Welcome to the European Doctors Orchestra website

When the Australian Plastic surgeon Miklos Pohl came to work in London, he proposed an orchestra which would offer doctor musicians from all over Europe an opportunity to come together for a weekend of enjoyable music making - along the lines of the Australian Doctors Orchestra, which he had founded 13 years previously. Michael Lasserson was our first secretary.

The European Doctors Orchestra was immediately embraced by medical musicians. Our first concert was in Blackheath Halls, Greenwich in 2004. The soloist was Elizabeth Wallfisch, who is now the patron of the orchestra. Since then, we have given ten concerts in the Duke’s Hall of the Royal Academy of Music. The orchestra has grown, and we now have a full size symphony orchestra of about 100 regular players with doctors from many European countries and many different medical specialties.

Last year, our winter concert was at The Sage, Gateshead.UK,

The EDO meets twice a year for a hectic schedule of rehearsals of a full symphonic programme over a weekend, the climax of which is a concert performance of that programme, usually in aid of a childrens’ charity. The orchestra’s winter meeting has been in the U.K.; the summer meeting is in a European city, in June. So far, the orchestra has played in Bucharest(2005), Budapest (2006), Berlin (2007), Verona (2008), Poznan (2009), Edinburgh (2010) and Oslo (2011).

We will be going back to Berlin in May 2013.

The end of year concert will be on November 25^th  - a charity concert with “Barnardo’s”, at the Cadogan Hall, London.

(See next concert page for details)