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18 DECEMBER 2021  4.30PM and 8PM - CANCELLED
MARGATE WINTER GARDENS
Christmas Concerts, to include music from Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kizhé, Christmas carols and traditional songs
Kent Sinfonia and The City of Canterbury Chamber Choir, promoted by Black Cat Events

11 DECEMBER 2021  7.30PM
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Rossini                  Overture: La Cenerentola
Schubert               Symphony No. 3
Grieg                      Ave Maris Stella
Rachmaninov       Ave Maria (Vespers)
Franck                   Panis Angelicus
Morley                   April is in My Mistress’ Face
Gibbons                The Silver Swan
Farmer                  Fair Phyllis
Fauré                     Cantique de Jean Racine
Britten                   I wonder as I wander out under the sky
Rheinberger         Abendlied, Op. 63 No. 3
Prokofiev              Troika: Lieutenant Kizhé
Traditional Christmas Carols

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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5 DECEMBER 2021, 3.00PM
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Handel              Arrival of the Queen of Sheba: Solomon
Warlock            Capriol Suite
Haydn               Trumpet Concerto
Beethoven       Symphony No.8

Jiazheng Yang, trumpet
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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4 DECEMBER 2021
HASLEMERE HALL

Rossini             Overture: La Cenerentola
Haydn              Symphony No.101, Clock
Brahms           Geistliches Lied
Grieg                Ave Maris Stella
Hassler            Dixit Maria
Reger               Unser lieben Frauen Traum, Op. 138, No. 4
Viadana           Exultalte justi
Clive Osgood  The Bee Carol: first performance
Handel             And the Glory of the Lord; And he shall purify; Unto us a child is born: The Messiah
L. Mozart         Sleigh Ride
 
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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24 NOVEMBER 2021, 7PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON
Haydn          Symphony No. 104
London Repertoire Orchestra

24 OCTOBER 2021  5.00PM (SOLD OUT) and 7.30PM
TYTHE BARN, TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Mozart                Divertimento in E-flat, K. 113
Holst                    Brook Green Suite
Elgar                    Serenade for Strings
Haydn                 Symphony No.44 in E minor, Trauer

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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23 OCTOBER 2021   7.30PM
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Gounod                  Petite Symphonie for Winds
Haydn                     Piano Concerto No. 11 in D
Beethoven             Symphony No. 2

Joy Morin, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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17 OCTOBER 2021    5PM and 7PM
ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE

Mozart                         Symphony No. 20 in D
Mozart                         Horn Concerto No. 3 (5pm performance)
Gounod                       Petite Symphonie for Winds (7pm performance)
Méhul                          Symphony No. 1

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra
Roger Doulton, horn

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13 OCTOBER 2021, 7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON
Franck                Symphony in D minor
London Repertoire Orchestra

10 OCTOBER 2021: 3.30PM
CASTLE HALL, BRIDGNORTH

Mozart                         Overture: Idomeneo
Beethoven                  Symphony No. 8: second movement
Fauré                           Dolly Suite
Elgar                             Chanson de Nuit and Chanson de Matin
Vaughan Williams      English Folk Songs Suite

Bridgnorth Sinfonia

1 OCTOBER 2021  7PM
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, CHELTENHAM

Sibelius           Pelléas and Mélisande
Bartók             Romanian Folk Dances

Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra

13 JULY 2021 - postponed
ST GEORGE'S CHURCH, ASHTEAD
Schubert             Overture in the Italian Style in D, D.950
Mozart                 Symphony No. 32
Beethoven          Egmont Overture
Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra

3 JULY 2021  6.00PM and 8.00PM
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Mozart                 Symphony No.39 in E-flat
Elgar                     Serenade for Strings
Sibelius                Valse triste
Bartók                  Romanian Folk Dances

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
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28 JIUNE 2021  8.45PM
HASLEMRE HALL (admission by advanced registration only)

Schubert            Symphony No.3 - 1st movement
Tchaikovsky       Symphony No.4 - 2nd movement
Elgar                   Chanson de Nuit and Chanson de Matin
Haydn                 Symphony No. 104 - 4th movement

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

26 JUNE 2021: CANCELLED
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

22 MAY 2021: CANCELLED
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

15 MAY 2021: CANCELLED
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
HASLEMERE HALL

20 MARCH 2021: CANCELLED
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

13 MARCH 2021: CANCELLED
CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Andrew Watkinson, violin

6 MARCH 2021: CANCELLED
HASLEMERE HALL
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

3 FEBRUARY 2021: CANCELLED
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
London Repertoire Orchestra

9 JANUARY 2021: CANCELLED
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
New Year's Concert
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

2020

19 and 20 DECEMBER 2021: CANCELLED
MARGATE WINTER GARDENS
Kent Sinfonia

14 DECEMBER 2020
HASLEMERE HALL, 8PM
Mozart          Symphony No. 39
Sibelius         Valse triste
Bartók           Romanian Folk Dances
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

12 DECEMBER 2020: CANCELLED
WELWYN CIVIC CENTRE
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

5 DECEMBER 2020: CANCELLED
HASLEMERE HALL
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

13 NOVEMBER 2020: CANCELLED
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

8 NOVEMBER 2020: CANCELLED
BRIDGNORTH COMMUNITY CENTRE
Haydn         Symphony No.6, Le Matin
Haydn         Symphony No.71
Holst           Two Songs without Words
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

26 OCTOBER 2020  8PM
HASLEMERE HALL
Boieldieu         Overture: La Dame blanche
Beethoven       Symphony No. 1
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

24 OCTOBER 2020: CANCELLED
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

19 OCTOBER 2020  8PM
HASLEMERE HALL
Sibelius                  Andante festivo
Warlock                 Capriol Suite (orchestral version)
Haydn                    Symphony No. 75
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

18 OCTOBER 2020: CANCELLED
TYHTE BARN, TEWIN BURY
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

17 OCTOBER 2020: CANCELLED
ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

8 OCTOBER 2020
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP, LONDON
Warlock                   Capriol Suite (orchestra version)
Haydn                      Symphony No.50
Haydn                      Symphony No.69
Bartôk                      Romanian Folk Dances
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

7 OCTOBER 2020
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON, 7PM
Richard Strauss          Serenade for Winds, op. 7
Richard Strauss          Suite for Winds, op. 4
London Repertoire Orchestra

4 OCTOBER 2020
BRIDGNORTH COMMUNITY CENTRE
Holst                           Two Songs without Words
Bartök                        Romanian Folk Dances
Haydn                        Symphony No.70 in D
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

26 SEPTEMBER 2020 - POSTPONED TO 8 JANUART 2022
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, MONTPELLIER ST, CHELTENHAM

Bartók                            Romanian Folk Dances
Sibelius                          Pelleas and Melisande Suite
Vaughan Williams        Symphony No.5

Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra

4 JULY 2020: POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 2022
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Concert in celebration of Welwyn Garden City Foundation Centenary:

de Falla                       Suite No.1: The Three-Cornered Hat
Rodgers and Hart     Blue Moon, and other songs from 'In the Mood', arr. David Blackwell
Vaughan Williams     The Lark Ascending
Elgar                            The Spirit of England

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Abigail James, violin
Concert supported by The Elgar Society

27 JUNE 2020 - CONCERT POSTPONED
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Wagner          Prelude to Act III: Tristan und Isolde, and Wesendonck Lieder
Beethoven    Symphony No.2
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

21 JUNE 2020 - CONCERT CANCELLED
TEMPLEWOOD HALL, Welwyn Garden City
Children's Concert
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

20 JUNE 2020 - CONCERT CANCELLED
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Vaughan Williams      Overture: The Wasps
Britten                         Five Courtly Dances: Gloriana
Bliss                             Things to Come Suite
Ferdinand David        Trombone Concertino
Rossini                         Overture: The Barber of Seville
Verdi                            Prelude to Act I: La traviata
Massenet                    Ballet Music: Le Cid
Brahms                       Hungarian Dance No.5

William Morley, trombone
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

8 JUNE 2020 - CONCERT CANCELLED
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH
Children's Concert
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

6 JUNE 2020 - CONCERT CANCELLED
MUCH WENLOCK FESTIVAL: Proms Concert

Vaughan Williams      Overture: The Wasps
Britten                         Five Courtly Dances: Gloriana
Bliss                             Things to Come Suite
Rossini                        Overture: The Barber of Seville
Verdi                            Prelude to Act I: La traviata
Massenet                    Ballet Music: Le Cid
Brahms                       Hungarian Dance No.5
Henry Wood (arr.)     Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne                             Rule, Britannia  
Elgar                            Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry                            Jerusalem    

Bridgnorth Sinfonia

16 MAY 2020, 7.30PM - CONCERT POSTPONED
HASLEMERE HALL

Mozart     Kyrie in D Minor
Mozart     Symphony No.35, Haffner
Mozart     Scenes from Idomeneo

Mimi Doulton, soprano
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

9 MAY 2020, 7.30PM - CONCERT POSTPONED
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Weber                       Jubel Overture
Clara Schumann     Piano Concerto
Brahms                    Symphony No.2

Joy Helen Morin, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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28 MARCH 2020, 7.30PM - CONCERT POSTPONED
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Mussorgsky           Introduction: Sorotchinsky Fair
Mussorgsky           Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Rimsky-Korsakov  Mlada Suite
Liadov                    The Enchanted Lake
Stravinsky              Berceuse and Finale: The Firebird
Rachmaninov        Vespers - selected excerpts

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Crispin Lewis, chorus master

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21 MARCH 2020, 7.30PM - CONCERT POSTPONED
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Gershwin    An American in Paris
de Falla       Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Debussy     La Mer

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Veronika Shoot, piano

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7 MARCH 2020, 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL

Britten                        Soirées musicales
Delius                         The Walk to 'The Paradise Garden'
Elgar                           Sea Pictures
Vaughan Williams    Dona Nobis Pacem

Janice Watson, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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26 FEBRUARY 2020, 7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, Lamb's Passage, LONDON
Haydn         Symphony No.97
London Repertoire Orchestra

9 FEBRUARY 2020, 7.30PM
SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OXFORD

Bruckner            Overture in G Minor
Wagner              Good Friday Music: Parsifal
Bruckner            Motets (Lee Dunleavy, chorus master)
Wagner              Prelude to Act I: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Mussorgsky       Dawn over the Moscow River (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Borodin              In The Steppes of Central Asia
Borodin              Polovtsian Dances

Concert in memory of Dr Paul Coones, Chairman of Curators, The Sheldonian Theatre
Hertford Bruckner Orchestra and Chorus; Lee Dunleavy, chorus master

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17 JANUARY 2020  6.15PM
THE HOWARD CENTRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
WELWYN GARDEN CITY CENTENARY OPENING CEREMONY

To include:
Mozart              Music from Don Giovanni, for wind ensemble
Gounod            Petite Symphonie
Elgar                  Serenade for Strings
Parry                  An English Suite
Purcell               Abdelazar Suite

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

14 JANUARY 2020, 7.45PM
TEMLEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Dvořák                           The Golden Spinning Wheel
Sibelius                          En Saga

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

4 JANUARY 2020
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Rimsky-Korsakov      Capriccio espagnol
Lyadov                        The Enchanted Lake
Borodin                      Polovtsian Dances
Britten                        Matinées musicales
Delius                         The Walk to 'The Paradise Garden'
Verdi                           Grand March: Aïda
J. Strauss II                 Acceleration Waltz
J. Strauss I                  Radetzky March

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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2019

21 DECEMBER 2019  2.00PM and 4.30PM
MARGATE WINTER GARDENS

Howard Blake, The Snowman and The Bear, with live film screening
Leroy Anderson, Sleigh Ride

Kent Sinfonia
George Gannon, treble
Peter Fletcher, tenor
Mike Burke, baritone

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15 DECEMBER 2019, 4.00PM
ST MARY'S CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Weber                  Overture: Der Freischütz
Butterworth        Two English Idylls
Paul Henley         The Firmament on High - first performance
Borodin                Symphony No.3
Chabrier               Joyeuse Marche
Philip Lane           Overture on French Christmas Carols

Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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14 DECEMBER 2019
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

J.S. Bach           Christmas Oratorio scenes
Conradi            Overture: Berlin wie es weint und lacht
Rhineberger    Abendlied
R. Strauss        Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Carols for Chorus, Orchestra and Audience

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Crispin Lewis, baritone
Peter Gordon, narrator

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7 DECEMBER 2019, 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL

Handel      Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest
Dvořák      Symphony No.8
J.S. Bach   Christmas Oratorio scenes

Andrew Chim, baritone; Martin Muncaster, narrator
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
SOLD OUT

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26 OCTOBER 2019
ST JOHN'S CHURCH SIDCUP

Sibelius             En Saga
Shostakovich   'Cello Concerto No.1
Franck               Symphony in D Minor

Sara Hajir, 'cello
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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13 OCTOBER 2019
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Mozart        Overture: Don Giovanni
Wieniawski  Violin Concerto No.1
Schubert     Symphony No.3
Sibelius        Valse triste
Brahms       Hungarian Dance No.6

Iohan Coman, violin: The Purcell School for Young Musicians
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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12 OCTOBER 2019
ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE

Holst                     Two Songs without Words
Fauré                    Pavane
Molique                Oboe Concerto
Beethoven           Symphony No.8

David Farnworth, oboe
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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5 OCTOBER 2019, 7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON

Berwald           Symphony No.3: Sinfonie singulière

London Repertoire Orchestra

12 SEPTEMBER 2019, 7.15PM
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Sibelius               En Saga
Franck                 Symphony in D Minor

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

6 JULY 2019
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Schubert                Overture: Rosamunde
Butterworth          Songs from A Shropshire Lad (orch. Phillip Brookes)
Beethoven             Symphony No.1

John Bowen, tenor
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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29 JUNE 2019
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Grieg                        Peer Gynt Suites No.1 and No.2
Elgar                         'Cello Concerto
Mendelssohn          Symphony No.3, Scottish

Ruth Henley, 'cello
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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25  JUNE 2019, 7.45PM
TEMPEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Thomas             Overture: Raymond, ou Le Secret de la reine
Waldteufel        Frühlingskinder (Violettes) Waltz, Op.148
Waldteufel        Toujours ou Jamais (Immer oder Nimmer), Op.156
von Suppé        Overture: Die Frau Meisterin
Tchaikovsky      Andantino: Symphony No.4
Wagner              Kleines Wagner-Album (arr. B. Leopold)

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

22 JUNE 2019
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Ethel Smyth             Overture: The Wreckers
Butterworth             Two English Idylls
Sibelius                     Suite: Pelleas and Melisande
Sullivan                     Overture: The Pirates of Penzance
Rutter                       The Sprig of Thyme

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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MONDAY 17 JUNE 2019
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Children's Concert including scenes, narration and dance from Grieg, Peer Gynt

David Carr, narrator
Dancers from Oldbury Wells School
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

Concert supported by Shropshire Grassroots Fund

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SATURDAY 11 MAY 2019
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Haydn                        Representation of Chaos: The Creation
Vaughan Williams    Overture: The Wasps
Respighi                     The Birds
Vaughan Williams    The Lark Ascending
Grieg                           Morning: Peer Gynt
Wagner                      Forest Murmurs: Siegfried
Stravinsky                  The Firebird (1919 Suite)

Abigail James, violin (The Purcell School for Young Musicians)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

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SATURDAY 4 MAY 2019: HASLEMERE FESTIVAL
HASLEMERE HALL, HASLEMERE, Surrey
To include:
Shostakovich       Symphony No.9
Clive Osgood       Alleluiya
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

16 MARCH 2019
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Mozart                 Kyrie in D Minor
Balakirev             Overture on Three Russian Themes
Borodin               Symphony No.3
Fauré                   Requiem

Zoe Mace, soprano
Andrew Chim, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
(Crispin Lewis, chorus master)

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9 MARCH 2019
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Elgar                 Cockaigne Overture
Rachmaninov  Piano Concerto No.4
Sibelius             Symphony No.5

Carson Becke, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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2 MARCH 2019
HASLEMERE HALL, HASLEMERE

Haydn         The Creation

Susan Young, soprano
Philip O'Brien, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
(Cole Bendhall, chorus master)

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30 JANUARY 2019
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Dvořák, The Wild Dove
London Repertoire Orchestra

21 JANUARY 2019
HASLEMERE HALL
Brahms          Symphony No.4
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

19 JANUARY 2019
ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL

Arnold            Peterloo Overture
Debussy         Prélude à 'L'Après-midi d'un faune'
Ives                 Variations on 'America'
Tchaikovsky   Scenes from Swan Lake
Mascagni        Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
J. Strauss II     Emperor Waltz
J. Strauss I      Radetzky March

