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Sharing the wonder of classical music 🌟 Discover what we’re all about and where to find us on our website ➡ lpo.org.uk

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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We have some big news... ✨ We’re thrilled to announce that Paavo Järvi will become the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor from the 2028/29 season!
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Well, this has made our Friday 🎉 Our album 'Tania León: Horizons, Raices, Stride, Pasajes' has been awarded a Diapason d’or – Diapason magazine’s highest distinction. A huge moment for Tania and the LPO Label! 📀
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Congratulations to our previous Composer-in-Residence Tania León, who has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category for her work Raíces (Origins) ✨ We were delighted to give the world premiere of this piece in March 2024 🌟
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A new chapter for Future Firsts ✨ We’re delighted to begin a partnership with Purposeful Ventures over the next two years to support the evolution of our Future Firsts programme, which bridges the transition between education and the professional platform for outstanding early-career musicians 🌟
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Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
RPS Composer @robertlaidlow.bsky.social's cosmic tone poem 'Exoplanets' will receive its first performance by the @lporchestra.bsky.social on 29 November at @southbankcentre.bsky.social. A collaboration with astrophysicists, Robert translates their inspiring research into musical ideas.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We are very sorry to hear of the death of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent. Her dedication and love of music was and will continue to be an inspiration to us. Our thoughts are with our Patron, His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, and her loved ones at this sad time.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We’re so excited to hear that our Tippett recording with Steven Osborne and Edward Gardner has been nominated for a Gramophone Award in the Concerto category 🎉
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It’s always good to be back at the BBC Proms ✨ We had a blast performing at the Royal Albert Hall last night with our Principal Conductor Edward Gardner and mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina, who made a stunning BBC Proms debut!
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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
★★★★★ #BBCProms #AigulAkhmetshina @lporchestra.bsky.social #EdwardGardner - Liquid luxuries, and first-class service on an ocean-going programme - @boydtonkin.bsky.social on 'an almost overloaded voyage into luscious colour and texture' www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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BBC Proms: Akhmetshina, LPO, Gardner review - liquid luxuries
Water surged through this Prom from first spray to last drop. But there was nothing damp or diluted about Edward Gardner’s helmsmanship as he steered the London Philharmonic Orchestra through a succes...
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Welcome to the Second Violins Coco 🤩 Coco Inman was a member of our Foyle Future First programme, which bridges the transition between education and the professional platform. We’re delighted to say that she’s now our Second Violin (No. 4) 🙌 Congrats Coco! 💖
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
2025 applications for Recruiting Classical close on 27 June! If you identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse, head to the Black Lives in Music website to find out more about auditions for Extra Work Lists and Professional Development Workshops with some of the UK’s top orchestras.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Debut Sounds is back & this year groundbreaking new music meets the power of spoken word! ✨ Mentored by Composer-in-Residence Tania León, LPO Young Composers have collaborated with poets from the Southbank Centre's New Poets Collective, with each artist creating a new work inspired by memory.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
LPO Music Makers supports music-making in schools in London and the South Coast, working with children aged 7–11 and their teachers. The project brings world-class musicians to schools, aiming to build teacher confidence, spark children’s creativity, and help embed music into everyday school life.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Smiles all round ✨ We had great fun at two LPO Junior Artist: Overture days last month! Talented musicians aged 10-15 from Worthing and Eastbourne joined the LPO for a day, playing side-by-side with some of our players and getting some top tips and advice 🎶
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Robert Laidlow @robertlaidlow.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
My new 25 minute piece, "Exoplanets", just announced for the @lporchestra.bsky.social season - can't wait to hear it! Expect some cosmic experiments with the orchestra 🪐 29 Nov - conducted by Edward Gardner, sharing a programme with Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Bloch and Rachmaninov.
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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Daphnis et Chloé with @lpchoir.bsky.social @lporchestra.bsky.social and Circa was stunning: seeing it with incredible acrobatics brought out the profound humanity of Ravel’s music. Wow!
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Astonishingly acrobatics in the @lporchestra.bsky.social’s Daphnis and Chloé with Circa Ensemble. Never sensed an audience holding their collective breath so much!
