London Philharmonic Orchestra

Executive & Artistic Director

THOR STEINGRABER

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Principal Conductor

EDWARD GARDNER

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Violin

RANDALL GOOSBY

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Generously underwritten by the Colburn Foundation

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Autumn 2024 U.S. tour is made possible with the support of Dunard Fund USA and the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Thu Oct 10 | 8pm

RUN TIME: 1 hour and 50 minutes,

including a 20-minute intermission

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Program | Program Note

An Interview With Randall Goosby

Strings | Woodwinds | Brass

Percussion & Piano

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner | Randall Goosby

About Us

Our Supporters | The Soraya Team

Administration

Artistic Director | ELENA DUBINETS

Chief Executive | DAVID BURKE

Concerts and Planning Director | ROANNA GIBSON

Tours Manager | MADDY CLARKE

Concerts and Recordings Manager | GRAHAM WOOD

Glyndebourne and Projects Manager | MADELEINE RIDOUT

Concerts and Artists Coordinator | ALISON JONES

Concerts and Recordings Coordinator | DORA KMEZIĆ

Concerts and Tours Assistant | TOM CAMERON

Orchestra Personnel Manager | ANDREW CHENERY

Librarians | SARAH THOMAS, MARTIN SARGESON

Stage and Operations Manager | LAURA KITSON

Deputy Operations Manager | STEPHEN O’FLAHERTY

Deputy Stage Manager | BENJAMIN WAKLEY

Orchestra and Auditions Manager | HELEN PHIPPS

Finance Director | FRANCES SLACK

Education and Community Director | TALIA LASH

Development Director | LAURA WILLIS

Campaigns and Projects Director | NICK JACKMAN

Marketing and Communications Director | KATH TROUT

American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Board of Directors

Royal Patron | HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF KENT KG

Honorary Chair | DR. CATHERINE C. HØGEL, chair, LPO

Honorary Director | HANNAH YOUNG, HM Consul General to New York

Directors | SIMON FREAKLEY, Chair

KARA BOYLE, Director

JON R. CARTER, Treasurer

JAY GOFFMAN, Director

ALEXANDRA JUPIN, Director

NATALIE PRAY MBE, Director

DAMIEN VANDERWILT, Director

MARC WASSERMANN, Director

ELIZABETH WINTER, Director

SUSAN A. MATHISEN, Administrator

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s mission is to share wonder with the modern world through the power of orchestral music, which it accomplishes through live performances, online, and an extensive education and community program. Balancing a long and distinguished history with its reputation as one of the U.K.’s most forward-looking ensembles, the LPO is internationally recognized as a leading world-class orchestra demonstrating excellence, versatility, invention and inclusivity in all that it does.

Resident at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, the Orchestra also has residencies in Brighton, Eastbourne, Saffron Hall in Essex, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where it has been Resident Symphony Orchestra since 1964. The Orchestra also tours internationally, performing to sold-out audiences worldwide.

Founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, the Orchestra has since been headed by many great conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Klaus Tennstedt, and Kurt Masur. In 2021, Edward Gardner became the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor, succeeding Vladimir Jurowski, who became Conductor Emeritus. Karina Canellakis is the Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor and Tania León its Composer-in-Residence.

The Orchestra’s trailblazing digital content reaches millions worldwide: In 2023, the LPO was the most successful orchestra worldwide on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. It also broadcasts on television and radio, features on countless film soundtracks, and has released over 120 albums on its own record label.

In spring 2024, the Orchestra was the focus of a TV documentary series on Sky Arts, “Backstage With the London Philharmonic Orchestra.” During 2024-25, the Orchestra continues to offer digital streams of selected live concerts through its partnership with Marquee TV.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is committed to inspiring the next generation of musicians: Its dynamic and wide-ranging Education and Community program provides first musical experiences for children and families; offers creative projects and professional development opportunities for schools and teachers; inspires talented teenage instrumentalists to progress their skills; and develops the next generation of professional musicians. Notable are its respected schemes developing the talent pipeline, with recent additions specifically for young instrumentalists and conductors from communities underrepresented in U.K. orchestras, and programs for adults and young people with disabilities or special educational needs.

