Time: 19:15, 4 – 5 March 2012
Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre
Price: RMB 2280, 1980, 1680, 1280, 880, 580, 380, 280

4 March Programme
BENJAMIN BRITTEN - Four Sea Interludes
SHOSTAKOVICH - Violin Concerto No. 1 (Voilin: Sarah Chang)
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 6

5 March Programme
TCHAIKOVSKY - Romeo and Juliet overture (1880 version)
PROKOFIEV - Piano Concerto No. 3 (Piano: Denis Matsuev)
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No. 5

London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras. Since its formation in 1904, it has always attracted excellent players from all over the world, many of whom have flourishing solo, chamber music and teaching careers alongside their orchestral work. The LSO’s roster of soloists and conductors is second to none, including LSO President Sir Colin Davis, Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev, André Previn as Conductor Laureate, and Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas as Principal Guest Conductors. Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez and Sir Simon Rattle are also regular guests. The LSO is proud to be Resident Orchestra at the Barbican in the City of London, presenting over 70 concerts a year to its London audiences, and a further 70 concerts abroad on tour, and has thrived on the stability its permanent home has offered since 1982. In addition, the Orchestra has a successful annual residency at Lincoln Centre, New York, and is the international resident orchestra of La Salle Pleyel in Paris, also appearing regularly in Japan and the Far East, as well as in all the major European cities. In 2010 it became the resident orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Valery Gergiev

Born in Moscow, Valery Gergiev studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory. Aged 24 he won the Herbert von Karajan Conductors Competition in Berlin and made his Mariinsky Opera debut one year later in 1978 conducting Prokofiev’s War and Peace. In 2003 he led St Petersburg’s 300th anniversary celebrations, and opened the Carnegie Hall season with the Mariinsky Orchestra, the first Russian conductor to do so since Tchaikovsky conducted the Hall’s inaugural concert in 1891. Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra since January 2007, Valery Gergiev performs regularly with the LSO at the Barbican, at the Proms and at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as on regular tours of Europe, North America and Asia. During the 2010/11 season has led them in appearances in Germany, France, Switzerland, Japan and the US. Valery Gergiev is also Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre, founder and Artistic Director of the Stars of the White Nights Festival and New Horizons Festival in St Petersburg, the Moscow Easter Festival, the Gergiev Rotterdam Festival, the Mikkeli International Festival, and the Red Sea Festival in Eilat, Israel. He succeeded Sir Georg Solti as conductor of the World Orchestra for Peace in 1998 and has led them this season in concerts in Abu Dhabi.