Stephen Layton, Director of Music of Trinity College, has been appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the City of London Sinfonia.

Layton officially takes up his role in September 2010 for an initial period of three years.

Renowned for his contribution to music, he has conducted across the world from Australia to Philadelphia.

He founded ‘Polyphony’, a professional choir and orchestra for a concert at King’s College Chapel in 1986. Since then they have performed regularly across the world.

A champion of new music, Layton has premiered Pärt, Ades and Macmillan. His bold realisation of Tavener’s epic seven-hour vigil ‘The Veil of the Temple’, a new departure in British music, was premiered in London at the Proms and in New York at the Lincoln Centre Festival.

Layton has won numerous awards, and has received two Grammy nominations.

In his new role with the City of London Sinfonia he will build on the work of the late Richard Hickox.

Stephen Layton said: “The orchestra was a terrific vehicle for Richard’s choral discoveries, and I aim to develop that tradition. It makes sense to bring them together with Trinity College, Cambridge, Polyphony and the Holst Singers as and when appropriate. It’s the most extraordinary opportunity for
us to explore new projects together and for me to develop and shape the orchestra’s repertoire.”

He will be supported by Michael Collins, Principal Conductor, who will also take up his new role in September 2010.

The City of London Sinfonia is one of the UK’s leading professional orchestras.

The orchestra performs more than one hundred concerts each year in London, throughout the UK and abroad.

Aside from performing, the orchestra hosts ‘Meet the Music’, an education and community programme for children.

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