Effective period / Period of releases: 1961 - 2023

Members: Dave Heath, Heinz Holliger, Simon Preston, Nigel Kennedy, Keith Harvey, Doug Boyle, Adam Skeaping, Andy Crowley, Jonathan Tunnell, Roger Chase, Glyn Matthews, Alan Civil, John Wilbraham, Simon Standage, Maciej Rakowski, Jim McLeod, Frank Lloyd, Iain King, James Tyler, Natalia Bonner, David Juritz, Marcus Barcham-Stevens, Paul Mosby, Rory McFarlane, David Mason (2), Gareth Huw Davies, Alan Lumsden, Matt Haimovitz, John Willison, John Anderson (4), John Burden, Derek Wickens, David Munrow, Jonathan Barritt, Charles Tunnell, Jim Buck, Raymond Keenlyside, Andrew McGavin, Adrian Levine, Clare Thompson, Beverley Jones, Derek Taylor (3), Stephen Orton, Anthony Chidell, James Brown (10), John Marson, Philip Jones, John Tunnell, Robin O'Neill, Benjamin Nabarro, Chris Bevan, John Constable, Leslie Pearson, Sue Briscoe, Sylvain Vasseur, Nicole Wilson (2), James Blades, Neil Black (3), Tess Miller, José-Luis Garcia, William Bennett (3), Paul Barritt, David Corkhill, Paula Chateauneuf, Donald Hunt, Sophie Renshaw, Raymond Leppard, Thomas Goff, Richard Adeney, Edward Selwyn, Peter Graeme, Raymond Cohen, Michael Laird (2), Don Smithers, Thurston Dart, Osian Ellis, Desmond Dupré, Anthony Halstead, Emma Johnson, Dietrich Bethge, Bernard Richards, Cecil Aronowitz, Carl Pini, Rosemary Green, Howard Snell, Harold Lester, Jennifer Ward Clarke, Olga Hegedus, Ruşen Güneş, Kenneth Sillito, Ishani Bhoola, Philip Simms, Julian Cummings, Nick Reader, Adrian Beers, Emanuel Hurwitz, Thea King, Martin Gatt, Stephen Williams (3), Paul Goodwin (2), Graeme McKean, Andrew Williams (10), Roger Brenner, Iaan Wilson, Robert Spencer (2), Matthew Elston, Kenneth Heath, Quintin Ballardie, Ian Harper, Celia Nicklin, Norbert Schmitt, Wolfgang Läubin, Bernhard Läubin, Hannes Läubin, Michael Dobson, Stephanie Gonley, Julie Price, Alexander Taylor, Michael Skinner (2), Arthur Wilson (3), Malcolm Hall, Ian MacIntosh, Graham Sheen, John Langdon (2), Brian Sewell, Wilfred Brown, Philippe Racine, Kate Hill, John Honeyman, Janice Knight, Thomas Indermühle, Christopher Nicholls (2), Ivor McMahon, Graham Whiting, Joan Enric Lluna, Anthony Randall, Kate Robinson, Ifor James, Rod Franks, Lorraine McAslan, Magnus Johnston, Terence Weil, Robert Aldwinckle, Mary Eade, Anita Lasker, Joanna Milholland, Norbert Blume, Simon Rawson, Patrick Milne (2), Pierre Doumenge, Jean Stewart, Stuart Knussen, Timothy Boulton, Robin Davis, Paul Sherman (3), Paul Sherman (2), Joy Hall, Peter Reeve, Thomas Martin (5), Sara Barrington, Fabio Zanon, Cameron Sinclair, Maurice Steger, David Greenlees, Marije Ploemacher, Bozidar Vukotic, Michael Meeks, Peter Carter (3), Howard Etherton, Henry Ward, William Prince (3), Nancy Johnson (3), Benjamin Buckton, John Mills (8), Deirdre Dundas-Grant, Ruth Ehrlich, Roger Bullivant, Peter Mountain (2), David Thomas (27), Neill Sanders, Kenneth Cooper (2), Nicholas Hill (3), Alexandra Mackenzie (2), James Beck (5), James Sherlock (2), Norman Knight (2), Neill Black, Catherine Smith (5), John Barnett (8), Tim Lowe (3), Joan-Eric Lluna, Rodney Statford, Charlotte Templeman, David Johnston (15), Shana Douglas (2), Helena Nichols (2), Pauline Gilbertson, Rodney Stewart (2), Christine Gear, John Clementson (3)

Founded in 1948 by Lawrence Leonard and Arnold Goldsbrough, originally as the Goldsbrough Orchestra and renamed to the English Chamber Orchestra in 1960.

Based in London, England, U.K.

The most recorded chamber orchestra in the world, its discography containing 857 recordings of over 1,500 works by more than 400 composers.

The ECO has also performed in more countries than any other orchestra, and played with many of the world’s greatest musicians. The American radio network CPRN has selected ECO as one of the world’s greatest ‘living’ orchestras. The illustrious history of the orchestra features many major musical figures. Benjamin Britten was the orchestra’s first Patron and a significant musical influence. The ECO’s long relationship with Daniel Barenboim led to an acclaimed complete cycle of Mozart piano concertos as live performances and recordings, followed later by two further recordings of the complete cycle, with Murray Perahia and Mitsuko Uchida. Paul Watkins has been the ECO’s Music Director and Principal Conductor since 2009, and Sir Colin Davis was appointed Conductor Emeritus in 2010.

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