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LPO Showcase: Foyle Future Firsts and the Royal Academy of Music

Date & Time
Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 18:00
The LPO’s Foyle Future Firsts Development Programme bridges the transition between education and the professional platform for 16 early-career orchestral musicians each year.Join the current cohort of Future Firsts as they join forces with students from the Royal Academy of Music and members of the LPO for a vibrant performance conducted by the LPO’s Principal Conductor, Edward Gardner. The programme is inspired by memory, and features Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, each movement of which is dedicated to the memory... Read full text
Info & Ticket (lpo.org.uk)
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Musicians

Edward GardnerConductor
Foyle Future First musicians
Students from the Royal Academy of Music
Members of the LPO

Program

Suite No.2 for small OrchestraIgor Stravinsky
These Worlds in UsMissy Mazzoli
Le Tombeau de CouperinMaurice Ravel
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