Marcel Sinfonia brings together graduates from leading conservatoires in London such as the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The Sinfonia performs regularly in Southwark Cathedral and St Paul’s Covent Garden and often accompanies the London Docklands Singers. The Sinfonia has also performed in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and in the Signet Hall, Edinburgh. The orchestra’s repertoire includes concertos by Vivaldi, Marcello, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schumann and Poulenc. The Sinfonia’s name derives from the Marcel Suite, composed by the orchestra’s musical director Andrew Campling. www.andrewcampling.com

Mike has carved out a diverse and unusual career in both performance and education. As an educator, he has taught at the RCM and RCM Junior College for several years, is associated closely with the Royal Albert Hall, with whom he has devised numerous education and community programmes, and has worked with the charity Create for many years. As a tuba player, Mike plays regularly with most of the UK’s top orchestras. He has recorded on numerous film sound tracks such as Dumbo and Captain America, and recorded with pop musicians such as Rudimental, Becky Hill, Raye, Caro Emerald, Big Big Train and Pete Tong. Mike is delighted to be performing John Webb’s Tuba Concerto - a rare solo adventure.

In 2016 John was awarded a British Composers Award for ‘Into the Light’ composed for two thousand children to perform at the Royal Albert Hall. More recently his score for the animated film ‘Beware of Trains’ (jointly composed with Oliver Cripps), which graphically captures the experience of post-partum psychosis, was shortlisted for a Music and Sound award in the Best Original Composition in a Short Film category; the film was also longlisted for a Bafta. As a workshop leader John leads projects for organisations including London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oxford International Song Festival, Little Missenden Festival, London Sinfonietta, National Theatre, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music, and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Andrew Campling has composed three symphonies, ten concertos and many choral works. His music has featured on BBC Radio, and has been performed in St Paul's Cathedral, the Purcell Room and the Royal Albert Hall, and as far afield as USA, India and Australia. He is founder/director of the Marcel Sinfonia, which brings together graduates from the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Andrew also directs the London Docklands Singers and the Choir of the London School of Economics.