Sinfonia Smith Square’s Fellowship programme welcomes 34 talented new graduate musicians for 2024/25

Sinfonia Smith Square (Photo: Camila Pastorelli)

Every year, Sinfonia Smith Square’s Fellowship programme welcomes 34 talented graduate musicians to form an orchestra. Through world-class collaborations, bold programming, and educational leadership projects, the programme intensifies their professional development and advances their musical careers. Since its formation (as Southbank Sinfonia) in 2002, it now has over 650 alumni, who have gone on to become leaders in the classical music world.

Every Fellowship place is free, and every player receives a bursary. More than just an orchestra, it is a community where promising young talents can find their own voice and develop their creative strengths, fulfil personal goals, make lasting contacts to take their musicianship to new frontiers.

Sinfonia Smith Square has just welcomed the latest members of the Fellowship programme. For 2024/25 these 34 players will perform together. For the first time, the group includes an organ scholar, Ben Collyer, whilst bassoon player Vladyslav Demianov, recently fled the war in Ukraine to complete his studies in the UK.

You can find out more about the current musicians from the Sinfonia Smith Square website, whilst they will be in action at Smith Square Hall on 24 October with The Orchestral Forest featuring music by Dobrinka Tabakova, Mendelssohn, Vagn Holmboe, Nadia Boulanger and Michael Nyman conducted by Maxime Tortelier. The concert is unseated and the audience is encouraged to move amongst the musicians. Full details from the website.