Booking has opened for HK Phil 2024-25 season, including Peltokoski return and Elim Chan

New music director opens Philharmonic’s 51st season, Hong Kong-born Elim Chan returns; concert tickets are on sale from Thursday

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Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the 2023-24 season finale of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. The 24-year-old Finn’s return is one of the highlights of the orchestra’s 2024-25 season, for which tickets go on public sale on Thursday August 8. Photo: Keith Hiro/HK Phil

Published: 11:15am, 7 Aug 2024Updated: 11:30am, 8 Aug 2024

Mark your calendars for August 8, classical music fans – that’s the date tickets for the first half of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2024-25 season go on sale.

The orchestra has been getting a lot of attention following its appointment of young Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski to succeed its longest-serving music director, Jaap van Zweden. The Finn, who takes over in 2026, and van Zweden will both conduct the HK Phil in the coming season.

The public sale of tickets for its concerts from next month to January 2025 via Urbtix begins at 10am on Thursday.

Peltokoski, 24, conducts the opening programme of the Phil’s 51st season on September 5 and 6. It features a soloist a year younger than the Finn – Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich, who has released four albums with Deutsche Grammophon since signing with the record label at the age of 15. The programme comprises the Violin Concerto by Sibelius and Bruckner’s Symphony No 9.

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the 2023/24 season finale of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in July. He is back in September. Photo: Keith Hiro/HK Phil

Popular British-Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko returns to conduct a National Day Concert programme on September 20-21.