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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is delighted to bring you its latest news,
including highlights of recent tours and education projects, as well as details of its
BRAND NEW series of ‘own-promotion’ concerts during 2015, for which friends
save 50% on tickets. We look forward to seeing you at an RPO concert soon!W
More music for less!
The RPO is proud to present its exciting new series within the awe-inspiring surroundings of the
Royal Albert Hall, featuring classic film scores, triumphant masterpieces, hit Broadway and
West End numbers and much more. Don’t miss a special tribute to the memorable songs from
West Side Story in Best of Broadway, excerpts from the unforgettable ballets Swan Lake and
The Nutcracker in Tchaikovsky Gala, a tribute to The Beatles’ No.1 hits in Symphonic Rock and
a tribute to the futuristic scores of sci-fi blockbusters in Film Music Gala. Please see the
enclosed flyers for full details. Tickets are £62–£19 (before discounts and inclusive of booking
fees). To book, please visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends or phone the RPO office.
Royal Albert Hall – Spring 2015
elcome
ROYAL
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
RPO friends’ newsletter – September 2014
- Half-price tickets to RPO ‘own-promotion’ concerts in London (up to two tickets per concert)
- Priority ticket allocation and dedicated booking line
- FREE passes to RPO ‘own-promotion’ rehearsals in London (two per rehearsal; please contact us to book)
- 10% off house wine and the tea/coffee & cake deal at Cadogan Hall (please show your friends’ card at the bar)
- Discounted CDs
RPO friends’ benefits – at a glance!
The RPO looks forward to returning to the elegant and intimate Cadogan Hall next spring for an outstanding
series of concerts, featuring world-class artists and composers. Look out for our brand new brochure, which will
be sent to you later this autumn. In the meantime, let us whet your appetite with these forthcoming highlights!
BRAND NEW concerts at Cadogan Hall
Valentine’s Classics – Friday 13th February 2015, 7.30pm
Principal Associate Conductor Grzegorz Nowak (pictured) conducts Mendelssohn’s much-loved
Violin Concerto in E minor, featuring the talented soloist Robert Davidovici, as well as other
passionate classics, including excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Bizet’s Carmen.
Beethoven’s Finest – Tuesday 31st March 2015, 7.30pm
Josep Caballé Domenech conducts Beethoven’s turbulent Symphony No.2, his extraordinary
Piano Concerto No.1 – performed by firm-favourite soloist Freddy Kempf (pictured) – and his
sparkling Symphony No.4.
Russian Masterworks – Tuesday 28th April 2015, 7.30pm
Garry Walker conducts Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture, Shostakovich’s Piano
Concerto No.2 – featuring one of the UK’s finest pianists Martin Roscoe (pictured) – and
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’. Tickets are £40–£15 (before discounts). For more
information about this upcoming series or to book, please phone the RPO office.
RPO friends save 50% on tickets. Visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends, phone 020 7608 8855 (M–F, 10–6) or email [email protected].
What inspired you to become
involved with music?
My father was a music master in a
grammar school and my mother
was an amateur violinist. It was
normal for me to hear classical
music all the time and my parents
encouraged me to take up the
violin.
What is the best thing about
being a member of the RPO?
There are many great things, such
as enormous variety in the kind of
work we do, touring fascinating
places with such artists as Charles
Dutoit and Pinchas Zukerman,
and also a special team spirit.
If you were to play a different
instrument, which would it be?
I can’t really imagine playing an
instrument other than the violin,
but the horns do sometimes get
the most amazing melodies!
What are your future ambitions?
At this stage in my career, they
would be simply to continue
improving on the standards that
have got me this far.
What was the first recording you
ever bought and when was it?
Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto.
I was aged 10!
What do you listen to in your
spare time?
You can’t beat great orchestras
playing great repertoire led by
great conductors. Very uplifting.
Player ProfileDuncan
Riddell
RPO Leader Due to the overwhelming popularity of its
Christmas shows, the RPO proudly presents a
BRAND NEW festive concert: Swinging Sixties
at Christmas at Cadogan Hall on Wednesday
17th December 2014 at 7.30pm.
