LPO Showcase: Foyle Future Firsts & RAM

The LPO’s Foyle Future Firsts Development Programme bridges the transition between education and the classical music profession for 16 early-career orchestral musicians each year. Join the current cohort of Future Firsts as they join forces with students from the Royal Academy of Music and members of the LPO for a vibrant performance conducted by the LPO’s Principal Conductor, Edward Gardner. The programme is inspired by memory, and features Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, each movement of which the composer dedicated to a friend who died in the First World War. Despite its subject matter, the work is remarkably lighthearted. As Ravel said, ‘The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence.’