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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15 JANUARY 2019, 7.45PM
TEMPLEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Nielsen          Symphony No.2 The Four Temperaments
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

5 JANUARY 2019
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Arnold            Peterloo Overture
Debussy         Prélude à 'L'Après-midi d'un faune'
Ives                 Variations on 'America'
Tchaikovsky   Scenes from Swan Lake
Mascagni        Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
J. Strauss II     Emperor Waltz
J. Strauss I      Radetzky March

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Supported by the Malcolm Arnold Trust

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2018

16 DECEMBER 2018
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Britten                     Matinées musicales                   
Tchaikovsky            Variations on a Rococo Theme
Prokofiev                 Lieutenant Kizhé Suite
Waldteufel              Skater's Waltz
Anderson                Sleigh Ride

Bridgnorth Sinfonia
Hattie Butterworth, 'cello

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15 DECEMBER 2018
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Haydn                       Nelson Mass
Vaughan Williams   Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Bruckner                   Motets: Locus iste, Os Justi, Christus factus est *
Anderson                 Christmas Festival Overture
Delius                        Sleigh Ride
Carols of Chorus, Orchestra and Audience

Madeleine Ladell, soprano; Kate Fun, alto
Paul Norcross-King, tenor; Crispin Lewis, baritone / * conductor
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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12 DECEMBER 2018, 7PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Dvořák                   Carnival Overture
Enescu                   Romanian Rhapsody No.1
London Repertoire Orchestra

1 DECEMBER 2018: HASLEMERE HALL - SOLD OUT

Beethoven           Mass in C
Fauré                    Masques et Bergamasques
Elgar                      Chanson de Matin; Chanson de Nuit
Leonard Cohen   Hallelujah
Handel                  Hallelujah Chorus: The Messiah
Parry                      Jerusalem

Rebecca Moon, soprano, Kate Fun, alto
Peter Mitchell, tenor, Leandros Taliotis, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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24 NOVEMBER 2018
HALL PLACE, BEXLEY

Holst                    Two Songs without Words
Telemann            Concerto in G for Two Violas
Wagner                Siegfied Idyll
Mozart                 Symphony No.29

Catriona Cooper and Richard Longman, violas
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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20 OCTOBER 2018
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Mendelssohn           The Hebrides Overture
Grieg                          Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky              Symphony No.5

Eleanor Meynell, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

Concert in memory of Heather Slade-Lipkin, raising funds for community facilities at St John's.

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14 OCTOBER 2018
TEWINBURY, Hertfordshire

Bartók               Romanian Folk Dances
Satie                  Gymnopedie No.1 and No.3 (orch. Debussy)
Glazunov           Violin Concerto
Gounod             Symphony No.2

Alpayjan İnkılap, violin (The Purcell School for Young Musicians)
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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13 OCTOBER 2018
ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE

Beethoven     Overture: Egmont
Wagner          Prelude to Act III: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner          Wesendoncklieder
Schubert        Symphony No.4

Meta Powell, soprano
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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19 SEPTEMBER 2018, 7PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Schubert      Symphony No.1
London Repertoire Orchestra

6 SEPTEMBER 2018, 7.15PM
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Tchaikovsky       Symphony No.5
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

7 JULY 2018
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Rossini                   Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers
Beethoven             Piano Concerto No.4
Mendelssohn        Symphony No.4, Italian

Veronika Shoot, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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30 JUNE 2018: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Shostakovich          Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Themes
Armstrong Gibbs   Dusk
Stanford                  Songs of the Fleet
Quilter                     Non Nobis Domine
Wagner                   Scenes from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Concert supported by The Armstrong Gibbs Society

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27 JUNE 2018, 7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Prokofiev        Violin Concerto No.2
Chihiro Ono, violin
London Repertoire Orchestra

16 JUNE 2018, ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH
and 2 JUNE 2018, MUCH WENLOCK FESTIVAL

Elgar                Froissart
R. Strauss       Horn Concerto No.1
Bizet                L'Arlésienne Suite No.2
R. Strauss       Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Langley           The Coloured Counties
Elgar                Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Arne                Rule Britannia
Parry               Jerusalem

Lydia Taylor, horn
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

14 MAY 2018   THE PURCELL SCHOOL, 6.30PM
Tayfun Bomboz    Fantasy Rhapsody - recording

14 MAY 2018, 1.30PM
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Children's Concert to include:
Prokofiev       Peter and the Wolf

Bridgnorth Sinfonia
Brian Gulland, narrator

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13 MAY 2018
HALL PLACE, BEXLEY

Gounod         Petite Symphonie
J.S. Bach         Orchestra Suite No.2
Elgar               Chanson de Matin and Chanson de Nuit
R. Strauss      Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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12 MAY 2018
ST ANDREW'S CENTRE, CHELTENHAM

Debussy       Petite Suite
Fauré            Pavane
Roussel         Le Festin de l'araignée
Saint-Saëns  Symphony No.2

Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra
Concert in association with Cheltenham French Circle
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9 MAY 2018, 7PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Haydn      Symphony No.88
London Repertoire Orchestra

5 MAY 2018, 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL
Sibelius       Karelia Suite
Baermann  Adagio for Clarinet
Baermann  Concertstück for Clarinet
Wagner       Scenes from Act III:
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Helen Owlett, clarinet
Andrew Greenan, bass-baritone: Hans Sachs
Meta Powell, soprano: Eva
Philip O'Brien, tenor: Walther
John Pierce, tenor: David
Emma Carrington, mezzo-soprano: Magdalene
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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28 APRIL 2018, 7.30PM
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP, London
Concert in collaboration with Sidcup Rotary Club

Smetana             Šárka
Rachmaninov    Piano Concerto No.1
Elgar                    Enigma Variations

Thomas Kelly, piano (Royal College of Music) - winner, 2017 Purcell School Concerto Competition
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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19 APRIL 2018
ST GEORGE'S HANOVER SQUARE, LONDON
COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING CONCERT

To include:
Manish Sanga             Fanfare: Jai Ho (first performance)
Carol Jones                  Dances to Accra (first performance)
Joshua Mock               Common Threads (first performance)
Mendelssohn              String Symphony No.10 in B minor *
Vaughan Williams      Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Elgar                             Introduction and Allegro

Commonwealth Festival Orchestra (with members of The Purcell School Philomel Ensemble)
Commonwealth Festival Chorus (Graham Dinnage, director)
* Sebastian Kozub, conductor. Concert in aid of Antigua and Barbuda Hurricane Support Fund

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17 MARCH 2018: ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Beethoven               Overture: The Ruins of Athens
Beethoven               Triple Concerto
Vaughan Williams   Symphony No.5

Galini Trio:
Andrew Watkinson, violin (Leader, Endellion String Quartet)
Shuna Wilson; 'cello
Caroline Palmer, piano
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

Concert supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust

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10 MARCH 2018
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP, London

Sibelius                       Pelleas and Melisande Suite
Rodrigo                       Concierto de Aranjuez
Vaughan Williams     Symphony No.5

Laure Genthialon, harp
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Concert supported by the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust

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3 MARCH 2018
HASLEMERE HALL

Holst             Short Festival Te Deum
Chausson     Symphony in B-flat
Fauré            Requiem

Sam Hunt, treble
Andrew Chim, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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21 FEBRUARY 2018, ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON
Tchaikovsky     Symphony No.1
London Repertoire Orchestra

17 FEBRUARY 2018
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH
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18 FEBRUARY 2018
ST LAURENCE CHURCH, CHURCH STRETTON, SHROPSHIRE

Schubert          Overture: Rosamunde
Butterworth    Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' (orch. Phillip Brookes)
Beethoven       Symphony No.7

John Bowen, tenor
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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7 FEBRUARY 2018, ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON
Sibelius                    Symphony No.1
London Repertoire Orchestra

16 JANUARY 2018  TEMPLEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Verdi                        Overture: The Sicilian Vespers
Wagner                    Prelude to Act I: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Rimsky-Korsakov   Easter Festival Overture

Welwyn Garden CIty Orchestra

6 JANUARY 2018, CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP

Sibelius                    Finlandia
Grieg                        Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Larsson                    Trombone Concertino
Arnold                      Little Suite for Orchestra No.2
Bliss                          Things to Come Suite
Elgar                         Chanson de Nuit
R. Strauss                 Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes
J. Strauss I                Radetzky March

William Morley, trombone (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
(supported by The Bliss Trust and The Malcolm Arnold Trust)

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2017

9 DECEMBER 2017
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Beethoven                Mass in C
Vittoria                      O Magnum Mysterium
Philip Lane               Overture on French Christmas Carols
Rutter                        Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Christmas Carols for Chorus, Orchestra and Audience

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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3 DECEMBER 2017, ST JOHN'S HALL, BRIDGNORTH
To include:
Schubert                  Overture: Rosamunde
Beethoven               Symphony No.7, first movement
Bridgnorth SInfonia

2 DECEMBER 2017
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Vaughan Williams   Psalm 47: O Clap Your Hands
Fauré                        Cantique de Jean Racine      
Bizet                          L'Arlésienne Suite No.2
M-A Charpentier     Messe de Minuit de Nöel
Prokofiev                  Troika: Lieutenant Kizhé
Clive Osgood            Alleluila (BBC Carol Competition 2016 finalist)

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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25 NOVEMBER 2017
HALL PLACE, BEXLEY

Bartók                       Romanian Folk Dances
Mozart                      Exsultate, Jubilate
Elgar                          Serenade for Strings
Schubert                   Symphony No.5

Lesley Gladigau, soprano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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28 OCTOBER 2017
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP, LONDON

Beethoven        Egmont Overture
Mendelssohn   Violin Concerto
Brahms             Serenade No.1

Joanne Chen, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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14 OCTOBER 2017
ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH HASLEMERE

Wagner               Siegfried Idyll
Fauré                   Elégie
Saint-Saëns         Allegro appassionato
Mendelssohn     Symphony No.3

Anna Hunt, 'cello
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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8 OCTOBER 2017
TYTHE BARN, TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Dvořák              Legends, op.59
Schumann        'Cello Concerto
Brahms             Serenade No.1

Sebastian Kozub, 'cello (courtesy of The Purcell School)
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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27 SEPTEMBER 2017
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON
Haydn     Symphony No.98
London Repertoire Orchestra

2 JULY 2017
TEMPLEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Children's Concert:
Sullivan            Overture: The Mikado
MacCunn        The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Chausson        Danse rustique: The Tempest
Bliss                  Things to Come Suite
Prokofiev         Montagues and Capulets: Romeo and Juliet
Arnold              Little Suite for Orchestra No.1 - 1st and 3rd movements
Binge                Sailing By
John Williams  Star Wars March

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
Concert supported by the John Apthorp Charity.

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SATURDAY 1 JULY 2017
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, South London

Debussy                  Petite Suite
Vaughan Williams  Tuba Concerto
Delius                      A Song before Sunrise
Haydn                      Symphony No.100, Military

Adam Reynolds, tuba (Royal College of Music)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

Concert supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust.

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 24 JUNE 2017,  ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Malcolm Arnold   Little Suite for Orchestra No.1
Finzi                       Clear and Gentle Stream, I Praise the Tender Flower, My Spirit Sang All Day
                               from Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
Kodály                   Matra Pictures
Mendelssohn       Violin Concerto (Andrew Watkinson)
Bliss                       Things to Come Suite
Sullivan                 Scenes from The Mikado

Andrew Watkinson, violin (Leader, Endellion String Quartet)
Jordan Bell, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orhestra and Chorus

Concert supported by The Bliss Trust.and The Malcolm Arnold Trust.

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21 JUNE 2017     ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON

Sibelius                Lemminkainen in Tuenola (Lemminkainen Legend No.3)
Dvořák                 In Nature's Realm

London Repertoire Orchestra

10 JUNE 2017
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH
Family Proms Concert, in association with Bridgnorth Town Council
Mozart                  Overture: Così fan tutte
Elgar                     The Wand of Youth: Suite No.2
Rossini                  Overture: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Bizet                      Toreador's Song: Carmen, Act II
Malcolm Arnold  Little Suite for Orchestra No.2
Coates                  The Dam-Busters March
Arne                      Rule, Britannia
Elgar                      Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry                     Jerusalem
Ian McFarlane, baritone
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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SATURDAY 20 MAY 2017
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Gluck              Overture: Alceste
Mozart            Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Schubert        Symphony No.9 in C

Joanne Chen, violin
Gwendolyn Fisher, Viola (Assistant Principal, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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6 MAY 2017
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Bernstein      Overture: Candide
Cole Porter   Begin The Beguine *
Gershwin      Summertime: Porgy and Bess
Copland       Four Danes: Rodeo
Coates          London Suite
Gershwin     A Foggy Day in London Town *
M. Sherwin  A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square **
Binge            Elizabethan Serenade and Sailing By
Verdi            Va pensiero: Nabucco
J. Williams    Schindler's List
Elgar             Nimrod: Enigma Variations
Parry             Jerusalem
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
* arranged for chorus and orchestra by Thomas Lydon; ** Joseph Yeadon

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4 MAY 2017       7.30PM
BIRD COLLEGE THEATRE, SIDCUP, LONDON
Gold and Silver Waltz: Bird College Ballet Collaboration: Andrew Wilson, choreographer
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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3 MAY 2017
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Haydn       Symphony No.102
London Repertoire Orchestra

29 APRIL 2017
BIRD COLLEGE, SIDCUP, LONDON

Wagner     Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Vaughan Williams
                   English Folk Song Suite
Dvořák      Symphony No.9

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra and Bexley Youth Orchestra

19 MARCH 2017
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Liadov                   Eight Russian Folksongs
Chabrier               Suite pastorale
Fauré                    Berceuse for Violin and Orchestra
Haydn                   Symphony No.100, Military
Bartok                   Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.68

Bridgnorth Sinfonia
Margaret Wright, violin

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18 MARCH 2017
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

‘Four Centuries of Shakespeare and Music’, to include:
Wagner            Das Liebesverbot (Measure for Measure) Overture
Prokofiev         ‘Montagues and Capulets’: Romeo and Juliet
Thomas            Ballet Music: Hamlet
Shostakovich   Incidental Music: Hamlet op.32a
Britten              Gloriana Dances
Chausson         The Tempest

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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15 MARCH 2017
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, City of LONDON
Vaughan Williams       Symphony No.5
London Repertoire Orchestra

13  MARCH 2017
WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Commonwealth Observance Service with HM The Queen
Commonwealth Festival Orchestra and MUSON Ensemble

11 MARCH 2017
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Rachmaninov    Piano Concerto No.3
Shostakovich     Symphony No.5

James Willshire, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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4 MARCH 2017
HASLEMERE HALL

Bruckner                Te Deum
Beethoven             Symphony No.9

Susan Young, soprano
Olivia Ray, mezzo-soprano
Philip O'Brien, tenor
Keel Watson, bass-baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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8 FEBRUARY 2017
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Haydn        Symphony No.96
London Repertoire Orchestra

17 JANUARY 2017
TEMPLEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Tchaikovsky         Marche slave
Dvořák                 Symphony No.1, The Bells of Zlonice
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

7 JANUARY 2017   ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
New Year Concert:
Bizet                 Carmen Suites
Chausson        Poème
Khachaturian  Three Dances: Gayane
Rachmaninov  Vocalise ('cello and orchestra)
Handel             Chaconne in G Minor (arr. Halvorsen)
Lehár                Gold and Silver Waltz
Binge                Sailing By
J. Strauss          Thunder and Lightning Polka; Radetzky March

Joanne Chen, violin
Eric Villeminey, 'cello (Philharmonia Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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2016

11 DECEMBER 2016
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, SIDCUP
Mayor of Bexley's Christmas Service

Mozart      Symphony No.24 in B-flat
Christmas Carols for Chorus and Orchestra

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Combined Sidcup Civic Choirs - David Mitchell, chorus master; Frank Roddy, organ

10 DECEMBER 2016
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Parry                           Blest Pair of Sirens (chorus and orchestra)
Butterworth               A Shropshire Lad
Hamish MacCunn     The Land of the Mountain and The Flood
Vaughan Williams     O Clap Your Hands, O Ye People (Psalm 47)
Fauré                           Cantique de Jean Racine
Prokofiev                    Troika: Lieutenant Kizhé
Ronald Binge              Sailing By
Christmas Carols with Chorus, Orchestra and Audience

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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3 DECEMBER 2016
HASLEMERE HALL

Glazunov         Winter: The Seaons
Tchaikovsky    Scenes from Swan Lake
Gounod           St Cecilia Mass

Rebecca Moon, soprano
Alex Aldren, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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23 NOVEMBER 2016, 7PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Mozart        Symphony No.39
London Repertoire Orchestra

20 NOVEMBER 2016
DAVID DEXTER'S, BRIDGNORTH

Haydn          Symphony No.100 in G, Military
Beethoven  Violin Romance No.2 in F (Margaret Wright, soloist)
Chabrier      Suite pastorale
Binge            Elizabethan Serenade
Bartok          Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.68

Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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19 NOVEMBER 2016
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Butterworth    A Shropshire Lad
Prokofiev         Violin Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky    Symphony No.6

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Yuliya Ostapchuk, violin

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16 NOVEMBER 2016
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Schubert         Symphony No.6
London Repertoire Orchestra

 SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 2016
 TEWINBURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

 Beethoven         Overture: Namesday (Namesfeier)
 Liadov                 Eight Russian Folk Songs
 Fauré                   Masques et Bergamasques
 Mendelssohn     Symphony No.3, Scottish

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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  SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 2016
  ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE

  Mozart           Overture: Don Giovanni
  Elgar               Serenade for Strings
  Canteloube   Songs of the Auvergne
  Satie                Je te veux
  Saint-Saëns    Romance for Flute
  Haydn             Symphony No.101: Clock

  Clare Loosley, soprano
  Lucy Hatcher, flute
  Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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       SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER 2016
       ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WATERLOO, LONDON

       Berlioz              Roman Carnival Overture
       Sibelius             Tapiola
       Rachmaninov   Symphonic Dances

       Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra

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SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016  7,30PM
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Elgar                 Froissart
F. David            Concertino for Trombone
Brahms            Symphony No.1

William Morley, trombone: 2016 Bexley Young Musician of the Year
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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[25 JUNE 2016
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Mussorgsky   Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Liadov             The Enchanted Lake
Alfvén             Swedish Rhapsody No.1: Midsommarvaka
Elgar               'As Torrents in Summer': King Olaf
Elgar               The Banner of St George

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
James Ross is most grateful to Crispin Lewis for conducting this concert in his place while performing in Milan.]

