Our Mission

London Concert Sinfonia was founded in 2001 and is an orchestra based in London where it has an extensive concert season in venues across the city, bringing concerts to neglected parts of the capital as well as to the major concert venues.

Each year the London Concert Sinfonia has an extensive season of concerts at St. John's, Smith Square, London. Over the years they have programmed over 200 works, including some 20 operas. They have perfomed with among others, violinists, Nicola Benedetti, Yuri Zhislin, George Hlawiczka, violists Maxim Rysanov, Miriam Ruetschi, Pianists Luiz de Moura Castro, Evelyn Berezovski, Ratimir Martinovic, Jose Menor, Karin Lechner, Laura Nocchiero, Yuanfan Yang, Mine Dogantan Dack, Jose Antonio Tolosa, cellists Luis Zorita, Pal Banda, Anup Kumar Biswas and clainetist Joan Enric Lluna.

The London Concert Sinfonia made its first foreign tour in July 2007 when they toured Montenegro. In September 2010 they went to Greece to perform at the Patmos Religious Music Festival as well as performing in Delphi and Loutraki. In May 2011 they toured in Sicily to giving concers in Pozzalo, Ragusa and Comisso with Laura Nocchiero. Their future tours include Ragusa, Sicily for New Year 2012, followed by concerts in Torres Vedras, Portugal, Croatia in June 2012 and an opera residency in August 2012 in Berbiguieres, France. In May 2013 they will return again to Ragusa, Sicily. They also performed in the following years in Berlin’s Franzosische Kirche , Munich Hercules Hall and the Rhodes International music festival. In October 2022 they were invited by the Chinese Embassy to perform in the 50th Anniversary of China-UK Ambassadorial Diplomatic Relations Concert in St. John’s Smith Square, premiering the works by composer and pianist Yuanfan Yang.

In 2008 they took part in the BBC Maestro television program, coaching celebrities to conduct in a television competition, the winner, comedienne Sue Perkins, going on to conduct at the Last Night of the Proms in London.

It highlights talented young, up-and-coming conductors and performers and gives experienced performers an opportunity to deepen their experience away from the busy concert circuit. It also features new composers as well as programming neglected masterpieces and composers from the past. These include Myaskovsky symphonies and works by composers such as Dvorak (Piano Concerto, Othelo), Tchaikovsky (Hamlet), Sibelius (Lemminkainen and the Maidens of Saari), Falla (Nights in the Gardens of Spain) Ysaye (Amitie), Strauss (Duet Concertino) which are not often performed.

It has premiered works by Yuanfan Yang (piano concertos nos. 3 and 4), Apollo Premadasa (Symphony no. 1, “War Child” and Concert overture), Elizabeth Norden (Gentle Soul, Vocalise), Valerie Pearson (Murnau), Jose Antonio Tolosa (Piano Concertos nos/ 1 and 2), Edvard Grieg (piano concerto no. 2).

The London Concert Sinfonia recently featured in an Iranian International TV broadcast for their Persian New Years Concert which was broadcast to 30 million people.