Biography

BBC Concert Orchestra
Real name: BBC Concert Orchestra
Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 2012
Members: Malcolm Smith, Alasdair Malloy, Ruston Pomeroy, Marcus Broome, Steve Henderson, Charles Mutter, Victoria Walpole, Mike Briggs, William Armon, Gareth Hulse, Graham Warren, David Beaman, David Archer, Cynthia Fleming (2), Timothy Welch, Avis Perthen, Matthew Elston, Nicholas Busch, Nigel Goodwin, Lucy Hartley, Miwa Rosso, John Blackshaw, Ileana Ruhemann, Colin Paris, Matthew Lee (3), Chereene Price, Tom Rumsby, Kate Moore, Karen Stephenson, Derek Hannigan, Ben Rogerson (2), Andrew Knight (3), Cormac Browne, David McCallum (3), John McDougall (3), Ben Hughes (3), David Wythe, Josephine Abbott, Mike Gray (6), Helen Knief, Juan Gonzalez (7), Andrew Wood (8), Andrew Hendrie, Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Dominic Worsley, James Casey (6), Sarah Freestone, Lachlan Radford, Anne Denholm, Katerina Nazarova, Alison Procter, Andrew Wickens (2), Mark Johnson (69), Peter Bussereau, Jane Gaskell, Daniel Mullin (2), Stephen Whibley, Andrew Littlemore, Sophie Johnson (3), Iona Allan
This orchestra is based in London, consisting of about 50 players, performing a mixture of classical and more popular music. It regularly performs on the BBC Radio 2 program "Friday Night is Music Night", but also performs in venues around the United Kingdom.