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Concerts & Events

Concerts and festivals have always been part of the DNA of the orchestra. They are the climax of all the hard work entailed in learning and perfecting music.They are the moment when all the rehearsal time invested suddenly pays back and the orchestra rises to the occasion to delight their audience. They provide the buzz and excitement which is unique to performing at your best to a live audience.

Stoneleigh Junior Orchestra’s first concert was one year after it formed in 1945. Under Adrian Brown’s baton alone SYO has performed over 300 works by more than 120 composers in over 150 concerts both in the UK and abroad.

SYO’s record at major music festivals is also impressive. We took part in the Festival Of Britain under Edward Gough in 1951. The first competitive festival we entered was in 1976 in the Music for Youth Festival at the Fairfield Hall, Croydon which we won. Adrian remembers: “ We could not believe we had risen from rehearsing in a scout hut to performing the final movement of Dvorak’s New World Symphony in a large concert hall.

The School’s Prom followed and, in 1983, in the final of the National Festival for Music, Stoneleigh performed Stravinski’s Firebird Suite to rapturous applause and a glowing review from David Cairns of The Times who wrote of his delight “ to hear Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra responding to Adrian Brown's direction and playing with the utmost poetic sensibility.”

In 1989, at the Festival of British Youth Orchestras, SYO was awarded the Novello Youth Orchestra Award.

2010 concerts & events:

Spring Term

Taster Days

Sunday 28th February 2010

Spring Concert

Royal Academy of Music

Sunday 28th March 2010 6.30 pm

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (soloist Maria Marchant, Winner of Sutton Music Festival)

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor

Training Orchestra: Gopak from Mussorsky's Sorochintsy Fair and Grieg's Sigurd Jorsalfar suite

Summer Term

AUDITIONS

Sunday 18th April 2010

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Summer Concert

Sunday 11th July 2010 (change of venue ) 7.30 pm

Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames

SYO will be performing as part of the

International Youth Arts Festival 2010

Training Orchestra Re-auditions

Sunday 18th July 2010

Summer Tour 2010

Spain - Catalonia (Girona - Figueres)

Friday 23rd July - Saturday 31st July 2010

Autumn Term

AUDITIONS &

Main Orchestra Re-auditions

Sat/Sun 4th and 5th September 2010

 

Past Concerts:

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Spring

Summer

Autumn

2009

LSO St. Luke's

National Festival for Music for Youth,

Birmingham Symphony Hall

St. Paul's, Wimbledon

Ashcroft Technology Academy
2008

Hammersmith Town Hall

Cadogan Hall St. Paul's, Wimbledon
2007 BBC Broadcasting House Radio Theatre St. John's, Smith Square St. Paul's, Wimbledon