Just a few hours the baton goes down on the first concert of our 2022/23 Season. An afternoon of sumptious Scandinavian music including Nielsen’s epic third symphony and the wonderful Violin Concerto by Sibelius. The orchestra are delighted to be joined again
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Thank you to all our players and the wonderful audience who came to our Spring Concert on Sunday 3rd April. We hope you all enjoyed the afternoon. A special thanks to our horn section for their musical solidarity with and to our
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Our new season programme leaflet is now available! Download your electronic copy of the leaflet for information on the 2017-2018 season’s concerts and an introduction to our soloists! Simply click on the front cover to download the PDF.
Our new season programme leaflet is now available! Download your electronic copy of the leaflet for information on the 2016-2017 season’s concerts and an introduction to our wonderful soloists!
The Phil are delighted to present a programme of music by Russian composers. Firm favourites the Overture to Prince Igor and the Polovtsian Dances by Borodin will be teamed with Rachmaninov’s Fantasie for Orchestra: The Rock and a rarely performed gem : Symphony Number 1
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The Phil are proud to present the final concert of our 2014/15 Season featuring the fantastic Joanna MacGregor who joins the orchestra to play the Britten Piano Concerto. The concert also features Britten’s : Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes and the Gloucestershire
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The orchestra was devastated to hear the news of the death of one of our long serving players Sally Preece. Sally was taking part in a charity bike ride when she was involved in a tragic crash. Sally played violin with the
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The Phil are delighted to announce their 2014 summer concert. It is an exciting end to our season featuring a French Horn extravaganza in the form of Schumanns : Concertstück. Tickets are on sale via the Town Hall website or will be
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The Phil are proud to present their Spring Concert for 2014 featuring the music of Sibelius. The programme includes the stirring tone poem ‘Finlandia’ and his famous fifth symphony with it’s ending to end all endings. The Phil are delighted to welcome
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We are delighted to welcome trumpeter Peter Medland who will be playing with us in our concert on Sunday 26th January. Peter started playing the cornet at the age of seven with a brass band in Swindon. Taking lessons at school, he soon
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