Tarmo Peltokoski Conducts Mahler 8

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Tarmo Peltokoski launches his first season as Music Director of the HK Phil with Mahler’s colossal Symphony no. 8 – a score he believes “should be saved for the most special, rare occasions.” This landmark programme also marks the HK Phil premiere of Mahler’s Eighth, completing the orchestra’s long‑awaited journey through all of Mahler’s symphonies. Few works rival the scale and ambition of this masterpiece, which Peltokoski describes as “cosmic, universal, heavenly, uniting,” and filled with “some of the deepest, most primitive aspects of our existence.”

A stellar lineup of international and HK artists powers this vibrant inauguration of the “Finnish conducting miracle” – a triumphant new chapter for the HK Phil under its new Music Director.

Programme
MAHLER
Symphony no. 8 in E flat major

7 NOV 2026 (Sat) 5:00pm
8 NOV 2026 (Sun) 3:00pm
The concert runs approximately 1 hour 40 minutes without an intermission.

Artists
Tarmo Peltokoski (Conductor)
Jacquelyn Wagner (Soprano as Magna Peccatrix)
Chen Reiss (Soprano as Una poenitentium)
Louise Kwong (Soprano as Mater Gloriosa)
Catriona Morison (Alto as Mulier Samaritana)
Sasha Cooke (Alto as Maria Aegyptiaca)
Tuomas Katajala (Tenor as Doctor Marianus)
Rinalds Kandalincevs (Baritone as Pater Ecstaticus)
Shenyang (Bass as Pater Profundus)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus (Chorus)
London Philharmonic Choir (Chorus)
The Hong Kong Children’s Choir (Chorus)