New Music Now: 2018/19 Season

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NOW NOW

2018/19

“THE WORLD’S TOP NEW-MUSIC ENSEMBLE” THE TIMES

The London Sinfonietta has an extraordinary history which was hugely rewarding to explore and celebrate last season as we turned 50. And yet the only way to honour that tradition is now to move on – keep making new work and forming new partnerships which allow the transformative power of new music to reach and inspire more people. New music is now so diverse, and so too has become our programme. We are marking Armistice Day 100 years on because the tragic lessons of the First World War must inform our present. We are collaborating with other art forms as it is a fantastic way today to engage an ever wider audience. And we will be working even harder for young people in education, as the school curriculum increasingly marginalises the arts and music.

We are moving on from our anniversary by engaging with where we are now, and making new music a relevant and important part of our society’s future.

Andrew Burke Chief Executive & Artistic Director

Contents

About us

London Sinfonietta at a Glance Our Players Our Supporters

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New Music – Now This season’s commissions and premieres Sapiens SoundState Richard Ayres: The Garden

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Where Music and Theatre Meet Cross-genre collaborations Passion Stockhausen: Donnerstag aus Licht

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Commemorating Armistice Musical Reflections on the First World War Maudite soit la guerre Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

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Contemporary Classics Reich: Music For 18 Musicians

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New Music for Everyone Take part in our work CONNECT: The Audience as Artist

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Passing the Message On New Music Education Sound Out Schools Concert

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Nurturing New Talent Inspiring the next generation of artists Stockhausen: Donnerstag aus Licht London Sinfonietta Academy

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WE MAKE NEW MUSIC, FROM CUTTING EDGE COLLABORATIONS TO CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS

“THE LONDON SINFONIETTA DOESN’T DO NOSTALGIA” NEW YORK TIMES

“THE WORLD’S TOP NEW-MUSIC ENSEMBLE” THE TIMES

IN 2018 ALONE, WE COMMISSIONED 22 NEW MUSIC WORKS, FROM 29 DIVERSE COMPOSERS

LONDON SINFONIETTA AT A GLANCE OVER 250,000 PEOPLE HAVE PLAYED OUR STEVE REICH’S CLAPPING MUSIC APP! WHY NOT GIVE IT A GO YOURSELF?

“NOT YOUR AVERAGE NIGHT AT THE MUSICAL MUSEUM” THE GUARDIAN

“ALREADY A FEW STEPS AHEAD” FINANCIAL TIMES

EACH YEAR WE REACH OVER 2,000 SCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH OUR SOUND OUT EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Our Players

Jonathan Morton © Xingkun Yang

Michael Cox flute (supported by Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner) Gareth Hulse oboe Mark van de Wiel clarinet (supported by Régis Cochefert) John Orford bassoon Simon Haram saxophone Michael Thompson horn (supported by Belinda Matthews)

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Enno Senft double bass (supported by Tony Mackintosh) Helen Tunstall harp David Hockings percussion Ian Dearden Sound Intermedia (supported by Penny Jonas) David Sheppard Sound Intermedia (supported by Penny Jonas)

You can support one of our Principal Players as a member of the Sinfonietta Circle, receive exclusive benefits and form a special relationship with our musicians.

Find out more at londonsinfonietta.org.uk/support-us

Helen Tunstall © Domizia Salusest

Enno Senft © Martin Cervenansky

Alistair Mackie trumpet Byron Fulcher trombone Jonathan Morton violin 1 (supported by Paul & Sybella Zisman) Paul Silverthorne viola (supported by Nick & Claire Prettejohn) Tim Gill cello (supported by Sir Stephen Oliver QC)

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Josephine Stephenson, one of London Sinfonietta’s Writing The Future composers © Brian Sweeney / Spitalfields Music

New Music – Now

Illuminating the present has never been more vital. These are fast, exhilarating and often unnerving times, where life – and attitudes – can change as quickly as the tide. In 50 years of music-making, the London Sinfonietta’s mission has always been rooted in celebrating the new. And there has never been a more open and fertile opportunity to do so. The orchestra’s 51st season is teeming with cross-cultural life, with programmes that revel in today’s diverse artistic landscape, and compelling stories that demand to be told right now. Irreverent, conceptual theatre pieces such as Richard Ayres’ The Garden sit alongside the elegant poetics of Colin Matthews’ Blatný song cycle, its themes of

exile and belonging deeply connected to today’s turbulent times. In a season that ripples with new ideas and new collaborations, Southbank Centre’s SoundState festival explores what it means to cross borders, to share ideas and dissolve boundaries, celebrating innovation and originality in new music of today. And while tomorrow remains as yet unguessable, the ensemble’s Writing the Future programme offers us a tantalising glimpse into what it may hold in store. This is a time of vitality and immediacy.

