Schülerkonzert "Die Welt klingt bunt"

Matthias Preisinger Florentine und ihre weite Reise

Narrator: Patrick Rohbeck

Matthias Preisinger Florentine und ihre weite Reise

Narrator: Patrick Rohbeck

Join the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as they program the Fantastic Philharmonic Time Machine and take us Back to the Future to some fascinating periods in world history, including Ancient Egypt and the Era of the Dinosaurs. You’ll even discover how one famous composer needed some inspiration from the future for one of their most well-known pieces! A thrilling trip through time with amazing music to match. 

Alasdair Malloy presenter

Family concerts are most suitable for children aged 5-10 years.

The movie Chevalier popularised the incredible life story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, but his music is even more exciting, and today it’s just the start of an adventure that begins in 18th-century Paris, and ends with the glorious melodies of Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony.

It’s popular for a reason, but for pure elegance and enchantment it’s hard to top Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, performed by LPO Principal Flute Juliette Bausor plus the incredible Alexander Boldachev – a harpist with the charisma of a rock star. LPO 2024/25 Fellow Conductor Matthew Lynch completes a dream team: this should be magical.

The LPO Junior Artists Programme supports exceptionally talented teenage musicians from backgrounds currently under-represented in professional UK orchestras.

Junior Artists spend a season with us and become fully immersed in the workings of the LPO. They are each mentored by a member of the Orchestra, and take part in a variety of performances, behind-the-scenes activities and skills workshops, as well as events to inspire future generations of young musicians.

In this free performance, the Junior Artists perform alongside LPO musicians, Foyle Future Firsts and Junior Artist alumni in a celebration of vibrant young talent, under the baton of Matthew Lynch, LPO Fellow Conductor 2024/25.

with Colourage Ensemble

The music of Colourage oscillates between worlds. The very name of the ensemble “Colourage” (from color, collage and courage) is an expression of the concept of creating something new from the intensive encounter of different musical cultures. Tonight, Colourage meets a chamber ensemble from the Staatsphilharmonie to embark on a new musical journey together.

The London Schools Symphony Orchestra takes you on an epic tour of the orchestra before reaching for the stars with Holst's cosmic masterpiece.

Benjamin Britten’s educational masterpiece has inspired and initiated generations of young musicians around the world with its complex yet comprehensive navigation of the symphony orchestra and its instantly recognisable variations. 

Described as ‘Britain’s greatest living composer of art songs’, Ian Venables’s song cycle takes its words from the late 19th century poet John Addington Symonds. For this performance the songs have been specially orchestrated by the conductor Matthew Lynch. 

Further from home, Holst’s musical exploration of the solar system is packed with tunes that have laid the stylistic for a century of film music. Even if you have never heard of The Planets you will know the tunes.     

Connecting the Celtic nations to Asia Pacific, this programme brings together some of the most exciting voices in contemporary music. Virtuosity bounds forward in Sam Chambers award-winning piece and we showcase solo works by Sean Doherty and Liza Lim which requires wielding not one, but two bows. Celebrating new connections with Wang Lu (China/USA), Luka Venter (Aotearoa), Lisa Robertson (Scotland) and Geoff Hannan (England/Ireland) and with inspiration drawn widely from sources such as Greek mythology, Mongolian Folk Music, Orkney and St Magnus, modern Satirical TV and Italian Baroque music, this is a unique exploration of local and international composition.

Grammy nominated Devonté Hynes is accompanied by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, performing selected works from the composer's classical catalogue.

Raised in England, Devonté Hynes started in the punk band Test Icicles before releasing two orchestral acoustic pop records as Lightspeed Champion. Since 2011, Hynes has released four solo albums under the name Blood Orange – Coastal Grooves, Cupid Deluxe, Freetown Sound, and Negro Swan, as well as 2019’s Angel’s Pulse mixtape, all of which have been critically acclaimed. His songs and albums have explored the complexities and ambiguities of 21st century identity, delving into memory, trauma, depression and anxiety, as well as the triumphs of vulnerable communities, including people of color and queer and trans communities, and where they intersect.

In addition to his solo work, Hynes has collaborated with pop music superstars including Mariah Carey, A$AP Rocky, Solange, P. Diddy, and many others. He is also an accomplished film and television composer, with credits including the scores for Melina Matsoukas’ Queen and Slim, Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are, Rebecca Hall’s Passing, and Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener.

In 2018, Hynes was one of four pianists invited to play alongside Phillip Glass at the Kennedy Center, and in 2020, he was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Chamber Music or Small Ensemble Performance for his work with Third Coast Percussion on their album Fields. His debut Concerto for piano and strings, Happenings, premiered at New York’s Little Island Festival in 2021, and most recently in 2022 he has collaborated with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as well as the LA Philharmonic, for sold out performances of his Selected Classical Works program.

On the day Britain entered World War I, Ralph Vaughan Williams turned to the poem The Lark Ascending by George Meredith. Williams transformed the skylark’s other-worldly song into a symbol of resilience during a time of international struggle. The story goes that he was walking on a cliff in Margate, Kent, with views of a fleet of ships when inspiration struck him. His flow was interrupted, however, when a young scout made a citizen’s arrest, mistaking the composer’s notebook scribbles for observations of the coastline for the enemy.

