Booking has opened for HK Phil 2024-25 season, including Peltokoski return and Elim Chan

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Booking has opened for HK Phil 2024-25 season, including Peltokoski return and Elim Chan

Peltokoski, 24, conducts the opening programme of the Phil’s 51st season on September 5 and 6. It features a soloist a year younger than the Finn – Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich, who has released four albums with Deutsche Grammophon since signing with the record label at the age of 15. The programme comprises the Violin Concerto by Sibelius and Bruckner’s Symphony No 9.

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the 2023/24 season finale of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in July. He is back in September. Photo: Keith Hiro/HK Phil

The programme features cellist Li-Wei Qin, who will be the soloist in Haydn’s Cello Concerto No 1, and four folk songs by the New York-based Chinese composer Huang Ruo.

Petrenko will be back on the podium on September 27-28 to conduct a “Belt and Road” themed programme featuring a work for orchestra by Soviet and Kazakhstani composer Erkegali Rakhmadiyev, and Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova in Grieg’s Piano Concerto.

Vasily Petrenko conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic in a 2023 concert. Photo: Ka Lam/HK Phil

Japanese pianist Mao Fujita, silver medallist in the 2019 Tchaikovsky International Music Competition, and conductor Daniele Gatti will make their HK Phil debuts in a programme on December 6-7 comprising Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Mozart’s sublime Piano Concerto No 23, and Beethoven’s Symphony No 6.

On December 12, British pianist Stephen Hough is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No 5 – known as the “The Egyptian” because of its touches of Middle Eastern exotica. Hough’s recording of Saint-Saëns’ piano concertos was Gramophone magazine’s Record of the Year in 2001 and was later voted the Gold Disc “winner of winners” in a poll commemorating 30 years of the award.

Among the many highlights this season, the most anticipated is likely to be rising star conductor Elim Chan’s long-awaited return to her hometown.

Until recently music director of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in Belgium, she conducted the First Night of the Proms in London in July, and wowed audiences in concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The 36-year-old has been talked of as a candidate to succeed Gustavo Dudamel as that orchestra’s music director, with Dudamel due to move to the New York Philharmonic.
Elim Chan conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl on July 9, 2024, in Los Angeles. Photo: TNS

On November 16, Chan will mark her homecoming by conducting the annual Swire “Symphony Under the Stars” concert on the Central Harbourfront, then will conduct a programme on November 22-23 comprising Prokofiev’s Symphony No 5 and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with James Ehnes as soloist, as well as the world premiere of a work commissioned by the HK Phil under its Composers Scheme.

The second half of the 2024/25 season is also packed full of delights, including superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s Hong Kong debut in February and special appearances by Hong Kong singer Agnes Chan, violinist Bomsori Kim with conductor Paavo Jarvi, and the Hong Kong premiere of Aaron Zigman’s oratorio Émigré, about two Jewish brothers who flee Nazi Germany and find sanctuary in Shanghai.

Tickets for the second half of the season will go on sale on December 10, 2024.

There is plenty of other music to look forward to, starting with an August 10 Hong Kong Sinfonietta concert with conductor Yip Wing-sie featuring Hong Kong-born, two-time world champion harmonica player Cy Leo in works including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as you have never heard it before.

Also of note is an October 4 concert by American tenor Karim Sulayman and Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe. Titled “Broken Branches”, the Premiere Performances recital explores the cultural and musical ties between East and West in a programme that ranges from Monteverdi and Purcell to Britten and Middle Eastern folk songs.

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