Concert Calendar
Discover our upcoming and previous concert archive below.
All concerts are performed at St. Aldhelm’s Church, Branksome,
unless otherwise stated.
Next Concert
Monday 23 March 2026, 7.30pm
St. Aldhelm’s Church, Poole
Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2
Soloist: Duncan Honeybourne
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Future Concerts
Summer 2026
Begins: 13 April
Half Term: 25 May
Concert: 13 July
Liszt: Les Préludes
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major
Soloist: Paul Bosworth
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Previous Concerts
15 December 2025
Conductor: Richard Berry
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Mozart:The Magic Flute Overture
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D
Soloist: Rose Gosney
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
21 July 2025
Conductor: Richard Berry
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Giuseppe Verdi: The Force of Destiny Overture
Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Soloist: Polly Bartlett
Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome
31 March 2025
Conductor: Richard Berry
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo & Juliet’
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (Extracts)
16 December 2024
Conductor: Richard Berry
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to ‘Ruslan & Ludmilla’
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Soloist: Amyn Merchant
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
15 July 2024
Conductor: Richard Berry
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Richard Wagner: Overture to ‘Die Meistersinger’
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1
Soloist: Richard Bayliss
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1
25 March 2024
Conductor: Richard Berry
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Hubert Parry: Symphonic Variations
George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
11 December 2023
Conductor: Richard Berry
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel Overture
Niccolò Paganini: Violin Concerto No.1
Soloist: Savva Zverev
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
17 July 2023
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Hector Berlioz: Rákóczi March (Hungarian March)
Johann Strauss II: Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz)
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
27 March 2023
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Verdi: Nabucco Overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Soloist: Hannah McFarlane
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1
12 December 2022
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Ethel Smyth: Overture to “The Wreckers”
Richard Strauss: Five Orchestral Songs: (1. Die heilgen drei Könige aus Morgenland, 2. Das Rosenband: 3. Ruhe, meine Seele! 4. Morgen! 5. Befreit)
Soloist: Amy Carson: Soprano
Dvorak: Symphony no.9 (from the New World)
18 July 2022
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula
Elgar: Cello Concerto – Postponed due to illness
Soloist: Hannah McFarlane
Elgar: Enigma Variations
28 March 2022
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Sullivan: Overture: ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’
Grieg: Holberg Suite Op. 40
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major Op.90
13 December 2021
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo, La Calinda
Vaughan Williams: 2nd Symphony [London]
30 March 2021
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic
Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances (selection)
Brahms: Symphony No.3
16 December 2019
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Johann Strauss Jnr: Overture to Die Fledermaus
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Soloists: Peter Castle & Justin Ward
Sibelius: Symphony No.2
22 July 2019
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Beethoven: Egmont overture
Vaughan-Williams: English Folk Song Suite (Military band version)
Grainger: Irish tune from County Derry (arranged for wind and brass)
Elgar: Serenade for strings
Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No.2
Soloist: Adam Swayne
1 April 2019
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Gabrieli: Sonata Pian’e Forte
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Soloist: Lesley Dolman
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
17 December 2018
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Arnold: Overture Tam O’Shanter
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Soloist: Ben Birtle
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
16 July 2018
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Rossini: Semiramide Overture
Manuel de Falla: Three-cornered Hat Suite
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
19 March 2018
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Elgar: Wand of Youth, Suite 1
Mozart: Flute Concerto
Soloist: Jane Pickles
Dvorak: Symphony No.8
11 December 2017
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Brahms: St. Antony Variations
Janacek: Taras Bulba
Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 (Organ)
Organ Soloist: Graham Scott
17 July 2017
Conductor: Martin Henderson
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde Prelude and Liebestod
Elgar: Symphony No.1
3 April 2017
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Verdi: Forza del Destino
Vaughan-Williams: Lark Ascending
Soloist: Anna Tyrrell
Faure: Pelleas et Mellissande
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
12 December 2016
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Ireland: Piano Concerto
Soloist: Adam Swayne
Bruckner: Symphony No.6
11 July 2016
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Britten: Matinees Musicales & Soirees Musicales
Mozart: Horn Concerto No.3
Soloist: Miles Hewitt
Schumann: Symphony No.3 (Rhenish)
14 March 2016
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Nielsen: Helios Overture
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Grieg: 2 Norwegian Dances
Sibelius: Symphony No.5
14 December 2015
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Jane Gregson
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Lowes: Songs from the Shires
Mahler: Symphony No.4
Guest Singer: Sarah Chadwick
13 July 2015
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Beethoven: Coriolanus Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Soloist: Adam Swayne
Brahms: 3 Hungarian Dances
Dvorak: Symphonic Variations
23 March 2015
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Mendelssohn: Overture Fingal’s Cave
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Tchaikovsky: Hamlet
Delius: In a Summer Garden
Saint-Saens: La Jeunesse d’Hercule
8 December 2014
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Stefan Defilet
Sibelius: Finlandia
Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto No.3
Soloist: Emma Hannon
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1 in D Minor Op 13
14 July 2014
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Mussorgsky: Night on a Bare Mountain
Hummel: Oboe Concerto
Soloist: Helen Simpson
Brahms: Symphony No.2
7 April 2014
