In this edition we catch up with a selection of some of the wonderful musicians who have performed with the London Firebird Orchestra in the past season to hear more about what they have been up to in their careers and their plans for the year ahead…
Ben Voce is one of our orchestral viola players so we found out more about how Ben came to play with the London Firebird Orchestra.
London Firebird Orchestra’s 2016-17 season arrived at a fitting climax with Celestial Grandeur on 13 June and a packed out full house with hundreds in the audience in the beautiful setting of St Paul’s Covent Garden. Firebird Conductor’s Circle member Michael Thrift’s exuberant direction of the orchestra brought music by three of the ‘classical greats’ to life with Mozart’s mischievous overture to Le Nozze di […]
Take a closer look at Beethoven the symphonist after conductor Michael Thrift’s recent performance of one of the most recognisable pieces in the classical repertoire – Beethoven’s 5th symphony.
Phoebe Goddard’s London Firebird Orchestra debut performance in 2015 was with Beethoven’s 6th symphony with fellow Yehudi Menuhin School alumni, conductor Jonathan Bloxham. We find out more about the career of one of our orchestral musicians… Can you tell us something about your musical training? I was a student at the Yehudi Menuhin School for 11 years studying with Natasha Boyarsky and Lutsia Ibragimova. […]
Rocco Smith has been involved with London Firebird Orchestra playing flute and piccolo for nearly two years. Rocco was awarded a first class bachelors degree in music from the Royal College of Music. Firebird asked Rocco about his involvement with LFO… When I started playing with the orchestra I played fourth flute and piccolo. Over […]
What more of a sparkling opening to a concert could one wish for than the overture to Mozart’s most popular opera, The Marriage of Figaro. However this was a work which was very nearly never written as Nicholas Keyworth discovers.. The opera’s libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, […]
Our online box office is open for Celestial Grandeur on Tuesday 13 June which takes place back at our home venue of St Paul’s Covent Garden. Music on the grand scale sets the tone for this terrific finale to the 2016/17 season. After the overture to Mozart‘s mischievous opera Le Nozze di Figaro we will […]
Read about the welcome return to the podium of Australian conductor Michael Thrift with his upcoming programme of Mozart, Grieg and Beethoven.
Last week’s brilliant Firebird concert at St George’s Hanover Square took place in this historic and prestigious venue by popular demand from the orchestra’s Friends Society – and was a special evening to be remembered. Firebird’s Artistic Director, Marc Corbett-Weaver said of the event: It was wonderful to play this delightful programme in the musically historic and remarkable intimacy […]