Major Mahler Anniversary Celebrations And The Return Of Venezuela's El Sistema Among Highlights Of 2010/11 Classical Music Season At Southbank Centre
Friday, February 19, 2010
The World’s Most Significant Mahler Celebration
Return of Venezuela’s Sensational El Sistema
Major Projects with Pianists Maurizio Pollini and Lang Lang
Focus on Leading German Modernist Composer Helmut Lachenmann
London Premiere of Bill Viola/Peter Sellars Video Art for Tristan und Isolde
A Major Season of Bartók with Stage and Orchestral Works and Concertos
Shell Classic International Including Barenboim, Boulez and Rattle
Southbank Centre and its Resident Orchestras – the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment today (19 February) jointly announce programmes for the 2010/11 classical music season. The highlights of more than 200 events in the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and other performance spaces across Southbank Centre site include:
The World’s Most Significant Mahler Anniversary Celebration (22 September 2010–9 October 2011)
At the world’s forefront, celebrating the 150th year of Mahler’s birth in 2010 and the centenary of his death in 2011, Southbank Centre resounds with over 30 hours of Mahler’s music performed over 27 concerts in 14 months by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the National Youth Orchestra and the Berliner Philharmoniker with Sir Simon Rattle. Two major pillars of the season are Lorin Maazel’s complete Mahler Symphony cycle with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s complete song cycles with a number of conductors, including Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. Southbank Centre further explores Mahler's continuing impact on the world today in a series curated by Norman Lebrecht that focuses on Mahler’s influence on art, politics, religion, science, communications and many other topics that dominate daily headlines.
Return of Venezuela’s Sensational El Sistema (6 September 2010–1 February 2011). As a sequel to Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra’s five-day residency in April 2009, which saw 60,000 enthusiastic visitors turning the Royal Festival Hall into a pandemonium of excitement each night, on 12 and 14 October Southbank Centre presents the UK debut of the younger Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra. This is the national senior school age orchestra of El Sistema, Venezuela's revolutionary social programme which engages more than 300,000 young people, many of whom are from underprivileged backgrounds. Following in the footsteps of Gustavo Dudamel, 25-year-old Christian Vásquez, a fellow product of the Systema and an emerging international conductor, leads these concerts. The return of the Simón Bolívar String Quartet (6–8 September) and the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble (1 February 2011) complete Southbank Centre’s Venezuelan focus this season.
Major Projects with Pianists Maurizio Pollini and Lang Lang (28 January–25 May 2011)Arriving from opposite sensibilities and cultural hinterlands, two of today’s most iconic pianists each spearheads a major project at Southbank Centre spotlighting the piano. Pollini, the legendary Milanese maestro, takes the audience with him on a personal journey through four centuries of piano repertoire from Bach to Boulez in a series of five career-defining Royal Festival Hall recitals (28 January, 15, 26 February, 29 April and 25 May 2011). Chinese firebrand Lang Lang is Southbank Centre’s piano superstar for 10 days (13–22 May 2011) performing a recital, a chamber music concert, and a concerto as well as leading a residency that will see the climax of a young pianists project beginning in the spring of 2011 (details to be announced) in a transformed Royal Festival Hall filled with pianos and young pianists.
Focus on leading German Modernist Composer Helmut Lachenmann (23–24 October 2010)Following acclaimed annual explorations of the music of 20th century composers including Stockhausen, Messiaen, Nono, Xenakis, and Berio, Southbank Centre celebrates Helmut Lachenmann (23–24 October 2010), devoting concerts and talks to the life and music of one of the world’s foremost living composers known for embracing the entire sound world and demanding utmost virtuosity from the performers. In the presence of the composer, the weekend will be shared between the Arditti Quartet and London Sinfonietta, Resident at Southbank Centre, with soprano Sarah Leonard and pianist Rolf Hind.
London Premiere of Bill Viola/Peter Sellars Video Art for Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (26 September 2010)The Philharmonia Orchestra, its Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen and Southbank Centre bring Peter Sellars’ Tristan und Isolde, with Bill Viola’s spectacular video art, to the Royal Festival Hall for one concert performance on 26 September 2010. The London premiere of this international sensation will feature Gary Lehman, Christine Brewer, Anne Sofie von Otter and John Relyea.
A Major Season of Bartók with Stage and Orchestral Works and Concertos (27 January–3 November 2011)As a follow-up to the acclaimed City of Dreams: Vienna 1900-1935, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Salonen launch a major year-long exploration of the life, influences and music of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók, features a semi-staged performance of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, alongside Bartók’s orchestral, piano and chamber music, and music by some of his key contemporaries.
