton. He has also recorded David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus and Richard Blackford’s Voices of Exile.

He has won prizes in the international choral conducting competition held in Trento, Italy, and the Leeds Competition for orchestral conducting.

Concerts have been given with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, New London Orchestra, Freiburg Bach Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has toured Britain conducting the London Concert Orchestra and Manchester Concert Orchestra in a Last Night of the Proms programme. He has worked with many other choirs and ensembles including the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Philharmonia Chorus.

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London Philharmonic Choir Patron HRH Princess Alexandra | President Sir Mark Elder Artistic Director Neville Creed | Accompanist Jonathan Beatty | Chairman Tessa Bartley

Sopranos Chris Banks Charlotte Cantrell Emily Clarke Joy Lee Martha MacBean Marie Power Katie Stuffelbeam

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Altos Susannah Bellingham Lara Carim Henrietta Fisher Ethel Livermore Lisa MacDonald Sophie Morrison Erica Tomlinson

Founded in 1947 as the chorus for the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Choir is one of Britain’s finest choirs. For the last seven decades the Choir has performed under leading conductors, consistently meeting with critical acclaim and recording regularly for television and radio.

Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the UK and abroad. Highlights in recent years have included Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Choir’s President, Sir Mark Elder; Haydn’s The Creation with Sir Roger Norrington; and Mozart’s Requiem under Nathalie Stutzmann.

The Choir was delighted to celebrate its 70th anniversary in April 2017 with a highly acclaimed performance of Tallis’s Spem in alium and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Vladimir Jurowski.

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.

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The Choir has been engaged by the BBC for all the Doctor Who Proms and, in recent years, has given 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 Australia. The Choir has appeared twice at the Touquet International Music Masters Festival and was delighted to travel to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, in December 2017 to perform Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Choir prides itself on achieving firstclass performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life.

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Tenors Geir Andreassen Fred Fisher David Hoare Patrick Hughes Luke Phillips Basses Marcus Daniels Tom Fayle Christopher Gadd Nicholas Hennell-Foley William Parsons Alex Thomas

London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet

James Fountain (trumpet) was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Growing up in the brass band tradition, James became Principal Cornet of the world-famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band aged just 17, before moving to London in 2012 to study trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2014, while still studying, James was appointed Principal Trumpet of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Alongside his position with the RPO, James maintains a busy schedule both as a soloist and in the recording studio, performing in cities including Sydney, New York, Tokyo, SĂŁo Paulo and Toronto, and working with film composers such as Danny Elfman, Alan Menken and Hans Zimmer.

Anne McAneney (trumpet) was born and grew up in Belfast. She studied at Goldsmiths College, London, and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she was awarded the Principal's Prize. She received a BMus from Goldsmiths College and a Masters Degree from Reading University.

Anne made a living as a freelance musician in London before being appointed Principal Trumpet of the Royal Ballet Orchestra, making her the first woman to hold a principal trumpet chair in the UK. Anne was a member of London Brass for 23 years. She joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Principal Trumpet in 2000 and is a Professor of Trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Chair supported by Geoff & Meg Mann

Stephen Nicholls (horn) is originally from Cork and began playing the horn with Sean Clinch at the Cork School of Music.

In 2003 he moved to London to study with Jeffrey Bryant, Hugh Seenan and Richard Bissill at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He completed his studies in 2008 and in the same year was appointed Second Horn of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Alongside this, Stephen is based in the UK, where he is in demand as an orchestral and chamber music player. He appears regularly as Guest Principal Horn with many of the UK and Ireland’s leading symphony and chamber orchestras.

David Whitehouse (trombone) studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama before freelancing for 12 years, performing with orchestras and in West End shows. He was a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra from 2002, before joining the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008.

He is in demand as a guest player with orchestras all over the UK, on the trombone and also the euphonium and bass trumpet.