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11 JUNE 2016   7.30PM
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BRIDGNORTH
Bridgnorth Proms

Vaughan Williams  English Folk Songs Suite
Sibelius                    Karelia Overture
Chausson                Incidental Music: The Tempest
Arnold                      Little Suite for Orchestra No.2
Warlock                    Capriol
Wood (arr)               Sea Songs
Elgar                         Chanson de matin, Chanson de nuit, Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry                        Jerusalem

Bridgnorth Sinfonia
Kathryn Morgan, mezzo-soprano

8 JUNE 2016     7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON  7.00PM

Bizet                        Jeux d'enfants
Debussy                 Clarinet Rhapsody
Chabrier                 Suite pastorale

London Repertoire Orchestra
Mike Penny, clarinet

4 JUNE 2016      7.30PM
MUCH WENLOCK FESTIVAL: Proms on the Green

Vaughan Williams  English Folk Songs Suite
Sibelius                    Karelia Overture
Chausson                Incidental Music: The Tempest
Gregson                   Tuba Concerto
Handel                     'La speranza e giunta': Ottone
Arnold                      Little Suite for Orchestra No.2
Warlock                    Capriol
Elgar                         Chanson de matin, Chanson de nuit, Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Arne                         Rule, Britannia
Parry                        Jerusalem

Kathryn Morgan, mezzo-soprano; Adam Reynolds, tuba
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

14 MAY 2016
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Thomas            Overture: Mignon
Debussy           Clarinet Rhapsody
Weber               Clarinet Concertino
Dvořák              Symphony No.9, From The New World

Chris Richards, clarinet (London Symphony Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Concert in association with Sidcup Rotary Club

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7 MAY 2016
HASLEMERE HALL

Shostakovich               Violin Concerto No.1
Orff                                Carmina Burana

Fenella Humphreys, Violin
Susan Young, Soprano
Philip O'Brien, Tenor
Keel Watson, Bass-baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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5 MAY 2016                 6.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, BEXLEYHEATH, SOUTH LONDON
Haydn                        Symphony No.26: Lamentatione
Mozart                       Symphony No.40
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

28 APRIL 2016            7.30PM
BIRD COLLEGE HALL, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON
Conducting masterclass with members of Bird College music staff and Sidcup Symphony Orchestra on Dvořák, Symphony No.9 and Thomas, Mignon Overture.

23 APRIL 2016
BIRD COLLEGE HALL, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Glinka                     Overture: A Life for the Tsar
Bizet                        Patrie
Chaminade            Callirhoe
Britten                     Five Courtly Dances: Gloriana
Smetana                 Tabor and Blanik

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra and Bexley Youth Orchestra

12 MARCH 2016
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
SOUTH LONDON

Shostakovich      Festive Overture
Elgar                     'Cello Concerto
Rachmaninov     Symphony No.1

William Robertson (Royal Academy of Music), 'cello
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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19 MARCH 2016                      7.30PM
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Bruckner                     Overture in G minor
Borodin                       Symphony No.1
Vaughan Williams      Dona Nobis Pacem

Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Crispin Lewis, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

With many thanks to The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.

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5 MARCH 2016
HASLEMERE HALL

Smetana                Šárka
Dvořák                   Stabat Mater

Meta Powell, soprano
Jeanette Ager, mezzo-soprano
John Pierce, tenor
Liandros Taliotis, baritone

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
(Thomas Lydon, chorus master)

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24 FEBRUARY 2016               7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Liszt           Symphonic Poem No.1: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne
London Repertoire Orchestra

6 FEBRUARY 2016
ST ANDREW'S CHURCH, MONTPELLIER STREET
CHELTENHAM

Kodály                   Dances of Galánta
Copland                Appalachian Spring: complete ballet
Copland                Quiet City
de Falla                 The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite No.1

Chelthenham Chamber Orchestra

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30 JANUARY 2016
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BRIDGNORTH
Cherubini              Overture: Anacreon
Fauré                     Dolly Suite (orch. Rabaud)
R. Strauss              Horn Concerto No.1, 1st movement
Beethoven            Symphony No.4

Bridgnorth Sinfonia
Lydia Taylor, horn

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12 JANUARY 2016
TEMPLEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Dvořák       Symphony No.2
Sibelius      Symphony No.7
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

9 JANUARY 2016
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Suppé                 Light Cavalry Overture
Mussorgsky       Polonaise: Boris Godunov
Ravel                   La Valse and Bolero
Massenet           Ballet music: Le Cid
Eric Coates         By The Sleepy Lagoon (Desert Island Discs Theme)
Johann Strauss  Roses From The South, Champagne Polka and Radetzky March

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra New Year's Concert

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13 DECEMBER 2015
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Mozart       Symphony No.21
Mayor of Bexley's Christmas Service
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

 12 DECEMBER 2015
 ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

 Suppé               Overture: Poet and Peasant
 Brahms            Geistliches Lied, op.30
 Holst                 Psalm 86: To My Humble Supplication
 Arnold              Little Suite for Orchestra No.2
 Bax                    Five Fantasies on Polish Christmas Carols
 Chausson         Air de danse: The Tempest
 Albéniz             Tango in D
 Carols for Chorus, Audience and Orchestra

 Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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10 DECEMBER 2015  BIRD COLLEGE HALL, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON
Conducting Masterclass with Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

5 DECEMBER 2015
HASLEMERE HALL

Tchaikovsky         Symphony No.1, Winter Daydreams
Rutter                    Gloria
Finzi                       In Terra Pax
Carols for Chorus, Audience and Orchestra

Joanna Bywater, soprano
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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8 NOVEMBER 2015
DAVID DEXTER LTD, BRIDGNORTH
Cherubini               Overture: Anacreon
Fauré                       Excerpts from Dolly Suite
Beethoven              Symphony No.4, 1st movement
Elgar                        Chanson de Matin and Chanson de Nuit

Bridgnorth Sinfonia

With thanks to sponsors David Dexters of Bridgnorth

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1 NOVEMBER 2015
TEWINBURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Sibelius                    Andante Festivo
Holst                        Two Songs without Words                     
Kodaly                     Dances of Galanta
Schumann              Symphony No.2

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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17 OCTOBER 2015
ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, WEYHILL, HASLEMERE

Beethoven               Overture: Leonora No.1
Roussel                     Le Festin de l'araignée (The Spider's Banquet)
Chausson                 Incidental Music: The Tempest
Tchaikovsky             Orchestral Suite No.3: Mozartiana
Sibelius                     Valse triste

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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  10 OCTOBER 2015
  ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

  Rossini                    Overture: The Thieving Magpie
  Gounod                   Judex: Mors et Vita
  Liszt                         Piano Concerto No.2
  Beethoven              Symphony No.5

  James Willshire, piano
  Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
  Concert in memory of Tom Bewsey OBE, SSO Founder and President
  Tickets on sale now. CLICK HERE.

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30 SEPTEMBER 2015     7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Duparc      Lénore
Bellini        Oboe Concerto
Liszt           Symphonic Poem: Les Préludes
London Repertoire Orchestra; Hilary Orchard: oboe

4 JULY 2015                7.30PM
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Rameau                    Overture & Ballet Music: Platée
Beethoven               Triple Concerto
Warlock                   Capriol
Mozart                     Symphony No.31, Paris

Alexandra Gracheva, piano
Alexandra Li, violin
Jamal Aliyev, 'cello
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

Jamal Aliyev is supported by Talent Unlimited.

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29 JUNE 2015
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON
Sibelius      Finlandia
Bexley Youth Orchestra

28 JUNE 2015             3PM and 4.45PM
TEMPLEWOOD HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Humperdinck         Hansel and Gretel: Witch's Ride
Coates                      Three Elizabeths Suite
Bizet                         L'Arlésienne Suite No.2
Film music by John Williams and Anderson-Lopez, Frozen

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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29 SEPTEMBER 2015      5.30PM
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON
Elgar     Pomp and Circumstance No.1
Bexley Youth Orchestra

27 JUNE 2015             7.30PM
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Cimarosa              Overture: The Secret Marriage
Holst                      Two Songs without Words
Debussy                 Petite Suite
Weber                    Andante e rondo ongarese for bassoon and orchestra
Tchaikovsky         Orchestral Suite No.4: Mozartiana

Felicity Stubbs, bassoon
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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20 JUNE 2015    7.30PM
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Parry                           I was Glad
Coates                         Three Elizabeths Suite
Vaughan Williams   English Folk-Songs Suite
Duparc                        Phidylé and Extase
Poulenc                      Gloria

Jacqueline Dias, soprano; Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

18 JUNE 2015   7.30PM
BIRD COLLEGE HALL, SIDCUP
Conducting Masterclass on Warlock, Capriol and Mozart, Symphony No.31
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

17 JUNE 2015     7.00PM
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Chausson          Symphony in B-flat
London Repertoire Orchestra

13 JUNE 2015      7.30PM
ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH
Proms Concert, to include:
Coates                        The Dam-Busters March
Vaughan Williams   English Folk Songs Suite
Shostakovich            Polka and 2nd Waltz, Jazz Suite No.2  
Wood                          Sea Songs
Elgar                           Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

SATURDAY 30 MAY 2015   7.30PM
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Brahms           Tragic Overture
Tchaikovsky   Violin Concerto
Bruckner         Symphony No.4

Emily Mowbray, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

SATRUDAY 9 MAY 2015     7.30PM    HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Delius                      Scenes from Koanga
Gershwin                Overture: Girl Crazy
Laudisden               Sure on this Shining Night
Whitacre                 Seal Lullaby
Clive Osgood          Songs from Three Counties - first performance
Dvorák                    Symphony No.9: From the New World
Barber                     Sure on this Shining Night

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Concert supported by The Delius Trust.

THURSDAY 7 MAY 2015   6.30PM      TOWNLEY HALL, BEXLEYHEATH, SOUTH LONDON

Bach                    Brandenburg Concerto No.4
Tippett               Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with Bexley Music Service and Bird College

SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015        BIRD COLLEGE, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Sibelius             Finlandia
Nielsen              Aladdin Suite
Butterworth    A Shropshire Lad
Massenet          Le Cid: ballet music

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra and Bexley Youth Orchestra

21 MARCH 2015
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Schumann      Overture: Genoveva
Bruckner         Motets
Schubert         Symphony No.8, Unfinished
Rossini             Stabat Mater

Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Sian Millet, mezzo-soprano
John Pierce, tenor
Leandros Taliotis, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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SUNDAY 16 MARCH  2015        CASTLE HALL, BRIDGNORTH

Cimarosa              Overture: The Secret Marriage
Chaminade           Flute Concertino (Amy Colburn, soloist)
Debussy                 Petite Suite
Tchaikovsky         Orchestral Suite No.4, Mozartiana

Bridgnorth Sinfonia

14 MARCH 2015
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Nielsen           Overture: Helios
Dvořák            Symphonic Variations
Sibelius           Symphony No.2

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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7 MARCH 2015
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Schubert       Symphony No.9 in C
Rossini          Stabat Mater

Susan Young, soprano, Alison Kettlewell, mezzo-soprano
John Pierce, tenor, Keel Watson, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

8 MARCH 2015
MORLEY COLLEGE, LONDON
and
9 MARCH 2015
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, COMMONWEALTH OBSERVANCE CEREMONY, LONDON

Warlock             Capriol
Mozart               Horn Concerto No.2 K.417 - Olivia Gandee, horn (Chetham's School of Music)
Thomas Carr    New Commission

Commonwealth Festival Orchestra

21 JANUARY 2015      ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON

Chausson             La Tempête, Op. 18
Saint-Saëns         Symphony No.2

London Repertoire Orchestra

SATURDAY 10 JANUARY 2015

Nicolai              Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Glazunov          Winter: The Seasons
Stravinsky        Firebird Suite
Bizet                  L'Arlésienne Suite No.2
Offenbach        Overture: Orphée aux enfers
J. Strauss II       Overture: Die Fledermaus
J. Strauss II       The Blue Danube Waltz
J. Strauss II       Thunder and Lightning Polka

ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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2014

28 JANUARY 2014         UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Gluck                               Overture: Alceste
Mussorgsky                    Prelude to Khovanshchina
Borodin                           In the Steppes of Central Asia
Nielsen                            Symphony No.1

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

29 JANUARY 2014           ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON

Mozart                               Symphony No.26
Haydn                                Symphony No.89

London Repertoire Orchestra

8 MARCH 2014   HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Dvořák                Symphony No.6
Bruckner            Locus iste
Bruckner            Mass No.1 in D Minor

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Eleanor Rastall and Joanna Bywater, sopranos
Mark Evans, tenor, Edward Roberts, bass

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9 MARCH 2014          CASTLE HALL, BRIDGNORTH

Warlock                      Capriol
Mozart                        Second Movement: Flute and Harp Concerto
Haydn                         Symphony No.103, Drum Roll
Vaughan Williams   English Folk Songs Suite

Bridgnorth Sinfonia

15 MARCH 2014     ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Debussy             Nocturnes
Holst                  The Planets

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Choir of Townley Grammar School

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29 MARCH 2014        ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Wagner            Overture: Rienzi
Franck              Symphony in D minor
J.S. Bach           Excerpts from the Mass in B minor

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus (Crispin Lewis, chorus master),
with members of Luton Choral Society

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10 MAY 2014      HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Brahms     Academic Festival Overture - with chorus
Bruch        Scottish Fantasy *
J.S. Bach   Ave Maria (arr. Gounod)
Franck      Psalm 150 & Panis Angelicus
Vaughan Williams (orch. Jacob)
                   English Folk-Song Suite
Mozart     Ave Verum Corpus
Handel     Coronation Anthems: My Heart is Inditing, Let Thy Hand by Strengthened, Zadok the Priest
Tom Horn, violin *
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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31 MAY 2014     ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Wagner               Overture: Tannhäuser
Brahms               Double Concerto
Elgar                    Enigma Variations

Ariel Lang, violin and Raphael Lang, 'cello
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
SSO is most grateful to Ariel and Raphael Lang for being available at short notice for this concert.

