The London Symphony Orchestra and Australia’s Melbourne Symphony Orchestra have introduced a ground-breaking new partnership. The goals of the partnership are to ‘allow cross-cultural collaboration between the 2 international locations, additional strengthening partnerships and enhancing the deep people-to-people hyperlinks within the arts and cultural sectors’.
The scheme will embrace reciprocal touring in Australia and the UK, facilitating rising artist exchanges and co-commissioning performances and actions, together with digital improvements, resembling LSO Stay and MSO.LIVE.
To launch the partnership, the London Symphony Orchestra will tour Australia in 2023 with a collection of concert events between 28 April and 6 Could in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, offered collectively by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Opera Home and Queensland Performing Arts Centre. The performances will probably be carried out by the orchestra’s music director, Sir Simon Rattle, who stays with the orchestra till the beginning of the 2023-24 live performance season.
Sophie Galaise, managing director, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, mentioned: ‘The MSO is happy with its long-standing popularity as a number one cultural ambassador for Australia. We’re delighted to unite our two orchestras as kindred spirits, established inside just a few years of one another on the flip of the final century.
‘Via music we convey folks collectively and play an essential function in representing our respective international locations. This partnership allows us to construct on our shared histories to create a dynamic new place on the earth for orchestral music, making certain entry for all to the enjoyment of music making, whether or not it’s within the digital universe or within the up-close alternatives for rising younger artists in each our international locations.’
Sir Simon Rattle added: ‘It is a probability for musicians from each international locations to deepen their understanding of one another, united by way of their ardour for music-making on the highest stage. Sharing our musical tradition, we hope to make a long-lasting impression right here and in Australia.’
