BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260421T172632Z UID:bad043dc-dff7-4f16-b845-64255c2b4b78 DTSTART:20251008T230000Z DTEND:20251009T013000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Lora A.\nMusicians: London Philharmonic Orchestra\n\n An Evening with the London Philharmonic Orchestra: Up Close & Personal\nIm agine this: the soaring strings and the palpable energy of one of the worl d's most celebrated orchestras\, not in a vast concert hall\, but in an in timate setting where every note resonates on a personal level. This is you r invitation to experience the London Philharmonic Orchestra as never befo re.\n\nJoin us for "An Evening with the London Philharmonic Orchestra: Up Close & Personal\," the inaugural concert of the "British Music\, Transatl antic Impact" series in partnership with Salon 58. This is more than just a performance\; it's a rare opportunity to connect with the music and the musicians on a deeper level.\n\nLPO members Pieter Schoeman\, LPO Leader a nd First Violin\; Alice Ivy-Pemberton\, LPO Co-Leader\; Kristina Blaumane\ , LPO Principal Cello\; and Benjamin Roskams\, LPO Guest Principal Viola w ill perform an exclusive programme for this special Salon 58 event.\n\nA G roundbreaking Collaboration\nThis special event marks the beginning of an exhilarating collaboration between two titans of the British music scene: the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin in the Fiel ds. For the first time\, these two iconic orchestras\, championed by the N ew York-based non-profit Salon 58\, will bring a curated series of world-c lass performances to the United States.\n\nBecome More Than an Audience Me mber: Be a Patron\, a Partner\, a Friend\nYour attendance at this exclusiv e evening is just the beginning. By joining us\, you step into a community dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural exchange between the UK and the US. You become part of a movement to support and sustain the future of cl assical music.\n\nThe American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestr a and the American Friends of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields are t he bedrock of this transatlantic partnership. These vital 501(c)(3) organi zations make it possible for these world-renowned orchestras to tour\, con duct educational outreach\, and nurture the next generation of musicians.\ n\nYour Support Makes a World of Difference\nBy becoming a supporter\, you are not just funding concerts. You are:\n\nChampioning Education: Enablin g talented young American musicians to participate in masterclasses and ed ucational programs.\n\nFostering New Art: Supporting the commissioning of new works from American composers and collaborations with world-class Amer ican artists.\n\nBuilding Bridges: Strengthening the artistic bonds that u nite us across the Atlantic and ensuring a lasting legacy of cultural exch ange.\n\nThis is your chance to go behind the music\, to connect with the artists and leaders of the LPO\, and to play a vital role in the future of classical music. Be part of a community that believes in the transformati ve power of music. We look forward to welcoming you.\n\n🎟️ Secure you r tickets now for an unforgettable evening and take the first step in your journey as a champion of the arts. 🎟️\n\nEvening Schedule\nDoors ope n with welcome drinks & snacks: 7:00pm\nMusic starts: 7:30pm\nPost-concert mingle: 8:30 - 9:30pm\nBe part of a select audience for an evening of bre athtaking artistry and engaging conversation. Mingle with fellow music lov ers and even the musicians themselves after the performance.\n\nLondon Phi lharmonic Orchestra\nUniquely ground-breaking and exhilarating to watch an d hear\, the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been celebrated as one of t he world’s great orchestras since Sir Thomas Beecham founded it in 1932. Its mission is to create unrivalled music experiences and forge human con nections with its audiences and communities\, both on and off the concert platform\, which it accomplishes through live performances\, online\, and an extensive education and community programme.\n\nWith its primary home i n London’s Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall\, it is at the beati ng heart of London’s cultural life. The LPO also has residencies at venu es across the UK\, and tours internationally\, including the USA\, with a passionate commitment to fostering transatlantic cultural exchange.