Lee Tsarmaklis (tuba) was born in Athens and emigrated to England while still a young boy. He began learning the tuba at the age of 13, and later went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 1990 he was appointed Principal Tuba of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. His career then took him to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and finally to the London Philharmonic Orchestra where he was appointed Principal Tuba in 2000. Lee also teaches tuba at the Royal College of Music.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also acknowledges the following chair supporters whose players are not present at this concert: David & Yi Buckley | Andrew Davenport | William & Alex de Winton | Sonja Drexler | Friends of the Orchestra | Roger Greenwood Dr Barry Grimaldi | Countess Dominique Loredan | Sir Simon Robey | Victoria Robey OBE | Bianca & Stuart Roden Caroline, Jamie & Zander Sharp | Eric Tomsett | Laurence Watt | Neil Westreich

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The London Philharmonic’s closing concert took excellence and courageous programme planning to levels of expectation and emotional intensity more than once defying belief. Here was an orchestra in terrific form, rising to every challenge.

Classicalsource.com (LPO at Royal Festival Hall, 2 May 2018: Panufnik, Penderecki & Prokofiev)

One of the finest orchestras on the international stage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra balances a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-looking ensembles. As well as its performances in the concert hall, the Orchestra also records film and video game soundtracks, has its own record label, and reaches thousands of people every year through activities for families, schools and local communities.

The Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932. It has since been headed by many of the world’s greatest conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt and Kurt Masur. Vladimir Jurowski is the Orchestra’s current Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, and in 2017 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary partnership. Andrés Orozco-Estrada took up the position of Principal Guest Conductor in 2015.

The Orchestra is resident at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, where it gives around 40 concerts each season. Throughout the remainder of

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2018 we continue our series Changing Faces: Stravinsky’s Journey, charting the life and music of one of the 20th century’s most influential composers. In 2019 we celebrate the music of Britain in our festival Isle of Noises, exploring a range of British and British-inspired music from Purcell to the present day.

Outside London, the Orchestra has flourishing residencies in Brighton and Eastbourne, and performs regularly around the UK. Each summer the Orchestra takes up its annual residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Sussex countryside, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra for over 50 years. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sell-out audiences worldwide. In 1956 it became the first British orchestra to appear in Soviet Russia and in 1973 made the first ever visit to China by a Western orchestra. Touring remains a large part of the Orchestra’s life: highlights of the 2018/19 season include a major tour of Asia including South Korea, Taiwan and China, as well as performances in Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Switzerland and the USA.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the soundtracks to numerous blockbuster films, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Lawrence of Arabia, East is East, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Thor: The Dark World. It also broadcasts regularly on television and radio, and in 2005 established its own record label. There are now over 100 releases available on CD and to download. Recent additions include a Poulenc disc conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 under Vladimir Jurowski, and a film music disc under Dirk Brossé.

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. In 2013 it was the winner of the RPS Music Award for Ensemble.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians. In 2017/18 we celebrated the 30th anniversary of our Education and Community department, whose work over three decades has introduced so many people of all ages to orchestral music and created opportunities for people of all backgrounds to fulfil their creative potential. Highlights include the BrightSparks schools’ concerts and FUNharmonics family concerts; the LPO Young Composers programme; the Foyle Future Firsts orchestral training programme; and the LPO Junior Artists scheme for talented young musicians from communities and backgrounds currently underrepresented in professional UK orchestras.

The Orchestra’s work at the forefront of digital engagement and social media has enabled it to reach even more people worldwide: as well as a YouTube channel and regular podcast series, the Orchestra has a lively presence on social media. lpo.org.uk facebook.com/londonphilharmonicorchestra

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Wagner: Die Walküre Sunday 27 January 2019 | 4.00pm Royal Festival Hall Following the success of Das Rheingold in January 2018, Vladimir Jurowski presents the second instalment of our Wagner Ring Cycle.

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Programme notes

Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553/6–1612) O magnum mysterium William Byrd (1543–1623) O magnum mysterium Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629) In dulci jubilo London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet This concert includes three different settings of O magnum mysterium, a Latin responsory from the Christmas Matins service marvelling at the wonder of Jesus’s birth in a stable, surrounded by animals, and going on to praise the Virgin, his mother. The first is

by Giovanni Gabrieli, organist of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice and an influential composer and teacher. It was published in 1587 in a collection containing mostly music by Giovanni’s late uncle (and predecessor at St Mark’s) Andrea Gabrieli. The piece is laid out for two four-part choirs, the first higher in pitch-range than the second, which exchange material and from time to time combine resplendently; as in so many of Gabrieli’s motets, there is a concluding ‘Alleluia’ in dancing rhythms.

