2010 Concert Season
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Saturday 27th February
Pates School, Cheltenham at 7.30pm
Conductor: David Curtis
Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
(soloist: Jonathan McNaught, Gloucestershire Young Musician 2009, and a pupil at the school)
Vaughan Williams: Concerto Grosso for Strings (CSO will be joined by members of the school orchestra and will be conducted by Ellie Lane, Pates School Director of Music)
Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Sunday 21st March
Cheltenham Town Hall at 3.30pm
Conductor: David Curtis
Viola soloist: Philip Dukes
Walton: Two pieces from Henry V
Walton: Viola Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6
Tickets £12 (students £6, children free) from Cheltenham Town Hall Box Office, Telephone 0844 576 2210 and at the door.
Saturday 8th May
All Saints Church, Cheltenham at 7.30pm
Conductor: David Curtis
Organ soloist: Cameron Luke
Soprano soloist: Rachel Chapman
Puccini: Intermezzo to Act 3 of Manon Lescaut
Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
Saint Saens: Symphony no. 3 (Organ Symphony)
Tickets £12 (students £6) from CSO Secretary Andrew Chapman, tel. 01684 772272 and at the door.
Saturday 10th July
Village Hall, Bredon at 7.30pm
Conductor: David Curtis
Violin soloist: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (winner of Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists 2009)
Mozart: Overture Bastien and Bastienne
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3
Tickets £12 (students £6) from CSO Secretary Andrew Chapman, tel. 01684 772272 and at the door.
31st July to August 8th
Summer tour to Annecy as guests of the Festival de Musique et Nature en Bauges
Monday 2nd August
Faverges or Albertville
Conductor: David Curtis
Programme to include:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2 (soloist: Ludmila Berlinskaya)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3
Wednesday 4th August
Rumilly
Conductor: David Curtis
Faure: Requiem
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6
Friday 6th August
Jarsy
Conductor: David Curtis
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
R. Strauss: Four Last Songs (soloist: Rachel Chapman)
Saint-Saëns: Havanaise for solo violin (soloist: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny)
Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition)
Saturday 16th October
Tewkesbury Abbey at 7.30pm
Conductor: David Curtis
Wagner: Lohengrin, prelude to Act 1
Haydn: Symphony no. 85 (La Reine)
Mahler: Symphony no. 5
Tickets £12 (students £6) from the Abbey Shop, Church Street, Tewkesbury, GL50 5RZ, tel. 01684 276655, Alison's Bookshop, 138/139 High Street, Tewkesbury, tel. 01684 274600, and at the door.
Saturday 20th November
Pershore Abbey at 7.30pm
In support of Farmers Overseas Action Group (FOAG)
Conductor: David Curtis
Mozart: Overture Bastien and Bastienne
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Bruckner: Symphony no. 4 ("Romantic")
Tickets £12.50 from the FOAG Office, Ridgeway Farm, Powick, Worcester WR2 4SN, tel. 01905 830745, and at the door.
Saturday 18th December
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham at 7.30pm
Conductor: David Curtis
Programme to include:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve Suite
A Concerto to be performed by the Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year 2010
Tickets £12 (students £6, children free) from Cheltenham Town Hall Box Office, Telephone 0844 576 2210 and at the door.