ABO Category 1 Orchestral Rates
Updated: 01 May 2024 | 18:40 PM
Agreement
Minimum rates effective from 1 April 2024
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* |
| £152.97 |
£161.36 |
£189.84 |
£208.82 |
*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* |
| £91.78 |
£96.82 |
£113.90 |
£125.29 |
Distance/Travel
| Distance (where transport or travel fare is provided) |
Travel Allowance (where transport is NOT provided by engager) |
| 20p per mile |
39p 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 |
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
- London Chamber Orchestra
- London Contemporary 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