The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain
soloist - Gemma Hegarty

Beethoven - Leonora Overture No. 3
Haydn - 'Cello Concerto in C
Verdi - Force od Destiny Overture
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 7

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Ticket Prices £8.00 / Concessions£7.00 / Accompanied children under 12 £1.00

Tickets will be available a month in advance from: -

The Salvation Army Temple, London Road, Hadleigh.
The Southend on Sea Tourist Information Centre on Southend Pier
ABC Music Roseberry Way, Church Road, Benfleet, Essex. (01268) 755005
MusicLand 98 Hamlet Court Road (01702) 582926
Tickets will also be available at the door.

Future concerts announced here

Saturday 18th October 2008 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain
soloist: - Christopher Bearman

Strauss - Fledermaus Overture
Sibelius - Swan of Tuonela
Vaughn Williams - Tuba Concerto
Beethoven - Symphony No 3

Saturday 28th February 2009 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain

Ravel - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
Brahms - Double Concerto
Mozart - Symphony No. 29
Britten Sinfonia Da Requiem

Saturday 13th June 2009 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain

McCunn - Land of the Mountain Flood
Grieg - Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4

Saturday 17th October 2009 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain

Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead
Britten - Sea Interludes
Brahms - Symphony No. 2

note: - the above programmes may be subject to change.

Past Concerts

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain
soloist - Elizabeth Scorah

Mozart - Magic Flute Overture
Debussy - Danse Sacrée et danse profane
Ginastera - Harp Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 6 "Pathetique"

Saturday 13 October 2007 at 7.30pm
The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Richard Brittain
Leader - Richard Brittain

Beethoven - Prometheus Overture
Haydn - Symphony 99
Schubert - Symphony No 9 "The Great"

Saturday 16 June 2007 at 7.30pm
The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Richard Brittain
Leader - John Knight
Soloist - Bartholomew LaFollette

Bernstein - Overture Candide
Dvorak - Cello Concerto
Copland - Appalachian Spring
Barber - Adagio for Strings

Saturday 3 February 2007 at 7.30pm
The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain
Soloist - Anne Lovett & Nicholas Walker R.A.M.

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Poulenc - Concerto for two Pianos
Tribute to Malcolm Arnold

Brahms - Symphony No. 4

Ticket Prices £8.00 / Concessions£7.00 / Accompanied children under 12 £1.00

Saturday 4 November 2006 at 7.30pm
Highlands Methodist Church , Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain

Concert of Mozart's music

Don Giovanni Overture
Sinfonia Concertante for winds
Symphony No35 "Haffner"

Saturday 14 October 2006 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain / John Knight
soloist - Richard Brittain

Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Schumann - Piano Concerto
Shostakovich - Symphony No 5

Ticket Prices £8.00 / Concessions£7.00 / Accompanied children under 12 £1.00

programme notes

Saturday 17 June 2006 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain
soloist - Timothy Orpen

Tchaikovsky - Fantasy - Overture Romeo and Juliet
Mozart - Clarinet Concerto

Mozart - Masonic Funeral Music
Mozart - Cosi fan Tutte
Elgar - In the South

Ticket Prices £8.00 / Concessions£7.00 / Accompanied children under 12 £1.00

programme notes

Soloist Timothy Orpen

Timothy Orpen was born in 1983 in Australia, and began his musical studies shortly after moving to England, aged 8. He was educated at Wells Cathedral School and Chethams School of Music, before accepting a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. At the Royal Academy of Music he has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Geoffrey Hawkes Clarinet prize and the Nicholas Blake woodwind prize. Timothy was also the winner of a bursary in the Shell/London Symphony Orchestra competition and was a woodwind finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year 2002. Last year Timothy was the overall winner of the Royal Over-Seas League music competition.
Timothy has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Chamber Orchestra,

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also principal clarinet and a founding member of the Aurora Orchestra. As a soloist, Timothy has performed across the UK and Europe and broadcast for BBC television and radio. He has taken part in courses and master classes with artists including Sabine Meyer and Michael Collins. Last year Timothy studied in Germany under Wolfgang Meyer. Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music Timothy has studied with Angela Malsbury, Nicholas Rodwell and Mark Van de Wiel.
Future solo engagements include a recital at the Wigmore Hall supported by the Royal Over-Seas League and performances of concertos by Arnold, Finzi and Mozart. Other recent engagements have included recitals at the Purcell Room, St. Martin in the Fields, St. Georges, Bristol and a series of concerts at the Edinburgh Festival. Timothy has been selected for the recital scheme of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and is supported by the Park Lane Group, Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and the Musicians Benevolent Fund.
For tonight’s performance Timothy will be performing on a Basset Clarinet generously supported by the Radcliffe Trust. This instrument incorporates the extra low notes written by Mozart and played by Anton Stadler in the first performance of the concerto in 1791.

