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.

The European Doctors Orchestra, like its Australian predecessor, 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 London concerts in the Duke’s Hall of the Royal Academy of Music, which many of us think of as the orchestra’s London home. 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 specialities.

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 in aid of a childrens’ medical charity. The orchestra’s winter meeting is in London, in November; the summer meeting is a European city, in June. So far, the orchestra has played in Bucharest, Budapest, Berlin, Verona  and Poznan.