LCO Announces 2021-22 LCO New Cohort
London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) has announced the 2021-22 cohort of its LCO New scheme, which supports emerging composers who haven’t yet heard their work performed by a professional orchestra. LCO would like to congratulate the five successful applicants: Alexander Papp, Darius Paymai, Florence Anna Maunders, James Banner, and Robert Crehan. These composers will take part […]
Shining Planets, Rising Stars
London Chamber Orchestra and Music Junction present… Shining Planets, Rising Stars Thursday 05 May, 6.30pm, St John’s Smith Square Holst The Planets Suite (arr for chamber orchestra by George Morton)Cheryl Frances-Hoad The Exciting Marvellous Mars (world premiere) featuring Music Junction participants Running Order Holst The Planets1. Mars, the Bringer of War2. Venus, the Bringer of […]
LCO Announce 2022-23 Season
LCO are bursting into their next century with an exciting array of concerts, held at St John’s Smith Square and Cadogan Hall. There’s something for everyone at an LCO concert – mixing timeless classics with fresh new music, reflecting on history whilst looking forward to our next 100 years. We’ve invited LCO friends and collaborators back […]
Jane Asher Supports LCO
Click to Donate A huge thanks to longtime LCO friend, Jane Asher, who is championing our work with vulnerable children. LCO’s Music Junction programme brings music, mentoring and performance opportunities to young people who face significant daily challenges; including children with special educational needs and a wonderful group of young musicians cared for in a Barnardos […]
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, […]
Music Junction & The LCO Book
Did you know that our Music Junction programme has inspired thousands of vulnerable, disabled and excluded children with free musical tuition, mentoring and performance opportunities at LCO concerts? Every year, we hear from teachers, parents and young people about how special the programme makes them feel, how much their self belief has grown through shared musical […]
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 […]
