Marta Gardolińska takes the podium tonight at LSO St Luke's in her main season debut with the London Symphony Orchestra following her debut last year covering for Sir Simon Rattle. The concert will open with Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, followed by Marc-André Dalbavie’s Flute Concerto with soloist Gareth Davies, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. It will also include a performance of Valentin Silvestrov’s Prayer for Ukraine accompanied by a call for donations to the Disaster Emergency Committee’s (DEC’s) Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. The programme will be repeated tomorrow evening at the Brighton Dome as part of the Brighton Festival. The 2021-22 season has seen many highlights for Marta. She kicked off the season conducting R. Strauss, Karlowicz and Ravel in her first appearance as Music Director of Opéra national de Lorraine, and in February was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya for a two-year appointment beginning in September. Marta has also made several successful debuts this season, including most recently with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Berdwaldhallen conducting Bizet, Boulanger and Tchaikovsky. Other highlights of the season have included debuts with Orchestra National due Capitole de Toulouse, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia. She will close the season with a return to the Hollywood Bowl for an evening with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, before commencing the 2022-23 season conducting the Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife in September.