Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Charles Peebles
Biography Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Charles Peebles
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
is Britain’s oldest surviving professional symphony orchestra, dating from 1840. Vasily Petrenko was appointed Principal Conductor of the orchestra in September 2006 and in September 2009 became Chief Conductor until 2015. The orchestra gives over sixty concerts each season in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and in recent seasons world première performances have included major works by Sir John Tavener, Karl Jenkins, Michael Nyman and Jennifer Higdon, alongside works by Liverpool-born composers John McCabe, Emily Howard, Mark Simpson and Kenneth Hesketh. The orchestra also tours widely throughout the United Kingdom and has given concerts in the United States, the Far East and throughout Europe. Recent additions to the orchestra’s extensive discography include Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony (2009 Classic FM/Gramophone Orchestral Recording of the Year), the world première performance of Sir John Tavener’s Requiem, the first discs of an ongoing Shostakovich cycle and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances and Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3. The orchestra and its new music group, Ensemble 10/10, were jointly awarded Ensemble of the Year in the 2009 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, the most prestigious accolade for live classical music-making in the United Kingdom. Ensemble 10/10 also won the Concert Series of the Year category.
