About The Orchestra

West London Sinfonia has just 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. Major works on the programme last season included Rachmaninoff's Symphony no 2, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

We regularly include recently written pieces in our concerts, and also from time to time perform with local choirs. In 2008 we did a concert performance of Tchaikovksy' opera Eugene Onegin. Other choral works performed in recent years include Janacek's Glagolitic Mass (with a choir from the Czech republic), Mahler's Second Symphony, and Verdi's Requiem.

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.

Some of the main highlights of the last few seasons were performing Janacek's Glagolitic Mass with a 100 strong choir from the composer's home town of Brno in the Czech Republic, the concert performance of Eugene Onegin (sung in Russian but with English surtitles), a concert performance of highlights from Wagner's Ring Cycle, the first public performance of a recently rediscovered violin concerto written in the 1930s by Englishwoman Guirne Creith, and a concert of film music.

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.

We have another exciting season to look forward to next year, including Mahler's Symphony no 3. Please look at our "Programme" page for details.