Upcoming Concerts

Puccini Opera Madama Butterfly

The London City Philharmonic will perform Madama Butterfly Opera at St John’s Smith Square on 7 and 8 June 2024.

Madama Butterfly is one of opera’s most enduring tales of unrequited love. Puccini’s touching score follows the tragic tale of Cio Cio San, a young Japanese girl who falls in love with American naval officer Pinkerton, with devastating consequences.

Friday, 7 pm St John’s Smith Square SW1P 3HA

Saturday 7 pm St John’s Smith Square SW1P 3HA

Cast

Friday 7 June 2024, 7 pm

Madama Butterfly (Cio Cio San) Bing Bing Wang

Pinkerton Dominic J Walsh

Sharpless Andrew Mayor

Suzuki Alice Ruxandra Bell

Goro Taro Kato

Kate Pinkerton Serenna Wagner

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Saturday 8 June 2024, 7 pm

Madama Butterfly (Cio Cio San) Kirsty Taylor-Stokes

Pinkerton Dominic J Walsh

Sharpless Andrew Mayor

Suzuki Alice Ruxandra Bell

Goro Taro Kato

Kate Pinkerton Serenna Wagner

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Location St John’s Smith Square SW1P 3HA

Some of our past concerts

THE DUBEL PRIZE LAUNCH AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE

The London City Philharmonic will perform at the Dubel Prize 2023 at the Royal Exchange London.

Programme

Mozart's Don Giovanni Overture

Arias from Verdi and Puccini with guest Soprano Roberta Salvati (from La Scala Opera in Milan)

Gabriel Oboe by Ennio Morricone.

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 “Italian”

Soprano Roberta Salvati

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Saturday 28 October 2023 7:30 pm

St James Paddington, Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor op. 18

Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Piano Angela Szu-Hsuan Wu

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Friday 6 October 2023 7:30 pm

St James Paddington, Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD

Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major K.219

Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92

Violin Ariel Lee

Conductor Roberto Gianola

Saturday 22 July 2023 lunchtime concert 13:30

Gustav Holst The Planets Suite

Featuring an artist installation of a Planet Mars by Luke Jerrram

St John the Baptist Church, Holland Road London W14 8AH

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Emerging Soloists Gala Concert

Saturday 8 July 2023 19:30

St James Paddington, Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD

Programme

Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor - Fiamma Di Gennaro

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 1st mov. - Sophia Geng

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 1st mov. - Khrystyna Mykhailichenko

interval 20 min

Crusell Clarinet Concerto No. 2 2nd & 3rd mov. - Naor Equba

Ibert Flute Concerto 3rd mov. - Rit Xu

Haydn Cello Concerto in C major 1st mov. - Lewis Tang

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 3rd mov. - Marie Helling

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Fantastic Visions

Saturday 25 February 2023 7:00 pm

St James Paddington, Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD

Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the afternoon of a faun)
Saint-Saens introduction and rondo capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Violin Mikako Shimatani
Conductor Olsi Qinami

Young Soloists Concert

Saturday 5 November 2022 7:00 pm

(St John the Baptist Church, Holland Road London W14 8AH)

Mozart Cosi Fan tutte Overture

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 3rd mov. Piano - James Christopher Carrabino

Grieg Piano Concerto 1st mov. Piano - Mao Fujisaki

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 1st mov. Violin - Maria Sotriffer

Dvorak Cello Concerto 1st mov. Cello - Boseong Cho

Dvorak Cello Concerto 3rd mov. Cello - Jeri Lee

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Friday 17 June 2022, 7:30 pm

Spirit of Ukraine – Fundraising Gala Concert

St John Smith Square: Location: Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA

Programme

Beethoven Egmont Overture

Smetana Má vlast

Dvorak slavonic Dance No. 7 op.46

Bizet Habanera

Verdi from Don Carlo “Per me giunto e il di supremo”

M. Lysenko Heroic Overture from Opera Taras Bulba

Alla Sirenko Ukrainian Fantasy for solo Violin, Viola and Orchestra

Ukrainian folk songs

Conductor Olsi Qinami

Violin Solo Orpheus Leander, Viola Solo Malgorzata Zwierzchowska, Mezzo-Soprano Rozanna Madylus, Baritone Alexander Ilvakhin

