UP FRONT
- Premieres of new works in New York and Warsaw
- Celebrating Shostakovich with ECO
- Commissions: Sadikova, Kulenty, Riccardi, Dorman
- Upcoming recordings: Best of
Lutosławski, and
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
- Release of a new recoding on Signum Classics:
Penderecki, Mykietyn, Błażejczyk - Inspiration: painters Mahallati and Rouach
Avant-garde art tends to set precedents rather than follow
them. But invention is secondary to inspiration. By definition,
new art often “colours outside the lines” but it is the power of creativity that moves us. The upcoming season’s design in it-
self is a case in point. Inspired by contemporary painters, Goli Mahallati (Iran) and Marie Rouach (Israel), it brings together a coherent yet dramatic collage of masterworks that span from
Shostakovitch to our current times — an artistic experience not to be missed.
FEATURED ORCHESTRAS, CHORUSES, & ENSEMBLES
2024/25 Season
English Chamber Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sinfonia Varsovia
London Symphony Orchestra
The Hanover Band
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Musica Sacra (New York)
Beethoven Youth Orchestra (London)
Oratorio Society of New York
Orchestra of St. Luke’s (New York)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Manhattan String Quartet
Hashtag Ensemble (Warsaw)
Consone String Quartet
Bizjak Piano Duo (Paris)
CONCERTS
2024/25 Season
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
BEETHOVEN, SYMPHONY No. 9 Beethoven Summit ’25, London
Friday, April 4, 7:30 p.m.
Britten Theatre, RCM
Soloists
The Purcell Singers
The Hanover Band
Benedict Hoffnung, conductor
Beethoven Summit ‘25, London opens with
a gala and a historically informed perfor-
mance of Beethovens Symphony No. 9 fea-
turing an all-London cast of soloists, The Pur-
cell Singers, and The Hanover Band.
This concert is a part of the BEETHOVEN SUM-
MIT ‘25, London — Beethoven Festival and International Conference.
MUSIC AT NOON
Beethoven Summit ‘25
Saturday, April 5, 12:00 noon
Recital Hall, RCM
Consone String Quartet
Works by Beethoven and
contemporaries
One of Englands’s premiere period-instrument
ensembles performs rarely heard gems by
Beethoven, Carl Czerny, and Emilie Mayer,
including Beethoven own arrangements of
his Piano Sonata No. 9.
This concert is a part of the BEETHOVEN SUM-
MIT ‘25, London — Beethoven Festival and
International Conference.
MISSA SOLEMNIS
Beethoven Summit '25
Saturday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
Williams/Rudge/Presno/Jeffery
Crouch End Festival Chorus
The Hanover Band
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
First performance of Beethoven’s monumen-
tal mass in Bärenreiter Urtext Edition, featur-
ing an international cast of soloists, chorus,
and a period-instrument orchestra.
This concert is a part of the BEETHOVEN SUM-
MIT ‘25, London — Beethoven Festival and
International Conference.
Upcoming concert details available soon
COMMISSIONS
2024/25 Season
composer
Poland
composer
Uzbekistan
composer
Poland
composer
Italy
ON THE COMMISSIONS FRONT
We are proud to announce new commissions by an exceptionally gifted group of composers listed above, hailing from various parts of the world. This coming season they will see their works premiered at Lincoln Center in New York, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Cadogan Hall in London, and Carnegie Hall in New York City by such notable ensembles as the Manhattan String Quartet, Sinfonia Varsovia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (NY), and others.
composer
Israel/USA
UPCOMING RECORDINGS
2025
BEST OF LUTOSŁAWSKI
1-3 November, 2025
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Concerto for Orchestra &
Symphony No. 3
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS
6-9 November, 2025
Soloists
Chorus tba
Orchestra tba
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
ALL LUTOSŁAWSKI
RECORDING
8-10 December, 2025
Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra,
Orchestra tba
Soloists tba
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
