Past concerts and other events

21 June 2003
Westend House, Stone

Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Curzon: In Malaga
Schubert: Rosamunde Ballet Music
Haydn: Symphony No 99

In aid of All Saints Church, Stone, restoration fund
With Good Companye singers and Standing Stones saxophone ensemble

  

10 December 2003
United Reformed Church, Thornbury
Concert in aid of URC refurbishment fund

  

10 May 2004
Thornbury Arts Festival,
Armstrong Hall, Thornbury

Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Dvořák: Czech Suite
Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn

Soloist: Louise Hambly-Smith (soprano)

  

4 December 2004
Baptist Church, Thornbury

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Holst: Christmas Day
Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony

With Cadence Choir, in aid of Hammer Out

  
8 December 2004
St Mary’s Church, Berkeley

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Holst: Christmas Day
Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony

With Cadence Choir, in aid of Winton's Wish

  

16 April 2005
Olveston Church, Olveston

Walton: A Shakespeare Suite – Richard III
Handel: Organ Concerto Op 4 No 2
Holst: Beni Mora

Soloist: Dr David Shaw
In aid of St Peter’s Hospice

  

16 July 2005
St Mary’s Primary School, Thornbury


Rossini: The Barber of Seville
Curzon: In Malaga
Strauss: The Blue Danube
Brahms: Hungarian Dances
Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance
Arne: Rule Britannia
Parry: Jerusalem

Soloist: Louise Hambly-Smith (soprano)
With Good Companye singers
In aid of St Paul’s, The Hacket, Thornbury

Read the review (courtesy of the Gazette)...

  

28 January 2006
St Mary’s Church, Thornbury


Cimarosa: Overture - The Secret Marriage
Dvořák: Legends, 1- 4
Leighton: The Storm
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)

In aid of Gloucester Diocese Mission link with Dornakal, a region in southern India

  

3 May 2006
Soundtrace Project


Project with Thornbury-based artist Isabelle Roberts. Orchestra members were fitted with LEDs and asked to play together, in darkness, while Isabelle and her team of photographers reccorded the patterns of light.

 
© Neil Edbrooke

 
© Neil Edbrooke

10 June 2006
Baptist Church, Thornbury

Schubert: Symphony No 8 (Unfinished)
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No 1
Dvořák:
Symphony No 8 (formerly the 4th)

In aid of Bosom Buddies and Bust

Featured a display of artwork from the Soundtrace project, including a video projection behind the orchestra during the performance

 
© Isabelle Roberts

 
© Neil Edbrooke

2 December 2006
St Helen’s Church, Alveston


Rossini: Silken Ladder Overture
Chris Golding: Flute Piece
Bizet: Symphony No 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1

Soloist: Kevan Boll
In aid of Sense

  

9 June 2007
St Mary’s Church, Berkeley


Glinka: Overture from “Russlan and Ludmilla”
J.Trim: Elegy for Caroline
Elgar: The Enigma Variations
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

In aid of church funds

  

1 December 2007
Methodist Church, Thornbury

Beethoven: Overture Fidelio
Trevor Jones: Sinfonietta, 2nd movement
Fauré: Pelléas and Mélisande
Schubert: Symphony No. 4

In aid of Methodist Homes for the Aged

  

14 June 2008
St Mary's Church, Thornbury


Massenet: Le Cid
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Holst: "Jupiter" from The Planets
Walton: Crown Imperial
...among others

In aid of the Friends of St Mary's

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