London’s Southbank Center Announces Artists in Residence

Violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Randall Goosby join the Manchester Collective in the role for the 2023/24 concert season

Alongside the announcement by the Southbank Center of its Autumn/Winter 2023/24 programs, acclaimed violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Randall Goosby have been appointed as its new Resident Artists.

On the opening weekend of the season, Kopatchinskaja will perform with her trio, featuring clarinetist Reto Bieri and pianist Polina Leschenko in a program on September 24, 2023, including two new works composed by Kopatchinskaja.

Additionally, she will present a dramatic music theater production of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in December 2023 at Purcell Hall, in which she will play Pierrot the clown and perform the vocalizations of the work. 

Goosby will perform his first concert on October 13, 2023, appearing in recital with pianist Zhu Wang — with whom he collaborated for his debut album, “Roots,” on Decca Classics. The program will include S. Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák: Sonatina, Still, Price, and Strauss.

On January 14, 2024, his second concert “Intersections - Black Music and Words,” will explore the works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and include a work by Previn. The concert will be performed with Wang on piano and cellist Eddie Pogossian, and involve original poems inspired by folk songs and spirituals, to be narrated by violist Jameel Martin. 

More Resident Artist concerts and appearances with the Southbank Centre’s Resident Orchestras will be announced later as part of the Spring/Summer 2024 programs.

“Our Resident Artists Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Randall Goosby and recent RPS Award winners Manchester Collective are finding new ways to showcase work from the great classical music tradition, using their vision and artistic excellence to breathe new life into these works,” said Southbank Center’s head of classical music, Toks Dada.

“Whilst we must continue to celebrate the extraordinary classical canon, I’m particularly excited that throughout this season we are presenting new works in new formats to new audiences and supporting artists who will define classical music for future generations to be bold and ambitious,” added artistic director Mark Ball.

Other featured artists for the Autumn/Winter season include returning Resident artists, the Manchester Collective, plus violinists Nicola Benedetti, Leonidas Kavakos, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pieter Schoeman, and VC Young Artist John Dalene.

A registered charity, the Southbank Centre constitutes the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Hayward Gallery, National Poetry Library, and Arts Council Collection. Its six resident ensembles are the Aurora Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Philharmonia Orchestra.