Past Concerts

On this page are details of some of our past concerts.

Friday 5th July 2024 at All Saints Church, All Saints Road, WSM, BS23 2NL

Programme:

  • National Anthem – arranged by John Johnson
  • Pomp & Circumstance March No. 4 Op 39 – Sir Edward Elgar arr. Richard Ling
  • The Carnival of Venice for solo flute and Orchestra Opus 78 (soloist Jolanta Modeska) – Giulio Briccialdi arr. Giancarlo Chiaramello
  • Gold and Silver Waltz Op 79, (guest conductor Paul Beechey) – Franz Lehar
  • Clog Dance from La Fille mal Gardée – Ferdinand Herold/Peter Hertel arr. John Lanchberry, adapted by D. Stone
  • Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra 3rd movement (soloist Janice Bateman) conducted by the composer, Nicola Sisman
  • Overture to The Pirates of Penzance – Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • Czardas (soloist Ana Lopes) – Vittorio Monti
  • Three Dances from Henry VIII – Edward German
  • March Militaire No. 1, Op 51 – Franz Schubert, orch Peter Lawson
  • Themes from 007 (a medley for orchestra) – Monty Norman, Bill Conti, Paul and Linda McCartney and John Barry
  • Radetsky March – Johann Strauss Sr.
Friday 22nd March 2024, 7:45pm at St Nicholas Church, Uphill Road South, Uphill, WSM, BS23 4SD
Programme:
 
1st half 
  • Light Cavalry Overture – Franz von Suppé
  • Three Bavarian Dances – Edward Elgar
  • Emperor Waltz, Op 437 – Johann Strauss Jr
2nd half
  • Symphony no. 1, Op 44 – Robert Volkmann
Saturday 25th November 2023, 7:30pm at St Mary’s Church, Yatton,  BS49 4HH
Programme:
 
1st half 
  • Tragic Overture – Brahms
  • Two Chansons – Nuit et Matin – Elgar
  • The Skaters Waltz – Waldteufel
  • Marching Song – Holst
2nd half
  • Symphony no. 1 – Rimsky Korsakov
Friday 1st July 2023, 7:45pm at St Nicholas Church, Uphill Road South, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4SD
Programme:
 
1st half 
  • Rienzi Overture – Wagner
  • Carmen Suite no 1 – Bizet
  • Strings only – Palladio 1st mvt
  • 13th Grand Solo – Tulou
  • Imperial March – Elgar
  • Farandole – Bizet
2nd half
  • Grand March from Aida – Verdi
  • Peer Gynt Suite no 1 – Greig
  • Strike up the Band – Gershwin
  • Spartacus – Khachaturian
  • Radetsky March – J Strauss
Friday March 24th 2023. 7.45 at Churchill Academy, Churchill Green, Churchill, BS25 5QN
Programme:
  • Overture to the Thieving Magpie – G Rossini
  • Night on a Bare Mountain – M Mussorgsky
  • Festival March – A Dvorak
  • Symphony no. 7 – C V Stanford

Friday 25th November 2022, 7:45pm at All Saints Church, All Saints Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 2NL
Programme:

  • Otto Nicolai: Overture to The Merry Wives Of Windsor
  • Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
  • Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No 1 in G Minor

Friday 1st July 2022, 7:45pm at St Nicholas Church, Uphill Road South, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4SD
Programme:

  • Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance Overture
  • Vaughan Williams (arr. G Jacob): English Folk Songs Suite
  • Elgar (arr. R Ling): Two Chansons – De Nuit and De Matin
  • Quilter (arr. P Fletcher): Three English Dances
  • Coates (arr. D Andrew): Dambusters March
  • Sullivan: The Gondoliers Overture
  • Elgar (arr. Goodmusic): Nimrod from the Enigma Variations
  • Elgar (arr. R Ling): Idylle
  • Walton (arr. D Stone): Crown Imperial Coronation March
  • Holst (arr. R Ling): Marching Song
  • Elgar (arr. R Ling): Pomp and Circumstance March No 1

Friday 25th March 2022, 7:45pm at Churchill Academy, Churchill Green, Churchill, BS25 5QN
Programme:

  • Norbert Burgmüller: Dionys Overture
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, arr. Ling

The concert on Friday 20th March 2020 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
The programme would have been:

  • Schumann: Julius Caesar Overture
  • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 1

Friday 29th November 2019, 7:45pm at The Friends Meeting House, Sidcot
Programme:

  • Glinka: A Life For The Tsar
  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor – soloist Emilie Godden
  • Borodin: Symphony No. 1

Friday 28th June 2019, 7:45pm at The Friends Meeting House, Sidcot
Programme:

  • Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 – soloist Gunda Baranauskaite
  • Franck: Symphony in D

Saturday 30th March 2019, 7:45pm at St Mary’s Church, Yatton
Programme:

  • Weber: Der Freischütz Overture
  • Mozart: Flute concerto in G Major, Soloist Eliza Woodward
  • Dvořák: Symphony no 6

Friday 16th November 2018, 7:45pm at the Churchill Academy & Sixth Form School
Programme:

  • Mozart: Magic Flute Overture
  • Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Soloist Cristina Dimitrova
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

