Spring highlights for Arts Partnerships & Tours

4/4/2023

2023 is in full swing, and so is our Creative Partnerships and Tours team - here is what they are up to this Spring.

APRIL

Patricia Kopatchinskaja tours with Ensemble Resonanz and Austrian-English soprano Anna Prohaska this April in a thought-provoking programme exploring the history of classical music and its depiction of women. They visit the Barbican Centre (16 April), deSingel, Antwerp, on 20 April and Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna on 22 April.

On 24 April, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Robin Ticciati and violinist Lisa Batiashvili, head to Festspiel und Kongresshaus Bregenz in a programme beginning and ending with Beethoven, and including Jörg Widmann’s Liebeslied für acht Instrumente (2010).

MAY

It is a return to the US for Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra this May, for a programme celebrating composers from their homeland, alongside Chief Conductor Susanna Mälkki and flute soloist Claire Chase. The orchestra have previously toured the US in 1968, 1983, 1986 and 2001. On this tour they will tour two of the most iconic venues in America — John F Kennedy Center on 8 May and Carnegie Hall on 9 May.

Camerata RCO and Victor Julien-Laferrière are in Tilburg, Netherlands on 16 May for a special performance on the Koninklijke Souvenir des Montagnards stage. The programme includes Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata in arrangement for cello and ensemble, Bottesini’s Duo for double bass and cello, and Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen, septet version.

Our touring team embark on an eight-concert tour with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director Vasily Petrenko, performing in some of the most significant venues in Japan. They are joined on the stage by Nobuyuki Tsujii, who The Observer described as the “definition of virtuosity”. The tour takes place from 20 May to 28 May.