London Schools Symphony Orchestra
- 7.30pm
About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music | Guildhall Young Artists | London Schools Symphony Orchestra
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- From £11, £17, £22, £27
- Date, time and location:
- , 7.30pm in Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon, CR0 1JD
Event information
The London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO), considered one of the finest youth orchestras in the world, returns with a vivid new programme inspired by the sea this September at Fairfields Hall in Croydon.
LSSO Conductor in Residence Sitali Dewan opens the evening with Ethel Smyth's turbulent Overture to "The Wreckers". Enyi Okpara will then take to the podium for John Pickard's Sea-Change - a work written for ambitious young musicians, drawing out subtler shifts in mood and colour. Anna Clyne's Restless Oceans follows on, a piece of contemporary defiance inspired by Audre Lorde's poem "A Woman Speaks", in which the musicians are called on to sing and stamp their feet as well as play, standing united. The evening turns to legend with Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, a shimmering orchestral retelling of Sinbad's voyages across the Arabian seas.
Moving through turbulence and triumph to defiance and myth, this is a programme that mirrors the sea itself, charting a journey between classical and contemporary stories - from the crash of Smyth's shipwreck drama, through Pickard's shifting tides and Clyne's restless waters, to the swell and sweeping waves of Rimsky-Korsakov's Arabian voyage.
Programme & Performers
Ethel Smyth - Overture to "The Wreckers" (10 minutes)
John Pickard - Sea-Change (20 minutes)
Anna Clyne - Restless Oceans (5 minutes)
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, Op 35 (47 minutes)
London Schools Symphony Orchestra
Enyi Okpara conductor
Sitali Dewan LSSO Conductor in Residence
""Their recipe for magic lies in creating a diverse space of musical discovery, growth and collaboration.."
Meet Sitali Dewan, LSSO Conductor in Residence for 2025/2026