Shell Classic International (23 September 2009–May 2010). Southbank Centre’s season of international visiting orchestras features the UK debuts of the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra and Spira Mirabilis as well as return Southbank Centre visits by the Berlin Staatskapelle, Berliner Philharmoniker, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Budapest Festival Orchestra with conductors and soloists including Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Iván Fischer, Stephen Hough, Mariss Jansons, Sir Simon Rattle, Nathalie Stutzmann, Mitsuko Uchida, and Christian Vásquez.
Major World, UK and London Premieres to include:Thomas Adès new string quartet (Emerson String Quartet, 7 April 2011); Louis Andriessen new work (London Sinfonietta); Gerald Barry Feldman’s Six Penny Editions (London Sinfonietta); Harrison Birtwistle String Quartet (Arditti Quartet, 10 May 2011); Matteo D’Amico Flight from Byzantium (London Philharmonic Orchestra, 25 September 2010); Brett Dean Komarov’s Fall (London Philharmonic Orchestra, 23 March 2011); Peter Eötvös Shadows (London Philharmonic Orchestra, 26 January 2011); Magnus Lindberg new work for orchestra (London Philharmonic Orchestra, 13 October 2010); Colin Matthews new work (London Sinfonietta); James MacMillan Oboe Concerto (Britten Sinfonia, 18 October 2010); Robert Saxton new string quartet (Arditti Quartet, 10 May 2011)
Southbank Centre’s Head of Music, Marshall Marcus, said:
‘In the 2010-11 classical music season, Southbank Centre and our Resident Orchestras continue to offer in-depth encounters with great music and musicians, with a range and scale of projects unmatched in the UK. Following the success of Alfred Schnittke: Between Two Worlds and City of Dreams: Vienna 1900-1935 this season, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra celebrate Mahler’s anniversaries with distinct yet equally engaging and thought-provoking approaches. Southbank Centre turns the spotlight on Helmut Lachenmann, Maurizio Pollini, and Lang Lang, three artists of utterly uncompromising conviction, who, when taken together, speak to an exceptionally broad range of audiences. We also celebrate the unique energy and excitement of young musicians through the performances by the National Youth Orchestra, Spira Mirabilis, and a variety of artists and ensembles emerging from Venezuela’s El Sistema, who continue to be a great inspiration to our audiences and our very own young musicians, especially those taking part in the UK and Lambeth In Harmony project, for which Southbank Centre is a key partner and supporter.’
2010/11 PROGRAMME IN DETAIL
MAJOR MAHLER ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Together with three of the Resident Orchestras, Southbank Centre will be at the world’s forefront celebrating the 150th year of Mahler’s birth (2010) and the centenary of his death (2011) with 30 hours of Mahler’s music performed over 27 concerts in 14 months. The London Philharmonic Orchestra contributes a unique context to the celebrations with performances of the complete song cycles, six of the symphonies, Mahler’s arrangements of other composers’ works, and music by Mahler’s contemporaries with a number of conductors, including Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. Lorin Maazel leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in a heroic one-man journey through all 10 Mahler symphonies and four major orchestral song cycles over 10 concerts. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Principal Artist Jurowski continue to push the boundaries of period instrument performance in a concert that frames Mahler within the music of his direct predecessors, Liszt and Wagner. As part of Southbank Centre’s Shell Classic International series, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in the most monumental of all Mahler symphonies, No. 3. Also as part of the overall Mahler anniversary celebrations, Southbank Centre presents a series of events curated by Norman Lebrecht that lead out of the programme. Why Mahler? will explore and debate Mahler’s continuing impact on the world today, focusing on Mahler’s influence in a number of areas of contemporary society such as art, politics, religion, science and communication.
