Welcome to our Resident Season at Cadogan Hall.
Music is about people. People tell stories. And with the combined talents of the 75 artists who make up the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, there’s no limit to the tales we can tell, or the pictures we can paint. The RPO’s 2024–25 Season at Cadogan Hall begins with Mussorgsky’s famous Pictures at an Exhibition, but that’s just the start of the adventure: 15 concerts filled with favourite melodies, contemporary classics, new discoveries and sonic surprises. And from the English landscapes of Elgar to the unbridled emotions of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky – whether we’re playing a glittering piano concerto, or surrendering to raw operatic passion – every one of them is bursting with stories.
To help us tell them, we’ve invited some of our favourite soloists and conductors – artists from Britain and around the world who feel as passionately as we do about the sound of great music played by a world-class orchestra. The RPO’s Principal Associate Conductor Alexander Shelley conducts Brahms, Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams and Shiyeon Sung harnesses the elemental energy of Carl Nielsen. Violinist Esther Yoo plays Bernstein, pianist Daniel Ciobanu plays Prokofiev, and throughout the season – as our 2024–25 Artist-in-Residence – we’re thrilled to welcome the phenomenal young Swedish-Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene: one of those rare performers who makes everything they touch light up.
And that’s not even the half of it. One thing’s for sure, though: somewhere in our season there’s a musical story that will speak directly to you. Come to Cadogan Hall, and let us share it.