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Wagner: Parsifal – Good Friday Music
Berlioz: Nuits d’Ete
Soloist: Jenny Bartlett
Smetana: Ma Vlast
16 December 2013
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.21 “Elvira Madigan”
Soloist: Sam Hanson
Bruckner: Symphony No.0
15 July 2013
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Anna Tyrrell
Elgar: Froissart Overture
Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major
Soloist: Julie Gillett-Smith
Schumann: Symphony No.4
18 Mar 2013
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Caroline Poon
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Janacek: Three Lachian Dances
Sibelius: Lemminkainen Suite
17 Dec 2012
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Caroline Poon
Verdi: Sicilian Vespers
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C
Soloist: Phil Handy
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3
16 July 2012
Conductor: Rui Pinheiro
Leader: Caroline Poon
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Prelude to Act 1
Elgar: Sea Pictures
Soloist: Jenny Bartlett
Brahms: Symphony No.4
26 March 2012
Conductor: Malcolm Warne Holland
Leader: Caroline Poon
Mozart: Overture The Magic Flute
Dvorak: Serenade for Strings
Wagner: Lohengrin, Introduction to Act 3
Dvorak: Symphony No.7
12 December 2011
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Tchaikovsky: Francesca Da Rimini
Albinoni: Concerto for Two Oboes
Soloists: Sarah Shore & Clare Cooper
Britten: Matinees Musicales
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite
18 July 2011
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Mussorgsky: Night on a Bare Mountain
Copland: Billy-the-Kid
Beethoven: Symphony No.3
7 June 2011
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
In conjunction with Dutch orchestra “Nieuwegeins Amateur Symfonie Orkest” – Conductor Hans de Munnik
Johannes Van Bree: Overture to “The Bandit”
Rogier van Otterloo: Soldier of Orange
Strauss: The Blue Danube
Elgar: In the South
Cesar Franck: Symphony
4 April 2011
Conductor: Sheridan Bartlett
Leader: Caroline Poon
Weber: Overture Der Freischutz
Schubert: Symphony No.8 ‘Unfinished’
Borodin: Symphony No.2
13 December 2010
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Dan Jenkins: Trombone Concerto
Soloist: Robb Tooley
Dvorak: Symphony No.6
12 July 2010
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Dvorak: Scherzo Capriccioso
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto
Soloist: Sheridan Bartlett
Brahms: Symphony No.1
22 March 2010
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Dvorak: The Noon Witch
Giovanni Gabrielli: Sonata Pian’e Forte
Saints-Saëns: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Soloist: Jennifer Curiel (Violin)
Sibelius: Symphony No.1
14 December 2009
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture
Schumann: Concertstucke for 4 Horns
Soloists: Edward Lockwood, Ruth Spicer, Robert Harris & Kevin Pritchard
Vaughan Williams: London Symphony
28 November 2009
Charity Concert
for BHF
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader:
Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances 3 and 8
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Soloist: Peter Turnbull, Principal Trumpet, BSO
Walton: Crown Imperial
Bizet: Excerpts from Carmen
Handel: The arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Dvorak: New World Symphony (4th movement)
6 July 2009
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Mozart: Symphony No.35
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espanol
23 March 2009
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Elgar: In The South
Mozart: Oboe Concerto
Soloist: Edward Kay (Principal Oboe, BSO)
Brahms: Symphony No.3
15 December 2008
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Soloist: Jenny Fellowes with St. Aldhelm’s Symphony Chorus
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2
14 July 2008
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Stefan Defilet
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp
Soloists: Anna Pyne (Principal Flute, BSO) & Eluned Pierce (Principal Harp, BSO)
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
10 March 2008
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Caroline Poon
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel Overture
Capuzzi: Bass Trombone Concerto
Soloist: Ian Rickwood (Bass Trombone)
Sibelius: Symphony No.2
17 December 2007
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Berlioz: Hungarian March
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Soloist: Stefan Defilet (Violin)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 “Pathetique”
9 July 2007
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Copland: Rodeo
Paul Coles: Violin Concerto
Soloist: Jennifer Curiel (Violin)
****World Premiere Performance****
Dvorak: Symphony no.9 (New World)
26 March 2007
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Verdi: Nabucco Overture
Schubert: Symphony No.8 (Unfinished)
Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 (Organ)
Soloist: Andrew Hill
11 December 2006
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Borodin: Prince Igor Overture
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Soloists: Julie Gillett-Smith (Violin) & Lydia Lowndes-Northcott (Viola)
Brahms: Symphony No.2
17 July 2006
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Overture
Weber: Concertino
Mendelssohn: Concertstück No.2
Soloists: Kevin Banks (Clarinet) & Michael Huntriss (Clarinet)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4
3 April 2006
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Soloist: Calum Cook (BSO Cellist)
12 December 2005
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Walton: Crown Imperial March
Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite
Elgar: 1st Symphony
11 July 2005
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Mozart: 2nd Horn Concerto
Soloist: Ray Slater
Dvorak: 8th Symphony
14 March 2005
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Berlioz: Overture, The Roman Carnival
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Soloist: Tim Walden (Principal Cello, BSO)
Cezar Franck: Symphony in D Minor
13 December 2004
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Rossini: The Italian Girl From Algiers
J.S.Bach: Concerto in D for 2 violins (2nd Movement)
Soloists: Franck Leprince & Peter Banks
Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
12 July 2004
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Rossini: Overture – The Thieving Magpie
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Soloist: Sheridan Bartlett
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Schumann: Symphony No.1 (Spring)
22 March 2004
Conductor: Kevin Smith
Leader: Franck Leprince
Mozart: Overture – The Magic Flute
Mozart: Porgi Amore (from The Marriage of Figaro)
Rossini: Una Voce Poco Fa (from The Barber of Seville)
Soloist: Fiona Oliver-Smith
Bizet: Excerpts from Carmen
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 (Italian)
15 December 2003
Conductor: Ian Lowes
Leader: Franck Leprince
Rossini: Overture – Semiramide
R.Strauss: Serenade
Haydn: Violin Concerto
Soloist: Franck Leprince
Schubert: Symphony No.4 (Tragic)
Rehearsals
Monday – 19:30–21:30
Location
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