G Live announces its 2024/2025 Guildford International Concert Season
Featuring classical favourites from Scala Radio and a new series of lunchtime concerts
Scala Radio is once again thrilled to be working with G Live across an exceptional season of performances. The 13th season offers an expanded programme including orchestral performances, ensembles and pieces from solo artists, many of which you can hear on Scala Radio.
The Guildford Season opens on 9th October 2024, with a performance from the Lviv National Philharmonic of Ukraine who will perform Elgar’s Cello Concerto featuring Czech cellist Jiři Bárta.
Other international orchestral highlights include Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic with Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony and Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ (9th April 2025), and Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colón Opera with Carmen Suite No.1 marking the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s opera (16th May 2025).
British pianist Mark Bebbington will make a welcome return to G Live’s stage when he joins Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra in Delius’ Piano Concerto.
Under the baton of Alexander Shelley, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony (30th November 2024) and following her appearance in the 2023/2024 Season, Shiyeon Sung will conduct the RPO and 23-year-old Artist-in-Residence Johan Dalene in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major (1st March 2025).
London Mozart Players will present an evening of classical favourites as they perform Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons (7th February 2025). To conclude the Season, Emma Johnson will perform a programme that takes inspiration from nature alongside the Orchestra for the Environment.
Other highlights include:
- Clarinettist Emma Johnson and the National Youth Chamber Choir performing Songs of Celebration in a special Christmas concert (5th December 2024)
- The Korros Ensemble performing French chamber music from La Belle Époque (The Beautiful Era) (24th January 2025)
- Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson presenting thrilling works from award-winning composer Maria Camahort (14th March 2025)
- Turkish violinist Deniz Şensoy exploring the beauty of Bach alongside the violinistically challenging Cleopatra from Turkish composer Fazil Say (21st May 2025)
- Chamberhouse Winds presenting Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf in an afternoon concert for younger audiences (18th February 2025)
- The Yehudi Menuhin School performing a concert as part of the lunchtime programme (25th April 2025)
Venue Director Andy Locke said:
“We are delighted to include more concerts - incorporating orchestral, choral and solo artists - in an expanded Guildford International Concert Season in 2024/2025. Celebrating this treasure trove of classical music, it feels only fitting that we, at G Live, shine a light on the work of The Cheryl King Trust alongside the Season, and their aim to make music lessons financially accessible to all young people in Surrey.”
The final concert of the 2023/2024 takes place on Friday 17th May 2024, when Guildford-based Chloe Hanslip will perform Bruch’s Violin Concerto with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
Discover more about the 2024/2025 season