(Credit: Mark Allen) The Philharmonia Orchestra has announced its 2026-27 London season. Here are the vocal performance on offer. First up is Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9” with Marin Alsop conducting as part of her Global Ode to Joy project. The project reimagines Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9” with new choral music and replaces the eponymous verse with a poetically reimagined version {…}
The Philharmonia Orchestra has announced the appointment of Manfred Honeck as its next Principal Conductor, beginning in September 2028. Honeck will become only the seventh Principal Conductor in the Philharmonia’s 80-year history, joining Otto Klemperer, Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Christoph von Dohnányi, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Over the years Honeck developed a strong musical rapport with the Philharmonia and {…}
(Photo Credit: Jiyang Chen ) The Philharmonia Orchestra has announced the first half of its 2026-27 London season at the Southbank Centre. Marin Alsop conducts the London premiere of Julia Wolfe’s “Fire in my Mouth,” a multimedia elegy for the 146 victims of New York’s 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, drawing on choral writing, folk song and industrial noise. Performance {…}
[Pictures Copyrighted to Beth Walsh Photography- www.bethwalsh.co.uk] The Philharmonia Orchestra will launch a new immersive virtual reality experience, “Virtual Orchestra: William Tell,” on May 27 and 28 at the Southbank Centre in London. Designed primarily for children and young people, the experience places participants inside the orchestra as it performs Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture. Users can select from percussion instruments {…}
The Philharmonia Orchestra is set to return to Mauritius in February 2026 for the Philharmonia Festival. In sum, the Festival will feature eight concerts, including three public performances, a schools concert, and a private sponsors’ event, as well as workshops, masterclasses, and a Virtual Reality (VR) ‘Virtual Orchestra’ experience. French conductor Alexandre Bloch, first prize winner of the Donatella Flick {…}
(Photo credit: Chris Christodoulou) Marin Alsop will lead the Philharmonia Orchestra in the UK premiere and world premiere performance of Karpman and Gail Collins’ “Balls” with a full orchestra. Mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz takes on the role of Billie Jean King with tenor Nicky Spence as Bobby Riggs. Lotte Betts Dean, Eve Pearson Maxwell, Oliver Barker, and Mia Serracino-Inglott are among {…}
(Image Source: Philharmonia Official Website) The Philharmonia Orchestra has launched a new arts management training program. The company revealed that it will train across four departments, including concerts, marketing and communications, learning and engagement, and development. Trainees will complete four six-month rotations during which they will develop “core skills, confidence, and knowledge of arts maangements in different areas of orchestral {…}
The Philharmonia Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. London Season at the Royal Festival Hall Lorenzo Viotti and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha performa a Wagner, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky program. Performance Date: Nov. 6, 2025 Marin Alsop conducts Karpman’s “Balls” and Walton’s “Façade.” The concert includes narrator Sandi Toksvig and soloists Nikola Printz and Nicky Spence. {…}
The Philharmonia Orchestra has unveiled the second half of its 2024-25 season. (To check out the first half, click here.) Here is a rundown of the vocal and operatic performances on offer. Riccardo Muti will conduct Verdi’s Requiem with a star-studded quartet of singers. Soloists include Juliana Grigoryan, Elīna Garanča, Piotr Beczała, and Ildebrando d’Arcangelo. Performance Date: March 27, 2025 {…}
(Photo credit: Mark Allan) The Philharmonia Orchestra in the U.K. has unveiled the first half of its 2024-25 season. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. First up is a program featuring works by Grieg and Sibelius as well as the U.K. premiere of María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir’s “Oceans.” Soprano Johanna Rusanen and baritone Tommi Hakala are {…}
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is the rundown of the vocal performances on offer. All performances are set to take place at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, the Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, and First Congregational Church in Berkeley. First up is “Vivaldi, Venice, and ‘The Four Seasons.’” The showcase will feature soprano {…}