WEST LONDON SINFONIA

West London Sinfonia is an amateur orchestra with ambition and passion. Our players, many of whom work in music or music education, come from all over London. Most of our players have non-music day jobs, but for all of us, making music is an important part of our lives. We perform a wide programme of music with a concentration on larger orchestral works from the 19th (especially late 19th) and early 20th centuries. We regularly perform with world class soloists, and we are fortunate to have Philip Hesketh as our musical director and Iwona Boesche as our leader... The season started on Saturday 14th October, when our leader Iwona Boesche played the Tchaikovsky violin concertos - one of the great romantic violin concertos - to a packed church. Also on the programme was Saint-Saens' equally well-known "Organ" symphony. The rest of the season promises a varied and exciting programme including Mahler's 5th Symphony (with its famous Adagietto featured in Visconti's film "Death in Venice"),..