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Southbank Sinfonia in 2005
Violin I
supported by Barbara Abensur,
Carol Malone & Anna Yallop
Emily Steinitz
Sarah Colman
Stelios Chatziiosifidis
Matt Watson
Sophie Ryan
Helena Ruinard
Violin II
Sophie Appleton
Paul Barrett
Hao yi Tai
Rachel Rowntree
Viola
supported by Simon Yates
Samuel Burstin
Alexandra Urquhart
Sarah Chapman
Arun Menon
Cello
supported by Carla Tammenoms Bakker,
Don and Sue Guiney &
Jonathan and Teresa Sumption
Ken Ichinose
Sojung Lee
Antero Manocchi
Double Bass
supported by John Lewis Partnership
Dave Brown
Andy Marshall
Flute
supported by Lord Thomas of Gresford
Caroline Williams
Gareth McLearnon
Oboe
Lorna John
Jose Maria Azkue
Bassoon
supported by The Ulrich Family
Arkadiusz Adamczyk
Trumpet
supported by Baroness Cohen of Pimlico & an anonymous donor
Ross Brown
Alex Caldon
Bill Cooper
Timpani
supported by Joe Ryan
Amelia Jacobs
Continuo
Nicholas O'Neill
Music Director
Simon Over
Chairman
Michael Berman
General Manager
Paul Nicholson
Programme Director
Katharine Verney
Orchestral Manager
Jess Pearce
Friends and Fundraising
Elizabeth Hughes
Administrative Assistant
Lucy Leddington Wright |
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Southbank Sinfonia
This year Southbank Sinfonia celebrates its fifth anniversary. Since its establishment it has been widely welcomed throughout the music profession and beyond. A unique venture, the inspiration of Music Director, Simon Over, Southbank Sinfonia provides an intensive eight-month orchestral apprenticeship over eight months each year for 32 of the very best young graduates of UK music colleges. Its primary mission is to give the players, who each receive a bursary over the duration of the programme, additional skills and the experience to help smooth their way through the notoriously difficult transition period between conservatoire and the music profession. Southbank Sinfonia is increasingly recognised for its pioneering spirit, exploring and leading the way forward for the 21st-century musician.
In addition to performance and to specialist individual and ensemble coaching, Southbank Sinfonia players are offered many opportunities for professional development and are trained to undertake education projects in schools both near the orchestra's home in Waterloo and all over the country, wherever the orchestra tours. Partnerships formed with other musical and educational organisations are being developed year by year and are of great mutual benefit. As well as the Parliament Choir they include British Youth Opera, the Royal Opera House, the
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Brunel University, the Samling Foundation and Wells Cathedral School.
In 2007 Southbank Sinfonia will again give more than 90 orchestral and chamber performances all over the UK and in Italy. Thursday evening Rush Hour concerts in St John's Waterloo allow members of Southbank Sinfonia to explore and learn a wide range of repertoire over the season and work with many distinguished visiting conductors and soloists. Highlights of the year include an anniversary concert in Cadogan Hall in May conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, the orchestra's Patron, a concert on Ischia in July and a recording - Southbank Sinfonia's first - of Russian music, Prokofiev and Shchedrin, with Raphael Wallfisch as soloist.
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