Introducing our 2024/25 Season

Throughout the season we will be performing some of classical music’s greatest pieces, as well as discovering music rarely heard in the concert hall by two of the 19th Century’s finest composers, Louise Farrenc and Fanny Mendelssohn. With little known gems from Mozart and Vivaldi, to famous music from Beethoven, Bach and Copland, and a chamber series exploring the breadth of British compositional talent, this season really does have something for everyone!

We welcome back some of our – and hopefully your – favourite artists, including conductors Delyana Lazarova, Olivia Clarke and Nicholas Kok, and soprano Nadine Benjamin OBE.  Celebrating talent from within the orchestra, Sophie Rosa (violin), Maddy Aldis-Evans (oboe) and Anthony Thompson (trumpet) all featuring as soloists across the season. Our partnership with Derby Cathedral Choir continues, and we collaborate with Southwell Minster, Leicester Cathedral and Coventry Cathedral Choirs for the first time for a performance of Duruflé’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem.

We’re not forgetting about our youngest audience members with two concerts for the under 5s at Derby’s Museum of Making, as well as our first concert for children aged 6 – 11 years, a performance of Peter and the Wolf narrated by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason.

With a new series of Relaxed concerts, our ongoing programme of creative and community projects, and our annual New Year’s Eve Gala, the East Midlands really is going to be alive with the sound of Sinfonia Viva this year.

Lucy Galliard

Chief Executive