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ABO Category 1 Orchestral Rates

Updated: 01 February 2024 | 13:42 PM
Agreement

Minimum rates effective from 1 April 2023

Concert rates

A concert of up to three hours in length with a rehearsal of up to three hours in length on the same day.

Tutti Sub-Principals Principals Section Principals*
£146.38 £155.90 £183.42 £201.76

*Section Principal rates only applicable to the LPO, LSO, Philharmonia & RPO

Single call (3 hours) on a day other than concert day – 60% of the Concert Rate

Tutti Sub-Principals Principals Section Principals*
£87.83 £93.54 £110.05 £121.06

Distance/Travel

Distance (where transport or travel fare is provided) Travel Allowance (where transport is NOT provided by engager)
19p per mile 38p per mile

Overnight - (paid at rates below, unless suitable accommodation is not available at these rates, see clause 7(a) of agreement for more information)

Basic M25 Supplement
£70.00 £25.00

Late return

Midnight - 12:30am 12:30 - 1:00am 1:00 - 2:00am
£5.25 £10.50 £15.75

Porterage

Group A Group B Group C Group D
£19.50 (£24.50 in London CCG) £16.00 £12.00 Negotiable

Downloads

ABO Freelance Agreement (0.23 MB)

ABO contact details

West Wing, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA
020 7759 1060
info@abo.co.uk

Porterage categories

Group A - Double Bass, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass Guitar

Group B - Bass saxophone,  Contra Bassoon, Tuba

Group C - Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet + 1 additional wind instrument, Trombone + 1 other brass instrument, French Horn + 1 other brass instrument, 2 Saxophones, Cello

Group D - Harp, Kit Drums, Percussion instruments, Timpani, Organ, Electronic keyboards

ABO Category 1 Orchestras

  • Academy of Ancient Music
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Arcangelo
  • Aurora Orchestra
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Britten Sinfonia
  • Chineke! Orchestra
  • City of London Sinfonia
  • Dunedin Consort
  • English Baroque Soloists
  • English Chamber Orchestra 
  • The English Concert
  • Gabrieli Consort & Players
  • Glyndebourne Sinfonia
  • The Hanover Band
  • London Chamber Orchestra
  • London Contemporary Orchestra
  • London Handel Orchestra
  • London Mozart Players
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • London Sinfonietta
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Manchester Camerata
  • Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra
  • Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra
  • Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
  • Orchestra of The Sixteen
  • Orchestra of St Johns 
  • Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
  • Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra
  • Sinfonia Verdi