Huawei.

Transforming Royal Festival Hall into a different world, every year.

Each winter since 2016, WMP has designed and delivered Huawei's VIP Winter Concert: a bespoke reception and classical concert for VIP clients and key stakeholders, staged at London's Southbank Centre for a good cause. From reception design through to talent booking and production, we bring a different world to life inside the Royal Festival Hall each year, for an audience of over 2,500 guests.

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Background.

A VIP reception with a charitable purpose, delivered every year since 2016.

Each year, WMP delivers a VIP reception and classical concert for Huawei's VIP clients and key stakeholders, with all public ticket profits donated to The Prince's Trust.

Huawei wanted a flagship annual event that would properly look after its most important UK clients and stakeholders, while giving something back. Public tickets are also sold for the concert, with profits donated to charity: The Prince's Trust in most years, and the NSPCC in 2019. The venue, London Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, needed to be transformed beyond recognition each year, with a fresh theme, world-class talent and an evening that would properly stir the emotions.

The Solution.

A full production remit, reinvented with a new theme each year.

Building a different themed world inside the Royal Festival Hall each year.

Our remit covers reception and stage design and build, event production, venue and talent management, guest list and ticketing, VIP entertainment and catering, sound and lighting, photography and film, graphic design and event marketing. VIP guests are greeted and guided into a bespoke-built, elegantly themed room: a winter forest in 2016, a glittering musical wonderland in 2017, a starry winter park in 2018 and, in 2019, a room inspired by advent calendar windows, each with catering to match.

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Booking world-class talent to match the scale of the evening.

With artists and repertoire carefully selected by WMP and Huawei, we've booked the likes of Katherine Jenkins, Bryn Terfel, Joseph Calleja, Trystan Llyr Griffiths, Hayley Westenra, Tenebrae Choir, Beau Dermott, Alma Deutscher, He Wu, Russell Watson and Carly Paoli, with both the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra performing under conductors Gareth Jones, Anthony Inglis and Paul Bateman.

"WMP have a very professional team, for whom nothing is too complex or too much trouble. This gives great reassurance that you the client are in good hands and are working with a team that can absorb a lot of the stresses and complexities involved in organising and delivering high profile events."

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The impact.

A trusted annual partnership, reaching over 2,500 guests a year and raising real money for charity.

WMP delivered the Huawei Winter Concert in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, with Huawei returning to WMP each year to design and deliver the event. Every concert was attended by more than 2,500 guests, including VIP clients, industry partners and key charity representatives, with public ticket profits going to The Prince's Trust throughout, and the NSPCC in 2019. In 2019, all ticket sales were combined with a £100,000 donation for the NSPCC.