📕 Get to know oboist Lindi Renier Todd in our Meet the Orchestra programme feature at our concert @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday
🎵 She recalls her favourite KSO concerts, including the "terrifying" experience of playing with a very well-known soloist…
🏴☠️ We're also performing Berlioz's Le Corsaire overture, inspired by the action-packed tale of a pirate chief
🏖️ Pick up a programme at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday to find out how Lord Byron, a lost love, Rome and Nice combined to inspire this orchestral showpiece
🎫 About 40 more tickets are now available from www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/kensin... - once they’re gone, they’re gone!
🇨🇿 Our programme notes tell the story of a work, premièred in London, that captures both Dvořák's new life in America and his Bohemian past
💔 On Monday at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social we're joined by rising star Petar Pejčić for Dvořák's Cello Concerto, partly inspired by the composer’s dying sister-in-law
The concert is sold out at the moment but keep your eye on this page, we will hopefully make a few more tickets available over the weekend: www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/kensin...
🎻 We're back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday with Brahms's fabulous Symphony No.3
📘 Grab a programme to see the exquisite paintings made in response to Brahms's work in our latest collaboration with the artist Ernestine Tahedl
We're back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday 16 March for a lovely concert of Berlioz, Dvořák & Brahms with guest conductor Matt Scott Rogers. Hope you can join us!
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🎻 Get to know viola player Jeremy Lambert in our Meet the Orchestra programme feature @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Sunday
🎥 He picks his fantasy KSO programme – including not one, but two composers that no other orchestra member has ever chosen before…
🧙♀️ We're also performing James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, about a woman burnt as a witch in Scotland in 1662
✝️ Get a programme to find out what inspired him to compose this beautiful, brutal piece – the "requiem that Isobel Gowdie never had"
🌊 Doreen Carwithen's Bishop Rock, depicting the westernmost lighthouse in the British Isles, is full of the dramatic writing also heard in her film scores
🏎️ Meanwhile, our programme notes look at how Ruth Gipps's string writing echoes the pace of the zippy sports car she loved to drive
Tickets are available here www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/kensin...
It’s a 3pm start on Sunday afternoon!
🧍♀️🧍♀️🧍♀️We’re back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Sunday afternoon for a performance full of girl power
📘 Grab a programme to learn more about the unfairly overlooked 20th-century British composers Doreen Carwithen and Ruth Gipps
Currently sold out but a few more tickets will be available here later today www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/kso-fi...
🎻 Get to know our longtime violinist Bronwen Fisher in our Meet the Orchestra programme feature @sinfoniasmithsq.bluesky.social today
🎺 She reveals which concerto she'd most like KSO to perform – and she already has a special soloist lined up for it, too…
🇷🇺 We pay tribute to Rodion Shchedrin, who died in August, by performing his 'Naughty Limericks' in our opening concert of 2025/26
🩰 Pick up a programme @sinfoniasmithsq.bluesky.social to find out more about the Russian composer and his late, great Soviet ballerina wife
Monday evening at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social, Westminster. www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/kso-fi...
🇨🇿 We're also performing Martinů's Les fresques de Piero della Francesca, inspired by the Italian master's early Renaissance frescoes
🎨 Get a programme to see the stunning works that so struck the composer when he saw them in Arezzo, Tuscany, in 1954
KSO's concert flyer for Monday 6 October 2025 at Smith Square Hall. The image shows an original costume design for The Firebird by Leon Bakst, 1910 in orange and gold.
We're back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday to kick off our season with Stravinsky's The Firebird – the complete ballet
📘 Grab a programme for a full synopsis and to learn how the work catapulted the composer to international fame
Our 2025-26 season in full. We bring you music by John Adams & James MacMillan; Brahms, Copland, Dvořák, Grieg, Nielsen & Stravinsky as well as lesser know pieces by Elfrida Andrée, Doreen Carwithen & Ruth Gipps
We begin our 2025/26 season with a performance of Stravinsky’s complete ballet The Firebird at @sinfoniasmithsq.bluesky.social
The concert opens with Rodion Shchedrin’s Concerto for Orchestra No.1, ‘Naughty Limerocks’ which is followed by Martinů’s Les fresques de Piero della Francesca
🎵 Get to know our longtime tuba player Neil Wharmby in our Meet the Orchestra programme feature @cadoganhall.bsky.social on Monday
⭐ He reveals his top KSO concerts of the past 35 years, from his unique perspective at the back of the band
🎹 We're thrilled to be joined by pianist Firoze Madon for Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini on Monday
📘 Grab a programme @cadoganhall.bsky.social to read about this former BBC Young Musician keyboard finalist
🇷🇺 In a programme of Russian greats, we're serving up a double helping of Rachmaninov, including his famous Paganini Variations
🌊 We're also playing The Sea and the Seagulls, plus Lyadov's terrifying Kikimora @cadoganhall.bsky.social on Monday
🇷🇺 We're back at @cadoganhall.bsky.social on Monday to perform Shostakovich's Symphony No.1 – a masterpiece written when he was just 18
📘 Get a programme to learn how the work, championed by fellow composer Glazunov, brought him international fame
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Next concert on Monday 30 June at
@cadoganhall.bsky.social
Lyadov, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations with recent #BBC #YoungMusician finalist Firoze Madon
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Let’s set this place up for a Bruckner-sized orchestra!
If you’re looking for a ticket for our Bruckner 7 concert this evening at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social we’ve managed to make a few more seats available
Just 6 left now though and once they’re gone, they’re gone
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🎵 Get to know our longtime cellist Annie Marr-Johnson in our Meet the Orchestra programme feature @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday
🌞 She reveals her top KSO concerts of the past 30 years – plus her spectacular choice for the piece we should play next…
🇩🇪 We're thrilled to be joined by guest conductor Leonard Elschenbroich to perform Bruckner @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday
🍃 Grab a programme to find out more (while enjoying the fantastic tremolo that this great cellist has worked on with us)