\n\nThe American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (AFLPO) was founded in September 1968 as the London Philharmonic Society (U.S.A.) Inc. In 200 6\, the name was changed to the American Friends of the London Philharmoni c Orchestra. The AFLPO’s mission is to support the Orchestra’s interna tional touring program\, educational projects\, and a wide array of musica l activities in both London and the United States. Funds raised by the AFL PO help the Orchestra initiate and strengthen existing programs and mainta in its high standard of musical excellence. The AFLPO is a 501(c)3 organiz ation\, dedicated to supporting the LPO’s education activities\, such as the Orchestra’s work with talented young American musicians and the coa ching of students from the Fiorello H. La Guardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts. Support of the American Friends of the LPO al so enables the Orchestra to commission new works from American composers\, collaborate with world-class American artists\, share live and digital LP O performances with US audiences\, nurture exceptional future American tal ent\, and provide a prestigious platform in the UK on which to showcase an d celebrate extraordinary US musicians.\n\nThe American Friends of the LPO will play a vital role in the sharing of the unique power of music across that Atlantic over the coming year\, by supporting mesmerising performanc es by Terence Blanchard and Jonathon Heyward\, and the showcasing of the w ork of John Adams and Duke Ellington\, at their London home on the Southba nk. The AFLPO’s vision and generosity also supports the positions of nat ive New-Yorkers\, Karina Canellakis\, the LPO’s Principal Guest Conducto r\, and Alice Ivy-Pemberton\, the LPO’s Co-Leader\, and will enable LPO chamber performances in New York and Los Angeles later this Autumn\, along side the planning of another US tour in 2027.\n\nEach year\, the AFLPO hos ts events that aim to enlighten and educate and\, as a supporter of the AF LPO\, you have an opportunity to engage in these special events\, whilst d riving lasting social and cultural impact by sustaining the LPO’s specia l relationship with America and fostering transformative UK/US cultural ex change.\n\nlpo.org.uk\n\n> LPO members Pieter Schoeman\, LPO Leader and Fi rst Violin\; Alice Ivy-Pemberton\, LPO Co-Leader\; Kristina Blaumane\, LPO Principal Cello\; and Benjamin Roskams\, LPO Guest Principal Viola will p erform an exclusive programme for this special Salon 58 event.\n\n======== ========================\n\n### PIETER SCHOEMAN – Leader (First Violin)\ n\nPieter Schoeman was appointed Leader of the London Philharmonic Orchest ra in 2008\, having previously been Co-Leader since 2002. He is also a Pro fessor of Violin at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance.\n\nPiete r has performed worldwide as a soloist and recitalist in such famous halls as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam\, Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall\, Capella Hall in St Petersburg\, Staatsbibliothek in Berlin\, Hollywood Bowl in Lo s Angeles and London’s Royal Festival Hall. As a chamber musician he reg ularly appears at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall. His chamber music p artners have included Anne-Sophie Mutter\, Veronika Eberle\, Patricia Kopa tchinskaja\, Boris Garlitsky\, Jean-Guihen Queyras\, Yannick Nézet-Ségui n\, Martin Helmchen and Julia Fischer.\n\nPieter has performed numerous ti mes as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Highlights have i ncluded an appearance as both conductor and soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Se asons at the Royal Festival Hall\, the Brahms Double Concerto with Kristin a Blaumane\, Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2\, and the Britten Do uble Concerto with Alexander Zemtsov\, which was recorded and released on the LPO Label to great critical acclaim.\n\nPieter has appeared as Guest L eader with the BBC\, Barcelona\, Bordeaux\, Lyon and Baltimore symphony or chestras\; the Rotterdam and BBC Philharmonic orchestras\; and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.\n\n================================\n\n### ALICE IV Y-PEMBERTON – LPO Co-Leader\n\nAlice Ivy-Pemberton joined the London Phi lharmonic Orchestra as Co-Leader in February 2023.\n\nPraised by The New Y ork Times for her ‘sweet-toned playing’\, Alice has performed as a sol oist\, chamber and orchestral musician to international acclaim. While gro wing up in New York City and studying with Nurit Pacht\, Alice made a nati onally televised Carnegie Hall debut aged ten\, and was a finalist at the Menuhin International Competition at the age of 12.\n\nAlice earned her Ba chelors and Masters degrees at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho as a fully-funded recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. During her studies she won Juilliard’s Violin Concerto Comp etition\, performed extensively with the New York Philharmonic and The Phi ladelphia Orchestra\, and led orchestras under the baton of Barbara Hannig an\, Xian Zhang and Matthias Pintscher. Upon graduating in 2022 she was aw arded the Polisi Prize and a Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant in recogni tion of ‘tremendous talent\, promise\, creativity\, and potential to mak e a significant impact in the performing arts’.