Sinfonia Verdi

Sinfonia Verdi is probably the world’s most flexible orchestra, made up of stellar musicians. Its players, many with international reputations as soloists, are both experts in historical performance and virtuoso performers on modern instruments.

Based on the border of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, the orchestra has strong local roots. Many of the orchestra’s acclaimed education projects take place in local schools and there is a close association with the magnificent Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, its worldrenown choirs and the St Albans International Organ Festival.

The orchestra’s ground breaking work with Indian music began with a Premiere of Wajahat Khan’s Concerto for Sarod and Symphony Orchestra in 2001.

Sinfonia Verdi partners Billy's Band and UK Centre for Carnival Arts to deliver a Youth Music funded project Billy's Band Music Club. Watch this space for more details.

David Murphy, Founder and Artistic Director of Sinfonia Verdi, is a pupil of Leon Barzin and protégé of Sir Charles Mackerras and Pandit Ravi Shankar. He sees the Orchestra as a dynamic force for good in society and makes this case passionately to audiences, fellow musicians, philanthropists, corporate sponsors, project participants, politicians and the general public.

Recent highlights have included his critically acclaimed Royal Festival Hall debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra (in a concert for peace broadcast simultaneously on Korean and Japanese television) and concerts and workshops with the children from the townships around Johannesburg.

Ravi Shankar and the Royal Opera House are integral to his latest operatic project: with Anoushka Shankar and librettist Amit Chaudhuri he is currently working on the completion of the ground breaking new opera Sukanya begun with Pandit Ravi Shankar.

The World Premiere of Sukanya will take place in May 2017