Photograph of Kristine and Margarita Balanas by Segun Olotu of Sottu Photopgrahy

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4 JUNE 2014         ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Mendelssohn      Overture: The Hebrides
de Falla                Scenes and Dances: The Three-Cornered Hat
Mendelssohn      Symphony No.1
London Repertoire Orchestra

11 JUNE 2014     ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Beethoven          Symphony No.2
London Repertoire Orchestra

14 JUNE 2014            PROMS IN THE PARK: BRIDGNORTH CASTLE GROUNDS

Haydn                         Symphony No.103: Drum Roll
Binge                          Saxophone Concerto
Vaughan Williams   English Folk Songs Suite
Arne                            Rule Britannia
Elgar                           Pomp and Circumstance March No.1

Grace Macdonald, saxophone  - Chetham's School of Music
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

21 JUNE 2014              ST MARY'S CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Mozart                        Overture: Così fan tutte
Vaughan Williams    English Folk Songs Suite
Warlock                      Capriol
Dittersdorf                 Double Bass Concerto No.2 in E
Haydn                         Symphony No.103, Drum Roll

Patrick Phillip, double bass
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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28 JUNE 2014       ST JOHN'S CHURCH, DIGSWELL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Brahms                 Academic Festival Overture (with chorus)
Bruch                    Scottish Fantasy *
Rossini                  Act I Scene 1 Chorus: Guillaume Tell
Donizetti              Act II Wedding Guests' Chorus: Lucia di Lammermoor
Verdi                     Anvil Chorus: Il trovatore
Verdi                     Va pensiero: Nabucco
Wagner                 Act III Introduction and Scene 1: Tannhäuser **
Wagner                 Act III Procession and Chorale: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Mascagni              Easter Hymn: Cavalleria rusticana **

Tom Horn, violin *   Sara Wallander, soprano **
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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5 JULY 2014        ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Beethoven                Overture: Leonora No.3
Brahms                     Violin Concerto
Schumann                Symphony No.3, Rhenish

Geoffrey Lynn, violin - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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11 OCTOBER 2014     ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, SOUTH LONDON

Mozart                        Overture: Don Giovanni
Shostakovich            Piano Concerto No.2
Beethoven                 Symphony No.7

Dominic John, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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 18 OCTOBER 2014        ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE, SURREY

 Debussy                       Petite Suite
 Vaughan Williams     Fantasia on Greensleeves
 Kalliwoda                    Oboe Concertino
 Butterworth               The Banks of Green Willow
 Mozart                         Symphony No.31, Paris

 David Farnworth, oboe
 Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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12 NOVEMBER 2014   ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON
Sibelius           Symphony No.3
London Repertoire Orchestra

 15 NOVEMBER 2014   CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BRIDGNORTH

 de Falla                    Scenes and Dances: The Three-Cornered Hat
 Poulenc                    Flute Sonata (orch. Lennox Berkeley)
 Chaminade              Flute Concertino
 Schubert                  Symphony No.3

 Sarah Morris, flute
 Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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16 NOVEMBER 2014    SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OXFORD
Beethoven Symphony No.9
Concert in celebration of the Sheldonian Theatre's 350th Anniversary
Sheldonian Anniverary Orchestra and Chorus: Tom Hammond-Davies, chorus master
Sara Wallander, soprano
Lise Christensen, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Stoughton, tenor
Jonathan Stainsby, baritone

6 DECEMBER 2014    HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Mozart           Overture: Così fan tutte
Beethoven     Symphony No.5
Haydn            Nelson Mass

Jessica Broad, soprano
Helen Bruce, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Hann, tenor
Ben McKee, bass
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
SOLD OUT

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13 DECEMBER 2014    ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Humperdinck  Prelude and Witch's Ride: Hansel and Gretel
Elgar                  'Cello Concerto
Handel              Excerpts from The Messiah
Delius                Sleigh Ride
Christmas Carols for Chorus, Audience and Orchestra
Felicity Corrie, 'cello
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

14 DECEMBER 2014    ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Mozart      Symphony No.27 K.199
Carols for Choir, Audience and Orchestra

Mayor of Bexley's Christmas Service
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

2013

15 JANUARY 2013      UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Wagner                Rienzi Overture
Skryabin              Rêverie, op.24
Rachmaninov     Symphony No.1
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

30 JANUARY 2013           ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Stravinsky     Symphony in E-flat
Prokofiev       Symphony No.1, Classical
London Repertoire Orchestra

13 FEBRUARY 2013     ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Borodin         Symphony No.2
London Repertoire Orchestra

FRIDAY 1 MARCH 2013                           SAATCHI GALLERY, KING'S ROAD, LONDON

'Sounds Outstanding: Soviet Gaiety and Musical Responses'

New music inspired by the Gallery's current 'Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union' exhibition, with Music Off Canvas, Queenswood School and The Purcell School of Music, and Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony Op.110a, including members of the Philharmonia Orchestra.  Sold out.

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2 MARCH 2013       HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Mendelssohn     Elijah

Sara Wallander, soprano: The Widow
Cathy Bell, mezzo-soprano: The Angel; Queen Jezabel
Arthur Swan, tenor: Obadiah; King Ahab
Jon Stainsby, baritone: Elijah
Sarah Thomas, soprano: The Boy
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with members of Welwyn Garden City Chorus

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9 MARCH 2013    ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Borodin              Overture: Prince Igor
Sibelius               Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky       Symphony No.4

Kristine Balanas, violin (Royal Academy of Music)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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11 MARCH 2013   WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Commonwealth Day Observance Service with HM The Queen:

Purcell                        Incidental music from King Arthur
Vaughan Williams      Fantasia on Greensleeves 
Handel                        Water Music: Suite No.2
Handel                        Music for the Royal Fireworks
Joshua Hagley            Dance of the Spirits: An African Epiphany, and
Alan Mofti                  Euphoric Fanfare (first performances)
and Toby Heeson       Paraphrase on the Sri Lankan National Anthem (conducted by the composer)

Members of Chetham's School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music and Commonwealth Festival Orchestra, organised by The Commonwealth Resounds.

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17 MARCH 2013    CASTLE HALL, BRIDGNORTH

Schubert               Symphony No.6
Albinoni                Oboe Concerto in D minor, op.9 no.2
Fauré                     Sicilienne: Pelléas et Mélisande
Ravel                     Minuet and Rigaudon: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Shostakovich      Waltz: Jazz Suite No.2

Lyndall Bausor, oboe and Bridgnorth Sinfonia
With thanks for support from FRS Countrywear, David Dexters Bridgnorth Garage, E.On UK Sparkler Fund, Graham Hill Flooring, and the Millichope Community Arts Fund; flowers by Ebenezers and drinks by Tanners Wines.

23 MARCH 2013                 ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Mendelssohn      Elijah

Jacqueline Dias, soprano: The Widow; Angel
Morag Boyle, mezzo-soprano: Angel; Queen Jezebel
Arthur Swan, tenor: Obadiah; King Ahab
Leandros Taliotis, baritone: Elijah
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Haslemere Symphony Chorus

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26 APRIL 2013   HASTOE HALL, HERTFORDSHIRE
Choral music by Vivaldi, Leonard Cohen and Lloyd-Webber with Bucks Health Choir in aid of National Spinal Injuries Centre charities.

4 MAY 2013      HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Rossini         Overture: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini         Villagers' Chorus: Guillaume Tell
Handel         'Lascia ch'io pianga: Rinaldo
Handel         'Dove sei, amato bene?', Rodelinda
Gluck            'O del mio dolce ardour': Paride ed Elena
Donizetti      ‘Perte d’immenso giubilo’: Lucia di Lammermoor
Gounod         Ballet Music: Faust
Verdi             Anvil Chorus: Il trovatore
Mascagni       Easter Hymn: Cavalleria rusticana *
Puccini          Intermezzo: Manon Lescaut
Wagner         Pilgrims' Chorus and Act II March, Tannhäuser
Wagner         Prelude to Act III and Bridal Chorus: Lohengrin
Wagner         Procession and Chorale: Act III: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Tallulah Horton, Louis Denison-Foster and Sam Dashwood: St Edmund's School, Hindhead
Joanna Bywater, soprano *; Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

8 MAY 2013     ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON

Borodin             Overture: Prince Igor
Mussorgsky      Dawn over the Moscow River: Prelude to Khovanshchina (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Mussorgsky      Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)

London Repertoire Orchestra

19 MAY 2013     ST JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Wagner            Act I Prelude: Lohengrin
Wagner            Act III Prelude, Scenes 1, 2 and 3: Lohengrin
Mahler             Symphony No.4

Sara Wallander, soprano: Elsa; Mahler, Symphony No.4
David Butt Philip, tenor (Jette Parker Artist, Royal Opera House): Lohengrin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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5 JUNE 2013    ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Nielsen              Symphony No.3
London Repertoire Orchestra

15 JUNE 2013   PROMS IN THE PARK: CASTLE GARDENS, BRIDGNORTH

Schubert                       Symphony No.6, 1st movement
Vaughan Williams      English Folk-Song Suite
Shostakovich               2nd Waltz: Jazz Suite No.2
Handel                           Music for the Royal Fireworks
Arne                               Rule Britannia: Alfred
Elgar                              Pomp and Circumstance March No.1

Suzanne Millington, soprano; Bridgnorth Sinfonia

23 JUNE 2013     ST JOHN'S CHURCH, DIGSWELL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Sibelius                Karelia Suite
Wagner                Wesendonck Lieder
Tchaikovsky         Letter Scene: Eugene Onegin
Shostakovich       Symphony No.9

Sara Wallander, soprano
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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6 JULY 2013     ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Beethoven           Overture: Fidelio
R. Strauss            Serenade for Winds
R. Strauss            Horn Concerto No.1
Beethoven           Symphony No.6

Anneke Scott, horn (principal horn: English Baroque Soloists)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra 

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9 JULY 2013          NATIONAL SPINAL INJURIES CENTRE, STOKE MANDEVILLE
Movements from Vivaldi, Gloria; Gershwin, Summertime; Lloyd-Webber, Sing; Scarborough Fair; Man in the Mirror and Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah with Bucks Health Choir.

19 OCTOBER 2013   ST CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE

Fauré                Pelléas et Mélisande Suite
Ravel                Le Tombeau de Couperin (David Farnworth, oboe)
Brahms            Serenade No.1

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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20 OCTOBER 2013   ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Weber              Overture: Oberon
Beethoven      Piano Concerto No.3
Dvořák             Symphony No.7

Alexandra Gracheva, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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3 NOVEMBER 2013    TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Beethoven        Overture: Coriolan
Gluck                Dance of the Blessed Spirits and Dance of the Furies: Orfeo
Delius               A Song before Sunrise and La Calinda
Debussy            Petite Suite (orch. Büsser)
Britten              Soirées musicales and Matinées musicales

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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21 NOVEMBER 2013     ST BARNABAS HALL, ST PAUL'S CRAY, SOUTH LONDON

Gounod, Ballet Music from Faust, with dancers from Bird College directed by Lai Sheung Chan, and Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

23 NOVEMBER 2013   ST MARY'S CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH

Ravel                     Le Tombeau de Couperin
J.S. Bach               Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
Butterworth       The Banks of Green Willow
Mozart                 Symphony No.31, Paris

Margaret Wright and William Croft, violins
Bridgnorth Sinfonia

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26 NOVEMBER 2013     SAVE THE CHILDREN SECRET GALA with ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET
THE GUILDHALL, CITY OF LONDON

Tchaikovsky      Scenes from The Nutcracker
English National Ballet Principal Dancers Elena Glurdjidze and Arionel Vargas, and members of The Orchestra of English National Ballet
Zimmer               Gladiator
Choreography by Rachel Kay, with electronic composition by Tom Middleton
Executive Production by Paul Pacifico, Specific Music

5 DECEMBER 2013   ST MARY'S CHURCH, AYLESBURY
Concert with Buckinghamshire Health Choir in aid of Stoke Mandeville Hospital's Scannapeal.
www.scannapeal.org.uk/events

7 DECEMBER 2013
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Beethoven           Symphony No.3, Eroica
Vivaldi                 Gloria

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Sara Wallander, soprano and Angharad Lewis, mezzo-soprano
SOLD OUT

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8 DECEMBER 2013
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP: Mayor's Christmas Service
J.S. Bach                  Brandenburg Concerto No.1
Christmas Carols for Chorus, Orchestra and Audience
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, with Combined Sidcup and Bexley Choirs

8 DECEMBER 2013
HIGH WYCOMBE ARTS CENTRE
Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah and Christmas Music
Bucks Health Choir and Bisham Concert Band

11 DECEMBER 2013
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Dohnányi, Variations on a Nursery Theme
London Repertoire Orchestra

14 DECEMBER 2013
ST JOHN'S CHURCH, DIGSWELL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Massenet                   Overture: Phèdre
Rimsky-Korsakov    Christmas Eve Suite
Vivaldi                       Gloria
Finzi                           In Terra Pax
Carols: The First Nowell; Unto us is Born a Son; Hark, The Herald Angels Sing

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Sara Wallander, soprano; Angharad Lewis, mezzo-soprano

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15 DECEMBER 2013
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Carol: Once in Royal David's City
Smetana         Vltava - Má Vlast
Carol: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Prokofiev        Lieutenant Kizhé Suite
Carol: O Come, all ye faithful
Gounod            Ballet Music: Faust
Puccini             Intermezzo: Manon Lescaut
Saint-Saëns     Bacchanale: Samson et Dalila
Carol: Mendelssohn, Hark, The Herald Angels Sing!
Kabalevsky      Gallop: The Comedians
Anderson         Sleigh Ride

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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17 DECEMBER 2013
NATIONAL SPINAL INJURIES CENTRE, STOKE MANDEVILLE
Christmas Performance
Buckinghamshire Health Choir and Guests

2012

15 JANUARY 2012: ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE
Film Recording: The Long Journey Home, directed by David Fairhead
Music: Philip Sheppard; Recording Producer: Roberto Borzoni

17 JANUARY 2012: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WOODHALL LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Dvořák               Symphony No.4
Glazunov           Symphony No.1
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

22 FEBRUARY 2012: SAATCHI GALLERY, LONDON, 7.00PM
MUSIKKUNSTWERK: new works by composers from The Purcell School and Queenswood School to accompany the Saatchi Gallery's Gesamtkunstwerk Exhibition.

3 MARCH 2012: HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Mendelssohn    Overture: The Hebrides
Sibelius              Symphony No.3
Elgar                  The Music-Makers

Helen Anne Gregory, mezzo-soprano
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

10 MARCH 2012                ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, LONDON

Berlioz                 Overture: Le Carnival Romain
Rachmaninov     Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini *
Liadov                  The Enchanted Lake (Волшебное озеро)
Mussorgsky        Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

* James Willshire, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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24 MARCH 2012: ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
WELWYN GARDEN CITY MUSIC SOCIETY 90TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Purcell                Come Ye Sons of Art (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary)
Gounod               'Judex': Mors et Vita
Bruch                  Violin Concerto No.1
Pergolesi             Excerpts: Stabat Mater
Mascagni            Intermezzo and Easter Hymn: Cavalleria rusticana
Elgar                   Triumphal March: Caractacus
Handel                Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest; Let Thy Hand by Strengthened;
                             The King shall Rejoice

Jacqueline Dias, soprano; Morag Boyle, mezzo-soprano (English National Opera)
Andrew Watkinson (Leader, Endellion String Quartet), violin
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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28 APRIL 2012    7.30PM
HASLEMERE MUSEUM
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

5 MAY 2012       HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Jonathan Stoughton, Katherine Marriott, James Ross

Massenet           Ballet Music: Le Cid
de Falla              Spanish Dance: La vida breve
de Falla              Suite No.1, The Three-Cornered Hat
Bizet                   Scenes from Carmen

Katherine Marriott, mezzo-soprano (Carmen)
Jonathan Stoughton, tenor (Don José)
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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20 MAY 2012
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP, LONDON
Schumann        Overture: Manfred
Liszt                   Piano Concerto No.1
Brahms             Symphony No.3

Luke Jones, piano (Chetham's School of Music)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

20 JUNE 2012
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, LONDON
Brahms                  Tragic Overture
Brahms                  Academic Festival Overture
d'Indy                    Fervaal: Prelude to Act I
London Repertoire Orchestra

30 JUNE 2012: ST JOHN'S CHURCH, DIGSWELL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Mel Sutton            Symphony for Youth Orchestra: first movement
Khachaturian       Masquerade Suite
Mozart                   Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466
Sibelius                  Symphony No.3

Zoe Lykourgou and Elizabeth Ng, piano (Queenswood School 2011 Prize Winners)
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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7 JULY 2012: ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra's 50th Anniversary concert and party, with great film music and opera from the last 50 years, culminating in a Dame Vera Lynn tribute.

