For the 2025/26 season, Jonathan Bloxham steps into a new role as principal conductor and artistic advisor with London Mozart Players (LMP), building on his three-year tenure as conductor in residence and artistic advisor. LMP#’s flagship season opens at St Martin in the Fields with Bloxham conducting an all-Mozart concert featuring soprano Danielle de Niese in arias from Don Giovanni, Il re pastore and La Clemenza di Tito alongside Mozart’s Symphony No. 40.
The season also includes Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos directed by Simon Blendis; a celebration of Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s 150th birthday in Croydon with the composer’s Violin Concerto with Braimah Kanneh-Mason alongside new music by Ryan Morgan and Tunde Jegede; and violinist Fenella Humphreys in Stephen McNeff’s Violin Concerto conducted by Jonathan Bloxham. Further ahead there is Mozart, Boulogne and Haydn, Bach’s St John Passion, Vivaldi and Piazzolla, and the season ends with Jonathan Bloxham conducting Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings with Laurence Kilsby and Ben Goldscheider, plus Mendelssohn a new piece by Anna Clyne.
LMP’s wine-tasting experience, Tasting Notes returns to Smith Square Hall for its 10th edition with four chances to pair wine with music. Family friendly, community concerts in Upper Norwood continue with Christmas brass music, plus musical story-telling in The Penguin who was blown away and The Duck with no luck! And pianist Howard Shelly returns with four instalments of their popular lunchtime series The Piano Explored at St Paul’s Knightsbridge with all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos being featured.
Full details from LMP’s website.
