About The Orchestra

West London Sinfonia recently concluded its 40th year of music making with a very successful celebratory concert at St Johns Smith Square. An Ealing based orchestra, each year we perform five concerts locally, and one in central London. Occasionally we give concerts in other parts of Britain.

Foreign visits are also a regular feature of the orchestra's life. We have given concerts in France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal in recent years.

We perform a wide variety of music, from Parry to Pärt, and Mozart to MacMillan, but tend to concentrate on larger orchestral music from the 19th (especially late 19th) and early twentieth centuries. Some of the main highlights of the last few seasons have been Janacek's Glagolitic Mass with a 100 strong choir from the composer's home town of Brno in the Czech Republic, a concert performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin (sung in Russian but with English surtitles), a concert performance of highlights from Wagner's Ring Cycle, a concert of film music, and Mahler's Third Symphony in March this year.

We regularly include recently written pieces in our concerts, and also from time to time perform with local choirs. In addition to Eugene Onegin and the Glagolitic Mass, recent years have featured Mahler's Second and Third Symphonies, Verdi's Requiem, and Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (the cantata taken from his film score).

In what we play, we try to be both popular and adventurous. If you would like to see more details of the music we play, please have a look at our History page, which contains the programmes for every concert since October 1991.

Many of our members enjoy playing and performing chamber music and each year we are invited to give a chamber concert in the St Mary's Perivale festival.

Following our very successful 2010-11 season, one highlight of which was a sell-out performance of Mahler's vast Symphony no 3, we are now rehearsing for the 3rd concert of the 2011-12 season.