Performance Calendar
October 20, 2019
Chiaro Sessions: Nicola Hands (oboe)
21/10/2019 - 23/10/2019
with Jonathan Pease (piano)
Composers to include Paul Patterson
October 24, 2019
Chiaro Sessions: Ibrahim Aziz
25/10/2019 - 27/10/2019
Composers: Georg Friedrich Handel
November 17, 2019
St Albans Symphony Orchestra Concerts for Children
St Saviour's Church St. Albans, AL1 4DF
2.00pm and 3.30pm
Programme to include We're going on a bear hunt! by Ian Stephens and lots more music besides!
November 23, 2019
Finchley Symphony Orchestra
Trinity Church, N12 7NN
7.30pm
Antonín Dvořák - Symphonic Variations
Franz Berwald - Sinfonie singulière
Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 2
November 24, 2019
Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra with students from Camden School for Girls
St Martin’s, Gospel Oak NW5 4NL
Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird (1919 version)
Mussorgsky arr.Rimsky-Korsakov - Night on Bare Mountain
Marc-Antione Charpentier - Missa de Minuit (excerpts)
Plus music by Berlioz, Haydn, Fauré and Cole Porter
November 30, 2019
Mid Herts Youth Orchestra
St Francis Church, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6QJ
7.00pm
Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz, Overture
Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto (1st movement)
Soloist: William Bishop
Edward Elgar - (from Sea Pictures): In Haven (Capri), Where Corals Lie, The Swimmer
Contralto : Amy Beth Beel
December 06, 2019
Watford School of Music Youth Orcherstra
The Clarendon Muse, Watford WD18 7JA
7.30pm
Ludwig van Beethoven - Leonore Overture No. 2
Joseph Haydn - Trumpet Concerto (1st Movement)
Malcolm Arnold - Symphony No. 5
December 08, 2019
Hertford Symphony Orchestra Christmas Concert
Ware Drill Hall, SG12 9HP
Including music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Hely-Hutchinson and Christopher Norton, as well as traditional carols.
December 09, 2019
Orchestra of the Swan Concerto Competition
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Rd, Birmingham B4 7XR
7.00pm
January 01, 2020
St Albans Symphony Orchestra NY Day Concert
St Albans Cathedral, AL1 1BY
7.00pm
Hector Berlioz - Le carnaval romain
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 4, in E-flat major
Soloist: Ben Goldscheider
Richard Strauss - Don Juan
Ludwig van Beethoven - Leonore Overture No. 3
Johann Strauss Jr. - Roses from the South and Egyptian March
January 04, 2020
Chiaro Sessions: Caritas Chamber Choir, Dover
04/01/2019 - 05/01/2019
Composers: Gustav Holst
January 21, 2020
Orchestra of the Swan
Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LU
7.30pm
Jean Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela
Jean Sibelius - The Tempest Suite No. 1 (excerpts)
Jean Sibelius - Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra
Soloist: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Jean Sibelius - Valse Triste and Scene with Cranes from Kuolema
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
February 02, 2020
Hertford Symphony Orchestra
Hertford Theatre, SG14 1PS
2.30pm and 4.30pm
Concerts for Children - music for the whole family
February 14, 2020
Chiaro Sessions: Aurora Trio, Oxfordshire
14/02/2019 - 17/02/2019
Composers: Arnold Bax, William Alwyn, Malcolm Lipkin, Alan Rawsthorne, Paul Lewis, Paul Patterson
March 07, 2020
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
St Saviour's Church, St. Albans AL1 4DF
7.30pm
William Walton - Crown Imperial
Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto
Soloist: Matthew Sharp
William Walton - Symphony No. 1
March 14, 2020
Hertford Symphony Orchestra
Hertford Theatre, SG14 1PS
7.45pm
Richard Strauss - Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments
Reinhold Glière - Horn Concerto
Soloist: Ben Goldscheider
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1
March 15, 2020
Chiaro Sessions: Kinga Ujszászi (violin) & Tom Foster (harpsichord)
15/03/2020 - 16/03/2020
Composers: Benedetto Marcello, Johann Friedrich Schreyvogel, Johann Joseph Vilsmayr
For First Hand Records
March 27, 2020
Watford School of Music Youth Orchestra
The Clarendon Muse, Watford WD18 7JA
7.30pm
Richard Wagner - The Flying Dutchman Overture
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse macabre
Soloist: Danielle Ling
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 8
March 28, 2020
Mid Herts Youth Orchestra
Weston Auditorium Hatfield, AL10 9EU
7.00pm
Camille Saint-Saëns - Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila
Malcolm Arnold - Homage to the Queen Suite
John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Suite
April 02, 2020
Easter Orchestral Society
Ellesmere College, Shropshire SY12 9AB
03/04/2019 - 09/09/2019
Music to include:
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 4
Gustav Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
Malcolm Arnold - Tam O'Shanter
May 08, 2020
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
St Albans Cathedral, St Albans AL1 1BY
7.30pm
With Gloriana
Claude Debussy - Nocturnes
Joseph Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne
Soloist: Susana Gaspar
Francis Poulenc - Litanies à la Vierge Noire
Conductor: Deborah Miles-Johnson
Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 Organ Symphony
Organ: Andrew Parnell
May 15, 2020
Finchley Symphony Orchestra
Trinity Church, N12 7NN
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni Overture
Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No.99
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Overture in C major
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4, The Italian
May 16, 2020
Hertford Symphony Orchestra
Hertford Theatre, SG14 1PS
7.45pm
Jean Sibelius - En saga
Edvard Grieg - Songs with orchestra
Mezzo Soprano : Emma Stannard
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4
June 24, 2020
Mid Herts Youth Orchestra
Campus West, Welwyn Garden City, AL8 6BX
10:30am and 1:30pm
Ian Stephens - We’re going on a bear hunt!
John Williams - Jurassic Park
Terry Gilkyson - The Bare Necessities
Plus new works especially commissioned by MHYO
June 11, 2020
Hertfordshire Festival of Music
Venues in Hertford and Hertfordshire, to be announced
12/06/2019 - 19/06/2019
To include :
Hertfordshire Festival Orchestra with Chloë Hanslip (violin)
Belá Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances
Judith Weir - I give you the end of a golden string
Jospeh Haydn - Symphony No.99
Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Concerto
July 03, 2020
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
St Saviour’s Church, St Albans AL1 4DF
7.30pm
Gustav Holst - The Perfect Fool; ballet music
Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto
Soloist : David le Page
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No.9 From the New World
July 08, 2020
Watford School of Music Youth Orchestra
The Clarendon Muse, Watford WD18 7JA
6.30pm
Bernard Hughes - Isabel’s Noisy Tummy and Not Now, Bernard