European Union Chamber Orchestra

The European Union Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1981 and now gives up to 70 concerts annually worldwide. Promoting European music with its support and training of young musicians, it plays repertoire from the 17th to 21st centuries, commissioning new works each year from young composers.

Framed between Holst’s exhilarating Suite for strings, written for his pupils at St Paul’s Girls’ School, London and Haydn’s intensely dark