Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra

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CONCERT SEASON2021-2022

­Welcome back to the CSO! ­including

Symphonies from Schubert, Brahms and DvořákOur March concert: “Celebrating Beethoven!”Elgar cello concerto and Bruch violin concerto

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A special afternoon concert for families featuring music from the films

Schubert and Brahms

Saturday 13 November 2021, 7.30pm Pittville Pump Room Cheltenham GL52 3JE

Rossini Overture: Barber of Seville Schubert Symphony no. 8 in B minor, D759: Unfinished Brahms Symphony no. 4 in E minor, op. 98 Tickets £17 reserved, £14 unreserved. Full-time students 50%; age 18 and under are free. From the Town Hall box office (0844 576 2210), www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk and at the door.

Bruch’s violin concerto

Saturday 15 January 2022, 7.30pm Pittville Pump Room Cheltenham GL52 3JE Mendelssohn Overture, op. 26: The Hebrides Bruch Violin concerto no. 1 in G minor, op. 26 soloist: Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux Sibelius Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 43

Tickets £17 reserved, £14 unreserved. Full-time students 50%; age 18 and under are free. From the Town Hall box office (0844 576 2210), www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk and at the door.

Celebrating Beethoven!

Saturday 12 March 2022, 7.30pm Pittville Pump Room Cheltenham GL52 3JE Beethoven Overture, op. 62: Coriolan Beethoven Violin concerto in D major, op. 61 soloist: Michael Foyle Beethoven Symphony no. 3 in Eb major, op. 55: Eroica Tickets £17 reserved, £14 unreserved. Full-time students 50%; age 18 and under are free. From the Town Hall box office (0844 576 2210), www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk and at the door.

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Classical music from films: a family afternoon

Sunday 8 May 2022, 3pm Pittville Pump Room Cheltenham GL52 3JE A one-hour afternoon concert of music from the films. The concert will include, amongst many others:

Mozart Romanze from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Featured in the films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Batman J Strauss II The Blue Danube Waltz Featured in Amazing Spider-Man 2, Jungle Book, Nutty Professor II, Titanic, A Space Odyssey Beethoven Allegretto from Symphony No. 7 Featured in the film X-Men: Apocalypse Elgar Nimrod from Enigma Variations Featured in the film Dunkirk

The programme has not yet been finalised, so please refer to our website where we will add more details in due course. www.cheltenhamsymphonyorchestra.info

Tickets £10 adults. Full-time students 50%; age 18 and under are free. From the Town Hall box office (0844 576 2210), www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk and at the door.

Please quote the title of the concert when booking tickets.

Elgar’s cello concerto

Saturday 25 June 2022, 7.30pm Pershore Abbey Pershore WR10 1BB

In support of Farmers Overseas Action Group (www.foag.org)

Brahms Hungarian Dances nos. 5&6 Elgar Cello concerto in E minor, op. 85 soloist: Rebecca McNaught Dvořák Symphony no. 8 in G major, op. 88

Tickets £16, including free drink. Students £8, children 15 and under are free. From the FOAG office (01886 853295), from info@foag.org, and at the door.

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David Curtis is the Principal Conductor of the Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and was Founder and Artistic Director of the innovative Orchestra of the Swan from 1995 to 2018. He has an active international career, working regularly in over fifteen countries on three continents, with prestigious orchestras such as the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and both the Prague Chamber and Radio Symphony Orchestras. In 2017, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra. Since he became the CSO’s Principal Conductor in 1999, the orchestra has developed an outstanding reputation, performing major works such as Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, Mahler’s symphonies 1-6, Rachmaninov’s second symphony

and both the War Requiem and Spring Symphony by Britten. David is passionate about the power of music to enrich and transform people’s lives. Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux was a prize-winner in 2021 in the inaugural YCAT (London) and Concert Artists’ Guild (New York) 2021 International Auditions. Recent highlights include appearances at Wigmore Hall, the BBC Proms, and the Gstaad Festival. Her debut album for Champs Hill records of music for solo violin is due for release this year. Born in France, Charlotte completes her Master’s at the Royal College of Music this summer. Michael Foyle pursues a busy solo career, recently performing concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. With performances ‘full of sparkling detail, with tonal beauty and incisive rhythmic clarity’ (The Strad), he has performed recitals in prestigious UK venues including Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Buckingham Palace, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Usher Hall, regularly being broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Alongside his performance work, Michael became Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music in 2016. This will be his fourth appearance with the Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra, having previously performed concertos by Korngold, Elgar and Tchaikovsky. Rebecca McNaught is a dynamic young British cellist who has performed internationally as a soloist and orchestral musician. She was Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year in 2015. She has a particular affinity with Elgar’s cello concerto, which she has performed across the UK, including at St. John’s Smith Square, Gloucester Cathedral and in Tewkesbury Abbey. She recently completed a Professional Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music where she explored post-romantic solo and duo sonatas. The Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra is one of Britain’s leading amateur orchestras, programming a varied series of works and exploring specific musical traditions in depth through its annual themed seasons. The orchestra is keen to support emerging talent as well as working with established soloists. Concert venues include Cheltenham Town Hall, Pittville Pump Room, Gloucester Cathedral, Tewkesbury and Pershore Abbeys. The CSO has made successful foreign tours to Annecy (2008, 2010, 2013) and Göttingen (2015). Radio broadcasts include BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. This brochure is written in good faith that we will be able to rehearse and perform as expected in the coming season. However, we may have to make changes to the schedule, depending on the status of the Covid-19 pandemic. Please refer to our website which will contain more up-to-date information than this printed brochure can. Thank you for your patience; we are wildly hopeful that the upcoming season will run in full, to bring delight to our audiences and to ourselves too! www.cheltenhamsymphonyorchestra.info