London Symphony Orchestra

Not to be confused with The Symphony Orchestra or The London Synphonic Orchestra.
When used fictitiously (by Alfred Scholz or one of his pseudonyms), please use London Symphony Orchestra (2).

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest symphony orchestra based in London, England, UK.
The LSO was set up by a group of players who left l=https://www.discogs.com/artist/8226403-Queens-Hall-OrchestraHenry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services.
The LSO claims to be the world's most recorded orchestra; it has made gramophone recordings since 1912 and has played on more than 200 soundtrack recordings for the cinema, of which the best known include the 'Star Wars' series. The LSO is consistently ranked as one of the world's leading orchestras.
Since 1982, the LSO has been based in the Barbican Centre in the City of London.
Frequently mentioned together with London Symphony Chorus.

Principal conductors (1950 to present)
1950–54: Josef Krips
1961–64: Pierre Monteux
1965–68: István Kertész
1968–79: André Previn
1979–88: Claudio Abbado
1988–95: Michael Tilson Thomas
1995–2006: Sir Colin Davis
2006–15: Valery Gergiev
2017–present: Sir Simon Rattle (Music Director)

Please consider also the following orchestra's sub-groups:
- London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Group
- Members Of The London Symphony Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra Strings
- London Symphony Orchestra Brass
- London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
- LSO String Ensemble
- LSO Percussion Ensemble
- LSO Wind Ensemble
- Winds Of The London Symphony Orchestra

Membres actuels

Kira Doherty

Judith Fleet

Edward Vanderspar

Howard McGill

Rebecca Gilliver

David Alberman

Jennifer Brown (3)

Michael Jeans

Marcia Dickstein

Nigel Thomas (2)

Malcolm Johnston

Beverley Jones

David Cohen (2)

Enno Senft

Sam Walton

James Thatcher

Leslie Pearson

Chris Richards (3)

Louise Shackelton

Sylvain Vasseur

Robert Turner (2)

Matthew Gardner

David Ballesteros

Harriet Rayfield

David Jackson (5)

Carmine Lauri

Belinda McFarlane

Ginette Decuyper

Maxine Kwok

Claire Parfitt

Sarah Quinn

Gillianne Haddow

Daniel Jemison

Neil Percy

Sharon Williams (2)

Bryn Lewis

Christine Pendrill

Tom Norris

Elizabeth Pigram

Gareth Davies (5)

Tom Goodman (2)

Matthew Gibson (2)

Alastair Blayden

Laurent Quenelle

Rachel Gough

Chi-Yu Mo

Rhys Watkins

Eve-Marie Caravassilis

Jonathan Durrant

Timothy Jones (3)

Paul Robson (2)

Martin Field

Paul Milner (3)

Rosie Jenkins

Miwa Rosso

Alistair Scahill

Ben Griffiths

Dunja Bontek

Andrew Pollock

Patrick Laurence

London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Group

Paul Richards (7)

Gerald Gregory

Rachel Gledhill

London Symphony Orchestra Strings

Joost Bosdijk

Angela Barnes

William Melvin

Julia O'Riordan

Roman Simovic

Germán Clavijo

Tom Berry (5)

Daniel Gardner (3)

Ellie Fagg

David Vainsot

Paul Kimber

Iwona Muszynska

Valentina Bernardone

Jessie Anne Richardson

Peteris Sokolovskis

Julian Sperry

Laura Dixon

Jani Pensola

Amanda Truelove

Niall Keatley

Katherine Baker (3)

Jason Koczur

Michael Strecker

LSO String Ensemble

Members Of The London Symphony Orchestra

Simon Johnson (10)

Adam Wright (9)

Fraser Gordon

Victoria Irish

Anna Beryl

Csilla Pogàny

Sérgio Pires (2)

Naoko Keatley

Lander Echevarria

Peter Moore (16)

Alexander Edmundson

Clare Duckworth

Miya Vaisanen

LSO Percussion Ensemble

Adam Wynter

David McQueen

Simon Oliver (3)

Peter Smith (40)

Joe Melvin

Julian Gil Rodriguez

Olivier Stankiewicz

James Pillai

Ben Thomson (4)