This is now.

By Jo Kirkbride

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Elaine Mitchener in Cave, 2018 Š London Sinfonietta and Royal Opera House. Photo by Manuel Harlan

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Akilah Mantock as ‘Young Hannah’ in Cave © London Sinfonietta and ROH. Photo by Manuel Harlan

Where Music and Theatre Meet

Music has always flirted with other artforms – theatre, dance, visual art – but the sheer diversity of contemporary culture has opened up the concert hall in new and unexpected ways. In the UK, the London Sinfonietta has led the charge to reinvent the concert platform, transforming it into a vibrant, inspiring space where artforms meet and collide, telling familiar stories afresh and bringing new stories to life.

A new association with Music Theatre Wales forms the backbone of the Passion tour, in which the Orpheus myth is turned on its head and retold

in this exquisite part-ballet-part-opera about passion and separation. And in 2019, after more than 30 years, Stockhausen’s Donnerstag aus Licht returns to the UK – a work that forces us to rethink everything we understand about opera. Produced with Southbank Centre, this monumental spectacle for dancers, singers, orchestra and recorded tape, is a stark reminder that there are no limits to collaboration except our own imagination.

By Jo Kirkbride

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Passion Saturday 13 October, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Tickets £18, £24, £30 (plus booking fee) Pascal Dusapin Passion

Music Theatre Wales and National Dance Company Wales present a new dance-opera by Pascal Dusapin In this searingly beautiful and sensuous work for voice and body, Dusapin explores the pain and passion of two lovers forced apart to separate worlds. Inspired by the myth of Orpheus but with an intriguing contemporary take – she is the one who wants to be followed. Mixed with the haunting sounds of harpsichord and Arabic Oud, Dusapin’s gleaming, shifting score conveys a timeless world within which the movement of dancers and singers can play out their story of loss and desire.

Jennifer France soprano (Her) Johnny Herford baritone (Him) Geoffrey Paterson conductor EXAUDI vocals London Sinfonietta Michael McCarthy & Caroline Finn directors Simon Banham design Joe Fletcher lighting Sound Intermedia sound design, from an original concept by Thierry Coduys Also on tour to The Anvil, Basingstoke (11 October); Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (23 October); Snape Maltings, Suffolk (30 October); The Lowry, Salford (6 November); Theatr Clwyd, Mold (10 November) A co-production by Music Theatre Wales and National Dance Company Wales, created in association with the London Sinfonietta

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Mark Padmore in Cave, 2018 Š London Sinfonietta and Royal Opera House. Photo by Manuel Harlan

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Commemorating Armistice

War has influenced music in ways too numerous and wide-ranging to fully comprehend. From composers that served and died on the frontline, their music a reminder of the sacrifices made for their country, to those who survived but were forever plagued by its memory, their works altered beyond recourse by the devastating effects of conflict. But music has also played a key role in difficult times too, boosting morale at home and on the battlefield, and offering space for hope and healing in times of despair.

In 2018, as we mark 100 years since the end of the First World War, it is music that we turn to once more as we come together in

remembrance and reflect on the prospect of peace. Alfred Machin’s striking silent anti-war film, Maudite soit la guerre, released in 1914, is reimagined for the 21st century with Olga Neuwirth’s powerful new orchestral score, its message today just as a relevant as ever. While on Remembrance Sunday itself, the London Sinfonietta perform Henryk Górecki’s minimalist Symphony No.3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), a heartrending lament about love and loss, which offers a poignant reminder to us all about the fragility of life itself.

By Jo Kirkbride

Maudite soit la guerre

A film music war requiem The visionary film-maker Alfred Machin’s Maudite soit la guerre is one of the earliest pacifist films, released in 1914 just one month before the outbreak of the First World War. Nearly 100 years later in 2013, Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth was compelled to write a score for the film, fusing traditional silent-film piano accompaniments with brusque strings and creeping electric guitar to bring its spirit to life. Maudite soit la guerre “reminds us how valuable, fragile and finite life is” says Neuwirth.

As part of the 2018 Armistice commemorations, come and share in this poignant and startling depiction of war, with Neuwirth’s heart-rending score bringing it firmly into the 21st century.

