Last updated: Thursday, 18 September, 2008 11:08 AM

20 September 2008, Saturday

Wellington School Great Hall, Wellington - 7.30pm OrchestraWest Chamber Players Five players from OrchestraWest perform chamber music for winds and piano. Mozart - Piano Quintet Poulenc - Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano Reinecke - Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Piano Beethoven - Piano Quintet Tickets £10, Concessions £8. All proceeds from this concert will be donated to Cancer Backup and the Exeter Hospice Care.

11 October 2008, Saturday

Queen's College, Taunton OrchestraWest featuring in Quartz Arts Festival Rossini - Overture ‘An Italian Girl in Algiers’ Barber - Violin Concerto   Soloist - Rustom Pomeroy Mendelssohn - Italian Symphony Conductor - John Cole

21 November 2008, Friday

King's College Chapel, Taunton- 7.30pm Patron's Concert Conductor - Charles Hazlewood Arvo Part - 'When Bach was a Bee-keeper' Mozart - Piano Concerto K488 in A Major   Pianist - Sophie Cashell, winner of BBC2 Classical Star in 2007 Haydn - Symphony No 45 'Farewell' Tickets £20, 12+ £5, under 12s free Available online from www.orchestrawest.co.uk, Brewhouse Theatre or Taunton Tourist Information Centre Subscribers and 20/20 from Anne Curtis, 01380 831454

21 February 2009, Saturday

King's College, Taunton Viennese Evening

15 March 2009, Sunday

King College Chapel Taunton OrchestraWest with Amici Conductor - John Cole Verdi - Requiem

10 April 2009, Friday

OrchestraWest with Amici Easter at St. Mary Magdalene Haydn - Mass and other sacred music.

18 April 2009, Saturday

King's College, Taunton Malcolm Bilson, world exponent of the forte paino, plays Mozart/Haydn

20 June 2009, Saturday

Queen's College, Taunton Children's concert, Peter and the Wolf

18 July 2009, Saturday (provisional date)

OrchestraWest

22 November 2009, Sunday (provisional date)

OrchestraWest

www.orchestrawest.co.uk

“astonishing and fantastic that work of such high quality is being produced in Taunton” – Charles Hazlewood, Patron.

OrchestraWest was founded in February 2006, and we are the only professional Symphony Orchestra west of Bristol. We are based in Taunton, and perform large scale orchestral works to a growing body of supporters, which includes our Patron, the international conductor and broadcaster Charles Hazlewood.  Past performances have included concertos by Elgar, Brahms and Strauss, symphonies by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, and other works by Wagner, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov and Sibelius.  Haydn, Mendelssohn and Bruch are scheduled for performance in 2008, as well as a mighty performance of Beethoven’s Ninth with a specially assembled Festival Chorus as the opening concert at Westival (July 19th).

Our players, all professionals, are based either in the Taunton area, or originated here and are now pursuing professional music careers elsewhere with some of the great national orchestras or with their own ensembles.  Occasionally we draw on other players when there are specialist gaps to fill.

The Artistic Director is John Cole (01823 284180).

Contact Details:

Anne Curtis
Email: acurtis@theprworkstaunton.co.uk
Tel: 01380 831454