Christopher Hart (2)

Ben Hulme

James Fountain (3)

Jonathan Maloney

Michael Fuller (5)

Diana Mathews

Janse van Rensburg

Anna Bastow

David Kendall (7)

Mark O'Leary (5)

Ken Ichinose

Juliana Koch

Finlay Bain

Laure Le Dantec

José Moreira (4)

Carol Ella

Daniel Finney (3)

Alec Harmon

Luca Casciato

Sofia Silva Sousa

Alix Lagasse

Julian Azkoul

Salvador Bolón

Joanna Twaddle

Mitzi Gardner

Rodrigo Moro Martín

Annie-May Page

Zoë Tweed

Stefano Mengoli

Imogen Royce

Daniel Curzon

Henrietta Cooke

May Dolan

Steve Doman (2)

Shelly Organ

Kaitlin Wild

LSO Wind Ensemble

Cynthia Blanchon

Caroline Frenkel

José Nuno Matias

Waynne Kwon

Simon Thompson (6)

Roger Cutts

Kristina Yumerska

Olivia Gandee

Josie Ellis (2)

Kai Kim

Silvestrs Kalniņš

Arvid Larsson (2)

Alexander Boukikov

Amadea Dazeley-Gaist

Gemma Riley

Jonathan Hollick

Gustav Melander

Alexander McFarlane

Mizohu Ueyama

Thomas Beer (2)

Angela Wee

Naori Takahashi

Patrycja Mynarska

Anciens membres

Natasha Wright

Geoffrey Downes

Bernard Partridge

Jack Brymer

Rebecca Hirsch

Nick Cooper

Tristan Fry

John Brown (2)

Martin Owen

Tom Edwards

Hugh Seenan

Paul Kegg

Stephen Saunders

Richard Bissill

Glyn Matthews

Fred Alexander

Hugh Bean

Maurice Murphy

James Galway

Harold Parfitt

Alan Dalziel

Neil Watson

Simon Haram

Simon Standage

Mike De Saulles

Barry Wilde

Ben Cruft

Bill Benham

David Theodore

Malcolm Smith

Roy Gillard

Michael McMenemy

Mike Frye

Daniel Newell

Alison Balsom

Nick Barr

Heather Wallington

Tim Good

John Rooke

John Kitchen

Gillian Thoday

Juliet Snell

John Davies (4)

Jeff Wakefield

David Nolan

Robin Firman

Peter Willison

James Watson (2)

Patrick Halling

Martin Robinson

Josephine Knight

John Ryan (3)

John Meek

Philip Hall

Richard Studt

Alan Downey (2)

Steve Henderson

Ralph Izen

John Franca

Roger Linley

Chris Green (4)

Roy Jowitt

Roy Carter (2)

Richard Clews

Moray Welsh

Cecil James

Edward Walker

Sidney Fell

John Burden

Ian Mackinnon

Andrew Marriner

Brendan O'Brien (2)

Ursula Gough

Maxine Moore

Janice Graham

Irvine Arditti

Stephen Wick

Marcia Crayford

Ernest Greaves

Maurice Loban

Jeff Bryant

Kim Mackrell

Basil Smart

Andrew McGee

David Measham

Owen Slade

Andrew McGavin

Ian Rowbotham

James Holland

Robert Noble

Thelma Owen

Forbes Henderson

Liz Parker

Gillian Findlay

William Armon

Anthony Camden

Jeremy Williams (2)

Takane Funatsu

Glynne Adams

Robert Retallick

Anthony Chidell

William Sumpton

Ray Adams (2)

Jack Long

Patrick Hooley (2)

Norman Archibald

Samuel Artis

Roger Lord

Donald Stewart

Arthur Griffiths

Eric Cuthbertson

David Cripps

Robin Brightman

Robert Bourton

Pashanko Dimitroff

Denis Wick

David Hume

William Lang

Kurt-Hans Goedicke

Gerald Newson

Francis Nolan

Richard Taylor (2)

John Marson

Brian Clarke (3)

Francis Saunders

Dennis Gaines

Michael Mitchell (3)