Friday 29th June 2018, 7:45pm at the Churchill Academy & Sixth Form School
Programme:

  • Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Soloist Gus Tredwell
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Friday 16th March 2018, 7:45pm at Christchurch, Clevedon
Programme:

  • Sullivan: The Gondoliers Overture
  • Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody
  • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
  • Sisman: Carousel from Suite For Orchestra
  • Coates: Calling All workers
  • Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody for Orchestra
  • Arnold: Little Suite for Orchestra No 1
  • Delius: A Walk To The Paradise Garden
  • Elgar: Enigma Variations 8 & 9 (Nimrod)
  • Walton: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

Friday 24th November 2017, 7:45pm at The Friends Meeting House, Sidcot
Programme: 

  • Rossini: La Cenerentola overture
  • Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1, Soloist Cristina Dimitrova
  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5, “Reformation”
Saturday 25th November 2023, 7:30pm at St Mary’s Church, Yatton,  BS49 4HH
Programme:
 
1st half 
  • Tragic Overture – Brahms
  • Two Chansons – Nuit et Matin – Elgar
  • The Skaters Waltz – Waldteufel
  • Marching Song – Holst
2nd half
  • Symphony no. 1 – Rimsky Korsakov
Friday 1st July 2023, 7:45pm at St Nicholas Church, Uphill Road South, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4SD
Programme:
 
1st half 
  • Rienzi Overture – Wagner
  • Carmen Suite no 1 – Bizet
  • Strings only – Palladio 1st mvt
  • 13th Grand Solo – Tulou
  • Imperial March – Elgar
  • Farandole – Bizet
2nd half
  • Grand March from Aida – Verdi
  • Peer Gynt Suite no 1 – Greig
  • Strike up the Band – Gershwin
  • Spartacus – Khachaturian
  • Radetsky March – J Strauss
Friday March 24th 2023. 7.45 at Churchill Academy, Churchill Green, Churchill, BS25 5QN
Programme:
  • Overture to the Thieving Magpie – G Rossini
  • Night on a Bare Mountain – M Mussorgsky
  • Festival March – A Dvorak
  • Symphony no. 7 – C V Stanford

Friday 25th November 2022, 7:45pm at All Saints Church, All Saints Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 2NL
Programme:

  • Otto Nicolai: Overture to The Merry Wives Of Windsor
  • Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
  • Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No 1 in G Minor

Friday 1st July 2022, 7:45pm at St Nicholas Church, Uphill Road South, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4SD
Programme:

  • Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance Overture
  • Vaughan Williams (arr. G Jacob): English Folk Songs Suite
  • Elgar (arr. R Ling): Two Chansons – De Nuit and De Matin
  • Quilter (arr. P Fletcher): Three English Dances
  • Coates (arr. D Andrew): Dambusters March
  • Sullivan: The Gondoliers Overture
  • Elgar (arr. Goodmusic): Nimrod from the Enigma Variations
  • Elgar (arr. R Ling): Idylle
  • Walton (arr. D Stone): Crown Imperial Coronation March
  • Holst (arr. R Ling): Marching Song
  • Elgar (arr. R Ling): Pomp and Circumstance March No 1

Friday 25th March 2022, 7:45pm at Churchill Academy, Churchill Green, Churchill, BS25 5QN
Programme:

  • Norbert Burgmüller: Dionys Overture
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, arr. Ling

The concert on Friday 20th March 2020 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
The programme would have been:

  • Schumann: Julius Caesar Overture
  • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 1

Friday 29th November 2019, 7:45pm at The Friends Meeting House, Sidcot
Programme:

  • Glinka: A Life For The Tsar
  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor – soloist Emilie Godden
  • Borodin: Symphony No. 1

Friday 28th June 2019, 7:45pm at The Friends Meeting House, Sidcot
Programme:

  • Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 – soloist Gunda Baranauskaite
  • Franck: Symphony in D

Saturday 30th March 2019, 7:45pm at St Mary’s Church, Yatton
Programme:

  • Weber: Der Freischütz Overture
  • Mozart: Flute concerto in G Major, Soloist Eliza Woodward
  • Dvořák: Symphony no 6

Friday 16th November 2018, 7:45pm at the Churchill Academy & Sixth Form School
Programme:

  • Mozart: Magic Flute Overture
  • Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Soloist Cristina Dimitrova
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

Friday 29th June 2018, 7:45pm at the Churchill Academy & Sixth Form School
Programme:

  • Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2, Soloist Gus Tredwell
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Friday 16th March 2018, 7:45pm at Christchurch, Clevedon
Programme:

  • Sullivan: The Gondoliers Overture
  • Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody
  • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
  • Sisman: Carousel from Suite For Orchestra
  • Coates: Calling All workers
  • Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody for Orchestra
  • Arnold: Little Suite for Orchestra No 1
  • Delius: A Walk To The Paradise Garden
  • Elgar: Enigma Variations 8 & 9 (Nimrod)
  • Walton: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

Friday 24th November 2017, 7:45pm at The Friends Meeting House, Sidcot
Programme: 

  • Rossini: La Cenerentola overture
  • Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1, Soloist Cristina Dimitrova
  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5, “Reformation”
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