RETURN OF VENEZUELA’S EL SISTEMA
Over five days in April 2009, 60,000 visitors flocked to the Royal Festival Hall to witness Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela’s triumphant residency. Testifying to the Residency’s wide-ranging appeal, approximately 4000 under-16s attended the concerts, and visitors came from nearly 30 counties across the UK and as far afield as Japan and California. 39% of the ticket holders were first time visitors to Southbank Centre, and among regular attenders, 25% had never been to a classical music concert before. As a sequel to that phenomenal week, on 12 and 14 October 2010 Southbank Centre presents the UK debut of the younger Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, the national senior school age orchestra of El Sistema, Venezuela's revolutionary social programme that provides classical music training to more than 300,000 young people, many from underprivileged backgrounds, to help them build self confidence, skills and discipline. Following in the footsteps of Gustavo Dudamel, 25-year-old Christian Vásquez, a fellow product of the Systema and an emerging international conductor, will conduct these concerts. This season also includes the return of the Simón Bolívar String Quartet for a three-day three-concert visit (6–8 September 2010) and the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble (1 February 2011), who made a sensational impression performing in the Royal Festival Hall and on The Clore Ballroom in 2009 as part of that memorable Residency. As with 2009, Southbank Centre will be announcing a range of opportunities for young and new audiences to experience the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, extending Southbank Centre’s commitment to the spirit of El Sistema and participation in UK’s very own In Harmony project, chaired by cellist and Southbank Centre board member Julian Lloyd Webber.
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Throughout the season the London Philharmonic Orchestra contributes a unique context to worldwide Mahler anniversary celebrations with performances of the complete song cycles, six of the symphonies, Mahler’s arrangements of other composers’ works, and music by Mahler’s contemporaries. Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski makes 14 appearances. In addition to spearheading the Orchestra’s Mahler season, he continues to showcase Russian masterpieces by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, and completes his survey of the symphonies of Brahms, performing Nos. 3 (27 October 2010) and 4 (28 May 2011). Jurowski also joins forces with The Hilliard Ensemble (25 September 2010) for a presentation of the West’s views of the East expressed in music, with the world première of Matteo D’Amico’s Flight from Byzantium taking centre stage. Other première performances include works by Composer in Residence Julian Anderson, Brett Dean, Matteo D’Amico, Magnus Lindberg and Peter Eötvös. Established world class artists joining the Orchestra include conductors Kurt Masur, Osmo Vänskä, Vasily Petrenko, Edward Gardner, Neeme Järvi, and Marin Alsop, and soloists Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, Leif Ove Andsnes, Hélène Grimaud, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Leonidas Kavakos and Christian Gerhaher. Future stars are represented by two exciting young talents: London Music Masters award-winner Agata Szymczewska performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto (13 October 2010) and Behzod Abduraimov, winner of the 2009 London International Piano Competition, plays Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto (1 October 2010).
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
During the 2010/11 season, Southbank Centre will sit at the heart of some of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s most significant international projects. The Orchestra’s season opens on 26 September with the arrival in London of one of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s most extraordinary projects, a performance of Tristan und Isolde set against the stunning backdrop of film projections by the legendary visual artist Bill Viola. Gary Lehman and Christine Brewer lead a stellar cast that also includes Anne Sofie von Otter, John Relyea, Jukka Rasilainen, Stephen Gadd, Andrew Kennedy and Darren Jeffery. In January 2011 the Philharmonia launches Salonen’s follow-up to the acclaimed City of Dreams project, a major year-long exploration of the life, influences and music of one of the great voices of the 20th century, Béla Bartók. Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók, features semi-staged performances of Bartók’s stage works, alongside his choral, orchestral, piano and chamber music, and music by some of his key contemporaries. Other highlights of the Orchestra’s season include London’s only complete Mahler symphony cycle under a single conductor, led by the great Lorin Maazel (April – October 2011); the first ever performance of the original film score for Singin’ in the Rain, reconstructed by John Wilson; a film screening of the original 1925 film of Phantom of the Opera with live orchestral accompaniment; and performances featuring artists including Christoph von Dohnányi, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Ashkenazy, András Schiff, Mikhail Pletnev, Yuri Temirkanov and Ivo Pogorelich.
SHELL CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL
The 2010/11 Season of Shell Classic International series opens on 12 and 14 October 2010 with the UK debut of the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, building on Southbank Centre’s ongoing relationship with Venezuela’s El Sistema. Also making its UK debut is Spira Mirabilis (5 November 2010), a group of radical elite young professional musicians from around the world performing without a conductor and with the spirit of an enlarged chamber group. To mark UK’s nation-wide celebration of Hungary’s six-month EU-Presidency, on 16 January 2011 Southbank Centre presents a concert by the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer with Stephen Hough playing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, kicking off world-wide celebrations of the Hungarian composer’s bicentenary of his birth. Liszt can be heard again on 13 June 2011 when Daniel Barenboim returns to the Royal Festival Hall to perform both Piano Concertos with the Berlin Staatskapelle under Pierre Boulez. Joined by Mitsuko Uchida for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra return to the Royal Festival Hall on 25 March 2011. In the Queen Elizabeth Hall two days later, Uchida teams up with soloists of the Orchestra for a chamber concert. In partnership with the Barbican Centre, Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker – The London Concerts open at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 20 February 2011, then continues with two concerts at the Barbican Centre on 21 and 22 February and concludes on 23 February at the Royal Festival Hall.
ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
From the rarely heard composers CPE Bach, Cherubini and Méhul, to the later repertoire of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt – the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s 2010/11 season at Southbank Centre shows daring both in historical breadth and exploration of unusual works. Sir Simon Rattle returns to the OAE after his triumphant 2008 cycle of Schumann symphonies, together with fellow Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski and Emeritus Conductors Sir Roger Norrington and Sir Charles Mackerras. Highlights include an all-star cast with Susan Gritton and Malin Christenssen for a new version of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (24 November 2010); Jurowski returning following his triumphant January 2010 Beethoven Symphony Series success, conducting the OAE in a rare foray into Liszt, and more OAE interpretation of later repertoire with Mahler and Wagner (21 January 2011); an opportunity to hear Norrington conduct CPE Bach (3 March) and a high-profile close to the season with Rattle and a programme including the Labèque sisters playing the fortepiano in Mozart’s Concerto in E flat for Two Pianos, K365 (21 June).
LONDON SINFONIETTA
London Sinfonietta’s 2010/11 season at Southbank Centre continues to innovate and develop the presentation of contemporary classical music through collaborations, technology and film. Landmark projects with renowned composers sit alongside premieres of new works and collaborations with contemporary artists in concerts at the Royal Festival and the Queen Elizabeth Halls. A celebration of the unconventional sound-world of German composer Helmut Lachenmann takes centre stage on 24 October 2010 at Royal Festival Hall with performances of Ausklang and Schreiben. Landmark projects continue with a profile of the music of European composer and conductor Beat Furrer and two concerts from Thomas Adès in February and March 2011. Highlighting not only his skill as a classical composer but as collaborator Adès’ piano concerto In Seven Days plays out visuals from Tal Rosner across six huge screens. The season also includes a world premieres from celebrated composer Gerald Barry (Feldman’s Six Penny Editions), Colin Matthews and a new work for ensemble and video by Louis Andriessen.
THE POLLINI PROJECT
Ever since winning the coveted Gold Medal at the International Chopin Piano Competition at age 18 in 1960, the Milan-born Maurizio Pollini has established a reputation as one of the world’s leading pianists of the past five decades. Described by the Independent as a ‘Keyboard God’, Pollini is renowned for the intellectual lucidity demonstrated on the concert platform and in his vast, award-winning discography on Deutsche Grammophon. A regular fixture on Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series, Pollini returns in 2011 for a series of five career-defining Royal Festival Hall recitals (28 January, 15, 26 February, 29 April and 25 May 2011). In these five colossal programmes, the maestro takes the audience on a personal journey through the entire piano repertoire, starting with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (28 January 2011), through the monumental late sonatas of Beethoven (15 February 2011) and Schubert (26 February 2011), to two varied programmes that charts the evolution of piano music in 19th and 20th centuries in France through Chopin, Debussy and Boulez (29 April 2011) and in Germany through Beethoven, Schumann, and Stockhausen (25 May 2011).
LANG LANG INSPIRES
Heralded as the ‘hottest artist on the classical music planet’ by the New York Times, 27-year-old Lang Lang not only plays sold out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world but is also seen as a symbol of the youth and future of China, an inspiration to the 40 million classical piano students there. An International Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), he also founded Lang Lang International Music Foundation with the goal of expanding young audiences and inspiring the next generation of musicians through outreach programmes. Tapping into Lang Lang’s personal mission to broaden the reach of classical music around the world, with a focus on children, Southbank Centre has invited Lang Lang to take part in a young pianists project beginning in the spring of 2011 (details to be announced) and be in residence for 10 days (13–22 May 2011). In addition to playing a recital, a chamber music concert with Mischa Maisky and Vadim Repin, and a concerto, Lang Lang will be at the centre of a young pianists’ award as well as kicking off a festive residency that sees a transformed Royal Festival Hall filled with pianos and pianists, culminating in a massed young pianists event during which Lang Lang’s award winners and other young pianists join him in a grand finale performing pieces for solo and multiple pianos.
