English Chamber Orchestra

Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales One of the world’s greatest ‘living’ orchestras’ Classical Public Radio, USA The English Chamber Orchestra has been performing across the UK and globally for over 60 years and is the most recorded chamber orchestra in the world. . The ECO celebrates and builds upon its tradition of maintaining the highest international musical standards, nurturing new talent and focusing on the ‘best of British’ music and musicianship. The orchestra has toured the UK and abroad with artists such as Benjamin Britten, Daniel Barenboim, Dame Janet Baker, Kiri te Kanawa, Yehudi Menuhin, Luciano Pavarotti, Murray Perahia, Itzhak Perlman, Karl Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Georg Solti, Mitsuko Uchida, Maxim Vengerov and Pinchas Zukerman. HRH The Prince of Wales has been the Patron of the ECO since 1977 and the orchestra has performed at royal weddings and birthday celebrations. The orchestra has recorded many successful film soundtracks including Dario Marianelli’s prizewinning scores for Atonement and Pride and Prejudice, and several James Bond soundtracks and are regularly featured in film and television. The orchestra remains optimistic as it emerges from the COVID19 pandemic and looks forward to the 2021/22 Season which will include concerts with Joseph Wolfe, VOCES8, James Sherlock, Nicholas Kraemer, Paul Merkelo, Adrien Perruchon, Leia Zhu, Pinchas Zukerman, Guy Braunstein, Giovanni Guzzo, Beatrice Berrut and François Leleux among others.