55 Years of Music Making
West London Sinfonia is in its 56th year. In normal years we perform five concerts locally, and also a 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 have beenwent on tour to Ealing’s twin town, Marcq en Baroeul, near Lille in France in 2026.
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 Zemlinsky’s romantic fantasy “The Mermaid”, 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, and Mahler’s 2nd, 7th and 5th Symphonies.
This season we are playing another exciting programme of concerts, with major works including Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Symphony and Elgar’s 3rd Symphony (re-constructed from Elgar’s sketches by Anthony Payne). We are also continuing our series of concerts with the Kate Bush tribute band “Cloudbusting”.
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.
