The award-winning Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is the UK’s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra. The Orchestra is made up of 80 exceptional musicians and based at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. It’s led by Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko, who will be succeeded by Domingo Hindoyan in September 2021.

To find out more about hiring the orchestra, email Sandra Parr, Artistic Planning Director (Orchestra and Ensembles) Sandra.Parr@liverpoolphil.com 

(On the Orchestra) “The chemistry was definitely there... The orchestra was hungry to play and to play well. They’re flexible, attentive, they change their sound quite fast to adapt to the repertoire. I felt they really wanted to do the same thing as me.”

Domingo Hindoyan on joining as Chief Conductor of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

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Recent press reviews

4* Review – The Times, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Hindoyan review – A showcase for the virtuoso trumpeter Pacho Flores’s dazzling techniques (January 2020)

“The conductor Domingo Hindoyan directed precise, energetic performances of Strauss’s Don Juan and Stravinsky’s Firebird suite that let these flamboyantly theatrical pieces speak for themselves.”

 The Times – Liverpool unveils its big new signing: Domingo Hindoyan

“By today’s lightning standards, Hindoyan’s brief courtship with the RLPO — he has conducted them twice — almost counts as devoted wooing. “We’ve done Beethoven, Strauss, Stravinsky and a new commission. The chemistry was definitely there,” he says. “The orchestra was hungry to play and to play well. They’re flexible, attentive, they change their sound quite fast to adapt to the repertoire. I felt they really wanted to do the same thing as me.” Reviewing Hindoyan and the RLPO in The Times in January, Richard Morrison hailed the Venezuelan’s “precise and energetic” style.”

About Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

“A Liverpool Orchestra at its peak” Financial Times 

The award-winning Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is the UK’s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra. The origins of the Orchestra date back to the formation of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic by a group of Liverpool music lovers in 1840. 

Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko currently leads the Orchestra – a position he has held since 2009. Petrenko steps down in 2021 to become Chief Conductor Laureate, replaced by the conductor Domingo Hindoyan.

Hindoyan joins a long line of distinguished musicians who have led the Orchestra during its illustrious history, including Max Bruch, Sir Charles Hallé, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Pritchard, Sir Charles Groves, Walter Weller, and Libor Pešek KBE.

The Orchestra gives over 80 concerts each year in Liverpool – more than any other UK orchestra performs in its home city.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has an extensive discography. This includes the full symphonic cycle recordings of Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky and is Spotify’s most streamed regional Orchestra with over 800k monthly listeners.

Collaborations with international artists from rock and pop include Liverpool’s own Sir Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Ian Broudie and the Lightning Seeds, Echo and The Bunnymen and Cast.

Our musicians use the power of music to improve the mental health of the city’s most vulnerable residents through our partnership with MerseyCare NHS Foundation Trust.

The creative and personal development  of our musicians is a priority.  A range of opportunities is open to them including performing in small ensembles, engaging in learning activities, In Harmony and our Music and Mental health programme. Their health is supported through a unique programme providing specialist medical advice, access to physiotherapy and massage, and performance psychologists.

Over the last 10 years, Liverpool Philharmonic have won various awards including; Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards – Health and Wellbeing (2021); ABO Awards – Peter Garden, Orchestra Manager of the Year (2020); Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and Music Room named Entertainment venue of the year (2019); National Music Teacher Awards for Excellence – Outstanding Classical Music Education Initiative – In Harmony Liverpool (2019); Fantastic For Families – Best Family Welcome Award (2019); BBC Music Magazine Awards – Recording of the Year – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko (2017); BBC Music Magazine Award – Orchestral Recording of the Year (2017); Gramophone Classical Music Awards – Vasily Petrenko, Artist of the Year (2017); Royal Philharmonic Society Association of British Orchestras Salomon Prize for Orchestral musicians – won by David Rimbault (2017); British Composer Award – won by Emily Howard (2017); Mersey Care Foundation Trust Awards – Health and Wellbeing Campaigner (2016); ABO Awards – Michael Eakin, Concert Hall Manager of the Year (2015); Liverpool Echo Pride of Merseyside Arts Award – won by In Harmony Liverpool (2014); Liverpool Post Leader Awards – Michael Eakin named Cultural Leader of the Year and Peter Garden named Young Leader of the Year; Liverpool Music Awards – Best Live Venue (2013); Adult Learners’ Week Awards – Certificate of Achievement Awards (2013); Classic Brit Awards – Vasily Petrenko named Best Male Artist (2012); German ECHO Klassik Awards – Vasily Petrenko, Young Talent Award (2012); Liverpool City Region Annual Tourism Awards – Liverpool Philharmonic receives Culture and Heritage Experience of the Year Award (2012); Liverpool Post Leader Awards – Vasily Petrenko named Cultural Leader of the Year (2012)

About Domingo Hindoyan 

Domingo Hindoyan joins the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra as Chief Conductor in September 2021. He is currently Principal Guest Conductor of the Polish National Symphony Orchestra; a position he has held since 2019.

Hindoyan enjoys a vibrant career working with acclaimed orchestras and soloists around the world including Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Orchestre National de Radio France, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Pacho Flores, Alisa Weilerstein, Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimmermann, Garrick Ohlsson and Boris Giltburg, amongst many others.

He has also worked with opera companies and singers including The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Liceu Barcelona, Mariinsky Theatre, Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, Sondra Radvanovsky and others.

Hindoyan was born in Caracas, Venezuela and began his music studies as a violinist and member of the renowned Venezuelan musical education program El Sistema before moving to Geneva to study. From 2013-2016, Hindoyan was the first assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin.