Leader, David Wise
Conductor, Anthony Collins
Anthony Collins comes from Hastings, where he began his orchestral experience as a viola player in the Municipal Orchestra. During the war Mr. Collins was in Salonika with Gustav Hoist, under whom he afterwards studied composition at the Royal College of Music. For some time he was principal viola of the London Symphony Orchestra, a post which he has now forsaken in order to devote himself to conducting. To this end he formed the London Mozart Orchestra, which consists of most of the principals and best players of the London Symphony Orchestra. Although this orchestra specialises in the lesser-known works of Mozart, at the same time it adds variety to its programmes by including interesting and appropriate works by other distinguished composers of, or around, the period.