City of London Sinfonia is a flexible, creative chamber orchestra available for concerts, festivals, choral performances, and bespoke events across the UK.
We’re an orchestra of makers: musicians who collaborate, improvise, and connect, bringing programmes to life with warmth, imagination, and a distinctive approach shaped by our award-winning collaboration and participation work.
We’ve been the orchestra for Opera Holland Park for over 20 years and have longstanding partnerships with institutions including Salisbury Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral. We work regularly with choirs, promoters, venues, and partners who want the highest-quality performance with a human touch.
When you hire CLS, you’re booking more than musicians; you’re partnering with an ensemble that can shape repertoire, scale to your needs, and help craft an experience that feels engaging and alive. All our hires support our wider creative work, including new productions, community projects, and creative health programmes.
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The players were on sparkling form and we had some top-notch solo work. It is a real privilege to be able to work with such a dedicated and talented group of people and we never take that for granted at St Paul’s.
—Andrew Carwood MBE, Director of Music, St Paul’s Cathedral
From music sourcing, to programming, planning and all the other logistics, it was all brilliantly executed, and I am so grateful. […] There are so many players who perhaps turn up on a day like that and go through the motions, but CLS are far, far from that and always bring energy, positivity and collaborative spirit in abundance and it made for such a fabulous atmosphere.
—Dominic Ellis-Peckham, conductor
