Piccadilly Sinfonietta/Sinfonia (Chamber Orchestra)

Founded: 2017/2018 - London, England

The Piccadilly Sinfonietta experiences the world’s greatest classical music from UK's most versatile and brilliant musical ensembles. They specialise in performing virtuoso concertos. Since its formation in 2017, the Piccadilly Sinfonietta has become a regular feature on the UK concert scene, giving up to 100 performances a year in some of the country’s most beautiful and prestigious venues. The ensemble comprises some of the most prodigious musical talent and performs exclusively with leading virtuoso soloists. The group performs under the artistic direction of its founder, concert pianist Warren Mailley-Smith and focusses on the virtuoso concerto repertoire of the baroque, classical and early romantic periods.

The Piccadilly Sinfonietta also performs with larger forces under the name Piccadilly Sinfonia. Previous concert series have included the complete L.v. Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Despite the many existing recordings of Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons, The Piccadilly Sinfonietta has featured this work as its debut CD due to enormous popular demand for their compelling interpretation, following their many live performances of this epic work.


The goal of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta is to bring the world’s greatest classical music to the widest possible audience and to nurture future generations of classical music lovers. Piccadilly Sinfonietta concerts are characterised by the passion of their performances and their engaging presentation.

The Piccadilly Sinfonia was formed in 2018 and during its debut season was made resident orchestra at St James’ Church, Piccadilly, with a packed schedule of concerts in 2019-2020 in London, Manchester and further afield.

Launched under the artistic direction of British concert pianist Warren Mailley-Smith, the orchestra is formed from some the UK’s leading young professional talent, with notable guest leaders so far having included violinists Zoey Beyers and Harriet Mackenzie.

Their repertoire draws largely from a wide range of Baroque and classical works for chamber orchestra including a number of virtuoso concerti.

Sources:
Piccadilly Sinfonia Website
Piccadilly Sinfonietta page on Facebook
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2022)

Warren Mailley-Smith: Short Biography | Ensembles: Piccadilly Sinfonietta
Bach Discography: Recordings of Instrumental Works

Links to other Sites

Piccadilly Sinfonia (Official Website)
Piccadilly Sinfonietta page on Facebook