William Byrd’s setting of the first half of the same text was published in 1607 in volume 2 of his Gradualia, a collection of motets for the different feasts of the Catholic church year. The musical treatment is more old-fashioned than that of the Gabrieli: each new line is matched with a new phrase which is discussed in sober four-part polyphony.

This opening group concludes with an arrangement of In dulci jubilo, the celebratory mediaeval German carol in a mixture of Latin and German, by the Hamburg composer Hieronymus Praetorius (no relation of Michael Praetorius, who confusingly also set this text several times). It is one of two carol arrangements published in 1602 as an appendix to (and possibly to be interpolated into) a Christmas Magnificat: the setting is in rich eight-part harmony, with the first sopranos singing the traditional melody while the seconds provide a descant.

Peter Cornelius (1824–74), arr. Ivor Atkins (1869–1953) The Three Kings Nicholas Hennell-Foley baritone London Philharmonic Choir The German composer and writer Peter Cornelius is known in this country chiefly for a single Christmas song in an adaptation for chorus – appropriately enough, perhaps, for someone born on Christmas Eve. The song is Die Könige (‘The Kings’) published in 1856 as one of a set of Six Christmas Songs to Cornelius’s own words. Cornelius’s sinuous melody provides a counterpoint to the Lutheran chorale Wie schön

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leuchtet der Morgenstern (‘How brightly shines the morning star’), with words and music by Philipp Nicolai (1556–1608). This forms the piano part of the original song, but in the arrangement by Sir Ivor Atkins, longtime organist of Worcester Cathedral, it is sung by male voices and then the full choir. The English translation of the soloist’s words is by H.N. Bate and that of the chorale by William Mercer.

Samuel Scheidt (1587–1654), arr. Philip Jones (1928–2000) Battle Suite 1 Galliard Battaglia 2 Courant Dolorosa 3 Canzon Bergamasque London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet Samuel Scheidt was for many years Kapellmeister, or director of music, in his native Halle; and it was presumably dances and other pieces written for the entertainment of the Halle court that he published in four volumes of ensemble music (for viols or other instruments) between 1621 and 1627, under the title Ludi musici or ‘Musical Games’. The first volume (the only one to survive in a complete set of part-books)

includes a Galliard subtitled ‘Battle’, with imitations of trumpet-calls and drum-strokes. This gave the trumpeter and ensemble leader Philip Jones the idea of adding two more numbers from the same volume, a ‘doleful’ Courante and an intricate Canzona in imitation of an English bergamask, and adapting all three for brass quintet, to create this none-too-serious ‘Battle Suite’.

Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, SWV 380 Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 456 William Mathias (1934–92) Sir Christèmas London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet

Giovanni Gabrieli’s most distinguished pupil was Heinrich Schütz, who spent most of his long career in the service of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, and therefore of the Lutheran church. This means that Schütz’s music for worship, which forms the bulk of his surviving output, is mostly in German, but also includes works in Latin, which was permitted for major festivals.

The five-part ‘Aria’ Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (‘God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten Son…’) comes from his Geistliche Chor-Music or ‘Sacred Choral Music’, a collection of 29 German motets published in 1648; the setting combines clear presentation of the text with rhythmic life.

The radiant Christmas antiphon Hodie Christus natus est (‘Today Christ is born’) is also thought to date from the 1640s. Scored for voices in six parts with (originally) keyboard accompaniment, it alternates between dupletime verses and triple-time ‘Alleluia’s; the lingering treatment of the word ‘pax’, ‘peace’, in the closing ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’ sounds like a personal, and heartfelt, response to the horrors of the Thirty Years’ War. To end the first half, choir and brass set foot in the 20th century for the first time, with Sir Christèmas, an energetic setting of a traditional English text (going back at least to the 15th century) made in 1969 by the Welsh composer William Mathias.

Interval – 20 minutes An announcement will be made five minutes before the end of the interval.

