Partnerships are core to our work at CLS. We work with partners to conceive and deliver work, to host events, and to create meaningful moments for people whoever and wherever they are. Partnerships are always embedded and full of trust, and we consider very carefully who and how we work with organisations and individuals to deliver the most authentic work, full of integrity and joy.
Our current partners
Children’s hospitals
For over 30 years, CLS musicians have been bringing their unique practice of responsive playing to young people receiving treatment for acute and chronic conditions in hospital.
Learn more about the hospitals we work with
curious directive
Since 2008, curious directive’s core mission, led by Jack Lowe, has been to create world-class theatre exploring life through the lens of science.
Learn more about our collaboration, THE EXOPLANETS
Faber & Faber
Founded in 1929, Faber & Faber is one of the world’s great publishing houses. Previous co-productions include In Place and Time (2019) and The Owl and the Nightingale (2023) – sign up to our mailing list to be first to hear about our upcoming work featuring composer Nicola T. Chang.
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Jewish Care
Jewish Care is the leading health and social care charity for the Jewish community in London and the South-East. We have designed our Room to Room Music project in consultation with social care coordinators at Jewish Care specifically to facilitate the engagement of people living with dementias.
Learn more about Room to Room Music
King’s College London
CLS have worked with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at KCL to ensure our participation programmes are rigorously evaluated. We also partnered in 2023 on Divergent Sounds, exploring neurodivergent experiences and identity through music.
Landmark Theatres Trust
CLS and Landmark Theatres have co-produced The Wonderland Garden, a joyful touring show for our youngest audiences.
Learn more about The Wonderland Garden
The London Review of Books
CLS and the LRB first partnered in 2023 with an exploration of the creative partnership between Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden, followed in March 2025 by a concert surrounding Edward Said’s concept of late style. Sign up to our mailing list to learn about our next co-production.
Learn about Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden
Maudsley & Bethlem Hospital School
Maudsley and Bethlem Hospital School has been a key partner in the development of Sound Young Minds, our flagship participation project working with young people in psychiatric hospital school.
Learn more about Sound Young Minds
Opera Holland Park
In 2024, CLS celebrated our 20th year as Orchestra in Residence at Opera Holland Park.
CLS Co-Principal Horn, Mark Paine, on 20 years of playing at OHP
Joburg Theatre
CLS and Joburg Theatre are partnering on an international mentoring programme for players in the Soweto Theatre Junior Orchestra. Sign up to our mailing list for updates.
St John’s Hospice
We work in partnership with staff from St John’s Hospice’s Wellbeing Centre to support people living with life-limiting illnesses, offering a series of creative music-making workshops and interactive performances across the year.
As part of Southwark Council’s social prescribing, we provide Music and Wellbeing sessions at Tessa Jowell Health Centre in East Dulwich to support mental health and chronic pain management.
Social prescribing