2024 / 2025 Season

Programme for 2024/25

19 October 2024 at St Barnabas Pitshanger Lane W5 1QG

  • Dvořak: Carnival Overture
  • Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini soloist Viv McLean
  • Marquez: Danzon no 2
  • Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Conductor: Philip Hesketh; Leader: Iwona Boesche

30 November 2024 at St Michael and All Angels Bedford Park W4 1LW

  • Cecilia McDowall: Rain, Steam and Speed
  • Ravel: Ma Mere L’Oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5 in D

Conductor: Philip Hesketh; Leader: Iwona Boesche

Sunday 8 December 2024 at St Michael and All Angels Bedford Park W4 1LW

Family Concert; programme to include Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”.

Conductor: Philip Hesketh; Leader: Iwona Boesche

15 February 2025 at St Michael and All Angels Bedford Park W4 1LW (please note change of venue)

  • Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote)
  • Schumann: Konzertstuck for 4 Horns soloists Chris Eyre, Steven Orris, Tom Hayes, Morgan Marston
  • Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C  “The Great”

Conductor: Philip Hesketh; Guest Leader: Simon Hewitt Jones

29 March 2025 at St Barnabas Pitshanger Lane W5 1QG

  • Britten: Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
  • Chausson: Poeme de l’Amour et de la Mer soloist Anna Elizabeth Cooper
  • Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau

Conductor: Philip Hesketh; Leader: Iwona Boesche

7 June 2025 at St Barnabas Pitshanger Lane W5 1QG

  • Haydn: Symphony No.88 in G
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 7

Conductor: Philip Hesketh; Leader: Iwona Boesche

Sunday 15 June 2025, 7.30pm at St Mary’s Perivale UB6 8SS

Chamber music concert

  • Shostakovich                 5 pieces for 2 violins and piano
  • Handel                               Sonata for 2 cellos and piano
  • Weissenborn                  Bassoon trios
  • Schubert                           Quintet in C major

5 July 2025, 7.30pm at St Anne’s Kew TW9 3AA

  • Mozart Symphony No.40 in G minor
  • Dvořak: Romance for violin & orchestra soloist Iwona Boesche
  • Nancy van de Vate: Gema Jawa
  • Prokofiev: Classical Symphony

Conductor: Marc Dooley; Leader: Iwona Boesche