Walton, Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Khachaturian, Adagio: Spartacus
Menotti, 'To this we've come': The Consul
Barber, 'Give me my Robe': Antony and Cleopatra
John Barry, Zulu
Morriccone, Gabriel's Oboe: The Mission
(Kevin England, oboe)
John Williams, Harry Potter; Star Wars; Jurassic Park
Nat Burton & Walter Kent, The White Cliffs of Dover
Ross Parker & Hughie Charles, We'll Meet Again

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
Sara Wallander, soprano

29 SEPTEMBER 2012
ST. JOHN'S, SMITH SQUARE, LONDON

Copland                 Fanfare for the Common Man
Bernstein              Overture: Candide
Menotti                'To this We've Come': The Consul
Barber                   'Give me my Robe': Antony and Cleopatra
Jonathan Clarke   Apocalypse: first performance
Bernstein              Symphonic Dances: West Side Story
Jerome Kern         'Ol' Man River': Show Boat
Richard Rodgers  'Some Enchanted Evening': South Pacific
Richard Rodgers   Scenes from Oklahoma!

Sara Wallander, soprano; Rohan de Lanerolle, baritone; Ishan de Lanerolle, bass
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, with members of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka
Tudor Hall Chamber Choir

13 OCTOBER 2012    ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE

Mozart             Overture: Don Giovanni
Delius               A Song before Sunrise
Weber              Concertino for Clarinet
Finzi                 Clarinet Bagatelles for Clarinet & Strings
Schubert          Symphony No.6

Helen Owlett, clarinet
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

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The Haslemere Herald

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Copland                Fanfare for the Common Man
Berststein             Overture: Candide
Gershwin              Piano Concerto
Bernstein             Symphonic Dances: West Side Story

Alexandra Gracheva, piano: Purcell School of Music
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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 SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER      TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Weber                  Overture: Der Freischütz
Sibelius                Valse triste
Rossini                 Ballet Music: Guillaume Tell
Beethoven           Symphony No.6, Pastoral

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER     ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON

Beethoven           Symphony No.9

London Repertoire Orchestra
Sara Wallander, soprano
Katherine Cooper, mezzo-soprano
Stephen Brown, tenor
Thomas West, baritone

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SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER 2012         HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Beethoven            Symphony No,6, Pastoral   
Handel                   Excepts from The Messiah

Helen May, soprano
Peter Mitchell, tenor
Christopher Hann, chorus master
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

* SOLD OUT  *

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with Helen May, soprano and Peter Mitchell, tenor

SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER 2012
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Mayor's Christmas Service
Corelli            Christmas Concerto
J.S. Bach          Brandeburg Concerto No.3
Carols for Chorus, Congregation and Orchestra

Ian Brentnall, organ
Peter Mitchell, chorus master
Bexley and Sidcup Combined Choirs
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

Corelli

J.S. Bach

10 DECEMBER 2012     HASLEMERE HALL
Copland          Down a Country Lane
Britten            Soirées musicales
Ravel               Le Tombeau de Couperin: 3rd and 4th movements
Anderson       Forgotten Dreams and Plink, Plank, Plunk!
Christmas Carols for Orchestra and Chorus

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

15 DECEMBER 2012     ST JOHN'S CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Coleridge-Taylor       Christmas Overture
Prokofiev                   Lieutenant Kizhé
J.S. Bach                    Excerpts: The Christmas Oratorio
Mozart                       Sleigh Ride
Carols for Audience, Chorus and Orchestra

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
Crispin Lewis, chorus master

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16 DECEMBER 2012     ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Humperdinck      Prelude and Witch's Ride: Hansel and Gretel
Prokofiev             Scenes from Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky        Scenes from The Nutcracker
Beethoven           Turkish March: The Ruins of Athens
Anderson             Sleigh Ride
Carols for audience and orchestra

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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2011 - UK

8 JANUARY 2011     ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Czech New Year's Concert
Smetana              Three Dances from 'The Bartered Bride'
Hummel               Trumpet Concerto
Janáček                Žarlivost (Jealousy - Overture: Jenůfa)
Suk                       Pohádka (Fairy Tale), op.16
Dvořák                 Carnival Overture and Slavonic Dances 1,3 and 4
Fučík                    March: Entry of the Gladiators (Vjezd gladiátorů)
J. Strauss             Thunder and Lightning Polka

Simon Sturgeon-Clegg, trumpet
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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5 MARCH 2011        HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Shostakovich   Festive Overture
Schubert           Symphony No.8, Unfinished
Clive Osgood    Festival Cantata (first performance)
Brahms             German Requiem

Rebecca Moon, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

12 MARCH 2011      ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Holst                         Short Festival Te Deum
Mozart                      Kyrie
Vaughan Williams  Serenade to Music
Vaughan Williams  Symphony No.5

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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20 MARCH 2011    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Mussorgsky           Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Rachmaninov        Piano Concerto No.2
Shostakovich        Symphony No.12, 'The Year 1917'

James Willshire, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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22 MARCH 2011       WOODHALL LANE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Schumann                Symphony No.1, Spring
Bruch                        Symphony No.3

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

10 APRIL 2011    BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALLS, LONDON
Dvořák                 Symphony No.6

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

7 MAY 2011      HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Puccini              Messa di Gloria
Verdi                 Overture; 'Va Pensiero': Nabucco
Rossini               Ballet Music; Guillaume Tell
Elgar                  Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Wood                 Hornpipe: 'Sea Songs'
Parry                  Jerusalem

Stephen Brown, tenor; James Ballance, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus


14 MAY 2011      HINDHEAD TUNNEL, SURREY: Official Opening of A3 Hindhead Tunnel
Vaughan Williams     English Folk Songs Suite
Lowe                             My Fair Lady - Suite
Rodgers                       Carousel Waltz
Verdi                            Overture: Nabucco
Rossini                         Ballet Music: Guillaume Tell
Elgar                             Pomp and Circumstance March No.1

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

22 MAY 2011      ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Berlioz                  Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
Dvořák                  Violin Concerto
Stenhammar       Intermezzo from Sången
Sibelius                Symphony No.5

Geoffrey Lynn, Violin (London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

SSO, with Geoffrey Lynn

25 JUNE 2011   ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Haydn                       The Creation

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano
Peter Mitchell, tenor
Jonathan Stainsby, baritone

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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2 JULY  2011          CHISLEHURST AND SIDCUP GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Elgar                            Wand of Youth Suite No.1
Delius                          The Walk to 'The Paradise Garden'
Vaughan Williams    The Lark Ascending *
Walton                        Henry V
Tchaikovsky              Marche slave
Wood                          Sea Songs
Elgar                           Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry                          Jerusalem

Nigel Sharpe, violin *; Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


15 OCTOBER 2011   ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE

Beethoven                Overture: Coriolan
Saint-Saëns              'Cello Concerto No.1 in A Minor
Haydn                       Symphony No.104, London

Anna Hunt, 'cello; Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

29 OCTOBER 2011    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Franck                     Le Chasseur maudit
Mozart                     Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Berlioz                     Symphonie fantastique

Jeanine Thorpe, violin
Katharina Henke, viola
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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13 NOVEMBER 2011: TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Chabrier              Joyeuse Marche
Ravel                    Pavane pour une infante défunte
Gounod                Ballet Music: Faust
Mendelssohn      Symphony No.5: The Reformation

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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3 DECEMBER 2011: HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Schumann            Symphony No.3, Rhenish
Mozart                  Requiem

Sara Wallander-Ross, soprano; Marie Degodet, mezzo-soprano
Arthur Swan, tenor; Leandros Taliotis, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

10 DECEMBER 2011    ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Glazunov                   The Seasons
Blake                          The Snowman: Suite
Vaughan Williams   Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Sutton                        Bless'd is the Child
Anderson                   Sleigh Ride
Carols for Audience, Chorus and Orchestra

Thomas West, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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11 DECEMBER 2011    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
The Mayor's Christmas Service:
J. S. Bach            Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Carols for Choir, Congregation and Orchestra

Inna Erskine and Anna Starkey, violins; Ian Brentnall, organ
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


17 DECEMBER 2011    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Verdi                          Overture: La forza del destino
Gounod                      'Judex': Mors et Vita
Tchaikovsky             Sleeping Beauty Suite
Rimsky-Korsakov    Christmas Eve Suite
Massenet                   Ballet Music: Hérodiade
Irving Berlin             Excerpts from White Christmas

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra / St John's Operatic Society

2010 UK CONCERTS

1 JANUARY 2010    ST. ALBANS ABBEY

Tchaikovsky        Capriccio italien
Khachaturian      Adagio: Spartacus
Respighi              The Pines of Rome
Verdi                   Overture: La forza del destino
Zimmer               Gladiator
Mahler                Adagietto, Symphony No.5
J. Strauss II         Overture: A Night in Venice
J. Strauss I          Radetzky March

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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12 JANUARY 2010   7.45PM
WOODHALL LANE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Dvořák                     Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky           Symphony No.3, Polish

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra


6 FEBRUARY 2010   7.30PM
ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE
Schubert                   Overture: Rosamunde
Haydn                       'Cello Concerto in C
Beethoven                Symphony No.1

Andrew Taylor, 'cello
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra


6 MARCH 2010         HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Haydn                      The Creation

Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Stephen Brown, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

13 MARCH 2010    ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Rimsky-Korsakov   Overture: May Night
Dvořák                      'Cello Concerto *
Tchaikovsky            Symphony No.4

* Michael Wigram, 'cello
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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20 MARCH 2010      CHISLEHURST AND SIDCUP GRAMMAR SCHOOL HALL

Mozart                    Overture: Die Zauberflöte
Schumann               'Cello Concerto *
Dvořák                     Symphony No.6

* Minat Lyons (London Symphony Orchestra), 'cello
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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27 MARCH 2010      ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

de Falla                     Suite No.1: The Three-Cornered Hat
Dvořák                      Violin Romance in F minor *
Bartók                       Violin Rhapsody No.1 *
Duruflé                      Requiem **

* Andrew Watkinson (Endellion String Quartet), violin
** Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano; Thomas West, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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4 APRIL 2010    METHODIST CHURCH, HARPENDEN

M. Haydn            Symphony in G, P.16                 
J.S. Bach              Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor
Brahms                Serenade No.2

Hattie Webster, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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8 MAY 2010              HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Holst                          Short Festival Te Deum
Mussorgsky              Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Grieg                          Scenes from Per Gynt
Villa-Lobos               Fantasia for Soprano Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra
Vaughan Williams  Serenade to Music
Mozart                       Kyrie
Haydn                        Te Deum in C (Maria-Theresa)

David Wigram, saxophone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

15 MAY 2010       ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Ravel                     Suite: Mother Goose
Poulenc                Concert champêtre *
Saint-Saëns          Symphony No.3, Organ

* Heather Slade-Lipkin, harpsichord
Paul Isom, organ
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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12 JUNE 2010   ST. ALBANS ABBEY

Copland            Fanfare for the Common Man *
Hanson             A Song for Human Rights *
Mahler              Symphony No.2, The Resurrection

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano
Jeanette Ager, mezzo-soprano
St. Albans Chamber Choir (John Gibbons, director / conductor*)
Watford Philharmonic Chorus (Terry Edwards, director)

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26 JUNE 2010    ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Massenet             Ballet Music: Le Cid
R. Strauss            Serenade for Winds, op.7
Walton                Henry V
Fauré                   Requiem

Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Jordan Bell, baritone  
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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27 JUNE 2010        7.30PM
BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALLS, LONDON
Wagner               Overture: The Flying Dutchman

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


10 JULY 2010      ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
J. Strauss II          Overture: Die Fledermaus
Weber                   Invitation to the Dance (orch. Berlioz)
Grgin                    Clarinet Concertino
Enescu                  Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Lehar                    Overture: The Merry Widow
J. Strauss II          The Blue Danube Waltz / Thunder and Lightning Polka
J. Strauss I            Radetzky March        

Andrija Mincic, clarinet
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


11 JULY 2010      MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL, ST. ALBANS
'Around the World in Eighty Minutes'
Elgar                       Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Bizet                       'Farandole', L'Arlésienne
Tchaikovsky          'Arabian, Chinese and Russian (Trepak) Dances', The Nutcracker
Mussorgsky           'Gopak', Sorochintsy Fair
Grieg                       'In the Hall of the Mountain-King', Per Gynt
Beethoven              'Turkish March', The Ruins of Athens
Brahms                   Hungarian March No.5
H. Zimmer              Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sibelius                   Finlandia
J. Williams              Star Wars

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Steve Weatherill, animateur


14 JULY 2010            ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Weber                           Clarinet Concerto No.1
Handel                          'Ombra mai fu', Xerxes
F. David                        Trombone Concerto
C. Crawley                    Impulse for Horn and Orchestra
Donizetti                      Cor Anglais Concertino in G
Grieg                             Piano Concerto

Ian Rogers, clarinet; Alan McGlynn, tenor
Keith Marr, trombone; Chris Crawley, horn
Jeremy Finlay, cor anglais; Tim Pryce, piano
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

7 NOVEMBER 2010   TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Beethoven            Overture: Egmont
D'Indy                   Prelude to Act I: Fervaal
M. Sutton             Elegy for Violin and Orchestra *
Brahms                 Serenade No.1

Christos Kokkinos, violin
Melvyn Sutton, conductor *
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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13 NOVEMBER 2010    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

R. Strauss           Four Last Songs
Mahler                Symphony No.1

Sara Wallander-Jonsson, soprano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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4 DECEMBER 2010     HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Beethoven      Overture: Egmont
Brahms            Double Concerto
J.S. Bach          Christmas Oratorio (excerpts)
C. Muncaster  Shepherds Shake (First UK performance)
Carols for Chorus, Orchestra and Audience

Jonathan Strange, violin; Lesley Shrigley-Jones, 'cello
Martin Muncaster, narrator
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus


11 DECEMBER 2010  ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Sibelius             Karelia Overture
Haydn               'Cello Concerto in D

Aleksei Kiseliev, 'cello
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus


12 DECEMBER 2010    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
The Mayor's Christmas Service:
Corelli                Christmas Concerto
Debussy             Danse sacrée et danse profane
Carols for Congregation, Organ and Orchestra

Ian Brentnall, organ
Claire Iselin, harp (Trinity College of Music)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


2009 U.K. PERFORMANCES

1 JANUARY 2009, ST. ALBANS ABBEY

Copland                Fanfare for the Common Man
Adams                  The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra
Gershwin              Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein             Symphonic Dances: West Side Story
J. Strauss II          Waltz: Letter from America
J.P. Sousa             March: Liberty Bell
Alford                   March: Colonel Bogey

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Anna Le Hair, piano

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20 JANUARY 2009   WOODHALL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Franck                   Symphony in D minor
Borodin                 Symphony No.2

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

28 FEBRUARY 2009   TOWNLEY HALL, BEXLEYHEATH
Beethoven            Overture: Egmont
Mozart                   Clarinet Concerto
Mendelssohn        Symphony No.3, Scottish

Harry Cameron-Penny, clarinet (Royal College of Music)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


7 MARCH 2009    HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Borodin                 Overture: Prince Igor
Sibelius                 Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky        Symphony No.5

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, violin
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra


14 MARCH 2009    ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Nielsen               Helios Overture
Sibelius              Violin Concerto
Elgar                   Symphony No.1

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, violin
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


28 MARCH 2009    METHODIST CHURCH, WEYHILL, HASLEMERE, SURREY
J.S. Bach             Johannes-Passion

Stephen Brown, tenor: Evangelist
Sara Wallander-Jonsson, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone: Jesus
James Ballance, baritone: Pilate
John Jackson, bass: Petrus
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

1 APRIL 2009       SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Byrd                      Ave Verum Corpus
J.S. Bach               Air: Orchestral Suite No.3
Mozart                  Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart                  Divertimento in F, K.213
Bruckner               Locus iste
Elgar                      Ave Verum Corpus

Dr John Ellis, organ
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra

4 APRIL 2009      ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELYWN GARDEN CITY

Sibelius                Finlandia
Sibelius                The Captive Queen
Kodály                 Dances of Galanta
Dvořák                Biblical Songs *
Dvořák                 Te Deum

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano
Thomas West, baritone
* Crispin Lewis, conductor
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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25 APRIL 2009       HIGH STREET METHODIST CHURCH, HARPENDEN

