Oct. 19: London Philharmonic Orchestra Appears at Carnegie Hall with Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja

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London Philharmonic Orchestra Appears at Carnegie Hall 
for the First Time in Ten Years – October 19, 2024

Principal Conductor Edward Gardner and Violin Soloist
Patricia Kopatchinskaja Make Mutual Carnegie Hall Debuts

Performing the New York Premiere of 
LPO Composer-in-Residence Tania León’s Raíces (Origins)

“visceral intensity, bold character and weighty textures”
– The New York Times

www.lpo.org.uk
 

New York, NY (September 18, 2024) – The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) embarks on its first nationwide tour of the United States in 10 years from October 9 to 21, 2024, highlighted by a performance at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 8:00pm, marking the mutual Carnegie Hall debuts of Principal Conductor Edward Gardner and violin soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

The orchestra’s program includes the New York premiere of 2023-2024 Carnegie Hall Debs Composer’s Chair and current LPO Composer-in-Residence Tania León’s Raíces (Origins) alongside Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5, and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The LPO and Patricia Kopatchinskaja last appeared in New York City in 2017, when they performed a single concert at David Geffen Hall to critical acclaim.

LPO Composer-in-Residence León’s 2023 work Raíces (Origins) – meaning “origins” or “roots” in Spanish –  reflects on her ancestry, and on her mixed identity as a Cuban-born woman who found a home in the United States. She guides this piece through a range of genres and moods, from contemplative to jovial, infusing elements of jazz, Cuban-style syncopation, and a vibrant blend of dance rhythms, reflecting the importance of dance to her heritage and upbringing with a mix of Spanish, Cuban, Chinese, and French culture.

London Philharmonic Orchestra’s brand new album, a recording of British composer Michael Tippett’s Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 2, will be exclusively for physical sale at The Shop at Carnegie Hall before a November 29, 2024 worldwide digital release. The performances were conducted by Ed Gardner in 2023 and 2024 and the Piano Concerto features soloist Stephen Osbourne. 

Program Information
Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 8:00pm
London Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall | New York, NY
Tickets: Tickets start at $65 ($55 $10 fee). Tickets can be bought at CarnegieCharge (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org, or at the Box Office on 57th Street and Seventh Avenue
Link: www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/10/19/London-Philharmonic-Orchestra-0800PM 

Tania León – Raíces (Origins)
Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 1
Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem
Sibelius – Symphony No. 5

     London Philharmonic Orchestra
     Edward Gardner, conductor
     Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin

About London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is resident at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, where it is at the beating heart of London’s cultural life. It can also be found at its resident venues in Brighton, Eastbourne, and Saffron Walden, as a resident at Glyndebourne Festival Opera each summer, and on tour throughout the UK and internationally, performing to sold-out audiences worldwide. The LPO releases live, studio, and archival recordings on its own label, and is one of the world’s most-streamed orchestras, with over 15 million plays each month on content released via streaming platforms, social media, and through a broadcast partnership with Marquee TV.

The LPO’s 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 the 13th Principal Conductor, and Vladimir Jurowski became Conductor Emeritus in recognition of his impact as Principal Conductor from 2007–21. Karina Canellakis is the current Principal Guest Conductor and Tania León is Composer-in-Residence.
 
The Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians and music lovers: there’s nothing the LPO loves more than seeing the joy of children and families delighting in their first musical moments, and it is passionate about equipping schools and teachers through schools’ concerts, resources and training. Reflecting the Orchestra’s values of collaboration and inclusivity, the OrchLab and Open Sound Ensemble projects offer music-making opportunities for adults and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Today’s young instrumentalists are the orchestral members of the future, so the Orchestra has a number of offerings to support their progression. The LPO Junior Artists programme is leading the way in creating pathways into the profession for young artists from under-represented communities, as well as Overture orchestral experience days for younger musicians. The LPO Young Composers and Foyle Future Firsts programs support the next generation of professional musicians, bridging the transition from education to professional careers. The Orchestra has also recently launched the LPO Conducting Fellowship, annually supporting the development of two outstanding early-career conductors from backgrounds currently under-represented in the profession.

About LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner
Edward Gardner has been Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2021. In August 2024 he also became Music Director of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, having been their Artistic Advisor since 2022. In the 2024/25 season – his fourth as LPO Principal Conductor – Gardner is joined on stage at the LPO’s Royal Festival Hall home by soloists including Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Joyce DiDonato, Leif Ove Andsnes, Víkingur Ólafsson, Isabelle Faust and Augustin Hadelich, with works including Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, ending the season in April 2025 with Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.