Even if you don’t know this beloved classical piece by its name, you will instantly recognise the soaring violin solo, which mimics movements of the skylark. It’s so embedded in our consciousness that it was once voted the nation’s favourite Desert Island Discs track.

In collaboration with the Philharmonia, Festival Director Nicola Benedetti is the solo violinist in this relaxed, family-friendly performance of Williams’s masterpiece alongside beloved classics.

Enjoy an extraordinary evening of music as the Chineke! Junior Orchestra takes the stage for their much anticipated summer concert, marking the culmination of their annual week-long residential course.

The Chineke! Junior Orchestra is the sister ensemble to the Chineke! Orchestra, and is made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians aged 11 - 22. Both ensembles were founded simultaneously in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for emerging and established musicians of Black and ethnically diverse heritage.

This concert comes at the end of an intensive musical week spent together rehearsing and exploring the music that they will perform, as well as receiving individual tuition from members of the senior orchestra, who act as mentors, teachers and role models.

Enjoy an extraordinary evening of music as the Chineke! Junior Orchestra takes the stage for their much anticipated summer concert, marking the culmination of their annual week-long residential course.

The Chineke! Junior Orchestra is the sister ensemble to the Chineke! Orchestra, and is made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians aged 11 - 22. Both ensembles were founded simultaneously in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for emerging and established musicians of Black and ethnically diverse heritage.

This concert comes at the end of an intensive musical week spent together rehearsing and exploring the music that they will perform, as well as receiving individual tuition from members of the senior orchestra, who act as mentors, teachers and role models.

Matthias Preisinger Florentine und ihre weite Reise

Narrator: Patrick Rohbeck

Matthias Preisinger Florentine und ihre weite Reise

Narrator: Patrick Rohbeck

Eleanor Alberga Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Eleanor Alberga’s musical retelling of Roald Dahl’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from his Revolting Rhymes is suitable for the whole family (and especially for those who love subversive and wicked humour). Complete with narrator and orchestra, this concert tells the tale of Snow White and her merry band of retired jockeys who can’t seem to cash out on their horse-racing wagers.

Programme TBC

The Fondation asked Max Richter to compose a singular piece, a worldwide premiere, intimately tied to the world of American painter Mark Rothko: “The point where my work and Mark Rothko’s work meet is this concept of place, which he believes he invents when he creates a series of paintings. A musical work is an imaginary landscape; it is a space that one can inhabit.(…).”

In addition to this commissioned work from Max Richter for orchestra, piano and electronics, two earlier Max Richter works will enhance the programme: Exiles (2015) and The Waves: Tuesday (2017).

Errolyn Wallen Mighty River

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F major, “Pastoral”

The Fondation asked Max Richter to compose a singular piece, a worldwide premiere, intimately tied to the world of American painter Mark Rothko: “The point where my work and Mark Rothko’s work meet is this concept of place, which he believes he invents when he creates a series of paintings. A musical work is an imaginary landscape; it is a space that one can inhabit.(…).”

In addition to this commissioned work from Max Richter for orchestra, piano and electronics, two earlier Max Richter works will enhance the programme: Exiles (2015) and The Waves: Tuesday (2017).

In this double bill charity concert, experience some of the best contemporary composition in the UK, and reflect on the meaning of Human Rights.

Studio Richter Mahr commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in this special charity event raising money for Médecins sans Frontiers.

Max Richter and his ensemble perform VOICES. Featuring readings from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the piece is performed on radically reimagined orchestration dominated by the low frequencies of basses and cellos.

Opening the concert, a special guest pianist will perform pieces from Free & Equal Vol. 2. Curated by BBC Radio 3’s Elizabeth Alker, Free & Equal Vol.2 features pieces from exciting contemporary composers arranged for piano.

The Fondation asked Max Richter to compose a singular piece, a worldwide premiere, intimately tied to the world of American painter Mark Rothko: “The point where my work and Mark Rothko’s work meet is this concept of place, which he believes he invents when he creates a series of paintings. A musical work is an imaginary landscape; it is a space that one can inhabit.(…).”

In addition to this commissioned work from Max Richter for orchestra, piano and electronics, two earlier Max Richter works will enhance the programme: Exiles (2015) and The Waves: Tuesday (2017).

Let Freedom Ring

Celebrating the Sounds of America

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

George Walker Lyric for Strings

Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings

Written for not one string orchestra, but two, Vaughan Williams' iconic Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis sounds twice as good live as it does on the radio. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than immersing yourself in its mesmerising musical waves and swells?

This matinee concert lasts one hour and includes two more beautiful pieces for string orchestra.

Pulitzer Prize-winning George Walker’s Lyric for Strings began life as a part of a string quartet in 1946 and its impassioned string orchestra version carries a powerful emotive charge.

In writing his Serenade for Strings, Tchaikovsky was inspired by elegant earlier models by Mozart. Rendered on a grander scale, this Romantic giant has it all: majesty, grace and irresistible momentum.

Haydn Symphony No.85, La Reine

Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) Violin Concerto in A, Op.5 No.2

Beethoven Symphony No.3, Eroica

Haydn Symphony No.85, La Reine

Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) Violin Concerto in A, Op.5 No.2

Beethoven Symphony No.3, Eroica

Haydn Symphony No.85, La Reine

Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) Violin Concerto in A, Op.5 No.2

Beethoven Symphony No.3, Eroica