“Exquisitely played by the ensemble, Neuwirth’s music fades as though blurred by time and tears” The Times on our performance of Maudite soit la guerre at Aldeburgh Festival 2017 Thursday 1 November, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Tickets £15, £20 (plus booking fee) Limited £5 Curious? tickets available for ages 16-25 Arnold Schoenberg Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte Op.41 Olga Neuwirth Maudite soit la guerre (2014) Live score accompanying the 1914 silent film by Alfred Machin Alan Ewing Reciter Gerry Cornelius conductor London Sinfonietta

Still from Maudite soit la guerre © Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique

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Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs 100 years: Freedom and Rememborance Experience Henryk Górecki’s profoundly moving Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, one of the most iconic pieces of the late 20th century, on Armistice Day. A symphony of three movements, Górecki’s Third contemplates war through the perspective of a grieving parent or child. It features three Polish texts, from a 15th century lament of Mary - Mother of Jesus, to an 18-year-old woman’s inscription on the wall of a Polish Gestapo cell, and a Silesian folk song expressing a mother’s grief during the uprisings of 1919–1921.

Former Music Director David Atherton conducts the orchestra and soprano Elizabeth Atherton stars in this special performance commemorating 100 years since the end of the First World War, and the formation of an independent Poland.

Sunday 11 November, 12 noon Royal Festival Hall Tickets £12, £18, £25 (plus booking fee) Limited £5 Curious? tickets available for ages 16-25 Krzysztof Penderecki Fanfare For Orchestra (UK Premiere) Henryk Górecki Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) David Atherton conductor Elizabeth Atherton soprano London Sinfonietta Part of 100 for 100. Musical Decades of Freedom, a worldwide PWM Edition project to celebrate 100 years of Polish Independence.

This concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3

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Sapiens Sapiens Sapiens Friday 7 December, 7.45pm Purcell Room Tickets £20 (plus booking fee) £5 Curious? tickets available for ages 16–25

Inseparable Imaginations Mark Bowden’s new saxophone concerto is inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s extraordinary bestselling history of humankind; Sapiens. It forms part of an evening exploring the fascinating links between musical composition and literature, presented by journalist and writer Bidisha. Also featuring the world premiere of Colin Matthews’ As Time Returns, a new setting of poems by Ivan Blatný, a Czech poet who was exiled to England in 1948, this varied evening of music and discussion will give you food for thought.

Programme includes Mark Bowden Sapiens (world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission) Oliver Knussen Songs Without Voices Colin Matthews As Time Returns (world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission) Bidisha presenter Jessica Cottis conductor Simon Haram saxophone London Sinfonietta Post-concert conversation, Purcell Room Bidisha talks to composers Mark Bowden and Colin Matthews about their new works and literary inspirations.

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SoundState “Beautiful, distant and compelling” The Guardian on our performance of Dillon’s Stabat Mater dolorosa

James Dillon’s Tanz/haus: triptych 2017 Discover fresh sounds from cutting edge British music creators as we perform premieres by Oliver Leith and Josephine Stephenson – two of our talented Writing the Future composers – and James Dillon’s music-theatre of the mind, Tanz/haus: triptych 2017, which made such an impact at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival last year. Produced by the London Sinfonietta as part of Southbank Centre’s SoundState festival, this concert represents the exciting talent hailing from the UK today.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Tickets £15, £20 (plus booking fee) £5 Curious? Tickets available for ages 16–25 Josephine Stephenson new work (world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission) Oliver Leith new work (world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission) James Dillon Tanz/haus: triptych 2017 Jonathan Berman conductor Sound Intermedia London Sinfonietta

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Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

Masterful Minimalism With its pulsating rhythms, cyclical chords, and shifting harmonics, Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians has become one of the most iconic works of American minimalism. Experience this absorbing music in an all-Reich evening, performed by some of his finest interpreters in the world – the London Sinfonietta, together with Synergy Vocals. The evening also features the first UK concert performance of his 2016 ballet score Runner first performed as part of choreographer Wayne McGregor’s Multiverse.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Tickets £10, £15, £25, £30 (plus booking fee) Limited £5 Curious? tickets available for ages 16–25 Steve Reich Clapping Music, Runner for large ensemble (First UK concert performance), Music for 18 Musicians Andrew Gourlay conductor Micaela Haslam rehearsal director Synergy Vocals London Sinfonietta Supported by The Amphion Foundation Also on tour to Symphony Hall, Birmingham (13 February 2019), St David’s Hall, Cardiff (14 February 2019), Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham (15 February 2019)

