The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) has announced that François-Xavier Roth will become its Principal Guest Conductor from September 2017.

• Sir Simon Rattle’s inaugural season launched with a ten-day musical celebration
• Young people and new audiences at the heart of future plans – new ticket schemes announced
• Stockhausen masterpiece to be staged at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
• 2017/18 season highlights announced
• British composers a major focus
• LSO digital partnerships bring the orchestra to the world

The LSO is sad to hear of the death on 3 February 2017 of its former Principal Clarinet Gervase de Peyer. Gervase joined the Orchestra in 1955, leaving in 1972 to continue his work with the Chamber Music Society of which he was a founder member at the then-relatively new Lincoln Center in New York.

Lennox Mackenzie, sub-leader and former Chairman of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), has been awarded an OBE for services to music in the New Year’s Honours List 2017, following 37 years as an LSO violinist, and 16 years served as the Orchestra’s Chairman.