The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced that its concertmaster violinist Martin Chalifour will retire from his post at the end of the 2024-25 season.

Chalifour spent 30 years with the orchestra and in celebration of his work with the orchestra Chalifour will curate a special chamber music concert in November 2024, and appear as a soloist in two concerti: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in April 2025 and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending in July 2025.

Chalifour studied at the Montréal Conservatory and the Curtis Institute of Music and was appointed Associate Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony when he was just 23 years old. He went on to win the Certificate of Honor at Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition and become a laureate of the Montréal International Music Competition. He take positions at the Cleveland Orchestra followed by his concertmaster position at the LA Phil and worked under Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel.

In a statement Chalfour said, “It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as Principal Concertmaster of the LA Phil, performing orchestral works and chamber music with some of the greatest artists in the world. While much has changed over these past three decades, the orchestra has kept its passion for making music, and its ambition to keep rising to higher and higher artistic levels.”