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Thoinot Arbeau (1520–95), arr. Charles Wood (1866–1926) Ding dong! merrily on high London Philharmonic Choir

John Jacob Niles (1892–1980) I wonder as I wander* Shaker song, arr. Sydney Carter (1915–2004) Lord of the Dance* *Brass arrangements by Roger Harvey (born 1949) London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet Three well-known traditional Christmas carols, you might think on spotting the titles: but the stories of all three are more complicated than that. The tune of Ding dong! merrily on high is a ‘branle’, a dance for couples in line or in a circle, from a French dance tutor of 1588, Arbeau’s Orchésographie (the source of the melodies of Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite). It was converted into a Christmas carol by the English hymn writer G.R. Woodward and the Northern Irish composer Charles Wood for their 1924 Cambridge Carol Book.

I wonder as I wander was written by the American folk song collector and singer John Jacob Niles on the basis of a fragment sung to him in North Carolina in 1933 – or so he claimed, though he was quick to assert his copyright to it and is now usually credited as its sole author.

To create Lord of the Dance, the English songwriter and musician Sydney Carter fitted new words, inspired by the old English conception of a dancing Jesus, to the tune of ‘The gift to be simple’, a song of the 19thcentury American Shaker sect (which Aaron Copland quoted in his ballet Appalachian Spring, and later included in his Old American Songs).

From Christmas Crackers, arr. John Iveson (born 1944) Jingle Bells – Deck the Halls A Carol Fantasy London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet The trombonist John Iveson was for many years a member of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, and his suite of Christmas Crackers for brass quintet is published in the ‘Just Brass’ series founded by Philip Jones and Elgar Howarth. These two movements point up the wide range of sources of the Christmas repertoire. The first brings together under the Christmas banner a song by the American James Lord

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Pierpont (1822–1893) which was originally written for Thanksgiving, and a Welsh dance carol traditionally sung on New Year’s Eve. The second combines an 18thcentury French noël, a 19th-century American children’s hymn, a traditional English wassailing song, and a Victorian hymn (about a Bohemian king and saint) set to a tune borrowed from a 16th-century northern European collection.

John Rutter (born 1945) Shepherd’s Pipe Carol London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet

Morten Lauridsen (born 1943) O magnum mysterium London Philharmonic Choir

Traditional, arr. John Rutter The Twelve Days of Christmas Brass arrangements of Rutter by Roger Harvey London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet

This closing group features music by two composers who enjoy immense popularity with choirs on both sides of the Atlantic, and especially at this time of year.

The a cappella setting of O magnum mysterium by the American composer Morten Lauridsen, written in 1994 for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, achieves its effect of glowing tenderness with gentle major-mode discords: in fact there are only two notes in the whole piece that do not belong to the scale of D major.

John Rutter’s Shepherd’s Pipe Carol, with its catchy syncopated melody to his own words, was published in 1967, when he was still a student at Clare College, Cambridge. It became widely known when it was included in the second volume of the popular ‘Carols for Choirs’ series in 1970 – alongside Rutter’s imaginative arrangement of The Twelve Days of Christmas, a traditional English counting song associated with a game of forfeits played on Twelfth Night.

Programme notes by Anthony Burton © 2008

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2018/19 LPO Eastbourne Appeal

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hank you for joining the LPO this evening at the beautiful Devonshire Park Theatre. We have enjoyed the opportunity to perform here for the last two seasons, showcasing the virtuosity of individual members of the Orchestra as soloists whilst performing some beautiful chamber music. We have been so appreciative of your ongoing support throughout this transitional period.

Many of you will know that we performed the inaugural concert at the Congress Theatre when it first opened 55 years ago. We are thrilled to be continuing that tradition in March when we return after two years away, reopening the newly renovated Congress, our home in Eastbourne. Not only this, but 2019 marks 85 years since our first ever concert in Eastbourne with Sir Thomas Beecham in September 1934.

As we reach these exciting milestones we encourage you to play your part in celebrating our return to the Congress Theatre, and the longstanding relationship between the LPO and Eastbourne. A great deal has changed since our first concerts here, but the LPO is still as committed to bringing emerging and established artists and exceptional music to Eastbourne as we were under Beecham 85 years ago.

Please support this year’s Appeal as we step into a new era of our residency in Eastbourne. We are so grateful for your ongoing support and our relationship feels as strong as ever. Here’s to another 85 years!

To donate to the 2018/19 Eastbourne Appeal please call Ellie Franklin, Development Assistant, on 020 7840 4225 or email ellie.franklin@lpo.org.uk. Thank you for your support.