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Royal Academy of Music students and London Sinfonietta players in rehearsal for Thomas Adès In Seven Days, Royal festival Hall, 2017 © Claudia Greco

Nurturing New Talent

On the Royal Festival Hall stage for the London Sinfonietta’s 50th Anniversary Concert, alongside the world-class conductors Vladimir Jurowski, George Benjamin and David Atherton, and the virtuosos of the ensemble, were alumni musicians from the London Sinfonietta Academy – a prestigious training programme for early-career musicians who want to cut their teeth on contemporary repertoire. This was a bold statement for the London Sinfonietta – whose Academy has just celebrated 10 years – showing a commitment to supporting the next generation’s best musicians, employing them regularly in its concert work and ensuring

the established players of the ensemble can pass on their performing tradition. The London Sinfonietta also partners regularly with the Royal Academy of Music, and in recent seasons has performed side-by-side with its Manson Ensemble with titanic Stockhausen works including Gruppen (2013), Hymnen (2015) and Trans (2017). Next up is the turn of Donnerstag aus Licht – Stockhausen’s fourth opera in his epic Licht cycle. It will be the first time the UK has seen it since 1985 and – doubtless – we’re in for a treat!

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New Music For Everyone

Participants at our 2016 CONNECT conference Š N Collins

Royal Ballet Project

Why new music? Why not the familiar, celebrated works of Bach, Mozart, Brahms or Beethoven, instead of the new, the challenging, the untested, the unknown? For half a century now the London Sinfonietta has championed new music because it is of our time. New music speaks to contemporary culture, it connects individuals, families and communities, it expresses what is current, fresh and vital, unhampered by expectations or tradition. New music has the power to cross borders and unite

cultures, to create outlets where there are none, and even to transform lives. But if new music is to stay relevant then participation is vital. Now in its third year, CONNECT invites listeners of all ages and backgrounds not just to listen but to be part of the music-making itself. CONNECT invites everyone to have their say, to create the score, to write the next chapter of history.

By Jo Kirkbride

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Connect: The Audience As Artist

Saturday 16 March 2019, 4pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Tickets Free (booking required) Oscar Bianchi ORANGO (UK premiere) Jonathan Stockhammer conductor London Sinfonietta

Be part of a brand new piece of music The third in a series of new music works that involve the public in their very making, this afternoon of workshops, installations and concerts takes a new work by Italian composer Oscar Bianchi as its focus. Audiences of all ages can get involved in music-making in this free afternoon of events.

CONNECT is a European-wide project to create and perform new compositions which involve the public in their realisation. Oscar Bianchi’s work will also be performed around Europe by the project’s other ensembles: Asko|Schönberg in Amsterdam, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt and Remix Ensemble Casa da Música in Porto.

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Sound Out Schools Concert

New Music for Schools Our Sound Out schools education programme continues this season with two primary school concerts at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. Featuring iconic works from the new music repertoire alongside a world premiere piece composed by secondary school children, these concerts will inspire your pupils and generate ideas for developing their composition skills in the classroom. Joining the London Sinfonietta on stage will be young players from secondary schools in the London boroughs of Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest.

Monday 25 March 2019 Queen Elizabeth Hall Tickets ÂŁ5 per child (teachers go free) To find out more and book a place for your school, please contact info@londonsinfonietta.org.uk

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School percussion workshops as part of Radio Rewrite, 2013

Passing The Message On

“I didn’t like it, I LOVED it” Pupil at Lea Valley Primary School on our Sound Out primary schools concert, 2018 The London Sinfonietta has been flying the flag for new music education since 1983, with a programme of projects that reaches schools, prisons and just about anywhere possible.

Nowadays, with music driven down the priority list on the curriculum (and contemporary classical nearly non-existent) the London Sinfonietta focuses its efforts on encouraging as many school children as possible to listen to, play and compose new music. Its Sound Out programme, which began last year as the ensemble turned 50, returns this season with an even bigger scope, featuring in-school concerts, composition workshops and instrumental masterclasses running from September –

March in secondary schools across Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest. It culminates with the world premiere of their new work at two primary school concerts at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. Andrew Burke, London Sinfonietta’s Chief Executive and Artistic Director holds music education close to his heart: “We can’t hope to reach everyone, but if the example of the past shows anything, orchestras can positively change practice and policy in education. There has never been a time where more co-ordinated effort is needed again to make that difference.”