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy Earth Day 🌏 Today we announced our brand new London season. At its centre is our beautiful planet 🌷 🌊 ⛰
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Hello 2025/26! 🤩 Our new season of concerts in London, Brighton and Eastbourne is here for you to explore ✨ lpo.org.uk/the-london-p...
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London Philharmonic Choir @lpchoir.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
London Philharmonic Choir appoints Madeleine Venner as Chorus Director. lpc.org.uk/2025/04/10/l...
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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Lucky to have caught a second peerless London concert in a row. I'm now in love with Schumann's Violin Concerto, given perfect teamwork between Vilde Frang, Vladimir Jurowski and the @lporchestra.bsky.social. And how beautifully poised throughout was Schubert's Ninth in this nuanced performance.
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Frang, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review - every beauty revealed
When Vladimir Jurowski returns to what used to be “his” London Philharmonic Orchestra, you’d better jump. I would have done on Wednesday had I been able to get to his heady mix of Russian and Ukrainia...
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Get ready for something special! 🤩 We’ve been working with music not-for-profit AudioActive and artists from their talent development programme Emerge to create a bold, original sound – a collaboration between our classical musicians and rising young artists from the South East.
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This was a dark, but brilliant evening – always a treat to see Vladimir Jurowski back with the @lporchestra.bsky.social. And another chance to hear Lyatoshynsky 3 in concert! bachtrack.com/review-jurow...
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White hot intensity in Jurowski’s Lyatoshynsky
The London Philharmonic welcomes back its Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski for a typically challenging programme of dark Russian and Ukrainian scores.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We have something very exciting to share… 👀✨ Meet our new Artistic Director, Jesús Herrera.
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LPO announces new Artistic Director
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) today announces the appointment of Spanish-born Jesús Herrera to the role of Artistic Director from June 2025.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Exciting news! Backstage with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, our four-part documentary series with Sky Arts (produced by Love Monday TV), has been nominated for a BAFTA in the Sound: Factual category 🥳
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We're delighted to welcome Nefeli Chadouli and Wilson Ng as our newest Fellow Conductors🎉 Next season, they’ll become fully immersed in the life of the LPO, working intensively with the Orchestra, guided by our Principal Conductor Edward Gardner. We can’t wait to work with them!
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We’re so grateful to everyone who’s donated so far this week to our Big Give campaign, raising money to support music making with communities along the English South East coast ✨ If you’d like to support our campaign, there are four days left to donate! donate.biggive.org/donate/a05WS...
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Robin C-F @robin.cantrill-fenwick.uk · 07/03/2025
Discovered the @lporchestra.bsky.social podcast this evening. What a lovely listen open.spotify.com/episode/796F...
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Do the brass really have the most fun?
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 17/03/2025
A fresh take on the familiar as the @lporchestra.bsky.social visits the Glasshouse ✍️ Nick Butters bachtrack.com/review-ticci...
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A fresh take on the familiar as the LPO visits the Glasshouse
Robin Ticciati and the LPO take a fresh look at some very familiar works by Schumann and Mahler on their visit to Gateshead.
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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰 @ianpeacock.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Sublime performance of Mahler’s 5th Symphony by @lporchestra.bsky.social at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
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Catherine McKinnell MP @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It was fantastic to join thousands of primary school children at the @lporchestra.bsky.social to watch a screening of Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Snail and the Whale’ with the score played live, and to meet some of the talented musicians 🎻🎺
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Congratulations BBC Radio 3! 👏 It was an honour to be shortlisted for a @royalphilsoc.bsky.social Award for ‘Backstage with the LPO’, our four-part documentary series with Sky Arts (produced by Love Monday TV) 🌟 Congratulations to all of last night’s winners and nominees 🥂
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Amazing to see our super Principal Horn Annemarie Federle in this list 🤩 and our conductor for this weekend’s concerts in Brighton and Eastbourne, Adam Hickox 🌟
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
'A dream made true' ✨ Applications are now open to join our free LPO Junior Artists programme for 2025/26 🤩 If you're a talented orchestral musician aged between 15 and 19 from a background currently under-represented in professional UK orchestras, we'd love to hear from you!
