Brookfield Properties

Brookfield Properties is a fully-integrated, global real estate services company with over $540 billion in assets under management. Brookfield Properties develops and manages premier real estate with a focus on maximizing the tenant experience, Art is a key part of that. Our mission is to present free, world-class cultural experiences. The public spaces of Brookfield Properties are brought to life through concerts, dance, visual art, community events, and more.

Culture Mile

Culture Mile is the City of London’s new cultural district, stretching from Farringdon to Moorgate. Led by the City of London Corporation, with the Barbican, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London Symphony Orchestra and Museum of London, the five partners are together creating a vibrant, creative area in the north-west corner of the Square Mile. Alongside animating the whole district with imaginative collaborations and events, delivering major enhancements to the streets and improving wayfinding, Culture will be working with organisations from across the City to build a world-class hub of creativity, innovation and learning that delivers economic growth and social mobility for London. www.culturemile.london

London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is built on the belief that extraordinary music should be available to everyone, everywhere. From orchestral fans in the concert hall to first-time listeners across the UK, Europe and the world.

The London Symphony Orchestra was established in 1904, as one of the first orchestras shaped by its musicians. Since then, generations of remarkable talents have built the LSO’s reputation for uncompromising quality, and inspirational repertoires.

Today, the LSO is ranked among the world’s top orchestras, with a family of artists that includes Music Director Sir Simon Rattle, Chief Conductor Designate Sir Antonio Pappano, Principal Guest Conductors Gianandrea Noseda and François-Xavier Roth, and Conductor Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas.

The LSO is Resident Orchestra at the Barbican in the City of London, and also reaches international audiences through touring, artistic residencies and digital partnerships, including with Aix-en-Provence, the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and global broadcasters.

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Guildhall School is a vibrant, international community of musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London. Ranked as the top UK conservatoire in the Guardian music and drama league tables, we deliver world-class professional training in partnership with distinguished artists, companies and ensembles. A global leader in creative and professional practice, we promote innovation, experiment and research, and are also one of the UK’s leading providers of lifelong learning in the performing arts, offering inspiring training for children, young people, adult learners, and creative and business professionals.

Guildhall Live Events

Guildhall Live Events specialise in creating immersive and interactive digital experiences, supporting the education of new designers, technicians and production specialists in real world contexts while delivering professional quality projects. Guildhall Live Events’ award winning work has been featured nationwide at renowned festivals, exclusive private events and high profile commercial launches.

Gareth Davies

Gareth Davies joined the LSO in 2000 and has also served as Chair of the Orchestra. As well as playing, he enjoys LSO Discovery work and has written several projects which have been performed in London and the US. His book, The Show Must Go On, was a book of the year in the Financial Times and Classical Music Magazine. He has written and presented programmes on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3, and is also in demand as a teacher and performer around the world.

Anna Bastow

Anna Bastow grew up in East Yorkshire where she started learning the violin aged seven. She concurrently studied music at Manchester University and violin and viola at the Royal Northern College of Music. She then continued her viola studies with Predrag Katanic in Linz, Austria. Soon after graduating, she spent five years as Co-Principal Viola of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra before joining the LSO in 2011

James Maynard

James Maynard began playing the trombone in the Salvation Army and went on to study with Dudley Bright at the Royal Academy of Music. He has been Second Trombone with the LSO since 1998. He is also active as a composer, having been commissioned to write a number of works mainly for brass. His most recent commission, Urban Variations, was written for trombonist Peter Moore's debut recital at Wigmore Hall.

Andy Harper

Australian Clarinetist Andy Harper is in demand as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician through the UK. Regularly seen performing with ensembles such as the LSO, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Opera House, he is equally at home on Clarinet and Bass Clarinet. He has given recitals at venues such as Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room, and chamber music partners have included the Skampa Quartet, Dame Felicity Lott and Pierre Laurent Aimard. Andy has been privileged to work in a freelance capacity with the London Symphony Orchestra as a Bass Clarinetist for 13 years.

Jasmin Meaden

Flute, Salter’s Gardens (working with LSO’s Gareth Davies)

Nicola Perikhanyan

Clarinet, Roman Ruins (working with LSO’s Andy Harper)

Sam Dinley

Trombone, Highwalks (working with LSO’s Jim Maynard)

Will Davenport

Viola, One London Wall Place Water Feature (working with LSO’s Anna Bastow)