LSO East London Academy Showcase 2025
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LSO St Luke's
The Concert
Dimitri Shostakovich The Gadfly Suite, Overture
Ayanna Witter-Johnson FAIYA!
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Othello Suite
Arturo Márquez Conga Del Fuego
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Summer is Gone arr for Brass Ensemble
Louise Farrenc arr Amy Crankshaw Nonet (arr Wind ensemble)
Damien Harron Okavango
Caryn Wiegand Neidhold Zephyr
Enyi Okpara conductor
LSO East London Academy Young Musicians
LSO Musicians
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Available to watch live on YouTube
The LSO East London Academy come together to present an evening of performances for full orchestra, string orchestra, brass ensemble, double wind quartet and percussion quartet.
Performances will include music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Arturo Márquez and more with musicians from the LSO East London Academy and LSO, conducted by Enyi Okpara.
This showcase concert marks the culmination of a 2-year intensive coaching programme for our string members, and the end of our wind, brass and percussion players’ first term on the programme. We invite you to celebrate the hard work of these inspirational young East Londoners and next generation of musicians.
The LSO East London Academy celebrates the diversity of East London, particularly encouraging young musicians from backgrounds currently under-represented in professional orchestras and those that face barriers to high-level training.
Tickets for this concert are reserved for family and friends of the participants, but we warmly invite everyone to join us via the livestream on YouTube.
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