\n\nAn avid chamber music ian\, Alice has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman\, Anthony Marwood\, Gil S haham and members of the Belcea\, Doric\, Juilliard and Brentano string qu artets\, and performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. F estival appearances include Music@Menlo\, Moritzburg and Yellow Barn. Also a passionate advocate for new music and its social relevance\, Alice crea ted Drowning Monuments\, a noted multimedia project on climate change that brought together five world premieres for solo violin.\n\n=============== =================\n\n### KRISTINA BLAUMANE – LPO Principal Cello\n\nKris tina Blaumane was born in Riga and graduated from the Latvian Academy of M usic and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She has been invited to pl ay as a soloist\, recitalist and chamber musician around the world.\n\nShe has performed as soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra\, Amsterd am Sinfonietta\, Chicago Civic Orchestra\, Kremerata Baltica\, Britten Sin fonia\, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra\, Sofia Soloists\, Netherlands Wind E nsemble and Dalarna Sinfonietta\, as well as all the main orchestras in La tvia.\n\nAs a chamber musician she has worked in partnership with such ren owned artists as Isaac Stern\, Gidon Kremer\, Yo-Yo Ma\, Yuri Bashmet\, Le if Ove Andsnes\, Janine Jansen\, Julian Rachlin\, Dmitry Sitkovetsky\, Bru no Giuranna\, Misha Maisky\, Nikolaj Znaider\, Tatyana Grindenko and Oleg Maisenberg\, among others\, and has performed at festivals such as Lockenh aus\, Gstaad\, Salzburg\, Verbier\, Basel\, Jerusalem\, Utrecht\, Spitalfi elds\, Cheltenham\, Aldeburgh\, Homecoming and Crescendo.\n\nKristina is a keen promoter of new music. She has given a number of world premieres and several works are dedicated to her\, among them cello concertos by Dobrin ka Tabakova\, Kristaps Pētersons\, Pēteris Plakidis and Artem Vassiliev. Kristina appears as a soloist on the ECM debut disc of composer Dobrinka Tabakova\, which reached number 2 in the UK classical charts and received a Grammy nomination.\n\nKristina has also recorded for the Onyx\, Quartz a nd BMG labels. Kristina is a winner of many awards including the Latvian P hilharmonic Young Musician of the Year\, the Latvian television competitio n ‘Alternativa’\, Carmel International Competition\, Musicians Benevol ent Fund and Lord Mayor’s Prize. She is a two-time laureate of the Great Music Award\, the highest prize given by the Latvian State in the field o f music (2005 & 2007).\n\n===========================\n\n### BENJAMIN ROSK AMS – LPO Guest Principal Viola\n\nBenjamin Roskams is an accomplished v iolinist and violist. He began playing the violin at the age of nine in Ca rdiff where he studied with Harry Cawood before winning a scholarship to s tudy with Lydia Mordkovitch and Emanuel Hurwitz at the Royal Academy of Mu sic\, where he was awarded B-Mus.Hons (1st class). Benjamin continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Takeno on sc holarship and then with Professor Ilya Grubert at the Amsterdam Conservato ire\, also seeking inspiration from Ivry Gitlis in Paris.\n\nEqually at ho me on the viola\, he is also a member of the award winning Artea Quartet\, having performed at venues such as the Conway Hall\, Purcell Room and Wig more Hall as well as appearances on BBC Radio3 “In Tune” and a chamber music prom concert broadcast from the V&A on the BBC. The Artea Quartet r ecently recorded a disc of late Schubert as well as participating in a hig hly acclaimed CD box set featuring the complete quartets of Mendelssohn fo r Champs Hill Records. Other collaborations have led to recording the Korn gold sextet for South African label TwoPianists Records.\n\nAs an experien ced orchestral musician he has led the Dutch National Ballet as well as ac ting as guest deputy concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra an d Holland Symfonia. In the UK he works regularly with the LSO\, LPO (most recently as guest principal viola) and Philharmonia Orchestra as well as b eing a member of the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1st violin section. Benjamin i s an assistant professor at the Royal College of Music in London.\n\nHe is a keen collector of violin bows and is indebted to Albert Cooper’s fami ly for the generous loan of the c.1720 Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreae vi olin on which he plays. LOCATION:Midtown - Carnegie Hall area SUMMARY:Salon 58 presents London Philharmonic Orchestra in a chamber ensemb le URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/15505-salon-58-presents-london-philhar monic-orchestra-in-a-chamber-ensemble END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR