Dr Leah Broad Presents Mahler Unwrapped
We hope you will be joining us on Tuesday 26 April, 7.30pm at St John’s Smith Square, for an evening of music by Gustav Mahler. Presenter Dr Leah Broad has curated a Spotify playlist, to give you an idea of the type of sound-world you’ll experience when you come to listen to Mahler’s music. These […]
ACE Funding Announcement
We would like to express our huge thanks to Arts Council England, for their generous support of the orchestra through the Culture Recovery Fund. The funding is quite simply transformative for LCO. Thanks to this support we can continue to bring together the very best professional freelance musicians to share music with our audiences, both […]
Dani Howard is LCO Composer in Residence 2022-23
Dani Howard has been appointed as LCO Composer in Residence for the 2022-23 season, following Freya Waley-Cohen’s successful tenure in the post. To celebrate the appointment, Howard will compose a brand new saxophone concerto for Jess Gillam to premiere during LCO’s 2022-23 season. Howard will also compose a variety of other new works for LCO, […]
Don’t miss the LCO New deadline!
The deadline for LCO’s scheme for emerging composers, LCO New, is 23:59 on Friday 18 March. If you are a music-maker who has not had their work performed by a professional orchestra, we’d love to hear from you! The 5 successful applicants will have one-on-one support on Zoom from LCO Composer in Residence Freya Waley-Cohen, […]
International Women’s Day 2022
Today on International Women’s Day 2022, we are celebrating the brilliant women who feature on upcoming Three Worlds Records/ London Chamber Orchestra/ Ben Goldscheider’s collaboration album- Ruth Gipps, Winds of Change (released Friday 25 March 2022). Here is teaser of soprano Mary Bevan singing The Lady of the Lambs: https://youtu.be/MULTmK92iKI “Throughout her career, Gipps was […]
Dusk and Dawn
Please visit https://www.sjss.org.uk/events/london-chamber-orchestra-2 to book tickets As the sun sets on one chapter, a new dawn begins. To start, a Tribute to the recently passed Stephen Sondheim, whose writing broke new ground for American musical theatre and changed the scene of Broadway forever. Next, we celebrate emerging talent and new music with respect to those who have […]
Daniel Kidane and LCO New
Composer Daniel Kidane has spoken about his experience as an emerging composer in the LCO New 2009 cohort. “It’s brilliant to hear that the LCO are reviving their emerging composer scheme, LCO New. It was such a fantastic experience for me as a student to be able to work with LCO and Graham Fitkin, who […]
Artist Pippa Smith and LCO
As human connection and celebrating the individual are so central to the ethos of LCO, we are delighted to partner with artist Pippa Smith, who will create the artwork elements behind the graphic design for our upcoming concerts. Pippa creates an Lino impression of each concert based on the programme and instrumentation, and Denise Burt […]
LCO New – Applications Open
Applications are now open for LCO New, a professional development scheme aimed at emerging composers. Successful applicants will work closely with LCO Composer in Residence 2021-22, Freya Waley-Cohen, and have their work performed by the orchestra in a main season concert. https://www.lco.co.uk/learning/lco-new/ LCO have signed up to Sound and Music’s Fair Access Principles. Working with […]
London Chamber Orchestra and the French Horn
Please visit https://www.sjss.org.uk/events/london-chamber-orchestra-1 to book tickets. Student tickets are available for £5 with code LCOSTUDENT5Buy 4 student tickets, get a 5th free with code LCOSTUDENT20 (tickets must be purchased at the same time)Group bookings of 6 standard price tickets will automatically receive a 20% discount at check-out It is not unusual for recent London Chamber […]
