About The Orchestra

West London Sinfonia is in its 38th year of music making. Based in Ealing, 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 Stravinsky's Petrushka, Mahler Symphony no 1, and Janacek's Glagolitic Mass.

We regularly include recently written pieces in our concerts, and also from time to time perform with local choirs. As well as the Glagolitic Mass, choral works performed in recent years include William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast", 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.

The main highlight of last season was performing Janacek's Glagolitic Mass with a 100 strong choir from the composer's home town of Brno in the Czech Republic. One of the highlights of the coming year is likely to be a concert performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin (sung in Russian but with English surtitles)

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. Last year's concert in St Mary's included the Dvorak Wind Serenade.

We are in the middle of another exciting season. Please look at our "Programme" page for details.