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City of London Sinfonia

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Accompanied the Lord Mayor of London in 2006 on an official visit to China as musical ambassador with performances in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou.

About the Member

The City of London Sinfonia (CLS) was founded in 1971 by Richard Hickox. CLS performs over 100 concerts a year at many of the UK's leading festivals and concert venues, as well as touring abroad and giving regular radio broadcasts.

Performances throughout the UK include regular festival engagements; appearances in the concert series of all major UK cities; and Concert Series in the towns of Chatham, High Wycombe, Ipswich and King's Lynn. In London, CLS regularly performs at the Barbican, with innovative programmes and is Resident Orchestra for Opera Holland Park.

The Orchestra’s Education & Community Programme, founded in 1988, was one of the first of such programmes to be established by a chamber orchestra and is widely recognised as a leader in the field. CLS musicians work closely with children and young people in mainstream and special needs education, parents and toddlers, musicians in amateur orchestras, patients in hospitals and residents in homes and hospices. Members of the Orchestra give informal performances and lead creative music-making workshops (often in conjunction with composers and artists from other artforms) which relate to the specific needs of each group and which are often linked to orchestral concerts.

CLS is active in the recording studio, having recorded for many leading labels including Classic FM, Chandos, EMI, Virgin and Naxos. Its discography now exceeds 100 recordings including Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten, which received wide critical acclaim and Lennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement released in June 2004 by Chandos. CLS has also developed a long association with John Rutter having recorded many of his works, most recently his Mass of the Children.

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Telephone: 020 7621 2800

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