Over the weekend we announced 久石譲 as our Composer-in-Association and performed two sell-out concerts with him, Grace Davidson & Ella Taylor (THEY/THEM) at the Paris La Défense, to a total audience of 44k people. 🎶✨🏞

Here's a peek at the rehearsals...

📷 RPO/Tim Lutton

Paris 🇫🇷 for an exciting few days performing to crowds of 22,000 each night Paris La Défense 🎵 for 久石譲 U-go&play Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 🎶🎵😊🍷🥩u-play.fr/joehisaishipar… u-play.fr/programme-jh-p… Studio Ghibli Pictures #anime #hayaomiyazaki

We'll be opening the Summer Music in City Churches festival on 6 June 2024 in St Giles Cripplegate with Finzi's Overture to Love's Labours Lost, Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 with Elizabeth Sombart and Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony, conducted by Pierre Vallet.

Tickets: summermusiccitychurches.com/event-details/…

'Petrenko has made Elgar his own: this was a riveting performance, full of depths and subtleties.' i newspaper ⭐⭐⭐⭐

See more photos and reactions from Elgar's Symphony No.2 and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3 Southbank Centre: rpo.co.uk/news-and-press…

📷 Frances Marshall 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪

Tonight: Vasily Petrenko conducts the next concert in our Icons Rediscovered series Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall with Ethel Smyth's 'The Wreckers' Overture, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3 with soloist Denis Kozhukhin and Elgar's Symphony No.2.

📷 Frances Marshall 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪

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