Great British Music 2021-22 season: #MoreMusic playlist
Thank you for your support and interest in the conclusion of our Great British Music series of concerts at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
Thank you for your support and interest in the conclusion of our Great British Music series of concerts at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
In May 2022 the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra completed its first major European tour since the pandemic with ten concerts across Germany, conducted by RPO Music Director Vasily Petrenko. Star soloists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Khatia Buniatishvili performed alongside the Orchestra to welcoming audiences and rave reviews in two whilwind weeks of travelling and music-making.
Read on to see more photos and reactions from our spring tour to Germany.
On Thursday 2 June 2022 at London's historic Royal Albert Hall the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will bring awe-inspiring scores to life from many much-loved video games, conducted and presented by video game composer royalty: Eímear Noone.
The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week (9-15 May) is Loneliness. People are being encouraged to build meaningful connections with their friends, family and communities.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s Community and Education team, RPO Resound, have been running a new mental health project in Brent with the support of The Baring Foundation during 2022. The project aims to work with adults and adolescents who are engaging with mental health services, especially those from diverse ethnic backgrounds who may not have engaged with creative wellbeing. support in the past.’
This year's Mental Health Awareness Week the project begins workshops at the secure Kingswood Centre in Brent. RPO musicians will work alongside service users to develop music that they will perform at the end of six weeks of workshops.
At the end of this week, the project has its latest monthly drop in session for adults in the Brent community who are engaged with mental health services. This month musicians and participants will use the theme from mental health awareness week - ‘connections’ - to develop new pieces of music within the workshops.
A third strand to this project will begin 23 May in Wembley Stadium with adolescents who may be at risk of exclusion due to mental health related challenges. They will be working fortnightly to develop a new piece of music to perform in July.
If you are interested to learn any more about these workshops please contact the RPO community and education team at