London Symphony Orchestra

🌟 Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition! 🌟 This is a unique chance for emerging conductors to launch their international careers with the LSO. 🏆 The winner receives £15,000 and the opportunity to serve as Assistant Conductor for up to a year. 👉 Apply now: https://bit.ly/49z2n5s Deadline: 3 April 2025

A big welcome to the newest members of the LSO! 🎻✨ 🌟 Olatz Ruiz de Gordejuela joins our Second Violins: https://bit.ly/4geKGL3 🌟 Ferran Garcerà Perelló steps in as Principal Bass Clarinet: https://bit.ly/4fYTzrU We’re excited to have them on board! 🥳 Read more about their journeys on the links above.

We’re Hiring! 🎶 The LSO is looking for an exceptional musician to join us as Principal Flute. 🗓️ Deadline: 13 January 📍 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/gSdNpd2a

Inspire lives with the LSO this festive season! ✨ This #GivingTuesday, we’re launching our 2024 Festive Appeal to support LSO Discovery, our community and education programme. Over the next month, we’ll share inspiring stories from participants and musicians. 🎶 Donate today: lso.co.uk/appeal 📣 Use #LSO2024FestiveAppeal to let us know!

Join the LSO team as Marketing Co-ordinator 🎶 Love music and marketing? This is your chance to help promote LSO concerts, manage events, create engaging content, and produce concert programmes. 📅 Deadline: Friday 20 December, 10am 🔗 Apply now: https://bit.ly/3CYgZPC

LSO St Luke's is embarking on a major transformation. While St Luke's is temporarily closed our Discovery activities, including the Free Friday Lunchtime Concerts, will continue! 🎶 Stay tuned as these concerts go on tour, finding new homes in beautiful churches across the City of London. 📍 Find out where and when: lso.co.uk/discoveryontour

In 1964, to mark our Diamond Jubilee, the LSO embarked on its first World Tour, visiting the USA, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Turkey, and Persia (now Iran). In all, eleven weeks (27 Sept to 11 Dec 1964), travelling thirty-two thousand miles, performing fifty-one concerts in thirty-one cities. It is estimated that during the course of the tour the we performed to about a hundred million people across the world, either live or via TV and radio. A stunning line-up of conductors accompanied us: Georg Solti, Colin Davis, István Kertész, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Leopold Stokowski, with guest appearances by Sir Arthur Bliss, Pablo Casals and Aaron Copland. Soloists included Isaac Stern, Rudolf Serkin and Maureen Forrester as well as Principal players of the LSO: Alexander Murray (flute), Roger Lord (oboe), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) and Barry Tuckwell (horn). The tour was a hit, with glowing reviews worldwide, and a standout concert in New York led by Leopold Stokowski, honouring our late Principal Conductor, Pierre Monteux. A highlight of the US section of the tour was the United Nations Day concert at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Secretary General at the time, U Thant, gave an address and the concert was relayed on radio and television. As a result, the Mayor of New York declared a ‘London Symphony Orchestra Day’. #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #Archive #ClassicalMusic

🚧 Exciting changes are coming to LSO St Luke's. In 2025, we’re temporarily closing our doors to embark on a major transformation – enhancing accessibility, upgrading amenities, and creating spaces to support our growing programme and reach even more people. Take a look at the stunning illustrations of our reimagined spaces. We can’t wait to welcome you back at the end of 2025. 💡 Learn more about our Future Ready programme: https://bit.ly/3V1rYh6

🚨 The LSO Conservatoire Scholarship is BACK and applications are OPEN! 🎻 In its second year, this programme is making a life-changing impact on exceptional musicians who face financial barriers to postgraduate study at top conservatoires. Hear from past participants about how it has transformed their musical journey. 🌟 📅 Apply by: Monday 10 March 2025 For more details and to apply, visit: https://bit.ly/3CxEQ8p

We are excited to announce our new album, Rózsa’s Violin Concerto and Bartók’s Violin Concerto No 2 with LSO Leader Roman Simovic! This release puts a spotlight on violin concertos by two of the most influential Hungarian composers: Miklós Rózsa and Béla Bartók. Known simply as his ‘Violin Concerto’ during his lifetime, the passionate melodies and harmonic ambiguity of Bartók’s second concerto capture the political unease and uncertainties of the time. A distinguished composer of film as well as classical works, with over 100 film scores to his name, Rózsa’s music reflects his Hungarian heritage while brimming with cinematic elements and emotional intensity. Renowned for his virtuosity and musicality, Roman Simovic frequently performs as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors around the world. This new album puts his formidable skills on display, with conductors Sir Simon Rattle and Kevin John Edusei leading these two giants of the violin repertoire. Enjoy this clip of the Bartók Violin Concerto conducted by Kevin John Edusei, and check out the album to discover these great works for yourself: https://lnkd.in/e5aYijCN