LSO East London Academy Showcase 2025
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Sunday 30 November 2025 • 7.30pm
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The Concert
Dmitri Shostakovich
Overture: The Gadfly Suite
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Movements 1 and 3 from ‘Othello Suite’
Summer is Gone (arr Jim Maynard for brass ensemble)
Gustav Holst
Movement 1 from ‘St Paul’s Suite’
Louise Farrenc
Movement 3 from ‘Nonet’ (arr Amy Crankshaw for wind ensemble)
Percy Grainger
Shepherd’s Hey (arr Loras J Schissel for wind band)
Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon
Caryn Wiegand Neidhold
Zephyr
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
FAIYA!
Damien Harron
Okavango
Arturo Márquez
Conga del Fuego
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.
