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Autumn Concert 2018 : 11/11/18

Posted on 18/10/201818/10/2018 by mkilshaw

Our first concert of the season falls on Armistice Day, one hundred years on from the end of World War I. The programme features music that explores composers reactions to conflict and their experience of war. Vaughan-William’s Pastoral Symphony is an elegy

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2018/2019 rehearsals start next week….

Posted on 30/08/2018 by mkilshaw

After a well earned break rehearsals for our first concert of the 2018/19 Season start next Wednesday 5th September, 3pm at Oakwood Junior School. Our first concert is on Sunday 11th November at the Pittville Pump Room.

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2018/19 programme announced!

Posted on 19/06/201819/06/2018 by mkilshaw

The Phil are very pleased to announce the programme for their 124th Season – a season of varied and exciting music including, by popular demand, the return of the Children’s Concert. Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra 2018 / 19 Season Conductor : Stephen Belinfante

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2017/18 Soloists – Rusne Mikiskaite

Posted on 25/04/201825/04/2018 by mkilshaw

Rusne Mikiskaite is London based saxophonist who will be joining the Phil on Sunday 24th June, 2018 to play the Glazunov Concerto for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in some of the most

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Family Concert 2018 – tickets on sale

Posted on 28/03/2018 by mkilshaw

The Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra are delighted to present the 2018 Family concert : Witches and Wizards. This year we feature Witches and Wizards with goblins and ghouls in Arnold’s Tam O’Shanter Overture, witches in The Witches Dance from Hansel and Gretel and

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Tickets selling fast …..

Posted on 21/01/2018 by mkilshaw

Tickets are selling well for our concert next Sunday 28th January. Buy your tickets to avoid disappointment on the day. Tickets can be purchased via the Town Hall website 

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Winter concert – 28th January 2018

Posted on 10/01/2018 by mkilshaw

The Cheltenham Philharmonic Orchestra warmly invites you to join us for our 2018 Winter Concert : an afternoon of music inspired by jazz and blues. We are delighted to welcome back the brilliant pianist Marcel Zidani to play Gershwin’s famous Rhapsody in

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2017/2018 Soloists – Ellie Neate

Posted on 06/12/2017 by mkilshaw

Ellie Neate (Soprano) has been part of the Cheltenham Philharmonic family for many years. She last performed with us in 2014 and we are thrilled to welcome her back as she comes to the end of her studies at Guildhall. We have

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2017/2018 Soloists – Marcel Zidani

Posted on 06/12/2017 by mkilshaw

The Phil are delighted to welcome back a great friend of the orchestra, Marcel Zidani Marcel studied Piano, under the direction of Royal Academy Vice-Principal Mark Racz . In June 2017 Marcel won 2nd prize in the European Piano Teachers Composer Competition

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From Russia with Love – November 19th

Posted on 08/09/201708/09/2017 by mkilshaw

The Phil are delighted to present the first concert of our 2017/18 season : From Russia with Love – an afternoon of Russian music. The concert features the glorious and well known music of Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije and the Masquerade Suite by

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Spring : Folk, Rebellion & Romance 

Sunday 26th April 2026, 3pm
Princess Hall, Cheltenham Ladies College

Rachmaninov : Symphony No 2
Khachaturian : Masquerade Suite
Kodaly : Dances of Galanta
Rachmaninov: Vocalise with cello – Victoria Sinitsa

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