WCO's July concert saw us on tour again, performing a 'round the world' theme for the Royal Logistic Corps, Marchwood.
Saturday 21st May, Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
WCO was delighted to perform at a public outdoor Prom at the RAF Museum Cosford, in Shropshire, as guests of the Birmingham university Air Squadron.
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The programme included Proms favourites Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem and Rule Britannia. a mix of popular classics, film music and works from musical theatre. The evening also included a spectacular flypast by a Spitfire and a display by the RAF Falcons Parachute Display team
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Malmesbury Abbey, 12th March 2011Sensational Hungarian violist Eniko Magyar joins WCO in concert in the serene setting of Malmesbury Abbey. The concert will include two remarkable and moving works for viola and orchestra
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Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Hindemith: Trauermusik (for viola and string orchestra)
Bruch: Romance for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 85
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E Minor
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70th Anniversary Concert
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Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky
Dambusters - Coates
Raiders of the Lost Ark - Williams
West Side Story - Bernstein
An American in Paris - Gershwin
Pirates of the Caribbean
We celebrated our 70th birthday with a programme which combined Pictures at an Exhibition with some of the lighter pieces among the orchetsra's repertoire over the last 70 years, including 2 pieces of light music which were performed by the orchestra on BBC Radio in 1945
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2010 Summer Concert - Royal Logistic Corps, Marchwood
An evening of Proms music
2010 Spring Concert - Devizes Corn Exchange
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Irish Rhapsody No1 Op 78 - Charles Villiers Stanford
Serenade to Music (Orchestral Version) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Land of the Mountain and the Flood - Hamish MacCunn
British Rhapsody - Haydn Wood
Variations on An Original Theme (Enigma Variations) - Edward Elgar
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Schindler's List with Diana Galvydyte - Swindon, Saturday 28th November 2009
The Wessex Concert Orchestra were delighted to welcome back sensational Lithuanian violinist Diana Galvydyte for a concert centred on John Williams's stunning music from Schindler's List, and the gorgeous theme from Ladies in Lavender by Nigel Hess.
Programme
Overture: La Forza del Destino - Verdi
Schindler’s List - Williams
Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra from Ladies in Lavender - Nigel Hess
Romeo & Juliet Suite No 2, (movts 1, 2, 6 & 7) - Prokofiev
Star Wars Suite - Williams
Soloist: Diana Galvydyte
Diana has given a number of solo performances in the UK, Lithuania, Netherlands, Austria and Canada appearing with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Madeira Classical Orchestra, Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Charkov Symphony Orchestra and various Lithuanian orchestras. She has performed in venues such as Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, Chamber Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Theater Diligentia in the Hague, Konzerthaus in Vienna.
Diana was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1984. At the age of six she entered Ciurlionis Gymnasium of Art in Lithuania. Since 2000 Diana studied with Prof. Natalia Boyarsky at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey and at the Royal College of Music in London obtaining a Masters Degree in Performance with Distinction.
Diana is a prize-winner of 15 international competitions. Recent successes include becoming a laureate of the International Jasha Heifetz Competition in Lithuania. She was a finalist in the Jeunesses Musicales Montreal International Competition and was awarded the prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary set work. In Denmark was also awarded the European Prize for Achievement.
Diana is a recipient of Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Foundation Award, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award, Hattori Foundation Award and Musicians Benevolent Fund Music Education Award. She is also a winner of the 2007 Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, awarded by the Making Music Federation.
Summer Proms Concert - RAF Lyneham, Saturday 25th July 2009
The orchestra was delighted to perform an open air Proms-style concert at RAF Lyneham.
Music for this summer concert included:
Pomp & Circumstance No 1
Jerusalem
Radio 4 UK Theme
Jupiter (from Planets)
Star Wars Main Theme
633 Sqn (main theme)
South Pacific
An American In Paris
Oliver
Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix from Samson & Delilah (Saint-Saens)
Habanera from Carmen (Bizet)
Liberty Bell
Lord of the Dance
Saturday 27th June 2009, Keevil Manor.
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An Open Air Proms-style concert in the beautiful grounds of Keevil Manor, featuring WCO's signature mix of film and theatre music, popular classics and good fun! Works included An American in Paris and South Pacific.
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Saturday 28th March 2009, Devizes
 Lauren Reeve RawlingsFinalist, BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Musician of the Year 2009
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Butterworth: Banks of Green Willow
Faure: Masques et Bergamasques
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
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Soloist: Lauren Reeve-Rawlings
In keeping with our tradition of showcasing young emerging talent from the nation's music conservatories, we are delighted to feature local horn player Lauren Reeve-Rawlings in a concert featuring Mozart's famous 4th Horn Concerto, K495. Lauren lives in Kington St Michael and has played within the ranks of the WCO on numerous occasions. She was awarded the Rotary International District Young Musician of the Year in 2007, the same year as winning the Thelma King Award at the Mid-Somerset Festival. She has recently gained a place in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. In February 2009 Lauren reached the final of the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Musician of the Year. Next September Lauren goes up to music college to study Horn full time.
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