LCO ‘Airs and Organist’ pre-concert Q&A with LCO musicians from 25 June 2021
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 […]
LCO pre-concert Q&A with soloist James Platt & LCO orchestral musicians
A new book for the LCO
Like most of the best projects, it all began with a phone call. “Hello, it’s the London Chamber Orchestra here. Would you write us a book for our centenary?” Only one snag, it turned out: the centenary is this year. So if you think I’ve got my work cut out, you’re not wrong. An orchestra’s centenary […]
Press Release: Bluestone Vineyards x LCO
The London Chamber Orchestra announces its new partnership with Bluestone Vineyards ahead of the orchestra’s centenary celebrations. Bluestone Vineyards is an award winning English sparkling wine vineyard based in Wiltshire. Founders, brothers Toby and Nat McConnell, are from a family who have long admired the London Chamber Orchestra. The London Chamber Orchestra will be celebrating […]
A Century of Music – play along with LCO!
Perform alongside the London Chamber Orchestra and our friends in a special birthday concert to celebrate LCO’s centenary! We are inviting all musicians: young and old, new or longstanding LCO friend, aspiring musician or rusty musician, to stretch their vocal cords or pick up an instrument and perform in our a section of our birthday […]
Join the Junction (18th September)
It’s at this point in the year that we would normally be travelling around London, visiting schools and surprising pupils with our flashmobs to kick start our educational outreach programme, Music Junction. Although this isn’t possible this year, restrictions won’t stop up spreading the music! Instead, we are bringing music to our Music Junction participants, […]
Composers’ Workshop
Our young composers taking part in this year’s Music Junction started writing a very special piece for LCO’s 100th birthday. Led by this year’s composer, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, the students took a beautiful poem written by mentee participants from Shaftesbury High School to create a song for us. We can’t wait to share the whole song […]
Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund
We are delighted to announce that the LCO in has received a grant of £124,220 from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help the organisation recover and reopen. More than £300 million has been awarded to thousands of cultural organisations across the country including LCO in the latest round of support from the […]
Benjamin Beilman – JS Bach Partita No. 3 for solo violin in E major, BWV 1006 from “With Nine Lives”