Warwick Hill

Jack Steadman

Ray Northcott

David Williams (8)

Thomas Storer

Peter Francis (2)

Sydney Colter

David Llewellyn

Brian Gaulton

James Quaife

Renata Scheffel-Stein

Eric Crees

Maurice Meulien

Clive Gillinson

John Cooper (4)

John Fletcher (2)

Neville Taweel

Robert Clark

Ronald Moore

Geoffrey Creese

Lowry Sanders

John Butterworth (2)

Thomas Swift

Thomas Cook

Douglas Cummings

Keith Glossop

Patrick Vermont

Graham Warren

Frank Mathison

William Krasnik

Min Yang

Valery Gergiev

Michael Davis (5)

Charles Ford

Eli Hudson

Edwin Hinchcliffe

Gilbert Barton

Jesse Stamp

Helena Wood (2)

David Pyatt

Max Spiers

Nick Worters

John Constable

Peter Lloyd (2)

Clare Hoffman

Michelle Bruil

Ruth Rogers

Gina Zagni

Stephen Rowlinson

Richard Blayden

Jonathan Welch

Norman Clarke

Evgeny Grach

Nicholas Wright

Nicholas Gethin

Duff Burns

Noel Bradshaw

Ian Rhodes

Ian McDonough

Colin Renwick

Nicole Wilson (2)

Michael Humphrey

Hilary Jones

Jorg Hammann

Elisabeth Varlow

Nigel Broadbent

Paul Silverthorne

Karen Vaughan

Regina Beukes

James Blades

Simon Wills (2)

Arthur Gleghorn

Benedict Hoffnung

Sir Neville Marriner

William Bennett (3)

Michael Winfield

Tim Hugh

John Georgiadis

Anthony Howard (2)

Roger Birnstingl

Barry Tuckwell

John Gray (7)

David Gray (6)

Hugh Maguire

Denis Vigay

Raymond Cohen

Jacques Mercier (3)

Byron Fulcher

Peter Manning

Osian Ellis

Granville Jones

Rodney Friend

Anthony Halstead

Adolf Lotter

Erich Gruenberg

Gervase de Peyer

John Wallace (4)

Hans Geiger

Eric Bowie

John Ronayne

David Chappel

Alexander Barantschik

Robin McGee

Dominic Morgan

Max Gilbert

Sidney Ellison

Dennis Clift

Cecil Aronowitz

James Christie

Norman Jones (2)

Herbert Downes

Anthony Collins (2)

Sidonie Goossens

Howard Snell

Harold Lester

Christopher Wellington

Robert Haydon Clark

Nicholas Hunka

Claire Smith

John Lawley

Jonathan Vaughan

James Maynard

Robert Hughes (3)

Patrick Harrild

Christopher Thomas (2)

Nigel Gomm

Axel Bouchaux

Amélie Theurillat

John Stenhouse

Catherine Edwards

Lennox Mackenzie

Jonathan Lipton

Mary Bergin

David Goodall

Gordon Hunt

Peter Norriss

Rebecca Kozam

Joyce Nixon

Gerald Ruddock

Dudley Bright

Simon Carrington (2)

David Archer

John Alley

Rinat Ibragimov

Kathryn Saunders

Marie Goossens

Bernard Walton (2)

Ashley Arbuckle

Bernard Reillie

Harry Blech

Nelson Cooke

Sarah Brooke

Lindsay Shilling

Alain Petitclerc

John Hill (8)

Julian Cummings

Geoffrey Palmer (2)

Raymond Ovens

Russell Gilbert

Alan Hammond

Martin Chivers

Stephen Trier

Max Salpeter

Martin Gatt

Leo Birnbaum

Gwyn Edwards

Peter Benson

Brian Smith (12)

Brian Thomas (4)

Paul Edmund Davies

James Ellis (3)

Kate Wilson (2)

Penny Driver

William Waterhouse

John Bimson

Nora Cismondi

Roger Brenner

Adrian Adlam

Benjamin Roskams

Alexander Murray (2)

Denis Blyth

Kenneth Heath

Kenneth Skeaping

Hale Hambleton

Kevin Nutty

Frank Rycroft

Timothy Lines

Kenneth King (2)

