Chineke! Junior Orchestra
Get ready to raise the roof as we celebrate ten years of Chineke! with the ensemble at the heart of their mission to nurture young talent.
The sister ensemble to the Chineke! Orchestra, the Chineke! Junior Orchestra is made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians aged 11 – 22.
Both ensembles were founded in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for emerging and established musicians of Black and ethnically diverse heritage.
This concert, part of Chineke!’s ten-year anniversary celebrations, opens with a blast of energy: Dukas’ Fanfare from La péri, which was written after the composer had completed the 1912 ballet in one act, based on a Persian folk story.
Avril Coleridge-Taylor moved to the Sussex countryside in 1939. Although the title of her tone poem Sussex Landscape suggests a pastoral idyll, the work is a moving response to the ongoing threat of World War Two.
The final work, Mussorgsky’s 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition, vividly describes ten artworks by the composer’s close friend, artist Viktor Hartmann. It was written in homage a year after the artist’s death. Ravel’s 1922 orchestration brings the images and colours to full, majestic life.
Performers
Chineke! Junior Orchestra
Yudania Gómez Heredia conductor
Repertoire
Dukas: Fanfare from La péri
A Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape, Op.27
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition orch. Ravel
Need to know
An exclusive box package is available, which includes:
- Hire of a private box (seats up to eight people).
- Use of the Royal Retiring Room, a private lounge with its own toilet facilities, for the duration of the event.
- One free drink per guest on arrival (prosecco, wine, beer or soft drink).
- Dedicated host to take drinks orders throughout the event.
For your visit
This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
The Royal Festival Hall is open six days a week.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
Plan your visit
The Royal Festival Hall is home to our largest auditorium as well as The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Members’ Lounge, Festival Bar & Kitchen, Ballroom Cafe and Skylon restaurant.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
On Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.