2024: The RPO's year in photos
In 2024 the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performed around the world as we brought orchestral music of all kinds to people from every walk of life.
We toured and sold out concert halls in the USA, China and Central Europe, and in the UK we performed up and down the country from Brighton to Reading and Hull. In our London venues we brought the roof down with pieces such as Verdi's Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall and Rachmaninov's The Bells at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko in our flagship Icons Rediscovered series.
Our Community and Education team has done some varied and incredibly rewarding work the STROKESTRA® programme develops at home and abroad. They also delivered programmes such as our unique Relaxed Performances, for those who find traditional concert settings difficult, and the Lullaby Project, which helps parents in prisons write lullabies for their children to be recorded and performed.
In April we announced the internationally-renowned composer Joe Hisaishi as our Composer-in-Association, and performed packed concerts with him in Paris and London. We were also pleased to welcome Sarah Bardwell as our new Managing Director.
Thank you for being part of our journey.