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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 Sir Simon & Lady Robey OBE Orchestra Circle The Candide Trust Mr & Mrs Philip Kan Neil Westreich The Tsukanov Family Dr James Huang Zheng (of Kingdom Music Education Group) Principal Associates Gabor Beyer, through BTO Management Consulting AG In memory of Ann Marguerite Collins Mr & Mrs Makharinsky Associates Steven M. Berzin Kay Bryan William & Alex de Winton George Ramishvili Stuart & Bianca Roden In memory of Hazel Amy Smith Gold Patrons David & Yi Buckley John Burgess Richard Buxton In memory of Allner Mavis Channing Garf & Gill Collins Andrew Davenport Sonja Drexler Mrs Gillian Fane Marie-Laure Favre-Gilly de Varennes de Beuill Hamish & Sophie Forsyth Virginia Gabbertas Mr Roger Greenwood The Jeniffer and Jonathan Harris Charitable Trust Rehmet Kassim-Lakha de Morixe Countess Dominique Loredan Geoff & Meg Mann

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Paul & Brigitta Lock Mr Peter Mace Mr John Meloy Andrew T Mills Dr Karen Morton Dr Wiebke Pekrull Mr James Pickford Andrew & Sarah Poppleton Natalie Pray Mr Christopher Querée Martin & Cheryl Southgate Ms Nadia Stasyuk Matthew Stephenson & Roman Aristarkhov Louise Walton Howard & Sheelagh Watson Des & Maggie Whitelock Liz Winter Bill Yoe Supporters Mr John D Barnard Mr Bernard Bradbury Mr Richard Brooman Mrs Alan Carrington Alison Clarke & Leo Pilkington Mr Joshua Coger Mr Geoffrey A Collens Miss Tessa Cowie Lady Jane Cuckney OBE Mr David Devons Samuel Edge Manuel Fajardo & Clémence Humeau Mrs Janet Flynn Christopher Fraser OBE Will Gold Mr Peter Gray Mrs Maureen HooftGraafland The Jackman Family Mr David MacFarlane Mr Frederic Marguerre Mr Mark Mishon Mr Stephen Olton Mr David Peters Mr & Mrs Graham & Jean Pugh Mr David Russell Mr Kenneth Shaw

Ms Elizabeth Shaw Ms Natalie Spraggon & Mr David Thomson 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) Gabor Beyer (Hungary) Kay Bryan (Australia) Marie-Laure Favre Gilly de Varennes de Bueil (France) Joyce Kan (China/Hong Kong) Olivia Ma (Greater China Area) Olga Makharinsky (Russia) George Ramishvili (Georgia) Victoria Robey OBE (USA) Dr James Huang Zheng (of Kingdom Music Education Group) (China/ Shenzhen)

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 Xenia Hanusiak Alexandra Jupin William A. Kerr Kristina McPhee Natalie Pray Stephanie Yoshida Antony Phillipson Hon. Chairman Noel Kilkenny Hon. Director Victoria Robey OBE Hon. Director Richard Gee, Esq Of Counsel Jenifer L. Keiser, CPA, EisnerAmper LLP Corporate Donors Arcadis Christian Dior Couture Faraday Fenchurch Advisory Partners IMG Pictet Bank Steppes Travel White & Case LLP

Corporate Members Gold freuds Sunshine Silver After Digital Berenberg Carter-Ruck French Chamber of Commerce Bronze Ageas Lazard Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Walpole Preferred Partners Fever-Tree Heineken Lindt & Sprüngli Ltd London Orthopaedic Clinic Sipsmith Steinway Villa Maria In-kind Sponsor Google Inc Trusts and Foundations The Bernarr Rainbow Trust The Boltini Trust Sir William Boreman’s Foundation Borletti-Buitoni Trust Boshier-Hinton Foundation The Candide Trust The Ernest Cook Trust Diaphonique, Franco-British Fund for contemporary music The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Dunard Fund The Foyle Foundation Lucille Graham Trust Help Musicians UK

