Jacqui is leader of the London Firebird Orchestra. We asked her a few questions about her career to date and the importance of the role of an orchestral leader. 1. Your violin training took place at various high profile musical institutions in the UK. Who were your most influential teachers and for what reasons? All […]
Tickets are now on sale for London Firebird Orchestra’s next orchestral extravaganza with Fantasia at the magnificent St James’s Church in Sussex Gardens, Paddington on Wednesday 24 February. Sweeping strings and celestial harps capture the essence of England with Vaughan Williams’s hauntingly beautiful Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. In contrast, Elgar’s energetic and […]
Our 2015-16 season got off to a flying start with a packed audience at St Paul’s Covent Garden for the From Darkness To Light concert featuring violinist Jennifer Pike and conductor George Jackson. Fab concert tonight with @LondonFirebird and @jacksogh conducting. @ViolinJenny Jennifer Pike is a goddess. Can we do that again? 🙂 — Emily […]
Firebird is delighted to be welcoming back the winner of the 2015 Aspen Conducting Prize to conduct the 20th October concert. London-born George Jackson came to international attention after stepping in at short notice to make his Vienna Musikverein debut with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra in June 2013. Since then, George has worked with some of the world’s […]
The Firebird audience is in for a real treat on 20 October with the starring appearance of “Britain’s foremost young fiddler” (The Independent), Jennifer Pike. Jennifer has taken the musical world by storm with her unique artistry and compelling musical insight. She gained international recognition in 2002, when, aged just 12, she became the youngest-ever winner of […]
The new Firebird season has been launched an style at a special reception held at an impressive Kensington Gallery. Friends and Benefactors of the London Firebird Orchestra had the opportunity to meet the conductors, soloists and some of the orchestral players involved the forthcoming season at the prestigious event held at Gladwell & Patterson in Beauchamp Place. Artistic […]