Booking for the new 2025/26 season opens for subscribers of all six concerts on Wednesday 23 April 2025 at 10am with a 25% series discount. Bookings during this period can be made via the Box Office in person or by telephone only.

General booking opens the following week, on Tuesday 29 April at 10am.

Repertoire

Ravel Mother Goose Suite (16’)
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 (22’)
Bizet Symphony in C (28’)

Artists

Nodoka Okisawa conductor
Leia Zhu violin
 

The nights are drawing in and the sea’s getting distinctly chilly – what better time for a concert full of summer sunshine from conductor Nodoka Okisawa and the London Philharmonic Orchestra? Ravel opens his book of fairytales, and conjures sounds of pure enchantment. The young Bizet pours all his genius into a symphony that seems to dance and glow with sun-kissed melody (you can tell that this is the composer of Carmen). And the phenomenal 19-year-old violinist Leia Zhu weaves her spell in Prokofiev’s shimmering First Violin Concerto: believe us, it’s going to be magical. 

Pre-concert event. 2.15pm
Enjoy a free performance by Soundcastle’s People’s Music
Collective in the Congress Theatre foyer. Soundcastle
is a dynamic arts organisation that empowers communities
through creative music-making, championing collaboration,
wellbeing, and the joy of musical discovery.