HELMUT LACHENMANN
75-year old German composer Helmut Lachenmann has been at the forefront of cutting-edge new music ever since he made his first public appearance as composer at the Venice Biennale in 1962. The Guardian recently commented, ‘Nothing is off-limits in Lachenmann's musical world, and he can create massive, symphonic structures made from sounds that would usually be thought of as mere "noises"…as well as the more traditional notes produced by orchestral instruments…It's music that at once shatters the limits of instrumental possibility, and rebuilds something ever richer and more mysterious from the rubble.’ On 23–24 October 2010, in the presence of the composer, Southbank Centre celebrates Lachenmann’s 75th birthday over one weekend with concerts and talks performed by the Arditti Quartet and the London Sinfonietta, Resident at Southbank Centre, with soprano Sarah Leonard and pianist Rolf Hind. Featuring seminal works including Gran Torso and Grido quartets, Got Lost and Ausklang, the Lachemann focus is the latest of Southbank Centre’s acclaimed explorations of 20th century composers including Stockhausen, Messiaen, Nono, Xenakis, and Berio.
INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC SEASON
The 2010/11 International Chamber Music Season is marked by a host of rare chamber music appearances by some of the world’s most stellar performers. Sir Simon Rattle (20 February 2011), Mitsuko Uchida (27 March 2011), Mark Padmore (27 April 2011), Lang Lang, Mischa Maisky and Vadim Repin (19 May 2011), and Imogen Cooper (20 May 2011) appear throughout the Series, which also welcomes chamber ensembles from the Berliner Philharmoniker (20 February 2011), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (26 March 2011) and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra (8 September 2010). Three leading violinists – Daniel Hope (28 September 2010), Christian Tetzlaff (21 October 2010) and Julia Fischer (29 November 2010) – bring chamber and recital programmes that showcase their unique artistry, while the very boundaries of quartet writing are explored by the Arditti (10 May 2011) and Emerson String Quartets (7 April 2011). Southbank Centre Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet (10 November 2010, 25 January, and 20 May 2011) returns for three concerts following their critically-acclaimed complete Beethoven series in the 2009/10 season. Cornerstones of the chamber repertoire are interpreted anew alongside bold explorations of modern writing from Lachenmann (23 October 2010) and Birtwistle (10 May 2011), and a UK premiere by one of the contemporary music’s most exciting compositional voices, Thomas Adès (7 April 2011). Further highlights include a carte blanche programme from Mark Padmore (27 April 2011) that shines a light on the friendship between Vaughan Williams and Ravel, and an all-star piano trio combination that offers the opportunity to witness Lang Lang performing in a chamber music setting (19 May 2011).
INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES
The 2010/11 International Piano Series has a dazzling line-up of the world’s greatest pianists in recital at Southbank Centre. This season straddles the bicentenaries of Chopin and Schumann in 2010 and Liszt in 2011 and several recitalists feature these Romantic composers as the source of their inspiration. Staying with Chopin in 2010, the Series welcomes two International Chopin Competition winners – Rafał Blechacz (7 December 2010) who shot to fame having won first prize in 2005, and the 2010 winner who will be announced in Warsaw on 16 October, making this London recital one of the first opportunities to hear the winner in concert. Veteran Charles Rosen, eminent performer and academic gives one of his rare London performances (15 May 2011), together with a special lecture. Nikolai Lugansky (11 January 2011), Ingrid Fliter (7 June 2011) and Sergio Tiempo (15 March 2011) make their Series debuts and Leon McCawley (1 December 2010) explores the centenary of American composer Samuel Barber. There are also visits from such well-loved figures as Pierre-Laurent Aimard (19 October 2010) and Marc-André Hamelin (13 April 2011). In the Royal Festival Hall Mitsuko Uchida (5 October 2010) plays Beethoven and Chopin and Hélène Grimaud (23 November 2010) makes a welcome return to the Series with an eclectic programme of Bartók, Liszt and Mozart. Angela Hewitt (29 March 2011) also returns with an ingenious programme ranging from Bach to Brahms. At the centre of the Series is The Pollini Project – five recitals by the legendary maestro of music from Bach to Boulez.
Further dates and complete programme details will be announced on Friday 16 April when Southbank Centre’s complete Classical Music Guide 2010/11 is published.
