Fairfield Halls 50th birthday celebration, two World Premieres and a host of internationally acclaimed artists and conductors
The London Mozart Players, Croydon’s resident orchestra based at Fairfield Halls, announces a new season marked by celebrations, local connections and a focus on international soloists under the excellent leadership of its Music Director Gérard Korsten
Season Highlights
Season opener, 4 October 2012 – World premiere by the LMP’s Associate Composer Roxanna Panufnik, inspired by the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens
2 November 2012, Fairfield Halls 50th anniversary – The LMP under its Associate Conductor Hilary Davan Wetton plays the official concert celebrating 50 years to the day since Yehudi Menuhin performed the opening concert at Fairfield Halls. Surrey-born violinist Chloë Hanslip leads the celebrations, plus music by Croydon’s Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Malcolm Arnold, Walton and Parry, and a new fanfare by Roxanna Panufnik
Music Director Gérard Korsten conducts four beautifully crafted programmes, and we welcome back dynamic young conductor Nick Collon and expert conductor/player roles by soloists Howard Shelley and Joseph Swenson
A season-long celebration of the violin with internationally acclaimed soloists – Chloë Hanslip (Bruch concerto), Joseph Swenson (Brahms concerto), Anthony Marwood (Beethoven concerto), Nicola Benedetti (Brahms concerto for violin and cello with Leonard Elschenbroich)
Celebrated Symphonies and Concerti, including Symphonies by Brahms and Dvořák, Beethoven’s fifth, Mozart’s Linz, and Schubert’s Tragic
Piano Concertos performed by Nicolai Demidenko – Chopin’s Concerto No.1, and Howard Shelley – Mozart’s Concerto No. 22
Marking the 2013 Britten Centenary, soprano Sally Matthews sings Les Illuminations
Much-loved actor Simon Callow narrates his self-written accompaniment to Sibelius’s luminous Pelléas et Mélisande suite
The return of the hugely popular Family-Friendly Christmas concert – film and live soundtrack of Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman.