SHELL CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL 2013/14
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 21 January at 10am
General booking opens on 8 February at 10am

This vibrant series of concerts welcomes the world’s most renowned orchestras, conductors and soloists to Southbank Centre. Making their Southbank Centre debut, Marin Alsop and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra perform a night of quintessentially ‘60s music from Berio, Guarnieri and Bernstein.  Also coming from South America are the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra, sister orchestra of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. They bring their huge sound, energy and zeal to two exciting concerts.

Antonio Pappano celebrates the struggle for human freedom with the vibrant Italian sound of his Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Michael Tilson Thomas, one of the great musical communicators of our age, leads the San Francisco Symphony in modern American masterpieces and European classics. The inspirational figure of Claudio Abbado conducts the Orchestra Mozart with pianist Maria João Pires, sharing two concerts with the young El Sistema graduate Diego Mathuez.

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 2013/14
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 29 January at 10am
General booking opens on 8 February at 10am

As part of The Rest Is Noise Festival this season you can hear music from 20th-century composers including Messiaen, Lutosławski, Arvo Pärt and John Adams. Plus hear extracts from seminal film scores written between 1960 and 2000.

The season opens with a three-concert celebration of the music of Benjamin Britten, whose centenary year is being marked worldwide throughout 2013.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra also shines the spotlight on some of the exciting new artistic talent to have emerged in recent years. This includes two dynamic young conductors, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Andrey Boreyko. They also welcome young performers alongside a host of distinguished artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Ian Bostridge, Leif Ove Andsnes, Evelyn Glennie and Emanuel Ax.

Finally the season features two world premieres – James MacMillan’s Viola Concerto and the late Górecki’s eagerly awaited Fourth Symphony.

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA 2013/14
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 29 January at 10am
General booking opens on 8 February at 10am

In 2013/14 the Philharmonia Orchestra performs 34 orchestral concerts at Royal Festival Hall, and six small ensemble performances within its acclaimed Music of Today series.
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen opens the season with performances of two of Berlioz’s most electrifying works, The Damnation of Faust and Symphonie fantastique. Salonen also conducts the UK première of a new work for organ and orchestra by Kaija Sariaaho, as part of the Royal Festival Hall Organ refurbishment celebrations.

Other highlights of the season include a complete Brahms Symphony and Concerto Cycle with Andris Nelsons, and concerts marking the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss, led by conductors including Christoph von Dohnányi and Lorin Maazel. Music of Today, the Orchestra’s series of free pre-concert composer portraits, features Christophe Bertrand, Chris Paul Harman, Jonathan Harvey, Benedict Mason and Karin Rehnqvist. John Wilson returns to lead a semi-staged production of Die Fledermaus, and we welcome back conductors including Gustavo Dudamel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yuri Temirkanov, Edward Gardner and Tugan Sokhiev. Mahler’s epic Symphony of A Thousand closes the season.

ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENLIGHTENMENT 2013/14
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 29 January at 10am
General booking opens on 8 February at 10am

Ever wondered just how it must have felt to be there at the premiere of Haydn's Creation or Beethoven's Seventh Symphony? How that audience must have felt on hearing that music for the first time? Concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) offer a chance to get a little closer to that experience. All the creature comforts of a 21st century concert hall are still there of course, but the OAE aims to create as authentic a musical experience as possible, using period instruments and musical techniques from the day to recreate the sound-world the composer would have known. Together with that, OAE performances are characterised by a sense of collective endeavour, passion and warmth, with the aim of making every concert an edge of seat experience - for audience and musicians alike. Join the OAE in their 26th season, whether it's at a 7pm concert, a late night Night Shift event, one of the informal The Works concerts or at one of their TOTS events for the youngest music lovers - the musicians of the Orchestra look forward to welcoming you.

LONDON SINFONIETTA 2013/14
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 5 February at 10am
General booking opens on 7 February at 10am

The London Sinfonietta’s mission is to place the best new music at the heart of today’s culture and the 2013/14 programme continues this commitment. A night of revolutionary works from Rzewski and Andriessen, plus the London premier of Haas’ in vain all form part of The Rest Is Noise festival. Continuing the Landmarks series with video artist Netia Jones of Lightmap, the London Sinfonietta journey to the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music during the 1950s, where composers including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono and John Cage all shared visions of how to create new music that broke free from old forms and thinking. You can also catch the New Music Show 2013, London Sinfonietta’s festival-in-a-day with sets of new music, film, talks and the return of Hidden – a series of intimate solo performances in secret spaces around the concert hall.

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC SEASON 2013/14
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 19 February at 10am
General booking opens on 26 February at 10am

Hear the most influential music of the late 20th century as the International Chamber Music Season joins the final part of our year-long festival The Rest Is Noise from October to December 2013. From January 2014 join us for masterpieces of the Classical and Romantic repertoire. American masters Philip Glass and Steve Reich join us for concerts exploring Minimalism. The Borodin Quartet, whose original members worked with Shostakovich, perform some of his most personal and revealing quartets, and legendary Hungarian composer György Kurtág performs his classic piano games with his wife, Márta. In 2014, we welcome back the leading period instrument ensemble Quatuor Mosaïques, and young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor returns to Southbank Centre after 2012’s sold-out piano recital, this time with the Endellion Quartet.

INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES 2013/14
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 19 February at 10am
General booking opens on 26 February at 10am

Some of the greatest names in the piano world today rub shoulders with the brightest rising stars in the 2013 – 14 International Piano Series. There is something for every lover of piano music to relish, from Beethoven’s mystical late sonatas to the brilliance of Liszt and some classic works of the 20th-century avant-garde. Paul Lewis performs Mussorgsky’s virtuosic masterpiece Pictures at an Exhibition; the young German star Martin Helmchen plays favourite pieces by Bach, Schumann and Schubert; and Gabriela Montero offers her astounding skills in improvisation. Alongside performances by great masters of the keyboard, including Maurizio Pollini and Nelson Freire, this season features many exciting new artists. Federico Colli, winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition 2012, makes his Southbank Centre debut, along with Ingolf Wunder, runner-up at the 2010 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, and Khatia Buniatishvili, whose fiery pianism has already won her a cult following.

THE REST IS NOISE
Priority booking to Southbank Centre Members opens on 21 January at 10am
General booking opens on 8 February at 10am

We are excited to announce more events within our year-long celebration the twentieth century music and culture, The Rest Is Noise. Newly announced events include Frank Zappa’s legendary 1971 work 200 Motels being performed live in concert for the first ever time in the UK. Plus The London Philharmonic Orchestra, the principal orchestra festival partner, announce more concerts within the festival from September to December, on sale to Southbank Centre Members from 29 January and general booking from 8 February. Look out for much more to be announced throughout the year.

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