About The Northern Lights Orchestra

Formed in 2007, The Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra presents professional concerts at the highest level, offering valuable playing experience to young professional musicians who have trained in the leading conservatoires, both in the UK and worldwide. The orchestra is proud to have St Saviours Church in Pimlico as its home and programmes an annual season of concerts, both orchestral and chamber, which take place both in Pimlico and in venues across London.

We are unique in our specialisation in repertoire of composers born within the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) region, and our innovative programming includes composers from these territories alongside other orchestral works. So far our concerts have spanned the orchestral repertoire from Sibelius and Grieg, to Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass. Soloists who have performed with the orchestra include Jack Liebeck, Jamie Walton, Martin Roscoe and clarinettist Emma Johnson MBE.

The NLSO has an active education and outreach programme in which orchestra members work regularly with the schools in the surrounding catchment area of our home in Pimlico as well as further field. For more information please see our Education page.

The NLSO exists thanks to the valued support of our friends and donors, alongside our partnerships with Visit Norway and Hurtigruten. For more information on how you can support us in the future, please see our support page.

We look forward to welcoming you to our concerts this season!

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“On a late-night Tube ride on the Northern Line surrounded by drunks and narcoleptics, a young (sober) man told me how much he had enjoyed the film Carrington. It seemed a little incongruous but I thanked him and bade him goodnight. A few weeks later I received an invitation to a concert to be given by the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra in St John’s Smith Square. The man on the Tube was its conductor Adam Johnson and the young orchestra was a revelation: the perfect argument for maintaining the Senior Travel Card in order to make cultural discoveries.”

Honorary Patron Mr Jonathan Pryce CBE
See www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6770112/My-discovery-of-the-year