News and Press

Over the last five years, RPO Resound has been offering monthly creative sessions, using the power of music to enhance the wellbeing of Brent residents.  

In the 2024–25 season, our workshops reached 120 participants in the community. 

Read on to learn more about two Sound Sanctuary workshops we held on Thursday 6 November. 

On Wednesday 5 November, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra returned to St Paul’s Cathedral with our Artist Laureate and internationally-celebrated composer Sir John Rutter to perform an expansive programme of his work in a special celebratory birthday concert. Joined by The Bach Choir and soloists Melanie Marshall and Jonathan Brown, the concert was ‘unmistakably the work of a master craftsman.’ (The Guardian)

‘It is Sunday when we arrive in Edinburgh; then we cross the meadows, going towards two desperately steep rocks which are called Arthur's Seat, and climb up. Below on the green are walking the most variegated people, women, children and cows; the city stretches far and wide; in the middle is the castle, like a bird's nest on a cliff; beyond the castle come meadows, then hills, then a broad river...’
Felix Mendelssohn in a letter home, 28 July 1829