Saturday 22 October 2005 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain
Soloist - Giovanni Guzzo

Mendelssohn - Overture to a Midsummer Nights Dream
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
Sibelius - Symphony No 2

programme notes

Soloist Giovani Guzzo

Born in Margarita, Venezuela, Giovanni Guzzo started his Music studies with the Piano at the age of five and started his Violin studies at the age of six. Since 1996 he was a pupil of Emil Friedman and Luis Miguel Gonzales. Since then, he has been performing as a soloist in different venues in Venezuela, Spain and the UK. He has participated in Master Classes given by Jean Jacques Kantorow, Virginie Robilliard, Lenuta Ciulei, Raphael Quartet, Norbert Brainin, Andres Cardenes, Mauricio Fuks, Zvi Zeitlin, Stoika Milanova, Sally Thomas from the Juilliard Music School of New York, attending to The Meadowmount School of Music of New York.

Saturday 18 June 2005 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor: - Richard Brittain
Guest leader - Elisa Bergersen
Soloist - Joanna Smith

Glinka - Ruslan & Lyudmila
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 3
Dvořák - Symphony No 9 in Em "From the New World"

programme notes

Soloist: Joanna Smith

Joanna Smith was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She attended Westcliff High School for Girls and learned
the piano with Honor Jackson before going on to study at the Royal College of Music with Ruth Gerald. There she gained a First Class Honours degree and Postgraduate Diplomas in Performance and Advanced Performance (Accompaniment) with Distinction. Her last two years of study were
partly funded by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Old Broad Street Charity Trust and a
RCM Senior Exhibition.

Whilst at college, she won several prizes including the Margerita & Peter Oundjan Prize for violin and piano duo, the John Ireland Accompanist Prize, the Adami Accompaniment Prize and the
Fortepiano 2nd prize. In 1994 she won the Southend Young Musician of the Year competition and in 1997 won ~ Prize in the Essex Young Musician of the Year.

Since graduating, Joanna has enjoyed a busy and varied career as a freelance pianist. She enjoys travelling, having performed extensively across the UK and foreign trips have included visits to Paris, Bologna, Ascona, Chicago (for a live radio broadcast) and Vancouver. Having
made her Wigmore Hall debut recital in March 2003 with Andrew Mason (clarinet), much of her work is now at the Royal College of Music, where she accompanies for master classes, concerts, auditions and exams. Her greatest loves lie with duo, chamber and orchestral music for which she has worked with the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Concert and Elgar Chamber Orchestras. Joanna also teaches piano, is musical director for the musical theatre group 'Rainbow 2000' and
adjudicates; on two occasions at the Hong Kong Schools' Music Festival - each time hearing over 1500 pianists!

Saturday 12 February 2005 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor: - Antoine Mitchell
Leader - Richard Brittain

Beethoven - Symphony No 2 Op36 in D
Brahms - Symphony No 1
Schumann - Overture Manfred

programme notes

Saturday 23 October 2004, 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor: - Antoine Mitchell
Leader - Richard Brittain
Soloist - Keith Gurry

Dvořák - Slavonic Rhapsody
Delius - Violin Concerto Soloist Keith Gurry
Tchailovsky - Symphony No. 5

programme notes

Keith Gurry

Keith was born in East Ham where he received his first musical education. He studied the violin with Marta Eitler before going to The Royal Academy of Music in 1964. Whilst at The Academy, he worked with Ralph Holmes and after being awarded the Bach and Beethoven Scholarship, he continued his studies with Sidney Griller.

In 1968, Keith joined The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and continued studying the violin with Homi Kanga. He served on the Board of Directors of that Orchestra from 1973 to 1977.

In 1978, Keith joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra and combined orchestral work with recitals and appearances with several chamber music groups.

Together with his recital partner of over twenty years, the pianist David Silkoff, Keith made his Purcell Room debut in June 1977.

Keith is currently the Leader of the Essex Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Antoine Mitchell. He is frequent guest and firm friend of the SSO and his generous nature and obvious musical talent and presence has made him a popular figure with orchestra and audiences alike.

His violin is by Paul Collins