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
18 July 2022
Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Soloist: Hannah McFarlane
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Previous Concerts
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 – 19:30–21:15
Location
St. Aldhelm’s Church, St. Aldhelm’s Road, Branksome, Poole BH13 6BT
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