Sofia Larsson
Sofia Larsson trained at the Royal College of Music International Opera School in London under Dinah Harris. She previously studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Philip Doghan and Audrey Hyland, on the ENO Opera Works training programme and at King’s...
CD Review- Fanfare Magazine on The Art of Dancing
There is a fantastic new review by Jim Svejda in the current issue of Fanfare Magazine for The Art of Dancing- 21st Century Concertos for Trumpet, Piano and Strings with Simon Desbruslais and Clare Hammond on Signum Records. The complete review is available to...
CD Review: Fanfare Magazine/Henry Fogel on Philip Sawyers Symphony no. 3
David DeBoor Canfield first reviewed music by Philip Sawyers in Fanfare 35:2, writing positively about Sawyers’s First Symphony and other shorter works. Robert Maxham enthused about two violin sonatas in 37:5, and Phillip Scott found a great deal to admire in the...
Concert Review- David Matthews Ninth Symphony Premiere, St George’s Bristol
The current issue Musical Opinion includes a rave review from Paul Conway of our recent St George's Bristol concert, including the second work in our 21st Century Symphony Project, the Ninth Symphony of David Matthews. Also on the programme were two works by Edward...
Concert Review- Musical Opinion on ESO “Americana ’18” At St John’s Smith Square
Americana ’18: English Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Woods St John’s, Smith Square Any concert at St John’s Smith Square involving the English Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Woods is an event. Last year they thrilled in a mostly all-Philip Sawyers’ concert, launching...
ESO at the English Music Festival
"Christopher Wright’s Symphony also stands firmly in the tonal tradition – Wright also stating his belief in the continuum of English music. For the next three-quarters of an hour, an orchestral landscape of extraordinary complexity was summoned ... The...
Stravinsky and Copland at the Swan Theatre Worcester
The English Symphony Orchestra (ESO) was at its best at Worcester’s Swan Theatre, when they created a beautifully balanced performance of Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, or The Soldier’s Tale. If only Stravinsky could have been there!...
ESO at the Elgar Festival
KENNETH WOODS TAKES ARTISTIC REINS AT NEW ELGAR FESTIVAL ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NAMED "ORCHESTRA-IN-RESIDENCE" FEATURES SYMPHONIC, CHAMBER AND CHORAL CONCERTS, SPOKEN WORD AND EXHIBITS Established by decree of Worcester City Council in 2017, the new...
The importance of people!
Every business, in this case Arts Charity, goes on a journey and every person involved in that organisation goes on their own journey with it too! Anyone that works in or with the arts knows that you don't do it for the money because ... there is none! I,...
On Stage in Elgar Country- English Symphony Orchestra Celebrate Young People in the Performing Arts, 4-6 May
The English Symphony Orchestra are welcoming the renewing force of spring on the first weekend of May, with a celebration of young people in the performing arts across the region, “On Stage in Elgar Country.” In the course of these festive few days, the region’s...