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Richard Ayres:

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Trouble in paradise A dissatisfied man digs down from his garden to hell, then all the way up to heaven in search of meaning. Richard Ayres’ new semi-staged music theatre piece No.50 (The Garden) is an irreverent and darkly comic tale for our age, inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Dante’s Divine Comedy. Ayres’ distinctive style of extremes proved a sensation in his last semistaged concert work with the London Sinfonietta; In the Alps (2010) and his latest is sure to offer a truly memorable experience, created to mark the ensemble’s 50th Anniversary.

Wednesday 17 April 2019, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Tickets £15, £25 (plus booking fee) Limited £5 Curious? tickets available for ages 16–25 Richard Ayres No. 50 (The Garden) (UK premiere of a London Sinfonietta co-commission) Geoffrey Paterson conductor Joshua Bloom bass Sound Intermedia London Sinfonietta Commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and Asko|Schönberg with initial development funded by The Royal Opera

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Stockhausen: Donnerstag aus Licht Tuesday 21 & Wednesday 22 May 2019, 6.30pm Royal Festival Hall Tickets £15, £25, £40, £55, £70 (plus booking fee) Karlheinz Stockhausen Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light)

A Cosmic Saga For the first time since 1985, Stockhausen’s monumental opera Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) returns to the UK. Maxime Pascal conducts the combined forces of Le Balcon, the London Sinfonietta, the New London Chamber Choir and students from the Royal Academy of Music’s Manson Ensemble, in a new production directed by Benjamin Lazar.

A great avant-garde innovator, Stockhausen only turned to opera aged 50. He spent 26 years developing his seven-part epic, the Licht cycle, which explored the story of mankind as a cosmic saga, and linked each opera to a day of the week, a celestial body and a colour.

Donnerstag (Thursday, Jupiter, bright blue) is the fourth opera in the cycle and follows the story of Michael, an angel in human form, as he relives the composer’s childhood, learns music, grows up, falls in love, travels around the world and overcomes the forces of evil.

Le Balcon London Sinfonietta Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble Maxime Pascal conductor Henri Deléger Michael, trumpet Damien Bigourdan Michael, tenor Emmanuelle Grach Michael, dancer Iris Zerdoud Eve, basset horn Léa Trommenschlager Eve, soprano Elise Chauvin Eve, soprano Mathieu Adam Lucifer, trombone Damien Pass Lucifer, bass Victor Virnot Lucifer, dancer Alphonse Cemin piano Alice Caubit clarinet Ghislain Roffat basset horn, clarinet Simon Guidicelli double bass New London Chamber Choir Florent Derex sound projection Augustin Muller sound projection Please note that Stockhausen’s ‘Greeting’ that precedes Act 1 is performed at 6pm in the foyers of Royal Festival Hall. The ‘Farewell’ that concludes the opera is performed in the foyers as the audience exit the auditorium.

Produced by Southbank Centre in association with the London Sinfonietta and Royal Academy of Music.

Supported by The London Community Foundation and Cockayne – Grants for the Arts.

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London Sinfonietta Academy Showcase

Following a course of musical exploration alongside our Principal Players, talented young musicians from across the UK present their final performance, showcasing what the next generation have to offer. This London Sinfonietta Academy summer project is just part of the work we do across the year to support the professional development of the next generation of new music performers, which also includes workshops, masterclasses and more.

For full details and to find out about applications, visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/opportunities/academy

Sir George Benjamin coaches one of our Academy conductors, 2013

Discover the musicians of tomorrow

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Our Supporters

The London Sinfonietta would like to thank the following generous individuals and organisations for their ongoing support of our work.

Trusts & Foundations The Amphion Foundation Arts Council England Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust The Boltini Trust British Council Britten-Pears Foundation Chapman Charitable Trust The John S Cohen Foundation Cockayne – Grants for the Arts The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Ernest Cook Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation The Fenton Arts Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Help Musicians UK Hinrichsen Foundation Idlewild Trust John Ellerman Foundation Jerwood Charitable Foundation London Music Fund The London Community Foundation The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Newcomen Collett Foundation The Nugee Foundation PRS for Music Foundation The Roger and Ingrid Pilkington Trust The RVW Trust The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Corporate Partners Lark Music Honorary Patrons David Atherton OBE John Bird Sir Harrison Birtwistle Alfred Brendel KBE Gillian Moore CBE Nicholas Snowman OBE Entrepreneurs Mark Benson Sir Vernon Ellis Annabel Graham Paul Penny Jonas Tony & Criona Mackintosh Robert McFarland

Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Sir Stephen Oliver QC Matthew Pike Nick & Claire Prettejohn Paul & Sybella Zisman The London Sinfonietta Council Sinfonietta Circle Each of these donors supported a year of London Sinfonietta history as part of our 50th Anniversary 1968 David Atherton OBE & Nicholas Snowman OBE 1970 Frank & Linda Jeffs 1972 Robert McFarland 1973 Dennis Davis 1974 Camilla & Anthony Whitworth-Jones 1975 John Bird 1976 Patricia McLaren-Turner 1977 Janis Susskind OBE 1978 Walter A. Marlowe 1979 Tony Bolton 1980 Mark Thomas 1981 Michael McLaren-Turner 1982 Rosemary Gent 1984 Robert Clark & Susan Costello 1985 Louise Mitchell 1986 Stephen Williamson 1988 P.E. Duly 1990 Stephen & Dawn Oliver 1991 Régis Cochefert & Thomas Ponsonby 1992 Stephen Morris 1997 Rosie Oliver & Cathy Haynes 1999 Penny Jonas 2000 Tony & Criona Mackintosh 2001 Ruth Rattenbury 2002 John Hodgson 2003 Philip Meaden 2004 Professor Sir Barry Ife CBE 2009 Susan Grollet in memory of Mark Grollet 2010 Lucy de Castro & Nick Morgan 2012 Trevor Cook 2013 Antonia Till 2017 Paul & Sybella Zisman 2018 Lark Music Lead Pioneers John Bird Susan Costello (in memory of Robert Clark) Régis Cochefert Tony Mackintosh Belinda Matthews Stephen Morris Sir Stephen Oliver QC Antonia Till

Artistic Pioneers Anton Cox John Hodgson Nicholas Hodgson Walter A. Marlowe Julie Nicholls Simon Osborne Ruth Rattenbury David & Jenni Wake-Walker Margarita Wood Creative Pioneers Ian Baker Ariane Bankes Andrew Burke Jeremy & Yvonne Clarke Rachel Coldicutt Dennis Davis Richard & Carole Fries John Goodier Patrick Hall Chris Heathcote Andrew Hunt Frank & Linda Jeffs Philip Meaden Andrew Nash Malcolm Reddihough Frances Spalding Iain Stewart Mark Thomas Fenella Warden Jane Williams Plus those generous Lead, Artistic and Creative Pioneers who prefer to remain anonymous, as well as our loyal group of Pioneers.

Principal Players Michael Cox flute (supported by Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner) Gareth Hulse oboe Mark van de Wiel clarinet (supported by RĂŠgis Cochefert) John Orford bassoon Simon Haram saxophone Michael Thompson horn (supported by Belinda Matthews) Jonathan Morton violin 1 (supported by Paul & Sybella Zisman) Alistair Mackie trumpet Byron Fulcher trombone Paul Silverthorne viola (supported by Nick & Claire Prettejohn) Tim Gill cello (supported by Sir Stephen Oliver QC) Enno Senft double bass (supported by Tony Mackintosh)

Helen Tunstall harp David Hockings percussion David Sheppard Sound Intermedia (supported by Penny Jonas) Ian Dearden Sound Intermedia (supported by Penny Jonas) London Sinfonietta Council Paul Zisman chairman Andrew Burke RĂŠgis Cochefert Ian Dearden Annabel Graham Paul Alistair Mackie Belinda Matthews Jonathan Morton Matthew Pike Sally Taylor Ben Weston London Sinfonietta Ambassabadors Penny Jonas Tony Mackintosh Robert McFarland Philip Meaden Sir Stephen Oliver QC London Sinfonietta Staff Andrew Burke (Chief Executive & Artistic Director) Craig West (General Manager) Elizabeth Davies (Head of Finance) Natalie Marchant (Concerts & Projects Manager) Hannah Bache (Concerts & Touring Coordinator) Lindsay Wilson (Projects Manager) Christine Andrews (Participation & Learning Officer) Sam Delaney (Development Officer) Evie Fordham (Development Assistant) Rosanna Haas (Marketing Manager) Niamh Collins (Marketing Officer) Adam Flynn (Administration & Recordings Officer) Michelle Sharpe (Professional Placement Trainee) Freelance & Consultant Staff Hal Hutchison (Concert Manager) Lesley Wynne (Orchestra Personnel Manager) Tony Simpson (Lighting Designer) Maija Handover (sounduk PR) The London Sinfonietta is grateful to its auditors and accountants MGR Weston Kay LLP.

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