Welcome to Southbank Sinfonia

PASSING THE BATON

Southbank Sinfonia players are privileged to learn from some of the best artists and orchestras in the world. In turn, they pass on their skills and passion for music to the next generation through a series of informal performances, workshops, side-by-side and ‘buddy’ concerts.

Each year, SbS leads workshops with primary schools near its Waterloo home, and with pupils of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. Outside London, SbS has regular projects with communities in Suffolk, Marlborough and County Durham.

Future plans include a project in York which culminates in a performance at the National Railway Museum, and a community opera about Florence Nightingale with schools from the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark.

Christopher Lund (SbS4) demonstrates the horn before a Saturday Spectacular family concert performance of Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf' (Elizabeth Hughes)

Children's concert at St John's Waterloo, London (Susan Fisher Plotner)

Led by Kevin Hathway, Southbank Sinfonia and 800 Lambeth & Southwark schoolchildren perform in the Shell Centre (Colin Whyman)

SbS6 with pupils from Lambeth schools in an education project exploring the life and work of former local resident, William Blake (Colin Whyman)

SbS5 with pupils from Southwark and Lambeth schools in an education project at the Imperial War Museum, London (Colin Whyman)

SbS2 education project in Hexham, Northumberland

SbS5 with pupils of Southwark and Lambeth schools in a education project at the Imperial War Museum, London (Colin Whyman)

'Tales of the East' - SbS4 work with Lincoln Abbotts and Persian musicians on an education project with Southwark and Lambeth schools (Elizabeth Hughes)