London Symphony Orchestra & Robert Ziegler
Biography London Symphony Orchestra & Robert Ziegler
London Symphony Orchestra
Widely acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, The London Symphony Orchestra was named by Gramophone as one of the top five orchestras in the world.
A world-leader in recording music for film, television, and events, it was the official orchestra of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games ceremonies, memorably performing Chariots of Fire on stage in the opening ceremony, conducted by Simon Rattle and with Rowan Atkinson. The LSO has also recorded music for films including Philomena, The Monuments Men, four of the Harry Potter movies including The Deathly Hallows Parts I and II, The Queen, The Ides of March, Star Wars Episodes I–VI, Superman, Nanny McPhee, and hundreds more.
The LSO is set apart from other international orchestras by the depth of its commitment to music education, reaching over 65,000 people each year. Their Discovery program enables the orchestra to offer people of all ages opportunities to get involved in music-making and to enter the extraordinary sound world of the orchestra.
Recent projects include LSO On Track, a long-standing venture involving young musicians from across East London, which has given a platform to talented teenagers to appear in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, at outdoor concerts in Trafalgar Square, on Abbey Road recordings side-by-side with LSO musicians, and LSO Sing, a program of singing activities designed to draw in singers of all ages and abilities.
With long-standing relationships with some of the leading musicians in the world — Bernard Haitink, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mitsuko Uchida and Maria João Pires, amongst others — the orchestra is self-governing and made up of nearly a hundred talented players who also perform regularly as soloists and in chamber groups at LSO St Luke’s.
Robert Ziegler
The award-winning conductor Robert Ziegler leads orchestras around the globe and records with all the major record labels. He is equally in demand for top performers in classical music and legendary pop and jazz artists. A former prize winner in the Fitelberg Conducting Competition, Ziegler has directed orchestras including the London Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Japan Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and many more. He has an extensive recorded catalog for Sony Classics and Deutsche Grammophon with the London Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras and many others.
Ziegler’s extensive work in film includes recording original soundtracks by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood, Inherent Vice), Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), and Alberto Iglesias, Hans Zimmer, Max Richter, Shigeru Umebayashi, Lorne Balfe, Michael Giacchino, Mark Isham, and Alf Clausen for The Simpsons. Further recordings include for Deutsche Grammophon: The Disney Book with pianist Lang Lang, Pete Townshend’s Classic Quadrophenia, Randy Newman’s Live in London (Nonesuch), the cellist Hauser (Classic 1 and 2) for Sony Classics and is the conductor for the computer game, Genshin Impact.