In demand as a guest conductor, recent seasons have seen Edward make debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, San Francisco Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony,  Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Radio Symphony, and Vienna Symphony orchestras; while returns have included engagements with the Chicago Symphony, and Montreal Symphony orchestras, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

In the field of opera, following eight years as Music Director at English National Opera, Gardner has built a strong relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, where he has conducted productions of The Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier, and Werther.

Gardner’s recording of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage, captured live at his first concert as LPO Principal Conductor in 2021, won a 2023 Gramophone Award for Best Opera Recording. In February 2024 the LPO released on its own label a recording of Gardner’s performance of The Damnation of Faust, recorded in concert in February 2023. In spring 2024 Gardner and the LPO were the subject of a behind-the-scenes TV documentary series on Sky Arts: Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

About Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Described by The New York Times as "a player of rare expressive energy and disarming informality, of whimsy and theatrical ambition,” Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s distinctive approach always conveys the core of the work, whether it is with an out-of-the-box performance of a traditional violin repertoire classic or with an original staged project she presents as experimental performance dramaturge.

Her absolute priority is music of the 20th and 21st century and the collaboration with living composers such as Luca Francesconi, Michael Hersch, György Kurtág, Márton Illés, Esa-Pekka Salonen. Kopatchinskaja directs staged concerts at venues on both sides of the Atlantic and collaborates with leading orchestras, conductors, and festivals worldwide. This season, she channels her creative prowess and versatility into eccentric reinterpretations and innovatively curated projects as part of her residencies at the Southbank Centre in London, the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Philharmonie Essen. Kopatchinskaja is the youngest honorary member of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, with this year's most extensive portrait being dedicated to her. Furthermore, she holds the position of Associated Artist of the SWR Experimentalstudio, one of the most important international research centres in the field of electronic music. 

As Artist in Residence, Patricia Kopatchinskaja is curating this year's Golden Decade festival at the Dresden Philharmonic. The festival features her performance of major violin works from the Classical Modern era. In a new production at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Kopatchinskaja is collaborating with soprano Anna Prohaska in György Kurtág's music-theater work Kafka-Fragments, directed by Barrie Kosky. The performance explores a spectrum of vocal and instrumental expressions and emotional states in 40 miniatures.

Highlights of the past season included residencies at the London Barbican Centre, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, as well as Kopatchinskaja's continued role as artistic partner of the Camerata Bern. Last season, Kopatchinskaja once again went beyond boundaries with a daring musical experiment joining forces with Herbert Fritsch to create a Neo-Dada opera production Vergeigt at Theater Basel. Following the international success of her previous collaboration with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Bye Bye Beethoven - Patricia Kopatchinskaja returned for the premiere performances of a new concert staging with the ensemble - Les Adieux - a project confronting the rapid deterioration of the environment and the loss of the natural world. Kopatchinskaja’s other projects explore music staged through contemporary contexts, such as Dies Irae, another musical reflection on the growing environmental crisis. Kopatchinskaja also performs as a vocal artist in Ligeti’s Mystères du macabre or Schönberg’s Pierrot lunaire where she takes on the role of Pierrot himself, as well as her project presenting Kurt Schwitters’ poem Ursonate as a film in the style of Dada.

Kopatchinskaja’s discography includes over 30 recordings, among them GRAMMY award-winning Death and the Maiden with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, a project which was also re-created as a semi-staged filmed performance with Camerata Bern, premiered on HarrisonParrott’s digital platform Virtual Circle. Recent CD releases season included Les Plaisirs Illuminés with Sol Gabetta and Camerata Bern, which was saluted with a BBC Music Magazine award and Le monde selon George Antheil with Joonas Ahonen (both on Alpha Classics). A revival of the project Maria Mater Meretrix with Anna Prohaska presenting the image of women throughout the centuries in a musical mosaic was also released on CD last season. Additionally, in 2023, Kopatchinskaja embarked on an extensive tour across Germany with Sol Gabetta, celebrating their album Sol & Pat and their musical connection of over twenty years. This season has also seen the release of the album Take 3 with clarinettist Reto Bieri and pianist Polina Leschenko - a testament to the enduring partnership of these three artists, celebrating their shared musical journey and musical origins.

Kopatchinskaja is a humanitarian ambassador for Terre des Hommes, the leading Swiss child relief agency and was awarded the Swiss Grand Award for Music by the Federal Office of Culture for Switzerland in 2017. Learn more at https://www.patriciakopatchinskaja.com/

*Photo Credit: Mark Allan

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