The Welsh Sinfonia is a Cardiff-based professional chamber orchestra of between 15 and 35 musicians, conducted by Mark Eager, and led by Robin Stowell.

Now in its twenty first season The Welsh Sinfonia concentrates on the chamber orchestral repertoire, drawing on the wonderful variety of music written for smaller orchestras by composers from the 16th century to the present day. Opportunities to hear professional performances of works for chamber orchestra are rare in Wales and The Welsh Sinfonia is an important champion of this rich and diverse repertoire.

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Artistic Director Mark Eager writes:

I am delighted to introduce The Welsh Sinfonia’s second season of chamber orchestral concerts. Our first was very much about setting out our stall and, judging by our concert reviews and audience feedback, we have made a great start in our mission to be the professional champions of chamber orchestral music in Wales.
This season we bring you a series of concerts around the theme of ‘Time and Place’, exploring music from Argentina to Venice, from America to Japan, and from the seventeenth to the 21st centuries. The last concert, in April 2011, includes our second commission of a new work from a Welsh composer, supported by an award from the PRS for Music Foundation. We’re continuing our pre-concert chats with free tea and cake, and we hope to meet many more of you this time around.
The series also includes a special chamber performance of Handel’s Messiah in Llandaff Cathedral. We are using this performance to raise funds for the Llandaff Cathedral Organ Appeal and to support our work with emerging Welsh musicians. This performance, recreating the work’s première in Dublin in 1742, will be one to remember, and I hope you will come both to enjoy it, and to support the appeals.
Finally, on behalf of all the players and management of The Welsh Sinfonia, I would like to express our gratitude and thanks to leading professional services firm Deloitte, who are supporting our programmes this year, to Savills Estate Agents for sponsoring our design and print, to law firm Eversheds for their support for the fundraising Messiah, and to all our Ensemble and Podium members. We couldn’t do it without you!

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Our first season of chamber orchestra concerts finished in March with a concert that included Beethoven’s seventh symphony and the world première of Eilir Owen Griffiths’ Emoticons of Time. widely acknowledged to be a fitting climax and a great event.

You can see the performance on

part one
part two

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The Welsh Sinfonia is available to accompany choirs and choral societies, to perform at festivals or as part of a concert series and to provide music for film, radio and television.

Please contact the orchestral manager, Rose-marie de Lloyd, 02920 313598 , or email rose-marie@welshsinfonia.co.uk if you are interested in hiring the orchestra.