Stravinsky             Concerto in E-flat: Dumbarton Oaks
Mozart                   Sinfonia Concertante for Winds
Haydn                    Symphony No.101, Clock

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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9 MAY 2009           ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Dvořák                    'Cello Concerto
Suk                          Symphony No.2, Asrael

Minat Lyons, 'cello (London Symphony Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


16 MAY 2009         HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Haslemere Festival Tennyson Concert

Elgar                            The Wand of Youth Suite No.1
Sullivan                       In Memoriam
Stanford                     The Revenge
Elgar                            There is Sweet Music
Vaughan Williams    Five Mystical Songs *

Jon Stainsby, baritone *
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

20 JUNE 2009        ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Walton                        Crown Imperial
Elgar                            Froissart
Vaughan Williams   The Wasps
Delius                          Summer Night on the River
Stanford                     The Revenge

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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27 JUNE 2009    ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Hindemith             Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber
Mozart                   Clarinet Concerto
Brahms                  Symphony No.2

Koren Wilmer, clarinet
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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4 JULY 2009          TOWNLEY HALL, KENT: ANGLO-AMERICAN PROM

Bernstein               Overture: Candide
Gershwin               An American in Paris
Holst                       A Fugal Concerto   
Smyth                     Overture: The Wreckers
Souza                      March: Liberty Bell
P.R. Buttall            The Lone Arranger
Elgar                        Pomp and Circumstance Marches No.2 and No.1

Susan McLeod, flute; Kevin England, oboe
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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12 JULY 2009   ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Children's Concert: Heroes and Villains
J. Williams              Superman Returns (arr. Ottman / Lopez)
H. Zimmer              Gladiator (arr. Wasson)
J. Barry et al.          Themes from 007 (arr. Custer)
A. Lloyd-Webber   The Phantom of the Opera: Selections (arr. Custer)
Patterson                Little Red Riding Hood

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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15 JULY 2009          UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Mozart                     Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Huë                           Fantasia for Flute and Orchestra
Hummel                  Trumpet Concerto
Schumann              Concertstück für vier Hörner und Orchester
Gregson                   Tuba Concerto

Jenny Wigram, violin; David Wigram, viola
Theresa Cory, flute; Tony Hindley, trumpet
Chris Ludwig, tuba
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

1 NOVEMBER 2009   TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Schubert                    Overture: Alphonso und Estrella
Mozart                       Oboe Concerto
Schumann                 Symphony No.3, Rhenish

Kevin England, oboe
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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14 NOVEMBER 2009    ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP

Weber                 Overture: Der Freischütz
Wagner               'Dich Teure Halle', Tannhaüser
Wagner               'Elsa's Dream', Lohengrin
Wagner               'Der Männer Sippe', Die Walküre
Brahms                Symphony No.4

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano (Finalist, Bayreuth Bursary Competition 2009)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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12 DECEMBER 2009     ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Vaughan Williams  Benedicite
Villa-Lobos              Guitar Concerto
Saint-Saëns             Oratorio de Noël
Carols for Choir, Audience and Orchestra

Katherine Bagshawe, soprano; Kathy Bell, mezzo-soprano; Rhonda Browne, contralto
Jonathan Todd, tenor; Jon Stainsby, baritone
David Massey, guitar (BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist)
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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2008

1 JANUARY 2008    ST ALBANS ABBEY

Mendelssohn  Hebrides Overture
Debussy            Marche écossaise
Berlioz              Rob Roy
Verdi                 Macbeth
MacCunn          The Land of the Mountain
                            and the Flood
Arnold               Scottish Dances

Maxwell Davies     Orkney Wedding and Sunrise
 J. Strauss                Radetzky March

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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26 JANUARY 2008     ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Schubert                                               Overture: Die Zauberharfe (Rosamunde)
Schumann, Mendelssohn, Elgar      Part Songs
and Stanford
Dvořák                                                   Symphony No.6

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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8 & 9 FEBRUARY 2008     NORTH WALL ARTS CENTRE, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD
15, 20 & 22 FEBRUARY 2008     HERTFORD COLLEGE CHAPEL, OXFORD

Benjamin Britten             The Turn of the Screw

The Oxford Opera Company
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

1 MARCH 2008       HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Wagner         Faust Overture
Chaminade   Flute Concertino
Poulenc         Flute Sonata (orch. Berkeley)
Berlioz           La Damnation de Faust - scenes

Emma Williams, flute; Adam Tunnicliffe, tenor; Thomas West, baritone
Haslemere Musical Society Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

8 MARCH 2008
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Berlioz                   Overture: Les Francs-Juges
Brahms                  Double Concerto
Dvořák                  Symphony No.8

Magnus Johnston, violin
Guy Johnston, 'cello

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

15 MARCH 2008  7.30PM
CHRIST CHURCH, BEXLEYHEATH

Verdi                      'Morrò': Un ballo in maschera
Tchaikovsky           Waltz: Eugene Onegin
Puccini                    'Vissi d'arte', Tosca
Leoncavallo             Scena: ‘Silvio! A quest’ora ...’, Pagliacci
Sibelius                    Symphony No.1

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano; Jordan Bell, baritone
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


19 APRIL 2008          7.30PM
HIGH STREET METHODIST CHURCH, HARPENDEN

Albinoni               Adagio for Organ and Strings
J.S. Bach               Concerto for Violin and Oboe
R. Strauss             Duet Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon
Poulenc                 Flute Sonata (orch. L. Berkeley)
Schubert               Symphony No.5

Jennifer Wigram, violin; Tony Wigram, organ; Mike Brien, oboe
Koren Wilmer, clarinet; Peter Lyndley, bassoon
Geraldine Marshall, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

26 APRIL 2008   ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Beethoven          Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mozart                Concert Aria: Bella mia fiamma, K.528
Haydn                 Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
Beethoven         Violin Concerto

Andrew Watkinson, violin
Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

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3 MAY 2008   SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OXFORD

Concert in aid of the UK Friends of Sunera Foundation of Sri Lanka:

Mozart                   Symphony No. 31, Paris
Mozart                   Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K.219
Mozart                   Act II (staged): Le nozze di Figaro

Mandhira de Saram, violin
The Oxford Opera Company
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

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10 MAY 2008           7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Sibelius              Karelia Suite
Sibelius              The Captive Queen
Tchaikovsky      Scenes from Eugene Onegin

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano; Maciek O'Shea, baritone
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

17 MAY 2008   TOWNLEY HALL, KENT

Mendelssohn         Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mendelssohn         Violin Concerto in E minor
Beethoven             Symphony No.3, Eroica

John Hooper, violin (Band of The Irish Guards)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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24 MAY 2008          DIVINITY SCHOOLS, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD
Ball Performance, including J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suite No.1; Tchaikovsky, Waltz: Eugene Onegin; Shostakovich, 2nd Waltz: Jazz Suite No.2; Lama, Silenzio cantatore, waltzes, foxtrot, quick-step, one-step and tango.
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

14 JUNE 2008
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Alexander Flood Récit for Orchestra
Mahler                  Symphony No.6

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

28 JUNE 2008
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WGC

Handel                  Judas Maccabaeus

Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Nadia Bishara, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Todd, tenor
Desmund Turner, bass-baritone
Neil Bell, continuo

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

29 JUNE 2008           7.30PM
ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, LEE

Wagner                 Prelude to Act I: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

5 JULY 2008    TOWNLEY HALL, KENT: SUMMER PROMS CONCERT

Wagner                      Prelude to Act I: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
James Langley          The Coloured Counties
Poulenc                      Les Biches
Vaughan Williams   The Wasps
Smyth                        Overture: The Boatswain's Mate
Wood                          Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Elgar                           Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry                          Jerusalem

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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6 JULY 2008   ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Children's Carnival Concert:
Fucik                     Entry of the Gladiators
Dvořák                  Carnival Overture
Satie                      Parade
Saint-Saëns          Carnival of the Animals
Offenbach            Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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9 JULY 2008          7.30PM
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Mozart                  Sinfonia Concertante for Winds
Vivaldi                   Concerto for Two Trumpets
Sibelius                 The Swan of Tuenola
Albrechtsberger  Trombone Concerto
M. Horvit              Brass Quintet Concerto

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Tony Hindley and Bill Rumford, trumpets
Jeremy Finlay, cor anglais
Keith Marr, trombone

18 OCTOBER 2008    ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Sibelius             Finlandia
Crawley            Aspects of Eden: first performance
Shostakovich   Symphony No.5

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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26 OCTOBER 2008     TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Schubert          Overture in the Italian Style in D
Schubert          Ballet Music: Rosamunde
Haydn              Trumpet Concerto
Beethoven       Symphony No.8

Simon Desbruslais, trumpet
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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8 NOVEMBER 2008   TOWNLEY HALL, BEXLEYHEATH

Chabrier           Overture: Gwendoline
Debussy            Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune
Dukas                L'Apprenti sorcier
Berlioz              Harold in Italy

Don Ehrlich, viola (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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6 DECEMBER 2008    HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Vaughan Williams   Overture: The Wasps
Beethoven                 Symphony No.8
Fauré                          Requiem

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus


13 DECEMBER 2008  ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Hungarian Christmas Concert:
J. Strauss              Overture: Der Ziguenerbaron (The Gypsy-Baron)
Kodály                  Intermezzo: Háry János
Bartók                  Hungarian Pictures
Monti                   Czárdás
Erkel                     Overture: Hunyadi László
Liszt                      Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Brahms                Hungarian Dance No.5
Berlioz                 Hungarian Dance: La Damnation de Faust

Nigel Sharpe, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

2007 U.K. CONCERTS

1 JANUARY 2007     ST. ALBANS ABBEY

Mozart                      Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Rimsky-Korsakov  Capriccio espagnol
de Falla                     Suite No.2: The Three-Cornered Hat
Ravel                         Boléro
Chabrier                   España
Waldteufel               España Waltz
J. Strauss II               Blue Danube Waltz
J. Strauss I                Radetzky March

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

10 MARCH 2007    ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Brahms             Academic Festival Overture
R. Strauss         Horn Concerto No.2
Tchaikovsky    Symphony No.6

Stephen Stirling, horn
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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17 MARCH 2007  TOWNLEY HALL, KENT

Elgar                 Cockaigne Overture
Finzi                  Violin Concerto
Elgar                 Symphony No.1

Cerys Jones, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


20 MARCH 2007   UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Tchaikovsky     Symphony No.1, Winter Daydreams
Tchaikovsky     Symphony No.2, Little Russian

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra


29 MARCH 2007    SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK

Mozart               Posthorn Serenade
J.S. Bach            Magnificat in D

John Ellis, organ; Ros Jones, soprano
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra


2 APRIL 2007      CONCERT ROOM, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LONDON

Nirmali Fenn      Psychotic Episode and Restlessness: recording

Sara Wallander-Jonsson, soprano
Tom Hankey and Cerys Jones, violins; Nicholas Bootiman, viola; Ashok Klouda, 'cello; Stuart Russell, bassoon; Peter McMullin, piano; Kirsten  Cowie, producer.


21 APRIL 2007         CHURCH OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, OLNEY, BUCKS.

Mozart                       Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
K. Templeman          New Work for oboe and orchestra: first performance
Vaughan Williams   Oboe Concerto
Beethoven                 Symphony No.3, Eroica

Karen Mason, oboe
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


12 MAY 2007        TOWNLEY HALL, KENT

Berlioz              Overture, Royal Hunt and Storm: Les Troyens
Elgar                 'Cello Concerto
Brahms            Symphony No.2

Ben Stevens, 'cello
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

2 JUNE 2007, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD

Sibelius            Finlandia
Mendelssohn  Violin Concerto in E minor
Tchaikovsky    Symphony No.6

Soojin Han, violin
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

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9 JUNE 2007, ST. ALBANS ABBEY

Shostakovich  Festive Overture
Stravinsky       The Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky    Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky    1812 Overture

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
with members of City of London Sinfonia

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16 JUNE 2007          ST. MARY MAGDALENE, OXFORD

Elgar                  From the Bavarian Highlands
Elgar                  Spanish Serenade
Elgar                  'As torrents in the summer': King Olaf
Elgar                  Lux Aeterna
Elgar                  The Banner of St. George

Anthony McCarthy, piano / organ
Chorus Mundi

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23 JUNE 2007, ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Elgar                The Wand of Youth Suites
Rodrigo           Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Sullivan           Trial by Jury

David Massey, guitar:
Finalist, BBC Young Musician of the Year, 2006
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra

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1 JULY 2007      ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

MONSTERS AND DINOSAURS CHILDREN'S CONCERT
Beethoven         Overture: Prometheus
Grieg                   'In the Hall of the Mountain King', Peer Gynt
Powell and Gregson-Williams
                            Shrek: Fairytale Opening and Transformation
John Williams   Jurassic Park
Stravinsky         Excerpts from The Rite of Spring
Prokofiev          Peter and the Wolf

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
James Mayhew, narrator


4 JULY 2007          7.30PM
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

CONCERTO EVENING
Gordon Jacob   Rhapsody for Cor Anglais and Orchestra
Gilbert Vinter    Hunter's Moon
Saint-Saëns       'Cello Concerto No.1
Nielsen              Flute Concerto
Mendelssohn    Violin Concerto

Jeremy Finlay, cor anglais; Anna Ludwig, horn; David Goldsmith, violin; Clare Noble, 'cello; Theresa Cory, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


14 JULY 2007       7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT

Debussy           Children's Corner
Wagner            Prelude and Liebestod: Tristan und Isolde
Coleridge-Taylor
                         Petite Suite de Concert
Wood (arr.)      Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Elgar                 Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry                Jerusalem

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra


12 AUGUST 2007    5PM
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, ALFRISTON, WEST SUSSEX
CORIN LONG MEMORIAL CONCERT

Grieg                Holberg Suite
Tunde Jegede   Lamentation
Beethoven        Symphony No.7

Alfriston Festival Orchestra (members of Royal Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras).
Inquiries: alfristonsummermusic@yahoo.co.uk


17 AUGUST 2007     1PM
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD

Vivaldi              'Summer', The Four Seasons
J.S. Bach           Keyboard Concerto in D minor
Barber               Adagio for Strings
Britten               Simple Symphony

Youth Music International String Orchestra


18 AUGUST 2007     7.30PM
WESLEY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, OXFORD

Britten             Simple Symphony
Elgar                 Introduction and Allegro

Youth Music International String Orchestra


11 SEPTEMBER 2007
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WOODHALL LANE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY   7.45PM

Schumann           Symphony No.4
Brahms                Symphony No.2

Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

15 SEPTEMBER 2007
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Open rehearsal: 1.30-5.15PM. Performance: 6PM

Cedric Peachey     Three Fantasy Variations on 'The River is Wide'
Robert Percy         Morton's Fork
Alexander Flood   Récit for Orchestra
Nirmali Fenn         Dark Tears
Keith Marr             Sinfonietta, op.17

New Music Day with Professor Paul Patterson (Royal Academy of Music) and members of City of London Sinfonia and St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

27 OCTOBER 2007   ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Holst                      Ballet Suite: The Perfect Fool
Debussy                 Saxophone Rhapsody
Richard Payne     Saxophone Concerto
Rachmaninov      Symphonic Dances

David Wigram, saxophone (Royal College of Music)
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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7 NOVEMBER 2007   HERTFORD COLLEGE CHAPEL, OXFORD

Schoenberg          Pierrot Lunaire

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano

The Proteus Ensemble:
Gaelyn Pilmoor, flute / piccolo
Edward Littleton, clarinet / bass clarinet
Elinor White, violin / viola
David Whitaker, 'cello
Peter McMullin, piano

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10 NOVEMBER 2007  7.30PM    TOWNLEY HALL, KENT

Mussorgsky        ‘Dawn over the Moscow River’: Prelude, Khovanshchina
Tchaikovsky        Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky         Entr’acte and Dance of The Persian Slave Girls, Khovanshchina
Stravinsky            Suite: The Firebird (1919)

Dmitri Torchinsky, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

11 NOVEMBER 2007   TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Mozart              Overture: La Clemenza di Tito
Delius                A Song before Sunrise
Weber               Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor
Haydn               Symphony No.104, London

Angela Crispe, clarinet
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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8 DECEMBER 2007       7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY

Weber            Overture: Euryanthe
Vivaldi           Gloria
Dvořák           Symphony No.8
Bruckner        Psalm 150

Jeanette Gallant, soprano; Nadia Bishara, mezzo-soprano
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus


15 DECEMBER 2007  7.30PM
CHRIST CHURCH, BEXLEYHEATH, KENT

Rossini              Overture: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Chabrier           España
de Falla             Suite No.2: El sombrero de tres picos
Bizet                  Carmen Suites (selection)
Waldteufel       España Waltz
Anderson         Sleigh Ride

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

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2006 U.K. CONCERTS

2 JANUARY 2006        7.00PM
ST. ALBANS ABBEY: NEW YEAR'S CONCERT

Stravinsky                Fireworks
Rimsky-Korsakov   Scheherazade
Borodin                     Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky            Waltz and Polonaise, Eugene Onegin
J. Strauss II               Thunder and Lightning Polka
J. Strauss I                Radetzky March

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

18 FEBRUARY 2006: CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD

Wagner            Overture: Der fliegende Holländer
Ravel                 Piano Concerto in G
Brahms             Symphony No.4

Tom Wood, piano; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

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3 MARCH 2006: UNIVERSITY CHURCH, OXFORD

Ravel                 Le Tombeau de Couperin
Roussel             Le Festin de l'araignée
Boulez               Mémoriale (... explosante-fixe ... originel)
Haydn               Symphony No.31, Horn Signal

Katherine Bradley, flute (Boulez)
Oxford University Sinfonietta

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10 MARCH 2006            7.15PM
HERTFORD COLLEGE HALL, OXFORD

Haydn              Symphony No.59, Feuersymphonie
Haydn              Symphony No.64, Tempora Mutantur
Haydn              Symphony No.73, La Chasse
Haydn              Symphony No.83, La Poule

Oxford University Sinfonietta


11 MARCH 2006            7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Schumann       Overture: Manfred
Wagner            Prelude and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Debussy           Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune
Brahms            Symphony No.3

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

1 APRIL 2006        ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Mel Sutton       Psalm 67 (first performance)
Vaughan Williams
                           English Folk Songs Suite
                           Five Mystical Songs
Walton             Façade Suite No.2
Lambert           The Rio Grande *
Beethoven       Choral Fantasia

Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra
Barbara Manning, piano; Maciek O'Shea, baritone
* Neil Bell: conductor; John Bantick, narrator

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6 APRIL 2006                   6.00 PM
SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK

Fauré              Pavane
Tippett           Spirituals: A Child of Our Time
Mozart            Requiem

John Ellis, organ
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra


22 APRIL 2006                 7.30PM
HARPENDEN PUBLIC HALLS
Opera Concert with the National Opera Studio

Borodin        Overture and Polovtsian Dances
Puccini          'Tu che di gel sei cinta', Turandot
Mascagni      Intermezzo, Cavalleria rusticana
Verdi             'Per me guinto, O Carlo, ascolta' (Act IV), Don Carlos
Bizet              Carmen Suite No.1
Wagner        'Good Friday Music', Parsifal
Puccini          'Sì, mi chiamano Mimi', La bohème
Massenet      Méditation: Thaïs
Verdi             'Pura siccome un angelo' (Act II duet), La traviata

Mairéad Buicke, soprano
Seung-Wook Seong, baritone
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

6 MAY 2006                       6.45PM
LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD

Haydn          Symphony No. 82, L'Ours
J.C. Bach      Symphony in B-flat, Op. 21 No. 3
Mozart         Symphony No. 36, Linz
Bartók          Romanian Folk Dances
Haydn          Symphony No. 85, La Reine

Oxford University Sinfonietta

14 MAY 2006                    1.30 - 6.45 PM (Performance: 5.30PM)
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Melvin Sutton                Symphony, 1st movement
Christopher Crawley    Aspects of Eden - excerpts
Rikky Rooksby                Four Cornish Pictures
Paul Evernden                Praeludium
Alexander Prior             Stalin's March
Jim O'Leary                     Orchestral Set No.1 - 3: 'Like a Beautiful Dream' (Rachel van der Tang, 'cello solo)
Geoffrey Álvarez            Overture: La profecía última del rey

NEW MUSIC DAY with Roxanna Panufnik, City of London Sinfonia members and St. Albans Symphony Orchestra.
Free admission. Sponsored by the Arts Council, Eastern Orchestral Board and St. Albans City Council.

3 JUNE 2006: OXFORD UNIVERSITY SINFONIETTA: JACQUELINE DU PRÉ CONCERT HALL, OXFORD

Alicia Grant      Figure of Eight
Alicia Grant      White Light
Stravinsky        L'Histoire du soldat: Suite
Gluck                 Overture: Iphigénie en Aulide (arr. Wagner)
Boccherini        Night Music of Madrid
Mozart              Symphony No.36, Linz

Concert sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers

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10 JUNE 2006, ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Walton                         Partita for Orchestra
Vaughan Williams    Variations on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Britten                         Russian Funeral
Elgar                             Enigma Variations

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
with members of City of London Sinfonia

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24 JUNE 2006          CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Delius                       La Calinda
Moross                     The Big Country
Barry                         Dances with Wolves
Copland                    Four Dances from Rodeo
Coleridge-Taylor    Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

Ian Barratt, tenor
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra

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26 JUNE 2006                7.30PM       HASLEMERE HALL

Tchaikovsky     Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Brahms              Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Sibelius              Lemminkainen Legends

Haslemere Symphony Orchestra

3 JULY 2006   JACQUELINE DU PRÉ CONCERT HALL, OXFORD

Schoenberg   Pierrot Lunaire

The Proteus Ensemble:
Gaelyn Pilmoor, flute and piccolo
Edward Littlewood, clarinet and bass clarinet
Elinor White, violin and viola
Oliver Coates, 'cello
William Falkoner, piano

Sara Wallander-Jonsson, soprano sprechstimme

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9 JULY 2006                    3.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Children's Concert: Famous Cartoon Music
Batman; Pink Panther; Wallace and Gromit, The Flintstones and from Disney's Fantasia 2000, including Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker and Stravinsky, The Firebird

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

22 JULY 2006                 7.30PM
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GAWCOTT

Beethoven         Overture: Coriolan
Poulenc              Flute Sonata (orch. Sir Lennox Berkeley)
Mendelssohn     Symphony No.4, Italian

Theresa Cory, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


11 NOVEMBER 2006  7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT

William Blows  Shades of Silver (first performance)
Shostakovich   Piano Concerto No.2
Elgar                  Larghetto: Serenade for Strings
Tchaikovsky    Symphony No.5

Finnegan Downie-Dear, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

12 NOVEMBER 2006    TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Beethoven    Overture and Ballet Music: Prometheus
Warlock         Capriol (full orchestra version)
Mozart           Andante for Flute and Orchestra K.315
Chaminade    Flute Concertino
Beethoven     Symphony No.7

Geraldine Marshall, flute
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

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9 DECEMBER 2006       7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Purcell           Suite: Abdelazer
Monteverdi  Beatus Vir
Bruckner       Locus iste; Christus factus est
Boïeldieu      Overture: Le Calife de Bagdad
Fauré             Pavane; Cantique de Jean Racine
Franck           Panis Angelicus
Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow
Warlock        Capriol
Berlioz          'Il s'en va loin', L'Enfance du Christ
Christmas Carols for Choir and Audience

Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra


16 DECEMBER 2006  7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT

Liszt                              Les Préludes
Mascagni                     Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
Vaughan Williams     English Folk Song Suite
Delius                            Sleigh Ride
Waldteufel                   Waltz: Les Patineurs
Tchaikovsky                Suite: Swan Lake
Anderson                     Sleigh Ride
Traditional Christmas Carols with audience (orchestrated by Peter Harris)

Sidcup Symphony Orchestra

2005 U.K. CONCERTS

1 JANUARY 2005     7.00 PM
ST. ALBANS ABBEY

Shostakovich   Festive Overture
Mahler              Blumine
Janácek             Sinfonietta
Wagner             The Ride of the Valkyries
Verdi                 Grand March and Ballet Music (Act II): Aida
J. Strauss II       Egyptian March: Tales from the Vienna Woods
J. Strauss I        Radetzky March

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

30 JANUARY 2005    6.00 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Elgar                Serenade for Strings
Czerny             Concerto for Piano Duet and Strings
Guy Dagul       Grand Fantasia for Piano Duet and Strings
(first performance)

Harvey Dagul and Isabel Beyer, piano
Members of The Amadeus Chamber Orchestra,
led by Jennifer Wigram

19 FEBRUARY 2005: CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD

Mussorgsky        Night on a Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Rachmaninov     Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Tchaikovsky       Symphony No.5

Elizabeth Burgess, piano
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

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12 MARCH 2005    7.30 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Rossini             'Largo al factotum', Il barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi                 'Morrò', Un ballo in maschera
Tchaikovsky     Yeletsky's Aria, The Queen of Spades
Puccini              'Vissi d'arte', Tosca
Leoncavallo      Scena: 'Silvio! Aquest'ora ...', Pagliacci
Khatchaturian  Adagio, Suite No.2: Spartacus
Mussorgsky      Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Rejieli Paulo, soprano; John Lofthouse, baritone: The National Opera Studio
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


14 MARCH 2005   7.30 PM
ABINGTON AVENUE CHURCH, NORTHAMPTON

Brahms           Hungarian Dance No.6
Fosse               Pleurs de novembre
Loewe             My Fair Lady (excerpts)

Northampton University Orchestra


19 MARCH 2005   7.30 PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Mozart          Symphony No.31, Paris
Mozart          'La ci darem', Don Giovanni
Mozart          'Dies Bildnis', Der Zauberflöte
Mozart          'Come scoglio', Così fan tutte
Mozart          'Voi che sapete' and 'Non più andrai', Marriage of Figaro
Mozart          Requiem

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano; Jasia Nielsen, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Osborne, tenor; Maciek O'Shea, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra


21 APRIL 2005         6.00 PM
SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK

Haydn           The Seasons

Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra


23 APRIL 2005       7.30 PM
HARPENDEN PUBLIC HALLS

Mussorgsky    Night on a Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Holst                 Invocation for 'Cello and Orchestra
Haydn               Concerto for Two Horns in E-flat
Tchaikovsky    Symphony No.5

Clare Noble, 'cello; Timothy French and Jemima Hutchinson, horns
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


5 JUNE 2005         4.00 PM
ST. PAUL'S WALDEN BURY, nr. HITCHIN, HERTS

Mozart          Overture: Don Giovanni
Jacob             Old Wine in New Bottles
Gounod         Petite Symphonie
Orff                Five Movements from Carmina Burana
Dvořák          Czech Suite

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble
In aid of the Sue Ryder Care Foundation, courtesy of Sir Andrew and Lady Bowes Lyon.


11 JUNE 2005        7.30 PM
WESTON AUDITORIUM, DE HAVILLAND CAMPUS, HATFIELD

Debussy         'Fêtes' and 'Sirènes': Nocturnes *
Ravel              Shéhérazade
Holst              The Planets *

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano; St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
* Mid-Herts Chamber Choir (Director: Peter Twitchin)
* Oxford Girls Choir (Director: Richard Vendome)


18 JUNE 2005        7.30 PM
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

V.E. Day 60th Anniversary Concert

Coates             The Dam-Busters March
Elgar                Variation VIII and XI (Nimrod), Enigma Variations
Ronald Binge  Saxophone Concerto
Karl Jenkins    The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
Elgar                Pomp and Circumstance March No.4

David Wigram  Saxophone
John Bantick and Norma Gower  Narrators
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra

3 JULY 2005: Children's Concert: 'Kidz in Space'

R. Strauss         Introduction: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Grainer              Theme Music: Dr Who
Courage            Star Trek
John Williams  Music from Star Wars and E.T.
Holst                 'Mars', 'Uranus', 'Jupiter', The Planets

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Parnell, organ
United Reformed Church, St. Albans

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23 JULY 2005          7.30 PM
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GAWCOTT, BUCKS.

Weber              Overture: Euryanthe
Mozart              Bassoon Concerto
Beethoven        Symphony No.3, Eroica

Peter Lyndley, bassoon
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


8 OCTOBER 2005   7.30 PM
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Handel              The Messiah

Claire Barratt, soprano; Katherine Cooper, mezzo-soprano
Ian Barratt, tenor; Stephen Barratt, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra


29 OCTOBER 2005  7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Wagner             Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Tchaikovsky    Variations on a Rococo Theme
Dvořák              Symphony No.7 in D minor

Guy Johnston, 'cello
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


3 NOVEMBER 2005  7.30PM
ST. JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE, LONDON

Wagner            Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Chopin             Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor
Dvořák             Symphony No.7 in D minor

Juliet Allen, piano
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
In aid of The Fund for Epilepsy


6 NOVEMBER 2005   7.30PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE

Mozart              Overture: Don Giovanni
Lalo                    Deux Aubades d'après Fiesque
Dvořák              Violin Romance in F minor
Schubert           Symphony No.4, Tragic

James McGee, violin
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra


25 NOVEMBER 2005
UNIVERSITY CHURCH, OXFORD

Elgar                  Introduction and Allegro
Copland            Appalachian Spring (complete ballet)
Varèse               Octandre
Mozart              Symphony No.38, Prague

Oxford University Sinfonietta


3 DECEMBER 2005
WELWYN CIVIC CENTRE

Battle of Trafalgar Commemoration Concert

Haydn                Missa in tempore belli (Paukenmesse)
Sullivan             Overture: HMS Pinafore
Henry Wood    Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne                  'Rule, Britannia', Alfred

Sara Wallander Jonsson, soprano; Claire Palmer, mezzo-soprano
Adam Tunnicliffe, tenor; David Mallinson, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

2004 U.K. CONCERTS

1 JANUARY 2004       ST. ALBANS ABBEY

J. Strauss II  Overture: The Gypsy-Baron
Mascagni    Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
Ravel          La Valse
Rossini       Overture: Guillaume Tell
Enescu        Romanian Rhapsody No.1
J. Strauss II Blue Danube Waltz
J. Strauss I  Radetzky March

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


31 JANUARY 2004      ST. ALBANS ABBEY

Opera Arias by Mozart and Bellini
Prokofiev     Peter and the Wolf
Janácek       Scenes from The Cunning Little Vixen

Dame Diana Rigg: Narrator
Lorina Gore: Soprano and John Carey Jones: Baritone: National Opera Studio; St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


7 FEBRUARY 2004    ST. ALBANS U.R.C. HOMEWOOD RD

Handel          The Messiah

Sara Wallander Jonsson: Soprano
Jasia Nielsen: Mezzo-Soprano
Anthony Osborne: Tenor
Maciek O'Shea: Baritone

St. Cecilia Festival Society: St. Albans Chamber Choir, The Hardynge Choir, and The Radlett Choral Society
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

21 FEBRUARY 2004: CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD

Rossini         Overture: Guillaume Tell
Elgar            'Cello Concerto
Schubert      Symphony No.9 in C

Steffan Rees: 'Cello
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

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6 MARCH 2004
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Bizet              Carmen Suites No.1 and No.2
Debussy        Rhapsody for Clarinet
Berlioz          Symphonie fantastique

Koren Wilmer: Clarinet
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra


13 MARCH 2004
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

Kodály             Dances of Marosszék
Tchaikovsky    Suite No.4: Mozartiana
Franck             Psalm 150
Fauré               Requiem

Edward Rycroft: Treble; Desmond Turner: Baritone
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra


23 MARCH 2004
ABINGTON AVENUE CHURCH, NORTHAMPTON

Weber             Overture: Preciosa
Mascagni        Prelude and Sicilianna: Cavalleria rusticana
Luchesi           Tango: Su Mascota
Lincke             Glühwormsches Idyll
G. Lama           Silenzio cantatore

University College Northampton Orchestra


30 MARCH - 3 APRIL 2004
THE OLD FIRE STATION THEATRE, OXFORD
Nick Thomas, The Myth of Medea. Incidental music composed by James Ross.
Instinctive Theatre Company


1 APRIL 2004         6.00 PM
SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK

John Ellis         Two Poems by Mattie Stepacek (first performance)
Handel             Solomon

Sara Wallander Jonsson: Soprano
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra

12 JUNE 2004, HARPENDEN PUBLIC HALLS

Richard Strauss         Horn Concerto No.1
Mahler                         Symphony No.1

Emma Greenwood: Horn
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

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;26 JUNE 2004
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY

German                       Merrie England
Walton                         Crown Imperial
Handel                         Zadok the Priest
Vaughan Williams      The Lark Ascending
Tippett                         Five Spirituals: A Child of Our Time
Elgar                             Pomp and Circumstance March No.1

Laura Mitchell: Soprano   John Bantick: Tenor / Narrator
Peter Pearson: Baritone    James McGee: Violin
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra

5-10 JULY 2004
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LONDON

Mahler            Blumine
Mahler            Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Mahler            Symphony No.1

London Master Classes / Benjamin Zander
London Soloists Chamber Orchestra; Sara Wallander Jonsson: Soprano


11 JULY 2004         4.00 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS

Mussorgsky        Night on a Bare Mountain (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Liadov                  Baba Yaga
Humperdinck    Witch's Ride: Hansel and Gretel
J. Williams          Harry Potter Symphonic Suite
J. Williams          Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Berlioz                Symphonie fantastique (fourth and fifth movements)

St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

24 JULY 2004
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GAWCOTT
Rossini               Overture: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Mascagni           Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
K. Templeman  Concerto for String Orchestra (first performance)
Beethoven         Symphony No.8
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

13 AUGUST 2004
THE UNIVERSITY CHURCH, OXFORD
Dvořák             Serenade for Strings
Vivaldi              Concerto in G minor for Two 'Cellos, RV.411
Barber              Adagio for Strings
Bartók              Divertimento
Chauncey Aceret and Elaine FitzGibbon, 'cellos
Youth Music International String Orchestra

16 OCTOBER 2004
ST. ALBANS ABBEY
Elgar                 The Dream of Gerontius
William Kendall, tenor
Catherine Denley, mezzo-soprano; Simon Birchall, bass-baritone
St. Cecilia Festival Society: St. Albans Chamber Choir, Hardynge Choir, and Radlett Choral Society; St. Albans Symphony Orchestra

7 NOVEMBER 2004
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Mozart            Overture: Così fan tutte
Arriaga            Symphony in D
Ravel               Le Tombeau de Couperin
Haydn             Symphony No.99
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

13 DECEMBER 2004
ABINGTON AVENUE CHURCH, NORTHAMPTON
Hoffmeister       Serenade in E-flat
Shostakovich    2nd Waltz: Jazz Suite No.2
Orff                     Carmina Burana (for chamber ensemble)
University College Northampton Orchestra

18 DECEMBER 2004
WELWYN CIVIC CENTRE
Rossini                       Overture: La Cenerentola
Haydn                        Winter: The Seasons
M.A. Charpentier     Messe de minuit de Noël
Trad.                          Christmas Carols
Sara Wallander-Jonsson, soprano; Philip Fine, tenor; Peter Pearson, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

6 DECEMBER 2003
WELWYN CIVIC CENTRE
Berlioz                         Hungarian March: The Damnation of Faust
Fauré                           Pavane (with chorus)
Haydn                          Oboe Concerto in C
Vaughan Williams      Fantasia on Christmas Carols
J. Willcocks                   A Christmas Pudding
Jo Shephard, oboe; Peter Pearson, baritone; Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

2 NOVEMBER 2003
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Welwyn Garden CIty Orchestra

4 OCTOBER 2003
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Haydn                        The Creation
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

28 JUNE 2003
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Tchaikovsky                 Scenes from Eugene Onegin
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

29 MARCH 2003
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Brahms                       Ein Deutsches Requiem
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

15 MARCH 2003
HARPENDEN PUBLIC HALLS
Beethoven                   Overture: Fidelio
Mendelssohn              Violin Concerto
Bruckner                      Symphony No.7
Geoffrey Silver, violin; St Albans Symphony Orchestra

1 MARCH 2003
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Ravel                             Introduction and Allegro
Debussy                       Danse sacré et danse profane
Bruckner                      Symphony No.7
Victoria Davies, harp; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

1 JANUARY 2003
ST ALBANS ABBEY
St Albans Symphony Orchestra

7 DECEMBER 2002
WELWYN CIVIC CENTRE
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

6 OCTOBER 2002
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Mozart                      Flute and Harp Concerto
Beethoven               Symphony No.1
Rebecca Clarey, flute; Victoria Davies, harp
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

22 JUNE 2002
APPLECROFT HALL, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Crusell                        Clarinet Concerto No.2
Verdi                           Overture and Scenes: Nabucco
Catriona Scott, clarinet
Claire McDonnell, soprano; Rebecca Mitchell, mezzo-soprano; John Bantick, tenor; Desmond Turner, bass-baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

23 MARCH 2002
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Beethoven                 Overture: The Ruins of Athens
Sibelius                       Suite: Pelleas and Melisande
Brahms                       Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
Haydn                         Te Deum
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

16 MARCH 2002
ADRIAN BOULT HALL, BIRMINGHAM
Nicolai                         Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Borodin                       In the Steppes of Central Asia
Weber                         Clarinet Concerto No.2
Peter Cigleris, clarinet; Midland Youth Orchestra

1 MARCH 2002
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Bruckner                   Motets for Chorus and Trombones
Fauré / Messager    Messe des Pêcheurs de Villerville
Bruckner                   Symphony No.9
Oxford Girls Choir (director, Richard Vendome) and Christ Church Festival Orchestra

1 JANUARY 2002
ST ALBANS ABBEY
St Albans Symphony Orchestra

24 NOVEMBER 2001
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Debussy                    Petite Suite
Vaughan Williams   Serenade to Music
Britten                       Ceremony of Carols
Rutter                        King Jesus hath a Garden
Rutter                        Jesus Child
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

17 NOVEMBER 2001
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Chopin                     Piano Concerto No.2
Wagner                    Scenes from The Ring: Entry of the Gods, The Ride of the Valkyries, Forest Murmurs,
                                  Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Funeral March and Immolation Scene
Juliet Allen, piano;; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

28 OCTOBER 2001
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Bethoven                  Overture: Coriolan
Wieniawski               Violin Concerto No.2
Haydn                        Symphony No.103, Drum Roll
James McGee, violin; Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

30 JUNE 2001
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Bartok                       Romanian Folk Dances
Vivaldi                       Gloria
R. Strauss                 Serenade for Winds
Mozart                      Overture and Scenes: Idomeneo
Claire McDonnell, soprano; Rebecca Mitchell, mezzo-soprano; John Bantick, tenor; Peter Pearson, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

13 JUNE 2001
SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OXFORD
Brahms                     Double Concerto for Violin and 'Cello
Jonathan Clarke       Lament (first performance)
Daniel Bhattacharya, violin; Andrew Taylor, 'cello
Claire Hollocks, soprano; Neil Bramble, tenor; Rohan de Lanerolle, baritone
Christ Church Festival Orchestra and Chorus

31 MARCH 2001
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Brahms                   Serenade No.1
Beethoven              Mass in C
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

8 MARCH 2001
ST JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE, LONDON
Telemann               Viola Concerto
Poulenc                  Organ Concerto
Shostakovich         Chamber Symphony op.110a
Elgar                        Introduction and Allegro
Nikki Buechler, viola; Alexander Ffinch, organ
Aidan Thomson and Laura Duggan, violins; Sarah Love, viola; Alexander Mathers, 'cello (Elgar)
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

3 MARCH 2001
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Telemann               Viola Concerto
Poulenc                  Organ Concerto
Shostakovich         Chamber Symphony op.110a
Elgar                        Introduction and Allegro
Nikki Buechler, viola; Clive Driskill-Smith, organ
Aidan Thomson and Laura Duggan, violins; Sarah Love, viola; Alexander Mathers, 'cello (Elgar)
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

2 DECEMBER 2000
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Boieldieu                 Overture: La Dame blanche
Shostakovich          Piano Concerto No.2
Finzi                          In Terra Pax
Berlioz                      Excerpts from L'Enfance du Christ
Julian Allen, piano; Juliet Arthur, soprano; Peter Pearson, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

24 NOVEMBER 2000
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Vaughan Williams    Overture: The Wasps
Finzi                           Clarinet Concerto
Vivaldi                        Spring and Summer: The Four Seasons
Beethoven                Violin Romance No.2
Monti                         Czardas
Sophie Biddell, clarinet; Aline Nassif, violin; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

11 NOVEMBER 2000
ADRIAN BOULT HALL, BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE
Beethoven                 Overture: Egmont
Haydn                         Trumpet Concerto
Dvořák                        The Noon Witch
Richard Moore, trumpet; Midland Youth Orchestra

25 OCTOBER 2000
ST JAMES' CHURCH, PICCADILLY, LONDON
Ansdell-Evans             A Time of Healing
Tchaikovsky                Piano Concerto No.1
Stravinsky                   The Firebird
Jeremy Filsell, organ; Julian Empett, bass; Juliet Allen, piano
Christ Church Festival Orchestra and The South London Singers

14 OCTOBER 2000
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Handel                    The Messiah
Juliet Arthur, soprano; Susan Lofthouse, mezzo-soprano; John Bantick, tenor; Desmond Turner, bass
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus

1 OCTOBER 2000
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Beethoven                  Overture: Egmont
Melvin Sutton             Violin Concerto
Schubert                     Symphony No.3
James McGee, violin
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra

8 JULY 2000
SYMPHONY HALL, Birmingham
Verdi                          Overture: La forza del destino
Berlioz                       Les Nuits d'été
Louise Cannon, mezzo soprano
Midland Youth Orchestra

8 APRIL 2000
ST FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Grieg                       Peer Gynt Suites No.1 and No.2
Bizet                        Carmen Suites (selection)
Haydn                     Nelson Mass
Joanna Nolan, soprano; Helen Templeton, mezzo soprano; John Bantick, tenor; Desmond Turner, bass

25 MARCH 2000
SYMPHONY HALL, BIRMINGHAM
Verdi                       Overture: La forza del destino
Schubert                 Symphony No.8
Midland Youth Orchestra

25 FEBRUARY 2000
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Mussorgksy             Dawn over the Moscow River: Khovanshchina Prelude (orch. Shostakovich)
Tchaikovsky             Piano Concerto No.1
Strainvksy                The Firebird
Juliet Allen, piano; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 NOVEMBER 1999
OXFORD PLAYHOUSE
Bizet                         Carmen (staged production)
Oxford Operatic Society; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

6 NOVEMBER 1999
ADRIAN BOULT HALL, BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE
Stravinsky                Danse russe: Petroushka
Glazunov                  Saxophone Concerto
Holst                         Jupiter: The Planets
Elgar                         Excerpts from Enigma Variations
Midland Youth Orchestra

28 OCTOBER 1999
SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OXFORD
Humperdinck         Prelude, Witch's Ride and Dream Pantomime: Hansel and Gretel
Mahler                     Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of  Wayfarer)
Dukas                       The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Tchaikovsky            'kuda, kuda?' Eugene Onegin
Donizetti                 'Una furtiva lagrima': L'elisir d'amore
Rossini                    'D'ogni piu saco impegno': L'occasione fa il ladro
Rossini                    'Largo al factotum': Il barbiere di Siviglia
Sir Thomas Allen, baritone; Mark Milhofer, tenor; Prunella Scales, narrator
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

24 SEPTEMBER 1999
ST GILES CRIPPLEGATE, BARBICAN, LONDON
Mendelssohn           Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Saint-Saens               Piano Concerto No.2
Ravel                          Tzigane
Mozart                       Symphony No.38: Prague
Juliet Allen, piano; Biranda Ford, violin
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

11 JULY 1999
VICTORIA HALL, HANLEY, STOKE-ON-TRENT
Humperdinck            Overture: Hansel and Gretel
Ravel                           Pavane pour une infante défunte
Mozart                        Oboe Concerto
Phillippa Cole, oboe; Midland Youth Orchestra

15 APRIL 1999
JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
J. Strauss II                         Thunder and Lightning Polka
Vivaldi                                 Gloria
Fauré                                   Cantique de Jean Racine
Nicholas Andesell-Evans  An Heritage of the Lord
Royal College of Paediatricians Orchestra and Chorus

20 MARCH 1999
ADRIAN BOULT HALL, BIRMINGHAM
Humperdinck              Overture: Hansel and Gretel
Sibelius                         Rakastava
Midland Youth Orchestra

27 FEBRUARY 1999
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Gluck                           Overture: Iphigenia in Aulis
Mozart                         Violin Concerto No.3, K.316
Beethoven                  Piano Concerto No.5: Emperor
Dukas                          The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Biranda Ford, violin; Clive Driskill-Smith, organ
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

7 NOVEMBER 1998
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Wagner                       Prelude to Act III: Lohengrin
Rachmaninov             Piano Concerto No.3
Debussy                      Nuages and Fetes: Nocturnes
Wagner                       Overture: Tannhauser

Christ Church Festival Orchestra
Juliet Allen, piano

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30 OCTOBER 1998
VICTORIA ROOMS, BRISTOL
Wagner                        Prelude to Act III: Lohengrin
Rachmaninov              Piano Concerto No.3
Debussy                       Nocturnes
Ansdell-Evans              An Heritage of the Lord
Juliet Allen, piano; Malcolm Banham, tenor
Clifton Cathedral Choir and Choir of St Mary Redcliffe
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

2 APRIL 1998
JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Haydn                               Symphony No.99
Handel                              Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest
John Ellis                           Psalm 127 (first performance)
Nicholas Ansdell-Evans  An Heritage of the Lord (first performance)
Malcolm Banham, tenor; Royal College of Paediatricians Orchestra and Chorus

21 NOVEMBER 1997
KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, LONDON
and
15 NOVEMBER 1997
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Weber                        Overture: Der Freischütz
Liszt                            Piano Concerto No.1
Debussy                     Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune
Rimsky-Korsakov      Capriccio espagnol
Juliet Allen, piano; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

10 OCTOBER 1997
FLEXLANDS HALL, CHOBHAM
Elgar                           Serenade for Strings
Telemann                  Viola Concerto
Haydn                        Symphony No.48
Bartók                        Romanian Folk Dances
Bourby Norman, viola; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

15 APRIL 1997
JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Haydn                      Symphony No. 90
Fauré                        Requiem

29 NOVEMBER 1996
KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, LONDON
and
23 NOVEMBER 1996
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
J. Strauss II                 Overture: The Gypsy-Baron
Brahms                       Piano Concerto No.1
Bruch                          Scottish Fantasy
Beethoven                 Leonora Overture No.3
Juliet Allen, piano; Biranda Ford, violin
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

14 JUNE 1996
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Britten                          Young Apollo
L. Mozart                     Trombone Concertino *
L. Mozart                     Agnus Dei *
W.A. Mozart                Dalla sua pace: Don Giovanni
W.A. Mozart                Jener Donnerworte Kraft: Die Schuldigkeit des Ersten Gebotes
Bartók                         Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Ken Shifrin, alto trombone; Andrew Olleson, counter-tenor; Guy Wilson, tenor
Matt Perry, Andrew Ker and Hugh Miller, percussion; Juliet Allen, piano; Nicholas Ansdell-Evans, celesta; Katherine Crapnell, harp
Christ Church Festival Orchestra
* first UK performances

25 NOVEMBER 1995
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Wagner                         Overture: Tannhauser
Rachmaninov               Piano Concerto No.2 *
Saint-Saens                   The Carnival of the Animals
J. Strauss II                    Thunder and Lightning Polka
Nicholas Ansdell-Evans and Juliet Allen *, pianos
Christ Church Festival Orchestra

21 MARCH 1995
JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Mozart                   Symphony No.25 in G minor, K.183
Handel                   Overture and Choral Excerpts: The Messiah
Rosamund Jones, soprano; British Paediatric Association Orchestra and Chorus

25 NOVEMBER 1994
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Suppé                          Overture: Poet and Peasant
Shostakovich              Chamber Symphony op.110a
Brahms                        Piano Concerto No.2
Juliet Allen, piano; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

12 APRIL 1994
WARWICK ARTS CENTRE
J. Strauss II                  Persian March
Beethoven                  Symphony No.1
Prokofiev                     Troika: Lieutenant Kizhé
Offenbach                   Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld
British Paediatric Association Orchestra

20 APRIL 1993
WARWICK ARTS CENTRE
J. Strauss I                   Radetzky March
Mozart                         Ave Verum Corpus
Schubert                      Symphony No.3
Mozart                         Requiem
British Paediatric Association Orchestra and Chorus

13 FEBRUARY 1993
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Gluck                           Overture: Orpheus and Euridice
Shostakovich              Piano Concerto No.2
Delius                          On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Schubert                     Symphony No.3
Juliet Allen, piano; Christ Church Festival Orchestra

26 FEBRUARY 1991
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Bartók                       Dances of Transylvania
Elgar                          Serenade for Strings
J.S. Bach                    Concerto for Two Violins
Mendelssohn           String Symphony No.11
Bartók                        Romanian Folk Dances
Giles Broadbent and Charles Tait, violins; Christ Church Festival Orchestra