50 Years of Music Making
West London Sinfonia is now in its 54th year. In normal years we perform five concerts locally, and a summer concert either in central London or on Kew Green. Some of us also get together from time to time in small groups to play chamber music, which we perform at an annual concert. Foreign visits are also a regular feature of the orchestra’s life. We have given concerts in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal and we went on tour to Ealing’s twin town, Marcq en Baroeul, near Lille in France, in 2019.
Adventurous Repertoire
We perform a wide variety of music, and in what we play, we try to be both popular and adventurous. Some of the main highlights of recent seasons have been Verdi’s Requiem (with the Diversity Choir), a complete performance of Mendelssohn’s incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with actors), Smetana’s Ma Vlast, Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, Mahler’s 7th and 5th Symphonies, and our (postponed) 50th anniversary concert at St John’s Smith Square in 2022.
This season we are plahing another exciting programme of concerts, with major works including Zemlinsky’s romantic fantasy “Die Seejungfrau” (for many years thought lost) based on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, and Bruckner’s most popular symphony, his seventh.
World Class Soloists
Soloists of an extremely high-calibre regularly choose to perform with us, and we often showcase the talents of some of our own members. We are well-known in our area of London for providing live music at accessible ticket prices and venues.
The funding for our activities is generated mainly from our concert income and subscriptions, and we receive no grants.
