Sinfonia Smith Square announces autumn season

Sinfonia Smith Square has revealed details of its upcoming autumn season, its first since rebranding earlier this year. The upcoming season will include classical music for all ages as well as showcasing emerging artists and offering new ways to experience the artform.

The programme will feature the orchestra’s Rush Hour Concert series, offering commuters the chance to enjoy classical music at an affordable price, with tickets at just £2 on the door. The first concert in the series will feature works by Jesse Montgomery and Beethoven, with a focus on the unifying power of music.

The #ConcertLab series will also continue in the upcoming season with an immersive Orchestral Forest concert combining classical music with forest recordings, lighting and movement. Audiences will be interspersed among the orchestra and free to walk between the players, to experience a soundscape which advocates for re-wilding which reflects the organisation’s dedication to becoming carbon zero.

In November, Sinfonia Smith Square will present Stories, with the ensemble’s 34 musicians presenting the music that has shaped their lives. The group will also present their Thursday Lunchtime Concert series with performers including Ryan Wigglesworth and ensembles from the Royal Academy of Music, as well as organ recitals and vocal performances.

For the Christmas season, Sinfonia Smith Square will present A Pembroke Christmas with Anna Lapwood MBE and The Choirs of Pembroke College, as well as Christmas with Eric Whitacre and the Eric Whitacre Singers, and a family concert The Snowman and The Snowdog as well as Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment presenting Bach’s retelling of the nativity story. On 7 December will see Tom Morris OBE direct a dramatized , in-the-round performance of Handel’s Messiah.