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London Metropolitan Orchestra




London's finest multimedia orchestra has been engaged by all the major Hollywood studios and worldwide record companies since its inception in 1994.

The orchestra engages London's best musicians renowned for their virtuosity, combining to give universally acclaimed performances.

“Wonderful playing and first class management" – Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Music

“….LMO performs this extremely difficult score with incredible stamina…. Truly masculine, muscular heroics…” – Music From The Movies (of “Reign Of Fire")

“An orchestra of highly accomplished musicians” – Vangelis

“The LMO is the finest orchestra of its kind, a combination of youthful exuberance, vitality and virtuosity” – Barrington Pheloung (Composer and Conductor)

Film Credits include:Ilan Eshkeri

  • 10,000 BC (starring Steven Strait, Camilla Belle / Dir: Roland Emmerich)
  • 16 Blocks (starring Bruce Willis, Mos Def / Dir: Richard Donner)
  • About A Boy (starring Hugh Grant, Rachel Weisz / Dir: Chris Weitz)
  • Awake (starring Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen/ Dir: Joby Harold)
  • Bless The Child (starring Kim Basinger, Christina Ricci / Dir: Chuck Russell)
  • Boo, Zino & the Snurks (voices of Patrick Steward, Emily Watson)
  • Cashback (starring Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox / Dir: Sean Ellis)
  • Chromophobia (starring Penelope Cruz, Ralph / Dir: Martha Fiennes)
  • Closer (Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Jude Law / Dirr: Mike Nicholls)
  • Count of Monte Cristo (starring Guy Pearce, Jim Caviezel / Dir: Kevin Reynolds)
  • Derailed (starring Jennifer Aniston, Clive Owen / Dir: Mikael Håfström)
  • Don Juan De Marco (starring Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando / Dir: Jeremy Leven)
  • Event Horizon (starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill / Dir: Paul Anderson)
  • Count of Monte Cristo (starring Guy Pearce, Jim Caviezel / Dir: Kevin Reynolds) Guy Farley
  • Gangs Of New York (starring Daniel Day Lewis, Leonardo DiCarprio)
  • Hannibal Rising (Dir: Peter Webber / Prod: Dino De Laurentiis)
  • Hard Rain (starring Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater / Dir: Mikael Salomon)
  • Hilary and Jackie (starring Emily Watson, Rachel Griffithsr / Dir: Anand Tucker)
  • In Dreams (starring Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jnr/ Dir: Neil Jordan)
  • Johnny English (starring Rowan Atkinson / Dir: Peter Howitt)
  • Laws Of Attraction (starring Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore / Dir: Peter Howitt)
  • Layer Cake (starring Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller / Dir: Matthew Vaughn)
  • Love In The Time Of Cholera (starring Benjamin Bratt / Dir: Mike Newell)
  • Mr Holland’s Opus (starring Richard Dreyfuss / Dir: Stephen Herek)
  • Reign Of Fire (starring Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey / Dir: Rob Bowman)
  • Rules Of Engagement (starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L Jackson)
  • Sabrina (starring Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond / Dir: Sydney Pollack)
  • Shopgirl (starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes / Dir: Anand Tucker)
  • Showgirls (starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan / Dir: Paul Verhoeven) Guy Farley
  • Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow (starring Jude Law, Angelina Jolie)
  • Sleepy Hollow (starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci / Dir: Tim Burton)
  • Sponge Bob Square Pants (voice of Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin)
  • tardust (starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Ricky Gervais)
  • Stormbreaker (starring Ewan McGregor, Alicia Silverstone / Dir: Geoffrey Sax)
  • Strength and Honour (starring Michael Madsen and Richard Chamberlain)
  • Telstar (starring Kevin Spacey / Dir: Nick Moran)
  • The Good Thief (starring Nick Nolte / Dir: Neil Jordan)
  • The Rugrats Movie (voices of Whoopi Goldberg, David Spade / Dir: Igor Kovalyov)
  • The Saint (starring Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue / Dir: Phillip Noyce)
  • Truly, Madly, Deeply (starring Alan Rickman, Juliette Stevenson)
  • Wimbledon (starring Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst / Dir: Richard Loncraine)

Recent TV credits include:

  • Lewis (starring Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox / Prod: Chris Burt) - ITV1
  • Trial & Retribution (starring David Hayman, Tamsin Egerton, Victoria Smurfit) - ITV1

For further information, please contact Andy Brown (Managing Director, LMO)

Check out: www.lmo.co.uk

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The LMO has also gained worldwide recognition for collaborating in recordings and international live performances with many well-known artists including:

Annie Lennox
Badly Drawn Boy
Bond
Brian Adams
Brian May
Bryan Ferry
Charlie Watts
Des’Ree
Echo & The Bunnymen
Eric Clapton
Finlay Quaye
Gene
Indigo Girls
Jon Bon Jovi
Julia Migenes
Kate Bush
Lou Reed
L
uciano Pavarotti

 

 

Mica Paris
Natalie Imbruglia
Nigel Kennedy
Page and Plant
Paul McCartney
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
Quincy Jones
Ringo Starr
Ronnie Wood
Simply Red
Sinead O’Connor
Sting
Texas
The Arctic Monkeys
The Last Shadow Puppets

The Levellers
Vangelis

 


The Last Shadow Puppets widely acclaimed album 'The Age of the Understatement' hit No 1 in the UK album sales chart. The group includes Alex Turner from The Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane from The Rascals and LMO are featured on all the new album tracks with arrangements by Owen Pallett.

The Last Shadow Puppets and LMO recently performed live on Jool's Holland's Later show and there are advanced plans for more TV appearances and a tour of UK Festivals in summer 2008.


Studio Sessions

Andy Brown Conducting the LMO on 'HANNIBAL RISING' at Abbey Road Studios (Studio 1)


Press

The LMO perform LOU REED's 'Berlin' Rock Symphony on Tour in Europe