Richard Balcombe conducts chart-topping 60s songs and your favourite
Christmas jingles, with hits from classic stars of the decade, including
Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, The Mamas and the Papas,
The Beach Boys and The Walker Brothers, and featuring guest vocalists
Mary Carewe, Alison Jiear, Emma Kershaw and Graham Bickley!
Please see the enclosed flyer for full details. Tickets are £48–£18 (before
discounts). To book, please visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends or phone the
RPO office. Remember that on presentation of your valid RPO friends’
membership card, you can also book in person at Cadogan Hall and
obtain 50% off your tickets.
RPO friends save 50% on tickets. Visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends, phone 020 7608 8855 (M–F, 10–6) or email [email protected].
The RPO at Christmas!
Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s CastleArtistic Director and Principal Conductor
Charles Dutoit (pictured) is joined by a host of
outstanding soloists on Tuesday 27th January
2015 at 7.30pm for one of the highlights of the
Orchestra’s 2014–2015 series at Southbank
Centre’s Royal Festival Hall: a concert
performance of Bartók’s operatic masterpiece Duke Bluebeard’s Castle,
alongside Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.2, as interpreted by the inimitable
Marc-André Hamelin. Tickets are £58–£10 (before discounts). For more
information about this concert and others in this delectable series or to
book, please visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends or phone the RPO office.
Swinging Sixties at Christmas
Although both concerts are practically
sold-out, we do still have a priority allocation
of tickets available to RPO friends for John
Rutter’s Christmas Celebration on Thursday
11th December 2014 (3pm & 7.30pm) at the
Royal Albert Hall, as well as limited availability
for Christmas Cracker on Saturday 20th
December 2014 (3pm & 7.30pm) at Cadogan
Hall. Tickets range from £62–£18 (before
discounts). Please visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends
to book or phone the RPO office.
Christmas Tickets Still Available for Friends!
This summer, the RPO office was
very sorry to say goodbye to:
Caterina Osman (Musicians’
Payroll Officer), who worked with
us for over 10 years and left to
pursue new goals; Alec Haylor
(Community & Education
Co-ordinator, who worked with
RPO resound since 2010) and
Alice Rumsey (Regional
Marketing Co-ordinator), who
both left to train to become
secondary school music teachers;
Hannah Taylor (Community &
Education Officer), who worked
with RPO resound since 2011 and
left to work at London Music
Masters; and Veronica Jackson
(Marketing Volunteer), who now
works for the Royal Academy of
Dance. At the end of this month,
we say farewell to Emily Carewe-
Jeffries (Special Projects Assistant
– maternity cover), who leaves to
focus on the performance side of
her career. We wish them all the
very best for their futures!
This autumn, we warmly
welcome: Kevin Hollands as
Musicians’ Payroll Officer, who
joins us from the LSO; two
Community & Education
Co-ordinators: Lisa Rodio, who
joins us from the Young Film
Academy, and Sophie Plumb,
who joins us from Soundhub
Music Education; Rosalie Carter
as Regional Marketing
Co-ordinator, who joins us from
G Live, Guildford; and also
John Bowker as Marketing
Volunteer, who studied
Musicology at Oxford University.
Lisa Rodio (Community and Education Co-ordinator) updates us with all
the latest news from RPO resound, the Orchestra’s community and
education department:
“This summer has been a busy and exciting
time for RPO resound! During June and July,
our innovative year-long programme with
Westminster Music Library, Behind the Lines
(pictured), continued to deliver World War I
themed workshops in local primary schools, as
well as offering community workshops for adults and families.
“During August, the Behind the Lines programme culminated in RPO
resound’s four-day summer school (pictured), which included an
intergenerational group of musicians, vocalists
and RPO professionals who researched music
written by composers who lived and/or died
during the Great War or who were influenced
by it. These participants then created their
own piece of music, depicting a day in the life
on the front lines and performed its premiere
at St John’s Smith Square to an audience of family and friends and to
important members of the Westminster community.