Stephanie Gonley

Joel Quarrington

Clarence Atkinson

Sue Kinnersley

Simon Hetherington

Barry Davis

Douglas Powrie

Bruce Mollison

Martin Jackson (2)

Richard Holttum

Stanley Castle

Paul Marrion

William Brown (9)

Rod McGrath

Alexander Taylor

Roger Welch

Alan Smyth (2)

Matthew Barley

Terry Johns

Jez Wiles

Leslie Hatfield

Kieron Moore

Gordan Nikolitch

David Johnson (15)

Kenneth Law

Russell Jordan

Denzil Floyd

Arthur Wilson (3)

Nicholas Maxted-Jones

David Ellis (2)

Malcolm Hall

Roger Groves

John Ford (5)

Jack Lees

Dennis Nesbitt

Stephen Shingles

Francisco Gabarro

Gordon MacKay

Elizabeth Randell

Michael Cox (3)

Jocelyn Lightfoot

Emanuel Abbühl

Malcolm Stewart

Hugh Sparrow

Lawrence Leonard

Lionel Bentley

Colin Horton

Dominic Weir

Michael Hirst

Ray Parmigiani

Michael Angress

Terence Morton

Paul Laurence (3)

James Potter (2)

John Forrester (2)

Christopher Nicholls (2)

Cyril Reuben (2)

Jim Douglas (2)

David Miles (4)

Brian Evans (6)

Ray Brown (8)

Nick Rodwell

Hazel Mulligan

Eugene Cruft

Evelyn Rothwell

G. Wareham

John Ansell

Steve Mair

Rod Franks

Andriy Viytovych

Maya Iwabuchi

Alexei Sarkissov

Alan Stringer

Martin Parry (2)

Gerald Jarvis

James Merrett

Peter Harvey (2)

Kevin Rundell

Saskia Otto

William Henry Reed

Brendan Thomas

Emma Pritchard

Walter Lear

Willem de Mont

Jeremy Cornes

Laurence Rogers

Ronald Waller

David Martin (23)

Patrick Milne (2)

Peter Mallinson

Peter Greenham

Paul Mayes

Helena Smart

James Gregory (2)

Robert McIntosh

Stephen Wardle

Heather Birks

Karen Bradley

Michael Spencer (4)

Pierre Bensaid

Rebecca Scott (2)

Caroline O'Neill

William Haskins

Colin Paris

Ruth Ross

Peter Muscant

Gordon Neal

Max Weber (2)

William Martin (2)

Stuart Knussen

Frederick Dyson

John Duffy (4)

Max Burwood

Harold Lythell

Peter Gane

Roy Robertson (3)

Håkan Ehrén

Stephen Waters

William Reid (5)

Gerald Emms

Paul Sherman (2)

Samuel Lewis (2)

Joy Hall

George Turnlund

Gabrielle Painter

John Cave (3)

Thomas Martin (5)

Mike Kidd (3)

John Gould (5)

Leonard Dommett

Thomas Matthews

Peter Gibbs (2)

John Chambers (4)

Remo Lauricella

Millicent Silver

Robert Truman

Susan Sutherley

Matthew Coman

Maurice Westerby

Triona Milne

Watson Forbes

Ian Bousfield

Hilary Jane Parker

Erzsébet Rácz

Hilary Robinson

Lucia Lin

Michael Meeks

Jennifer McLaren

Paul Katz (3)

Michael Francis (3)

Miya Ichinose

David Elton

Simon Streatfeild

Nancy Johnson (3)

Leslie Malowany

Karen Hutt

Michael Round

George Tudorache

Aubrey Brain

Henry Greenwood (3)

Keith Cummings

Paul Draper (3)

Frederick Riddle

Donald Bridger

Alfred Brain

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny

Robert Holliday

John Harper (5)

Alex Lindsay

Alfred Dukes

Martin Knowles (2)

Norman Nelson (3)

Ian Hampton (2)

Cedric Sharpe

Claude Hobday

Eileen Grainger

Roy Patten

Charles Donaldson

Neill Sanders

George Eskdale

Wynn Reeves

Simon Cox (3)

