St Paul’s Sinfonia was formed in 2004 to perform concerts at the beautiful St Paul’s Church in Deptford.

We spent our first 7 seasons there very happily, but in 2011 we spread our wings and moved to new venues. This season is our nineteenth, and we continue to go from strength to strength, always supported by you, our audience, whose never-ceasing enthusiasm and support is the reason why we enjoy performing so much!

Our 2023-24 season has a stellar line-up of soloists both familiar and popular, and we’re welcoming new ones to the Sinfonia who are sure to thrill and delight you all. The whole season opens with the Sinfonia’s leader, James Widden, stepping into the spotlight to perform Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2; and in October we welcome the virtuoso saxophonist Huw Wiggin to perform two works, by Glazunov and David Wallace. In fact, double concertos are something of a feature this season – clarinettist Alison Hughes performs works by Alice Mary Smith and Ed Hughes; we are delighted to be welcoming back the stellar Fenella Humphreys to perform the wonderful and quirky Humoresques by Sibelius and the sole surviving movement of Fauré’s Violin Concerto; and in May, soprano Philippa Boyle sings Beautiful Caged Thing by Tom Coult and Sibelius’s searing Luonnotar. Our repertoire, as always, spans the familiar and the fascinating, the ancient and the new. We have symphonies by Brahms, Dvořák, Alice Mary Smith (a really thrilling new discovery for us); Arnold and Sibelius; brand-new music from David Wallace and Nathen Durasamy; and wonderful music by Emilie Mayer, Villa-Lobos and Nino Rota (among others!). It promises to be our best season yet!

DON’T MISS A NOTE! WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ONE OF OUR CONCERTS VERY SOON!