London Schools Symphony Orchestra

London’s premier youth orchestra returns to Milton Court with leading British conductor and violinist Christopher Warren-Green. 

Stravinsky’s Firebird was the work that drew him from Russia to Western Europe before he also travelled to the USA.

Reena Esmail is a leading young American composer. Her song orchestral song Ram Tori Maya is influenced and inspired by her Indian heritage. The LSSO is joined for this song by soloist Abira Shah and its Conductor in Residence for this year, Ammal Bhatia in his first appearance with the orchestra.

Ammal also conducts Graham Fitkin’s Metal. This energetic pop-inspired fanfare was composed for the opening of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. It references the ships bells in the port of Liverpool. 

Dvořák wrote his much loved New World Symphony whilst living and working in New York as Director of the National Conservatory of Music.

All the music references migration, something that has taken place throughout human existence.