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Sir Mark Elder conducting the Hallé

Sir Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Photo The Hallé

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Under its Music Director, Sir Mark Elder, the Hallé has entered a new golden era, marked by imaginatively themed programming and the successful launch of its own record label. The Hallé have received awards from BBC Music Magazine Gramophone magazine and in 2018 they won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Classical Music for their performance of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the BBC Philharmonic.

The orchestra's 2021/22 season at The Bridgewater Hall opens with a trio of popular symphonies conducted by Sir Mark Elder: Sibelius's Symphony No.2, Elgar's Symphony No.1, which the orchestra premiered in 1908, and Brahms's Symphony No.3. Some of the concerts will be filmed for future online broadcast following the success of the orchestra's Winter and Summer digital concerts. A new lunchtime Chamber Music Series at the award-winning Hallé St Peter’s includes Benjamin Grosvenor performing the Schumann Piano Quintet alongside Hallé principal players.

In the 2020/21 season the orchestra launched a critically-acclaimed series of nine online concerts, filmed at The Bridgewater Hall and Hallé St Peter's, which included world premieres by composers Hannah Kendall and Huw Watkins, as well as a staged production of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale.

The first edition of the Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition took place in February 2020 at Hallé St Peter’s, with Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarova winning a two-year position as the orchestra's Assistant Conductor, now extended until 2023.

For information on the orchestra's recordings on the Hallé CD label

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"The chemistry between the Hallé and its music director bristles with spontaneity and colour. When effortless mutual understanding is the starting point rather than the end of the artistic process, everything lights up a notch. [...] This is what peak performance sounds like."

The Spectator, November 2021
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