Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

The award-winning Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is the UK’s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra. The origins of the Orchestra’s concert series date back to the formation of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society by a group of Liverpool music lovers in 1840.

The Orchestra is central to Liverpool’s cultural offering, Liverpool Philharmonic being the largest music organisation in the region. The Orchestra performs over 100 concerts each year in its home, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, as well as concerts in venues across the UK. They have also toured in Asia, Europe, and the USA. Liverpool Philharmonic has long been an ambassador for Liverpool and Merseyside through an extensive touring schedule, and have most recently completed their third tour of Japan with the renowned pianist, Nobuyuki Tsujii.

Liverpool Philharmonic premieres and commissions more music than any other UK orchestra, with over 150 works premiered and commissioned in the last ten years. In recent seasons, the Orchestra has given world premiere performances of major works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir John Tavener, Karl Jenkins, Stewart Copeland, Michael Nyman, Michael Torke, Nico Muhly, James Horner, and Sir James MacMillan alongside works by Liverpool-born and North-West based composers.