SHOAC | Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic on 9 November, tickets open 28 August at 14:00

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Monday 9 November at 19:30, SHOAC Concert Hall, one performance. Tickets open on 28 August at 14:00. Prices, sales channels and the purchase limit have not been published — SHOAC announced this on its own 小红书 account, and that notice gives the on-sale moment and nothing else; the concert is not in the house ticketing system yet tonight. We will add the rest once the sale opens.

Thomas Beecham founded the orchestra in 1946, which makes 2026 its eightieth year, and this date belongs to the anniversary season. Petrenko has been Music Director since 2021, after fifteen years at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

Three works — one English, one Chinese, one Russian. It opens with Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad of 1912, after Housman's cycle of poems. Almost everything Butterworth wrote dates from 1911 to 1914; he was killed on the Somme in 1916, aged thirty-one.

Then Tan Dun's Wolf Totem, a twenty-minute concerto for double bass written in 2014 after he read Jiang Rong's novel. This one is worth a sentence more. Five orchestras co-commissioned it, among them the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic — Petrenko's own orchestra at the time — and Tan Dun wrote it so that each commissioning orchestra's principal bass would play it. So the soloist here is not a visiting name but the RPO's own principal, Jason Henery. That is how the piece was designed.

After the interval, Stravinsky's Petrushka in the 1947 version. On the presenter's published programme this item reads as the ballet in Chinese and as the suite in English; the two have not been reconciled, so we list it as published and will wait for the house to say which. Neither the running time nor whether there is an interval has been stated.

Separately: the Volchok recital of 27 September is cancelled

Future Masters: Anastasia Volchok, piano recital, set for 27 September in the Oriental Recital Hall at SHOAC, has been cancelled by the presenter. SHOAC published no separate notice, but changed two things in its own ticketing system: the product name now carries a 取消 prefix, and the sitting's status moved from 售票中 to 暂停售票 — the only one of a hundred sittings in that catalogue to read that way.

This site had been listing the recital as on sale, with a booking link. That was wrong. The page has been corrected, the link is gone, and the date no longer appears in the calendar. If you already hold a ticket, contact the channel you bought it from.

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