The Lambeth Orchestra is an amateur orchestra founded in 1972. It gives a regular series of 6 concerts each year at

All Saints Church, West Dulwich All Saints' Church is a Church of England parish church in West Dulwich, South London. It is a red brick building designed in a Gothic Revival style by George Fellowes Prynne and built 1888–91. It is Grade I listed. Parish All Saints' parish ...

and St John's Waterloo. The Orchestra's conductor for the last 30 seasons has been

Christopher Fifield Christopher Fifield (born 1945) is an English conductor and classical music Music history, historian and musicologist based in London. From 1982 until 2022 music director of the Lambeth Orchestra, Fifield is known for his exploration of neglected ...

. The orchestra's repertoire reflects both mainstream established classics, together with world premieres of newly commissioned pieces, and the revival of neglected repertoire, especially of British composers. Examples include the first ever performance of Gustav Holst's ''Walt Whitman Overture'' in July 1982, the first modern performance of Arthur Hinton's Symphony No 1 and Piano Concerto in D, and the first modern performances of

Frederic Cliffe Frederic Cliffe (2 May 1857 – 19 November 1931) was an English composer, organist and teacher. Life Cliffe was born in Lowmoor, near Bradford, Yorkshire. As a youth, he showed a promising musical aptitude and was enrolled as a scholar of the N ...

's Symphony No 1 (first performance in 80 years, December 2007), Violin Concerto (first performance in 111 years, May 2007), and his ''Coronation March'' and Symphony No 2.MusicWeb International
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