• LS RPS Winners

    London Sinfonietta has won the Royal Philharmonic Society Ensemble Award as a recognition of all its work throughout 2009, which included several landmark performances including giving the London premiere of George Benjamin's chamber opera Into the Little Hill with The Opera Group, a revival of Heiner Goebbels' Songs of Wars I have seen with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the ensemble's own Sonic Explorations festival at Kings Place.

  • LS Collective Blog for 3rd June

    The London Sinfonietta Collective have named their concert at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall on 3 June Shadoworks.

    As well as a world premiere of Larry Goves' latest piece, and a UK premiere of Dai Fujikura's Secret Forest, the concert will feature music by Ligeti, Clementi and Abrahamsen, and there will be dance, film and interactive design installations which take over the QEH foyer spaces between the music on stage.

  • KX Collective Launch Video now available

    Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 January saw the launch of the KX Collective- a group of young people from the Islington and Camden areas who are working with the London Sinfonietta throughout the season in a series of creative workshops and events. A video detailing the events of the weekend has now been made and can be viewed right here.

  • Reviews of Sonic Explorations

    Our three day festival of electroacoustic music, Sonic Explorations finished on Saturday. Read Michael Church's review in The Independent here:

    The Independent review of Sonic Explorations

    Stephen Graham has also reviewed the concerts on Friday night on Musical Critcism:

    Musical Criticism

  • Guardian Review of Sonic Explorations

    Read Guy Dammann's review in the Guardian:

    The Guardian review of Sonic Explorations.

  • New Podcasts: Sonic Explorations and Electroacoustic Music

    In advance of the Sonic Explorations Festival which takes place on 1-3 October at Kings Place, the London Sinfonietta have released two new Podcasts to help you discover more about electroacoustic music.

    In Podcast 2, Jonathan Harvey talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about the many different kinds of electroacoustic music which will be performed at the festival, as well as the composers, the ideas and concepts behind the music and IRCAM, the iconic music centre in Paris.

  • Out Now: final Jerwood series CD

    The sixth and final disc in The Jerwood Series on the London Sinfonietta Label is now available. You can listen to clips of all the tracks via the Jerwood Series page.

    Click here to buy your copy

    London Sinfonietta Label

  • Podcast: Exclusive Birtwistle Interview

    The London Sinfonietta launches a new series of podcasts with an exclusive interview with Sir Harrison Birtwistle about his work, influences, and three of his early pieces which are to be performed by the London Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms on 4th August. We are also delighted to welcome Sara Mohr-Pietsch, who also presents for BBC Radio 3's Breakfast show and Hear and Now, as the voice of our podcasts.

    To listen to the podcast, click here.

  • 2009-10 Season Launched

    From minimalism to modernism, electronics to experimentalism and complexity to collaborations: welcome to the exciting and compelling world of new music and sound that makes up our 2009/10 season.

    John Adams conducts the season-opening concert at Southbank Centre

  • London Sinfonietta in Cambridge

    On Saturday July 18, London Sinfonietta came to the Cambridge Summer Music Festival. Click here for more details.

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