New Frontiers: Explorers

New Frontiers: Explorers is a thrilling musical journey through high seas, wild landscapes, and imagined worlds.

Epic stories. Bold sounds. Live orchestral adventure.

City of London Sinfonia launches its New Frontiers season with Explorers. This cinematic concert features music from Jurassic Park, Moana, Master and Commander, and Indiana Jones; soundtracks that evoke survival, mythology, and the power of discovery. From shipwrecked robots to Antarctic explorers, from spirit deer in Huichol folklore to a Polynesian demigod, Explorers blends breathtaking adventures with bold musical imagination.

Experience the sweeping drama of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, inspired by ancient tales and the composer’s visions of deep blue seas. Hear Hannah Kendall’s Tuxedo, a fierce response to Basquiat’s paintings and the legacy of colonial exploration.

CLS’s players are more than performers, they’re musical storytellers, creating and collaborating to push orchestral music beyond the expected.

Adventurous, cinematic and joyously alive, join us for an orchestral music concert, reimagined.

Programme:

• Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade (The Sea and Sinbad's ship)
• Hannah Kendall: Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama
• Iva Davies, Christopher Gordon & Richard Tognetti: Master and Commander (excerpts)
• Mark Mancina: If I were the ocean (from Moana)
• Gabriela Ortiz: Kauyumari
• Kris Bowers: The Wild Robot (excerpts)
• Vaughan Williams: Scott of the Antarctic (excerpts)
• John Williams: Indiana Jones (excerpts)
• John Williams: Jurassic Park (excerpts)
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade [The Festival at Baghdad; The Sea; The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock]

Presented by City of London Sinfonia in association with Hackney Empire.

City of London Sinfonia’s New Frontiers season is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation and Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with Association of British Orchestras and BBC Radio 3.