Holly Randall

William Overton

Anneke Hodnett

Harry Curby

Francis Bradley

David Worswick

Natalie James (2)

Bram Wiggins

Bernard Shore

Ilona Bondar

Harold Jackson (5)

Victoria Simonsen

Rachel Ingleton

Alan Cave (3)

Patricia Moynihan

Charles Woodhouse

Philip B. Catelinet

Marie Macleod

David Whiston

Minat Lyons

Nele Delafonteyne

Philip Nolte

Elisabeth Trigg

Tim Ball (2)

Alexandra Mackenzie (2)

Mark Templeton (2)

Eric Pritchard (2)

Phil Cobb (2)

Celeste Rush

Walter Mony

Siobhan Grealy

John Ashby (4)

Keith McNicoll

Delphine Biron

Maxwell Ward

Martin Shillito

Albert Setty

Katy Ayling

Billy Bell (8)

Lulu Fuller

Jan Regulski

Fiona Dalgliesh

John Bradbury (4)

Christian Barraclough

Shlomy Dobrinsky

Alan Jenkins (6)

Christian Jones (8)

John Pennington (4)

Alex Wide

Edgar Williams (3)

Harry Taylor (7)

john cockerill

Robert Fleming (5)

Dominic Tyler

Antoine Bedewi

Alfred Hobday

Benjamin Picard

Clarence O'Neil

Tomo Keller

Stephanie Edmundson

Lois Au

Julia Rumley

Adam Walker (6)

Robin Totterdell

Tom Lessels

John Alexandra

Peter Sulski

Philip White (8)

Anna Greene

Edward Chapman (3)

Raja Halder

Frank Howard (7)

Βασίλης Παπαβασιλείου (3)

Siwan Rhys

Anne McAnens

Gordon Walker (3)

David Munden

James Whitehead (4)

Robert Murchie

Steven Reading

Philip Lewis (5)

Duncan Gould

Joao Seara

Oriana Kriszten

Fraser MacAulay

James Burke (9)

Andrew Harper (4)

Greta Mutlu

Eugene Feild

Ernest Benton

Robert Burtenshaw

Tom Watson (19)

Geremia Iezzi

William Hulson

Aubrey Thonger

Charles Gregory (7)

Rodney Stewart (2)

Vincent Burrows

Jenny Lewisohn

Haydn Beck

George Stratton (2)

J. McDonagh

E. F. James

Martin Ronchetti

Peter Smith (57)

James W. Brown (2)

Simo Väisänen

Katy Jones (2)

Michael Bowie (3)

Gershom Parkington

James Wilcocke

Marie Wilson (8)

John Moore (55)

Mayra Salinas

Ifan Williams

Thomas Peatfield

Kenneth Moore (6)

Francois Thirault

Siret Lust

Alexandra Lomeiko

Kenneth Essex (2)

Victoria Harrild

Ernest Hall (3)

Gerald Brinnen

Bertrand Chatenet (2)

Lorenzo Antonio Iosco

Anthony Judd (2)

Norman Freeman (3)

George Yates (3)

George Reynolds (6)

Jacob Brown (5)

Heike Janicke

Jim Buck Sr

Thomas Wightman

The English Chamber Choir

English vocal ensemble based in London.

Membres actuels

Caspar Gordon

David Armour

Anciens membres

Rogers Covey-Crump

Terry Edwards (2)

David Roy

David Beavan

Stephen Varcoe

Carol Hall (2)

Richard Savage

Rosemary Hardy

Peter Long

Joyce Jarvis

Michael George (3)

Elaine Pearce

Jane Whitworth

David Boyd (3)

Mavis Ersu

Vivien Baucher

Cathy Leman

John Duxbury

Christopher Miller (4)

Caryll Newnham

Michael Hendry (2)

Florence Findlay

David Brock (3)

Linda Henson

Heather Kay

Ann Lockett

Nigel Beavan

Jess Curtis

Hilary Russell

Mary Hammond

Michael Newton (2)

Malcolm Field

Adele Page

Paul Taylor (19)

John Foster (8)

Jessica Cash

Julia Field

Peter Hall (8)