Conductors appearing at Southbank Centre in the 2010/11 Season include
Marin Alsop, David Angus, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Maurizio Benini, Pierre Boulez, Lionel Bringuier, John Butt, Carl Davis, Stéphane Denève, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Ivan Fischer, Edward Gardiner, Joji Hattori, Gunther Herbig, Jakub Hrůša, Mariss Jansons, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Bernard Labadie, Louis Langrée, Alexander Lazarev, Lorin Maazel, Sir Charles Mackerras, Susanna Mälkki, Kurt Masur, Enrique Mazzola, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Roger Norrington, Kazushi Ono, Roberto Polastri, Vasily Petrenko, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Simon Rattle, John Rigby, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, András Schiff, Leif Segerstam, Tugan Sokhiev, Stuart Stratford, Yuri Termirkanov, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Juraj Valcuha, Osmo Vänskä, Christian Vásquez, John Wilson, David Zinman, Jaap van Zweden
Visiting ensembles and orchestras appearing at Southbank Centre in the 2010/11 Season include
Arditti String Quartet, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Staatskapelle, Berliner Philharmoniker, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Emerson String Quartet, The Hilliard Ensemble, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Simón Bolívar String Quartet, Spira Mirabilis, Takács Quartet, Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, Venezuelan Brass Ensemble
Instrumentalists appearing at Southbank Centre in the 2010/11 Season include
Behzod Abduraimov, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes, Nicholas Angelich, Piotr Anderszewski, Kit Armstrong, Emanuel Ax, Daniel Barenboim, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Rafał Blechacz, Yefim Bronfman, Alison Bury, Gautier Capuçon, Kati Debretzeni, Steven Devine, James Ehnes, Julia Fischer, Ingrid Fliter, David Fray, Alban Gerhardt, Kirill Gerstein, Boris Giltburg, Bernd Glemser, Hélène Grimaud, Andreas Haefliger, Marc-André Hamelin, Håkan Hardenberger, Martin Helmchen, Angela Hewitt, Rolf Hind, Daniel Hope, Stephen Hough, Steven Isserlis, Janine Jansen, Stefan Jackiw, Sergey Khachatryan, Leonidas Kavakos, Barnabas Kelemen, Evgeny Kissin, Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Lang Lang, Richard Lester, Nikolai Lugansky, Mischa Maisky, Jonathan Manson, Alexander Markovich, Oleg Marshev, Denis Matsuev, Leon McCawley, Truls Mørk, Daniel Müller-Schott, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Richard Yongjae O’Neill, Alice Sara Ott, Antony Pay, Artur Pizarro, Rachel Podger, Ivo Pogorelich, Maurizio Pollini, Lawrence Power, Julian Rachlin, Vadim Repin, Charles Rosen, András Schiff, Benjamin Schmid, Valeriy Sokolov, Arabella Steinbacher, Akiko Suwanai, Agata Szymczewska, Christian Tetzlaff, Sergio Tiempo, Simon Trpčeski, Mitsuko Uchida, Frank Peter Zimmermann
Vocalists at Southbank Centre in the 2010/11 Season include
Anna Caterina Antonacci, Alexandru Agache, Frédéric Antoun, Peter Auty, BBC Symphony Chorus, Annalene Beechey, Matthew Best, Boys from the Chapel Choirs of Eton College, Meg Bragle, Christine Brewer, Matthew Brook, Measha Brueggergosman, Karen Cargill, Choir of the Enlightenment, Malin Christenssen, Sarah Connolly, Alice Coote, Kim Criswell, Michelle DeYoung, Melanie Diener, Stephanie d’Oustrac, Julia Doyle, Eltham College Choir, Attila Fekete, Gerald Finley, Andrew Foster-Williams, Sarah Fox, Stephen Gadd, Christian Gerhaher, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Matthias Goerne, Susan Gritton, Paul Groves, Gulbenkian Choir, Thomas Hampson, Roberta Invernizzi, Darren Jeffery, Simon Keenlyside, Andrew Kennedy, Michael Koenig, Ezgi Kutlu, Petra Lang, Garry Lehman, Sarah Leonard, Tilman Licdi, London Philharmonic Choir, Christopher Maltman, Elin Manahan-Thomas, Annick Massis, Sally Matthews, Alastair Miles, Lisa Milne, Tim Mirfin, Nicholas Mulroy, Anne Sofie von Otter, Julian Ovenden, Anne-Marie Owens, Mark Padmore, Philharmonia Voices, Anna Prohaska, Christopher Purves, Jukka Rasilainen, John Relyea, Christine Rice, Peter Rose, Silvia Tro Santafe, Christine Schäfer, Toby Spence, Christianne Stotijn, Nathalie Stutzmann, Kenneth Tarver, Sir John Tomlinson, Trinity Boys Choir, Ailish Tynan, Sarah Tynan, Stefan Vinke.