The Rambert Orchestra boasts some of London’s finest ensemble players, who tour the UK to accompany all of Rambert’s performances in the large-scale regional theatres. Rambert Orchestra grew out of Rambert’s former associate orchestra, London Musici, which first appeared with Rambert, under Mark Stephenson, in 1994.

Rambert is known for its wide-ranging dance repertoire. Rambert seeks to promote a variety of new young choreographers, as well as bring established international choreographers to the UK, and mine the extensive archive for older classics. Musically, the repertoire is just as diverse, and Rambert Orchestra readily turns its hand to a huge range of styles. In recent seasons the Rambert Music Fellows have provided a number of significant new works: Gavin Higgins’ What Wild Ecstasy was commissioned for New Music 2012 as a response to Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi (played in a new orchestration by Mark Bowden). Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Quark Dances received dozens of performances in 2014 and 2015, as part of Mark Baldwin’s ballet The Strange Charm of Mother Nature. In recent years Rambert Orchestra has also received critical praise for performances of Bach, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Mahler, Wagner, Schubert and Cole Porter.

David Cohen, Paul Hoskins and Rambert Orchestra gave the premiere of Katharsis at the Spitalfields Festival in June 2014.

David Cohen Nino Gvetadze Cellist and conductor David Cohen is the solo cellist of the London Symphony Orchestra. He made his solo debut with the Belgian National Orchestra at the age of nine. He studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and then at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he studied under Oleg Kogan. He has won more than 25 prizes in international cello competitions, including the Gold Medal of the GSMD in London, the Geneva International Cello Competition, J. S. Bach International Competition and many others. During the 2002/03 season, he was nominated as the ECHO Rising Star by the Royal Philharmonic Society of Belgium and the Concertgebouw. In his musical journey, David has worked as a soloist with some of the most distinguished conductors in the industry such as Lord Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Walter Weller, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph von Dohnányi, Pedro Halffter and Martyn Brabbins, among others. David plays on the ‘Ex-Pergamenschikow’ cello, a magnificent Dominicus Montagnana circa 1735, thanks to the kindness and generosity of Mrs Pat Morton and the help of the Razumovsky Trust. In recent years David has increasingly also appeared as a conductor, recently conducting to great acclaim the Phion orchestra, Stift Festival Orchestra and the Žebeljan Orchestra.