In 2024-25, Principal Conductor Edward Gardner leads the Orchestra in an exciting season featuring much-loved favorites and brand-new works. The Orchestra also welcomes back Canellakis and Jurowski, as well as guest conductors including Mark Elder, Lidiya Yankovskaya, Robin Ticciati, and Kevin John Edusei. Throughout the season, the Orchestra explores the relationship between music and memory in its “Moments Remembered” series. The season also sees major tours to the U.S., Japan, China, and Europe, as well as a busy calendar of performances and community events in the Orchestra’s Brighton, Eastbourne and Saffron Walden residencies.

EDWARD GARDNER, Principal Conductor

Edward Gardner has been Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2021, recently extending his contract until at least 2028. He is also Music Director of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, and Honorary Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, following his tenure as Chief Conductor from 2015 to 2024.

In 2024-25 — his fourth season as Principal Conductor — Gardner conducts nine LPO concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, as well as a U.S. tour culminating at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and in major European cities including Vienna, Frankfurt and Hamburg. He is joined by superb soloists including Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Randall Goosby, Víkingur Ólafsson, Isabelle Faust and Augustin Hadelich, and presents works including Strauss’ mighty Alpine Symphony, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 — an enormous end to the season.

Gardner opened his inaugural season as Music Director of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet with concert performances of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. He will then conduct two fully staged operas, Verdi’s La Traviata and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, following earlier productions of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy and Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera.

In demand as a guest conductor, this season Gardner appears with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Radio, Dallas Symphony, New World Symphony, Minnesota, Seoul Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, and West Australian Symphony orchestras. Debuts in recent seasons have included the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras, the San Francisco Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Radio Symphony, and Vienna Symphony orchestras. In the U.K., he has had longstanding collaborations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2010 to 2016, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, whom he has conducted at both the First and Last Night of the BBC Proms.

In spring 2025, Gardner returns to London’s Royal Opera House to conduct the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Festen, and in June he returns to the Bavarian State Opera for Rusalka, following his debut with Peter Grimes in 2022 and Otello in 2023. Music Director of English National Opera for eight years (2007–15), Gardner has also built a strong relationship with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, with productions of The Damnation of Faust, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier, and Werther. Elsewhere, he has conducted at La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and Opéra National de Paris.

In February, the LPO Label released a recording of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust with Edward Gardner, recorded live in February 2023 (LPO-0128). This follows his recording of Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage, which won the 2023 Gramophone Opera Award. A second Tippett disc (featuring Symphony No. 2 and the Piano Concerto with Steven Osborne) is planned for release in November. In spring, Gardner and the LPO were the subject of behind-the-scenes TV documentary series “Backstage With the London Philharmonic Orchestra” on Sky Arts.

A passionate supporter of young talent, Gardner founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has a close relationship with the Juilliard School of Music, and with the Royal Academy of Music who appointed him their inaugural Sir Charles Mackerras Chair of Conducting in 2014.

Born in Gloucester, England, in 1974, Gardner was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, and he gained early recognition as Assistant Conductor of the Hallé and Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. His many accolades include the Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor of the Year Award (2008), a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009), and an OBE for Services to Music in The Queen’s Birthday Honours (2012).

Gardner’s position at the LPO is generously supported by Aud Jebsen.

RANDALL GOOSBY, Violin

American violinist Randall Goosby’s own words sum up perfectly his commitment to being an artist who makes a difference: “For me, personally, music has been a way to inspire others.”

Signed exclusively to Decca Classics in 2020, at the age of 24, Goosby is acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity of his musicianship alongside his determination to make music more inclusive and accessible, as well as bringing the music of underrepresented composers to light.

Highlights of Goosby’s 2024-25 season include debut performances with the Chicago Symphony/Sir Mark Elder, the Minnesota Orchestra/Thomas Søndergård, National Arts Centre Orchestra/Alexander Shelley, Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska, and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic/Michele Mariotti. He joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra on their U.S. tour led by Edward Gardner.

Goosby returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Detroit Symphony and Utah Symphony. He appears in recital across North America and Europe as soloist as well as with the Renaissance Quartet.

Goosby was First Prize Winner in the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In 2019, he was named the inaugural Robey Artist by Young Classical Artists Trust in partnership with Music Masters in London. In 2020, he became an Ambassador for Music Masters, a role that sees him mentoring and inspiring students in schools around the United Kingdom.

A former student of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho, he received his bachelor’s, master’s and artist diploma degrees from the Juilliard School. He is an alumnus of the Perlman Music Program and studied previously with Philippe Quint. He plays the Antonio Stradivarius, Cremona, “ex-Strauss,” 1708 on generous loan from Samsung Foundation of Culture.