WHAT'S ON
2022-23 SEASON EVENTS
Music from America
THURSDAY 8TH JUNE 2023 | FROM 18:00 | ST BOTOLPH'S HALL, EC2M 3TL
Our intimate annual evening of music and wine for this season will see
us donning cowboy hats and riding into the sunset with music from American composers including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin.
Tickets: £55, £75
Sword in the Soul: Music for Good Friday
FRIDAY 7TH APRIL 2023 | 20:00 | ST JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE
The London Choral Sinfonia make their first appearance at the SJSS annual Easter Festival with an evening of contemplation for Good Friday.
Commissioned by the BBC in 1991 for a Radio 4 Good Friday premiere, Francis Grier's 'Sword in the Soul; a meditation for Good Friday', is a modern take on the Passiontide story, with narrated texts, written by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. The work gives a more human telling of this well-known story, alongside seven rich pieces of expressive music.
BRIAN O'KANE 'cello
JAMES ORFORD organ
THE CHOIR OF THE LONDON CHORAL SINFONIA
MICHAEL WALDRON conductor
Tickets priced £10, £20, £30
PAST CONCERTS
On Christmas Night
TUESDAY 20TH DECEMBER 2022 | 19:30 | ST JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE
As part of the St. John's Smith Square 37th Christmas Festival, the Choir and Orchestra of the LCS perform Bob Chilcott's enchanting On Christmas Night. This jubilant work sees carols entwined with readings, bringing the story of Christ's birth alive through Chilcott's eclectic style.
Alongside this, we hear LCS Christmas favourites including O Holy Night, What Sweeter Music and As I sat under the sycamore tree - the perfect way to start your Christmas week.
JENNY STAFFORD soprano
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE LONDON CHORAL SINFONIA
MICHAEL WALDRON conductor
Tickets priced £20, £35, £45
Colourise
WEDNESDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2022 | 19:30 | CADOGAN HALL, SW1X 9DQ
Join the Choir and Orchestra of the London Choral Sinfonia for our season premiere this autumn.
Following the launch of our latest album, Colourise, in July, the concert will feature Lennox Berkeley’s mostly unknown piece Variations on a Hymn by Orlando Gibbons featuring tenor soloist Nick Pritchard.
Jack Liebeck returns to perform Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Concerto Accademico, and the composer’s energetic Five English Folk Songs for a capella choir also feature.
NICK PRITCHARD tenor
JACK LIEBECK violin
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA OF THE LONDON CHORAL SINFONIA
MICHAEL WALDRON conductor
SEASON 2021-22
Sound the Trumpet
THURSDAY 26TH MAY 2022 | 19:30 | VOCES8 CENTRE, EC2V 7BX
Join the LCS for a Baroque and Renaissance bash with a royal theme, just in time for our Queen's Platinum Jubilee! We will enjoy Henry Purcell’s jubilant ode Come Ye Sons of Art, written for the birthday of Queen Mary II in 1694, alongside contrastive sacred motets, secular songs, and instrumental works by the Renaissance composer kings of their day: William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and Orlando Gibbons.
LCS Soloists
MICHAEL WALDRON conductor
In Bocca al Lupo
THURSDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2022 | 19:30 | PETYT HALL, CHELSEA
Let soloists from the London Choral Sinfonia warm the cockles of your heart with an opulent evening of Italian opera and Italian wines! Together we will journey through the best arias and choruses Italy has to offer, with all repertoire matched with suitably evocative and delicious wines. Complimentary wine pairings are served throughout the evening, alongside champagne and canapés before and after the performance. The wines will be specially paired by Nadia Williamson (wine buyer, Majestic Wines).
LCS Soloists
MICHAEL WALDRON conductor
Christmas Fantasia
WEDNESDAY 15TH DECEMBER 2021 | 19:30 | ST JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE
Allow the LCS to serenade you with a concert of joyful music this Christmas. With an uplifting selection of festive pieces from the very best British composers, there is music for everyone to enjoy! Beginning with Britten’s spell-binding Middle English poetry, A Ceremony of Carols, the concert continues with well-known audience carols and Christmas classics, alongside familiar Christmas tunes in new and enchanting arrangements. The programme culminates with Vaughan Williams’ majestic Fantasia on Christmas Carols, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of his birth next year.
ELIZABETH KARANI soprano
PHILIP SMITH baritone
SALLY PRYCE harp
MICHAEL WALDRON conductor
There will be a free, 30-minute pre-concert recital given by The Kurtág Trio at 18:30 in association with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Rise Heart
WEDNESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2021 | 19:30 | CADOGAN HALL
This concert is made up of two celebrations: one to mark the release of our new disc of works for choir and orchestra by Richard Pantcheff; and one to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth. Accordingly we will dive headfirst into Pantcheff’s wonderful new repertoire – and then cuddle up with some of Vaughan Williams’ best-loved classics, including his transcendent The Lark Ascending and his passionate settings of George Herbert poems in the Five Mystical Songs.
JACK LIEBECK violin
BENEDICT NELSON baritone
NICK PRITCHARD tenor
MICHAEL WALDRON conductor
There will be a free, 30-minute pre-concert recital at 6.30pm in association with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Season Launch: Music for a Summer's Eve
TUESDAY 20TH JULY 2021 | 18:30 | VOCES8 CENTRE, EC2V 7BX
We are delighted to invite you to to join us to celebrate the launch of our new season. In the beautiful setting of the Gresham Centre (St Paul’s, EC2V), you will be serenaded with the music of Vaughan Williams, Holst and John Rutter by LCS musicians whilst enjoying complimentary fizz. Doors open and drinks will be served at 6pm for a prompt 6.30pm start, finishing around 7.30pm. A perfect pre-dinner event for a summer’s evening.