“Also during August, RPO resound continued
its 10-year partnership with the London
Borough of Newham with a creative project
featuring young musicians from the borough’s
Every Child a Musician (ECaM) programme
(pictured). Participants of this programme
worked with RPO musicians over four days to
devise their own piece based on Elgar’s Enigma Variations, which they
then performed alongside the full RPO at the borough’s annual Under
the Stars Festival.”
If you would like to find out any further information about RPO resound,
including how you can offer your support, please contact Ruth Currie
(Head of Community and Education) on 020 7608 8800.
News & Moves:
RPO Office
RPO friends save 50% on tickets. Visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends, phone 020 7608 8855 (M–F, 10–6) or email [email protected].
RPO resound
The Orchestra is delighted to welcome Michelle Bruil as No.4 Viola and
Shana Douglas as No.5 First Violin. It also looks forward to welcoming
Chris West as No.2 Double Bass in December. A very sad goodbye to
Tom Watmough (Co-Principal Clarinet) who left this month, after
having been with the RPO since 2006, to join the London Philharmonic.
News & Moves: RPO Players
We hope that you have enjoyed this edition of fortissimo and we hope to see you at an RPO concert soon.
We’d like to remind you that booking online for RPO concerts using your 50% discount is easy and safe at
www.rpo.co.uk/friends. If you haven’t yet had your membership number set up for you on the backend
of our website in order for you to receive the discount, please let us know and we will do this for you.
With best wishes,
Jo Thomson (Friends’ & Groups’ Manager) and the rest of the RPO marketing team!
Chris Evans Rosalie Carter Natasha Allery John Bowker Doran Crowhurst
Director of Press &
Marketing
Regional Marketing
Co-ordinatorMarketing Assistant Marketing Volunteer Programme Editor
Rosi Callery (Tours and Special Projects Assistant) brings us the recent highlights:
“The RPO enjoyed multiple summer touring highlights this year, performing in France,
Germany, Mexico and China. The Orchestra hadn’t visited Mexico in over five years,
so it was particularly exciting to perform in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City,
with Principal Guest Conductor Maestro Pinchas Zukerman. Across two concerts, the
RPO performed (amongst other works) Beethoven’s Symphonies No.3 & 7 and his
Violin Concerto. The Orchestra was also lucky enough to perform an unstaged version
of La bohème in Paris with some exceptional soloists, which went down brilliantly.
“Since then, the RPO toured to China with a programme of film music, starting up in Harbin
(which is almost in Russia) before moving down to Tianjin, near Beijing (pictured). The final
tour of the summer included an outdoor concert in Potsdam, Germany, in the beautiful
setting of Sanssouci Park (pictured right, featuring RPO player Fraser Gordon’s
contrabassoon!). Coming up this autumn, the Orchestra, conducted by Charles Dutoit, looks
forward to concerts in Montreux, followed by a tour to Switzerland, Austria and Italy.”
RPO friends save 50% on tickets. Visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends, phone 020 7608 8855 (M–F, 10–6) or email [email protected].
In the RPO’s latest CD release, Grzegorz Nowak conducts masterful works by the great
Modest Mussorgsky, including Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on the Bare Mountain.
£8 for RPO friends (R.R.P. £10). To order, please call 020 7608 8837. A full list of RPO CDs can
be found online at www.rpo.co.uk/shop.
RPO on Tour
Grzegorz Nowak conducts Mussorgsky
During the start of its 2014–2015 concert season, which begins this autumn, the
Orchestra looks forward to returning to the monumental Royal Albert Hall on Sunday
19th October 2014 at 3pm to perform an afternoon of classical favourites from the
Romantic era. Featuring Rossini’s lively William Tell Overture, Rachmaninov’s
passionate Piano Concerto No.2, performed by the talented Natasha Paremski
(pictured), and Dvořák’s rousing ‘New World’ Symphony – this splendid matinee
concert is one not to be missed! Tickets are £49–£12 (before discounts and inclusive
of booking fees). To book, please visit www.rpo.co.uk/friends or phone the RPO office.
The Great Classics 2014