LCO & Friends Autumn Concerts at Cadogan Hall
Boy oh boy are we excited about the concerts we’ve got coming up this autumn at Cadogan Hall in central London. Three of THE most exciting young soloists are joining us for a series of concerts that celebrate the power of music to make us feel good! Dazzling trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary opens the series with a […]
Concert Announcment!
15 March 2023 👆🏽Put this in your diaries. We’re back at Cadogan Hall, London 🙂 Come with us on a whistle-stop tour of British music spanning the past 400 years. The London Chamber Orchestra returns to the Cadogan Hall, bringing its trademark relaxed and welcoming concert format to music lovers and live-performance adventurers looking for […]
New Book Now On Sale!
Our New Book In Our Online Shop! Buy Now From royal weddings to the Olympics and the beginning of radio. Our wonderful book researched and written by the incomparable Jessica Duchen is on sale in our shop now! It is full of the most amazing pictures, personal stories and a world of interesting facts about […]
Welcome to our new Director of Development
We are thrilled to announce that Lynne Farnell will be joining our LCO team this month as Director of Development. Previously Lynne was Deputy Director of Development at the RNCM and ran an independent fundraising consultancy. LCO will benefit immensely from her experience and skill. We look forward to her significant impact on LCO’s growth and development. “It’s an absolute privilege to be […]
LCO removes dress code
London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) has announced the removal of its dress code for all performances, a move designed to promote inclusivity, equality and diversity within the organisation. The news was announced on 26th October at Cadogan Hall, a performance that marked the opening night of the orchestra’s centennial season. Managing DirectorJocelyn Lightfoot comments: “Every musician […]
Welcome back!
After 1 year and 7 months of communicating through online concerts, we are extremely excited to announce our first in-person concert – ‘The Spirit of Champions’
Where were you on 9/11?
Few of us will ever forget what we were doing when we heard the news that two passenger planes had crashed into the Twin Towers in New York…
Spare a thought for Hazel Thornton
So far so good: I’ve reached the middle of my book about the LCO, complete with the swinging sixties and suspect seventies. I’ve had to kill off our first hero, Anthony Bernard, the founder-prequel to that present-day orchestral Luke Skywalker, Christopher Warren-Green. Between their two sizeable reigns, there’s a period of almost-no-man’s-land we could call […]
The lion, the writer and the wardrobe…
Emergency wire from resident writer STOP Trapped in 1920s STOP Quarter through book STOP Only another 93 years to go STOP. This is the trouble with blithely setting off down the back of the wardrobe into the land of the distant past. You find stuff. And then you find more stuff. And the more you […]
