Sinfonia Smith Square announces spring-summer programme

Sinfonia Smith Square has announced its spring-summer programme for 2025. The upcoming season promises the return of the organisation’s lunchtime concerts and ConcertLab series, an Easter Festival including the annual performance of Bach's St John Passion and live talks, debates, and discussion as well as a series of family concerts and workshops.

The season launches on 6 February with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade directed by Lee Reynolds, who returns to Sinfonia Smith Square following last year’s successful performances of Schoenberg’s Erwartung. The return of the venue’s ConcertLab series offers audiences a chance to immerse themselves in surround sound with ConcertLab: 360° (20 March) or in the music of Beethoven with ConcertLab: The Beethoven Project (24 April).

Sinfonia Smith Square associate artistic director Toby Chadd said: ‘This is a pivotal moment for London's musical scene, as two brilliant institutions combine. On the one hand, there's the vitality and boundary-crossing approach of Southbank Sinfonia, now Sinfonia Smith Square. On the other, Smith Square Hall (formerly St John's) has a formidable legacy of concert-giving and the finest acoustic in the capital. Bring them together, and there's the opportunity to create an artistic beacon which incubates and presents transformative musical experiences. I'm thrilled to be collaborating with our partners, players and team to imagine and deliver ambitious creative horizons for Sinfonia Smith Square.’

Sinfonia Smith Square’s popular lunchtime concert series returns with a two-for-one ticket deal and a performance from Sinfonia Smith Square's first ever organ fellow Benjamin Collyer, who presents a lunchtime recital on 27 February alongside fellow scholar Massimo Martone. Throughout the season, the venue will also partner with Intelligence Squared for live talks, debates, and discussion with industry experts as well as presenting a range of family concerts and workshops.

From 15 to 19 April, Sinfonia Smith Square will host an Easter Festival featuring Mozart’s Requiem performed by the combined forces of Sinfonia Smith Square and National Youth Voices, while Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment return to Smith Square for their annual performance of Bach's St John Passion and the London International Gospel Choir perform a range of gospel, funk, soul, jazz and pop music on 19 April.