The London Mozart Players
is Britain’s longest-established chamber orchestra. Founded in 1949 by Harry Blech (now the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate), the London Mozart Players has a worldwide reputation for its outstanding and insightful performances and recordings of its core repertoire – the music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven plus other composers of the late- eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. The London Mozart Players also regularly plays music of this century and has commissioned and given the first performances of many works by British composers. Since 1993 Matthias Bamert has been the orchestra’s Music Director and Howard Shelley is Principal Guest Conductor.

Matthias Bamert
Bamert’s reputation in the big, romantic repertoire, his championship of new music and innovative programming have garnered international praise. He has been Director of the prestigious Luzern Festival since 1992 and Music Director of the London Mozart Players since 1993. Matthias Bamert’s conducting career began as an apprentice to George Szell and later as Leopold Stokowski’s assistant. Posts have included Resident Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, Music Director of the Swiss Radio Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He works regularly with the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony and appears each year at the Proms. A busy schedule of international guest engagements takes him to Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and the Far East.