Chorus Director Mariana Rosas
Chorus Director Emeritus Simon Halsey CBE
Associate Chorus Director Jack Apperley
Assistant Chorus Director Hilary Campbell
Daniel Mahoney
Vocal Coaches Norbert Meyn
Anita Morrison
Rebecca Outram
Robert Rice
Chair Chris Straw
Accompanist Benjamin Frost
President Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE
Vice President Michael Tilson Thomas
Patrons Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE
Howard Goodall CBE
Website: lsc.org.uk
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The London Symphony Chorus was founded in 1966 to complement the work of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). The LSC has performed with many leading orchestras: frequently with the LSO, and, also, with the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and, more recently, with Les Siècles, the South-Western Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) (Stuttgart) and with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela.
The 2024-2025 season’s concerts included Puccini’s La Rondine, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, Tippett’s A Child of Our Time and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Sir Antonio Pappano; Shostakovich’s 2nd Symphony ‘To October’ and Brahms’ Schicksalslied under Gianandrea Noseda; Mahler’s 2nd Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas; Symphonic Gospel under Dr André J Thomas; Mahler’s 3rd Symphony under Gustavo Dudamel; Mahler’s 8th Symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under Edward Gardner; and the UK premiere of No Friend But the Mountains under Joseph Young.
In recent seasons the LSC has performed Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Britten’s War Requiem under Sir Antonio Pappano; Orff’s Carmina Burana and Shostakovich’s 3rd and 13th Symphonies under Gianandrea Noseda; Mahler’s 3rd Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas; Szymanowski, Janáček and Brahms under Sir Simon Rattle; Schubert’s Mass in A flat, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe under François-Xavier Roth; Bruckner’s Te Deum under Nathalie Stutzmann; Holst’s The Planets under Jaime Martín; Debussy’s Nocturnes under Susanna Mälkki; The Dante Project under Thomas Adès and Koen Kessels at the Royal Opera House; Howard Goodall’s Never to Forget (online during lockdown and, subsequently, in St Paul’s Cathedral); Duruflé’s Requiem under Lionel Sow (chorus director of the Chœur de l’Orchestre de Paris); Julian Anderson’s Exiles, a joint LSO/LSC commission; and Errollyn Warren’s After Winter under Simon Halsey, the LSC’s Chorus Director Emeritus.
The LSC tours extensively in Europe. Recent tours have included Paris, Baden-Baden and Luxembourg under Sir Simon Rattle with the LSO; Monte Carlo and Aix-en-Provence under Kazuki Yamada with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; and Stuttgart, Berlin, Freiburg, Dortmund and Hamburg under Teodor Currentzis with the South-Western Radio (SWR) Symphony Orchestra.
With the LSO, the LSC performed Mahler and Bernstein in Maestro, the 2023 Oscar-nominated biopic of Leonard Bernstein, starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin as music advisor.
The LSC is an independent charity run by its members and it engages actively in the musical life of London and further afield. In addition to seeking new members and audiences it also commissions and performs new works. The LSC is an international ensemble, with members from over 25 countries.
Join the London Symphony Chorus
The LSC is an independent charity run by its members, and is committed to excellence, diversity, equity and inclusion, and the development of its members. It engages actively in the musical life of London, seeking new members and audiences, and commissioning and performing new works.
Visit lsc.org.uk to find about more about the Chorus and its work, and to apply.
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