Who we are

The musicians of Sinfonia of London come together several times a year for specific concerts and recording projects. They include a large number of principals and leaders from numerous UK and international orchestras, alongside notable soloists and members of distinguished chamber groups.

John Wilson is in demand at the highest level across the globe, working with some of the finest orchestras and opera houses. In the UK, he performs regularly at festivals such as the Aldeburgh Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and BBC Proms and with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with which he held the title of Associate Guest Conductor between 2016 and 2019. Elsewhere, his guest conducting takes him to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony and Danish National Symphony Orchestra among others, and he looks forward to making his debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in a coming season.

He studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, where in 2011 he was made a Fellow. John Wilson has assembled a large and varied discography which includes critically acclaimed recordings with the Sinfonia of London, numerous recordings with the John Wilson Orchestra (which he founded in 1994), and series of discs with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, exploring works by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, and BBC Philharmonic, devoted to the symphonic works of Aaron Copland. He is represented by Intermusica.

Managing Director Rosenna East joined Sinfonia of London in January 2020. Prior to working alongside John Wilson, she was General Manager of Nevill Holt Opera for five years, where she oversaw the significant growth of the summer opera festival, its charitable education and community programme, and the build and opening of its multiple award-winning opera theatre in 2018.

Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and London’s Royal College of Music, in 2023 Rosenna received her Executive Masters in Business Administration with Distinction from Bayes Business School, City University, London. As well as working as a Development Consultant for Sage Gateshead, she has held Executive Board and Advisory Board positions with, among others, Bayes Global Women’s Leadership Programme, Into Opera, Noise Opera, Creative Carbon Scotland, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Until 2014, she worked as a professional violinist in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as well as freelancing as a part time journalist, presenter and teacher.

Declan has been with Sinfonia of London since 2019, working with John alongside his current role as General Manager of the Manchester Collective. Originally from Ireland, Declan grew up in Belfast and studied Music at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar with the Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. Prior to working with Sinfonia of London, Declan spent the first five years of his career at the BBC, starting off as a Music Librarian before going on to work for the BBC Proms and BBC Philharmonic.