Hello,
I’m back in the UK after once again spending a few months abroad, this time working in Australia and The Middle East. I also managed a wonderful trip to Africa, summiting Mount Kilimanjaro:
Things are in full swing with The Welsh Sinfonia after launching our third Cardiff series on 8th October with a concert of “late great“ Mozart in the fabulous new chamber hall at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. We were delighted to have Colin Lawson “the doyen of period clarinettists ” as our guest soloist playing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto on the basset-clarinet. A rare treat for all! The concert also featured Adagio and Fugue K.546 and the G minor Symphony No 40. I was delighted with the audience’s response and the orchestra gave a really stylish performance, receiving yet more tremendous reviews.
This has been a very exciting time for the Welsh Sinfonia. As well as recently announcing our Patron (The Earl of St Andrews), Welsh conductor Grant Llewellyn has agreed to become our President and to have a truly magnificent hall to play in is a joy.
The next series concert is on Thursday 3rd November, again at the RWCMD hall featuring William Boyce’s 8th Symphony, Britten’s Simple Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
At the beginning of December The WS will be taking part in THE BIG GIVE – a national fund-raising event where money donated gets doubled plus gift aid from the Government.
Please visit www.welshsinfonia.co.uk for all the latest news updates and details of upcoming concerts.
Cardiff University Symphony Orchestra is back in action too and put on a fantastic performance in Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday 29th October. Paul Dukas’s rousing fanfare from La Peri set the tone of the evening and the concert closed with Saint-Saens Organ Symphony – soloist Robert Court, in celebration of the Cathedral’s newly refurbished organ.
Check out some clips on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdvJ6bMed4
It’s now onto Michael Torke’s Bright Blue Music, Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel Suite for a concert at the BBC Hoddinott Hall on December 17th.
All the best,
Mark
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