Saturday 19 February 2022, 7:00 pm

St James Paddington, Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD

Verdi La Forza del Destino Overture

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2

Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo

Respighi Pines of Rome 

Conductor Thomas Gregory

Piano Victor Maslov

Russian Fantasia

Saturday 2 October 2021, 7:00 pm

Borodin Polovtsian Dances 

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

Saturday 2 October 2021, 7:00 pm

St James Paddington, Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD

A New Beginning

Saturday 26 June 2021, 7:00 pm

(St Anne’s Church Limehouse, Three Colt St, E14 7HA)

Shostakovich Festive Overture

Verdi March and Ballet from 'Aida'

Çesk Zadeja Skanderbeg Movie Suite

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

"Hispaña" Concert

8 February 2020 7:00 pm

(St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, SW7 4RL)

• Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol

• Bizet Selections from Carmen

• Marquez Danzon No. 2

• Ginastera Estancia Suite

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

"The Great Outdoors"

5 October 2019 7:30 pm

(St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, SW7 4RL)

• Weber Der Freischutz Overture

• Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

• Branka Popovic Stardust for Viola and String Orchestra (new commission)

• Dvorak Symphony No. 8

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

Viola Soloist: Laura Vallejo

“Beatrice di Tenda” Opera by Bellini

22 & 24 August 2019 (St George's Church, London W1S 1FX, In collaboration with the London Bel Canto Festival).

"Symphonic Dances"

15 June 2019 (St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, SW7 4RL)

• Copland Variations on a Shaker Theme from Appalachian Spring

• Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

• Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

"Inverno italiano"

9 February 2019 (St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, SW7 4RL)

• Mozart Don Giovanni Overture

• Ennio Morricone Gabriel's Oboe from “The Mission”; theme from “Cinema Paradiso”

• Vivaldi “Winter” from the Four Seasons

• Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 “Italian”

Violin: Alina Hiltunen
Conductor: Olsi Qinami

"Ephemeral Dreamscapes"

20 October 2018 (St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, SW7 4RL)

• Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain

• Wagner Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

• Ravel La Valse

• Zadeja Skanderbeg Movie Suite excerpts

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

"Spectral Journey"

Part of Saint Stephen's Festival of Arts and Faith.

9 June 2018 (St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, SW7 4RL)

• Wagner The Flying Dutchman Overture

• Fredrik Gran Picture of fields without fences

• Saint Saëns Dance Macabre

• Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

"Tales from the East"

7 October 2017 (St Stephen's Church Gloucester, Road South Kensington, London SW7 4RL)

The London City Philharmonic presents a concert of new and traditional works with Eastern European themes. Works by Dvorak, Bruch, and Tchaikovsky and the UK premiere of the piano concerto by Macedonian composer Fatos Lumani.

• Dvorak Slavonic Dance No.2 Op. 72

• Bruch Kol Nidrei for cello and orchestra

• My Arberesh (Arbereshes Sime, Orchestra version by Gerti Druga)

• Fatos Lumani Piano Concerto (UK premiere)

• Tchaikovsky Symphony 4 in f minor

Soloists 
Piano: Shkelzen Baftiari
Cello: Alexandra Fletcher

Conductor: Olsi Qinami

"Echoes of Nature" Concert

Part of Saint Stephen's Festival of Arts and Faith.

10 June 2017 (St Stephen's Church Gloucester Road, South Kensington, London SW7 4RL)

• McGery Tereza on Petrin Hill for solo violin & string orchestra (world premiere)

• Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

• Mozart Andante in C Major for flute and orchestra, K. 315

• Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major D. 485

Soloists: 

Violin: Dacian Marin
Flute: Chiawen Kiew
Conductor: Olsi Qinami

15 October 2016 (St Stephen's Church Gloucester Road, South Kensington, London SW7 4RL)

• Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream Overture Op. 21

• Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor Op. 25

• Wagner Siegfried Idyll

• Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Major Op. 92

Piano: Emil Duncumb
Conductor: Olsi Qinami

23 July 2016 (The Parish and Ward Church of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate London EC2M 3TL)

• Sibelius Valse Triste

• Puccini Crisantemi

• Dvorak Romance for Violin and Orchestra

• Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G Minor

Violin Kamila Bydlowska
Conductor Olsi Qinami