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 25/02/2025
Gardner and the @lporchestra.bsky.social scale Alpine heights with majestic ease ✍️ Nick Boston bachtrack.com/review-gardn...
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Gardner and the LPO scale Alpine heights with majestic ease
Majestic Strauss and effortless Grieg from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Welcome to the LPO, Olly! 🌟 Olly Yates joins us today as our new Sub-Principal Percussion 🎉 For the past 20 years Olly has freelanced with many orchestras in London, and was acting Co-Principal Percussion of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 2007-15. We're so excited to have him on board!
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Classical music fans to their Valentines: 💌 Love you to the moon and Bach
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A tour-iffic start to February ✨ We've had a ball playing programmes of Wennäkoski, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky to audiences in Belgium and the Netherlands alongside the wonderful Dima Slobodeniouk, Christian Tetzlaff and Daniel Lozakovich.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We’re over the moon to have been shortlisted for two Digital Culture Awards! 🥳
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Tania León – Grammy winner! 🏆 Huge congratulations to LPO Composer-in-Residence Tania León on her win at the 67th GRAMMY awards in LA last night 🌟
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We’re so excited that ‘Backstage with the LPO’, our four-part documentary series with Sky Arts, has been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Storytelling category! 📚 #RPSAwards
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John Earls @johnearls.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A bright and captivating Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 from Benjamin Grosvenor & @lporchestra.bsky.social at @southbankcentre.bsky.social tonight. A moving Sibelius ‘En Saga’ opened proceedings with a thoroughly gripping Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 finale under the excellent Andrey Boreyko conducting.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We’re very excited for this one tomorrow! 🌸🌞🍂❄
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Alice Ivy Pemberton on the 'rocking, barnstorming music' of Vivaldi's Four Seasons
The London Philharmonic Orchestra leader talks to Florence Lockheart about the links between Vivaldi and American Bluegrass, as well as reflecting on her first two years with the orchestra
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐ from @davidnice.bsky.social @theartsdesk.bsky.social for Saturday’s concert with Vladimir Jurowski. It was a very special evening. Thank you to everyone that joined us.
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Tiffin Youth Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Jurowski, RFH review - perfect detachment suits public statements
When Vladimir Jurowski planned this typically unorthodox programme, he could not have known that a disaster even greater, long-term, than 9/11 was going to befall the USA two days after the concert. T...
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 17/01/2025
Moments to Remember: interwoven dialogues from Gardner, Faust and the @lporchestra.bsky.social ✍️ Charlotte Gardner bachtrack.com/review-gardn...
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Interwoven dialogues from Gardner, Faust and the LPO
Heaven on Earth from Edward Gardner and Isabelle Faust in the latest in the LPO's ‘Moments Remembered’ series at the Royal Festival Hall.
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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Off to London today for my first concert of 2025: Vladimir Jurowski conducts @lporchestra.bsky.social and @lpchoir.bsky.social in Haydn's Mass in Time of War, and John Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
✨ The news is out! ✨ Today we can share that our next Composer-in-Residence will be Sir George Benjamin 🤩 He’ll succeed the wonderful Tania León in September 2025, joining us for performances of his work and mentoring our next group of LPO Young Composers.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra announces Sir George Benjamin as new Composer-in-Residence - London Philharmonic Orchestra
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Michael Tippett Musical Foundation @tippettmf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from Andrew Clements in @theguardian.com for @lporchestra.bsky.social's new recording of Tippett's Piano Concerto and Symphony No 2. "the concerto teems with detail...the energy of the music is irrepressible" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Tippett: Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 album review – the energy of the music is irrepressible
Edward Gardner conducts first-rate performances of two rarely recorded works, bringing Tippett’s musical language into sharp focus
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🌟 We’re looking for a new Artistic Director 🌟 This unique role offers the opportunity to lead the Orchestra's artistic direction in collaboration with our Principal Conductor, Chief Executive and player membership. 1/2 👇
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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Christmas playlists are on repeat 🔁 Here are a few classical favourites to have you feeling festive 🎄
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5 pieces of classical music for Christmas - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Discover five great pieces of classical music to add some sparkle to your Christmas playlist.
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