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Welcome to our 2013–14<br />
<strong>season</strong>. I am delighted to<br />
introduce another superb<br />
programme of the best that<br />
classical music has to offer.<br />
This is an exciting <strong>season</strong> for us, and in so<br />
many ways. Across several of our venues, we<br />
host <strong>Barbican</strong> Britten – an incisive exploration<br />
of Benjamin Britten’s music in his centenary<br />
year – taking in music both sacred and secular<br />
with the involvement of students from the<br />
Guildhall School of Music & Drama. We also<br />
celebrate the 80th birthday of one of Britain’s<br />
most significant contemporary composers, Sir<br />
Harrison Birtwistle. Valery Gergiev and the<br />
London Symphony Orchestra explore in depth<br />
the music of Berlioz, and Yuja Wang is the<br />
focus of this <strong>season</strong>’s UBS Soundscapes LSO<br />
Artist Portrait. The BBC Symphony Orchestra<br />
welcomes its exciting new chief conductor,<br />
Sakari Oramo. The Academy of Ancient<br />
Music and Britten Sinfonia perform their first<br />
full <strong>season</strong>s here as associate ensembles,<br />
with many of their concerts in Milton Court<br />
Concert Hall, the Guildhall School of Music<br />
& Drama’s new state-of-the-art venue, about<br />
which you can read more on page 29.<br />
We are incredibly fortunate to have such a<br />
remarkable array of prestigious international<br />
ensembles making the <strong>Barbican</strong> their London<br />
home, and it is these close artistic partnerships<br />
that make it possible for us to offer such a<br />
rich and diverse <strong>season</strong> of concerts stretching<br />
from Baroque opera to the most cuttingedge<br />
contemporary classical music.<br />
Alongside the concerts of our resident and<br />
associate orchestras and ensembles, this<br />
<strong>season</strong> the <strong>Barbican</strong> brings together its<br />
own distinctive <strong>season</strong> of concerts under<br />
the banner of <strong>Barbican</strong> Presents. We look<br />
forward to international associate residencies<br />
from Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and<br />
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam,<br />
a Maxim Vengerov artist spotlight and our<br />
Baroque opera series.<br />
I’d like to thank the <strong>Barbican</strong>’s growing<br />
community of supporters, without whom<br />
it would not be possible to present<br />
this outstanding <strong>season</strong>. We are very<br />
grateful for their commitment.<br />
To find out more about how you can<br />
support the <strong>Barbican</strong> and its work<br />
visit barbican.org.uk/support-us<br />
I hope you will be able to enjoy<br />
the many wonderful experiences<br />
that this <strong>season</strong> will bring.<br />
Angela Dixon<br />
Head of Music<br />
2 01 3 – 1 4<br />
Resident Orchestra<br />
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