John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Idlewild Trust Embassy of the State of Israel to the United Kingdom Kirby Laing Foundation The Lawson Trust The Leverhulme Trust Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation London Stock Exchange Group Foundation Lord & Lady Lurgan Trust Marsh Christian Trust The Mercers’ Company Adam Mickiewicz Institute Newcomen Collett Foundation The Stanley Picker Trust The Austin & Hope Pilkington Trust PRS For Music Foundation The Radcliffe Trust Rivers Foundation Romanian Cultural Institute The R K Charitable Trust The Sampimon Trust Schroder Charity Trust Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The David Solomons Charitable Trust Souter Charitable Trust The Steel Charitable Trust Spears-Stutz Charitable Trust The John Thaw Foundation The Thistle Trust UK Friends of the FelixMendelssohn-BartholdyFoundation The Clarence Westbury Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The William Alwyn Foundation and all others who wish to remain anonymous.

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Administration

Board of Directors Victoria Robey OBE Chairman Stewart McIlwham* President Gareth Newman* Vice-President Dr Catherine C. Høgel Vice-Chairman Henry Baldwin* Roger Barron Richard Brass David Buckley Bruno De Kegel Martin Höhmann* Al MacCuish Susanne Martens* Pei-Jee Ng* Andrew Tusa Timothy Walker AM Neil Westreich David Whitehouse* * Player-Director Advisory Council Martin Höhmann Chairman Rob Adediran Christopher Aldren Dr Manon Antoniazzi Richard Brass Desmond Cecil CMG Sir Alan Collins KCVO CMG Andrew Davenport William de Winton Cameron Doley Edward Dolman Christopher Fraser OBE Lord Hall of Birkenhead CBE Jonathan Harris CBE FRICS Amanda Hill Rehmet Kassim-Lakha Jamie Korner Geoff Mann Clive Marks OBE FCA Stewart McIlwham Andrew Neill Nadya Powell Sir Bernard Rix Victoria Robey OBE Baroness Shackleton Thomas Sharpe QC Julian Simmonds Barry Smith Martin Southgate Andrew Swarbrick Sir John Tooley Chris Viney Timothy Walker AM Laurence Watt Elizabeth Winter

General Administration Timothy Walker AM Chief Executive and Artistic Director

Education and Community Isabella Kernot Education and Community Director

Public Relations Albion Media (Tel: 020 3077 4930)

David Burke General Manager and Finance Director

Talia Lash Education and Community Manager

Archives

Emily Moss Education and Community Project Manager

Gillian Pole Recordings Archive

Dayse Guilherme Finance Officer

Hannah Tripp Education and Community Project Co-ordinator

Professional Services Charles Russell Speechlys Solicitors

Concert Management Roanna Gibson Concerts Director

Development Nick Jackman Development Director

Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP Auditors

Graham Wood Concerts and Recordings Manager

Catherine Faulkner Development Events Manager

Sophie Richardson Tours Manager

Christina McNeill Corporate Relations Manager

Alison Jones Concerts and Recordings Co-ordinator

Rosie Morden Individual Giving Manager

Finance Frances Slack Finance and Operations Manager

Jo Cotter Tours Co-ordinator Matthew Freeman Recordings Consultant Andrew Chenery Orchestra Personnel Manager Sarah Holmes Sarah Thomas Librarians

Anna Quillin Trusts and Foundations Manager Ellie Franklin Development Assistant Georgie Gulliver Development Assistant Kirstin Peltonen Development Associate

Christopher Alderton Stage Manager

Marketing Kath Trout Marketing Director

Damian Davis Transport Manager

Mairi Warren Marketing Manager

Hannah Verkerk Orchestra Co-ordinator and Auditions Administrator

Megan Macarte Box Office Manager (Tel: 020 7840 4242)

Laura Kitson Assistant Transport & Stage Manager

Rachel Williams Publications Manager Harriet Dalton Website Manager (maternity leave) Rachel Smith Website Manager (maternity cover) Greg Felton Digital Creative Alexandra Lloyd Marketing Co-ordinator Tom Wright Marketing Assistant

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Philip Stuart Discographer

Dr Barry Grimaldi Honorary Doctor Mr Chris Aldren Honorary ENT Surgeon Mr Brian Cohen Mr Simon Owen-Johnstone Honorary Orthopaedic Surgeons 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 The London Philharmonic Orchestra Limited is a registered charity No. 238045.

Cover artwork Ross Shaw Printer Cantate