The horns, strings and reeds of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra were replaced by a far angrier noise on Friday night as they performed in London.
The group Jewish Artists for Palestine disrupted the MSO’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall for a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3, silencing the music and forcing the concert to restart.
Jewish Artists For Palestine protesters at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Friday night. The group disrupted the orchestra’s performance during a live broadcast for the BBC proms.Credit: Artfrontline/X
“The MSO has blood on its hands,” roared a woman in the crowd, filmed by an audience member in video since uploaded to social media.
“You silenced Jayson Gillham! The MSO is complicit in genocide! You silence artists! The MSO is complicit!”
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Pianist Jayson Gillham was sacked from the MSO after making a statement in support of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza prior to a performance in August 2024.
The MSO cancelled the next event at which Gillham was to perform and released a statement saying his comments were not appropriate and “an intrusion of personal political views”.
It later said it had made an error in cancelling Gillham’s shows.
Gillham later reached an in-principle settlement with former Melbourne Symphony Orchestra managing director Sophie Galaise, but is still suing the MSO itself.
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