Please find a few words from our Principal Guest Conductor, Chloé Van Soeterstède, below:
Dearest BSO audiences,
I am very happy to share with you the arrival of my second child into our world this autumn. When we programme concerts, programming teams and artists talk years before concerts actually happen. Indeed, I was due to conduct the BSO in November but my private life didn’t quite align with what we planned professionally! I won’t be physically there in the concert hall, but I promise I will be with all my soul and heart.
I cannot wait to be reunited with all of you in Spring 2026 for Saint-Saëns, Boulanger and Tchaikovsky with the wonderful pianist Cédric Tiberghien – and my baby might even be watching from backstage!
Warm wishes
Chloé Van Soeterstède, Principal Guest Conductor
We’ll look forward to seeing Chloé back at Lighthouse, Poole [22 April] and The Anvil, Basingstoke [23 April] – and with organist Anna Lapwood, at Bristol Beacon, next June. We hope you’ll join us in wishing Chloé and her family all the very best ahead of the new arrival.
We are delighted to announce that Sian Edwards joins us at Lighthouse, Poole [26 Nov] and University of Exeter [27 Nov] to conduct Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony and Korngold’s Violin Concerto [Ning Feng – violin]. The opening piece will be Britten’s Four Sea Interludes.