2015/16 - Charnwood Orchestra

Concert
Season
2015/16
The Charnwood Orchestra
Founded by Joseph O’Reilly, Director of Music at Rawlins
College in Quorn, the Charnwood Orchestra was originally
known as the Quorn Orchestra. The Orchestra is now based
at Humphrey Perkins School in the neighbouring village of
Barrow upon Soar and performs a wide variety of repertoire,
working with soloists of the highest calibre. Each season the
Orchestra usually gives five concerts at venues around
Leicestershire and has undertaken a number of successful
tours to France, Ireland, Scotland, north east England and,
most recently, Dorset.
The 2015-16 season opens in Barrow upon Soar with
Wagner’s beautiful “Siegfried Idyll”. Simon Smith joins us
to perform both Mozart’s last violin concerto and the
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres” in the version for
violin, strings and percussion. November’s concert features
three of Dvorák’s overtures and the brilliant Katya
Apekisheva returns to perform Brahms’ magnificent first
piano concerto. January sees our now traditional
exploration of the delights of the popular Viennese
repertoire – as always, a mixture of old favourites and new
discoveries for audience and players alike! In March we
Callum Smart
welcome
back another great friend of the Orchestra,
Thomas Bowes, to perform Benjamin Britten's violin
concerto. Also on the programme is Tchaikovsky’s second
symphony, nicknamed the “Little Russian” because of the
composer’s use of Ukrainian folk songs in three of its
movements. The season ends in spectacular style with a
concert of twentieth-century English music. The first half
features three of Vaughan Williams most popular works,
including his tuba concerto played by the young
Leicestershire musician Stephen Calow – no stranger to the
Orchestra, but his first time performing with us as a soloist.
The concert ends with Holst’s monumental orchestral suite
“The Planets”.
Concert
Season
2015/16
Conductor
Nic Fallowfield
Nic Fallowfield leads a varied life as conductor,
violinist and teacher. He has been co-leader of
the English String Orchestra, co-principal 1st
violin of the Northern Sinfonia, and is
currently co-leader of Sinfonia Viva. Playing
has taken him on tour throughout Europe,
North and South America, and Japan, and he
has recorded extensively for radio, television
and commercially.
Nic is a well-respected and sought-after teacher,
both at Birmingham Conservatoire and privately,
and is also in demand as an experienced chamber
music coach.
A conducting pupil of George Hurst, Nic was
invited to make his professional debut with a
series of concerts in Finland in 1991, since when
he has conducted in France, Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Romania and Greece. He was conductor
of the Hereford String Orchestra from 1991 to
2006 and is currently Musical Director of the
Beauchamp Sinfonietta in Warwickshire.
Nic was appointed conductor of The Charnwood
Orchestra in 1997.
Leader Jon Barwell
Conductor Nic Fallowfield
Concert
Season
2015/16
Concert
Season
Concert Diary
Concert Diary
Saturday 26th September 2015 at 7:30pm
Saturday 16th January 2016 at 7:00pm
Saturday 2nd July 2016 at 7:30pm
Holy Trinity Church,
Barrow upon Soar
Humphrey Perkins Community Centre,
Barrow upon Soar
Church of St. James the Greater,
London Road, Leicester
2015/16
Wagner
Mozart
Arvo Pärt
Haydn
A Winter’s Night in Vienna
Siegfried Idyll
Violin concerto No. 5
Fratres
Symphony No.100
“Military”
Conductor
Nic Fallowfield
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on “Greensleeves"
Vaughan Williams
Tuba concerto
Simon Smith
Conductor Nic Fallowfield
Violin Simon Smith
Dvorák
v
Dvorák
v
In Nature’s Realm
Carneval
Dvorák
Othello
Brahms
Piano concerto No. 1
Conductor Nic Fallowfield
Piano Katya Apekisheva
Holst The Planets
A selection of classics from the Strauss family and other
Viennese masters. Programme to include “The Blue Danube”,
“Pizzicato Polka”, “Radetzky March” and many more.
Saturday 28th November 2015 at 7:30pm
Emmanuel Church,
Forest Road, Loughborough
v
Vaughan Williams
Overture: “The Wasps”
Saturday 19th March 2016 at 7:30pm
All Saints Parish Church,
Loughborough
Schubert
Overture: “Rosamunde”
Britten
Violin concerto
Conductor Nic Fallowfield
Tuba Stephen Calow
Ticket prices:
September 2015 concert:
£10.00 (£9.00 concessions)
£3.00 for accompanied children under 16.
November 2015, March & July 2016 concerts:
£12.00 (£10.00 concessions)
£3.00 for accompanied children under 16.
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2
“Little Russian”
Katya Apekisheva
Stephen Calow
January 2016 concert:
£14.00 (£12.00 concessions)
£3.00 for accompanied children under 16.
Conductor Nic Fallowfield
Violin Thomas Bowes
Thomas Bowes
Tickets are available from:
our website, members of the Orchestra and on the door
For further details contact the Orchestra Secretary:
[email protected], 07718 153117
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/charnwoodorch
www.charnwoodorchestra.org.uk