Forthcoming Concert

 
 
Saturday 16th October 2010 at 7.30pm
 
 

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Matthew Andrews
Leader - Lorraine Kelly

Beethoven - Symphony No 5

Rossini - Overture to "The Barber of Seville"

Saint-Saëns - 'Cello Concerto No. 1

soloist: Lucinda Skinner

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Ticket Prices £9.00 / Concessions £8.00 / 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

Allegro Music London Road Westcliff Tel: 01702 348476 252/254

Tickets will also be available at the door.

 

 
 


Whats on when

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Future concerts announced here

please note that concert & programme details are subject to change.

Saturday 12th February 2011 at 7.30pm

TBA

 


Saturday 11th June 2011 at 7.30pm

Southend Symphony's 90th Anniversary Concert

Conductor Chris Adey

TBA

 


Saturday 16th October 2011 at 7.30pm

TBA

 

 


 

 
 

Past Concerts


 
Saturday 19th June 2010 at 7.30pm

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Matthew Andrews
Leader - Lorraine Kelly

Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade
Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances


Ticket Prices £9.00 / Concessions£8.00 / Accompanied children under 12 £1.00

 

Saturday 27th February 2010 at 7.30p

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Richard Brittain
Leader - Lorraine Kelly

Mendelssohn - Overture "Ruy Blas"
Tchaokovsky - Serenade for Strings
Dvorak - Symphony No 7

Ticket Prices £9.00 / Concessions£8.00 / Accompanied children under 12 £1.00

 

Saturday October 2009 at 7.30pm

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Matthew Andrews
Guest conductor - Tom Marshall
Leader - Lorraine Kelly

Brahms - Academic Overture
Grieg - Piano Concerto
soloist: Lindy Tennent-Brown
Brahms - Symphony No 2

Ticket Prices £9.00 / Concessions£8.00 / 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

Allegro Music London Road Westcliff Tel: 01702 348476 252/254

Tickets will also be available at the door.

LINDY TENNENT-BROWN
piano.

Lindy Tennent-Brown was born in New Zealand where home was a remote farm in the western North Island. She studied with Margaret Fingerhut at the Royal Northern College of Music and held Junior Fellowships at both the RNCM and the Royal College of Music in London. She won the 2000 NZ National Piano Competition and, in 2003, was invited to become an inaugural Wigmore Young Artist, making her début at Wigmore Hall in 2004 partnering Ann Murray, DBE

Lindy has appeared throughout the UK as a soloist under the auspices of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme. Her concerto repertoire starts with Bach and finishes somewhere around Gershwin, visiting Mozart, Beethoven and Rachmaninov en route. Lindy is in great demand as a collaborative pianist and has established a number of successful partnerships with singers and instrumentalists, most notably as one half of the prize-winning longfordbrown piano duo (with British pianist, James Longford). She has performed throughout Europe, South America and Australasia, and has recorded and broadcast live for BBC Radio 3. When she's not busy growing vegetables, Lindy can often be found in the orchestra pit of a West End musical ( Mary Poppins , Les Misérables, Oliver! ).

 

 

'Music at Highlands'

Saturday 4th July 2009 at 7.30pm at Highlands Church, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Richard Brittain
Leader -John Knight

Programme: -

Mozart 40th Symphony ~ Haydn Cello Concerto soloist Peter Laraway ~ Mozart String Serenade

 

 

Saturday 13th June 2009 at 7.30pm

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Richard Brittain
Leader - Lorraine Kelly

Elgar - Cockaigne Overture
Bruch - Concerto for Violin soloist: Jeanine Thorpe
Rachmaninov - Symphony No 2

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

 

Saturday 28th February 2009 at 7.30pm

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Richard Brittain
Leader - John Knight

Mozart - Symphony No 40
MacCunn - 'Land of the Mountain Flood'
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 4

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


 

Saturday 18th October 2008 at 7.30pm

The Salvation Army Temple
Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Richard Brittain
Leader - John Knight

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


 

Saturday 14th June 2008 at 7.30pm

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


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


 

Saturday 9th Feb 2008 at 7.30pm

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 4 February 2006 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex

Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin
Leader - Richard Brittain

Rossini - La Gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
Elgar - Enigma Variations
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra

programme notes


 

 
 

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.

 

 
  He is the winner of the First Prize in the XII National Violin Competition Juan Bautista Plaza in the year 1999 in Venezuela. He has performed as a soloist with the most important Venezuelan Orchestras such as the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of Caracas, Aragua Symphony Orchestra, giving concerts in different Venezuelan Cities. He is a student of Maurice Hasson at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he has performed with prestigious musicians such as Sir Colin Davis, Hugo Wolf, Mats Lidstrom, Colin Carr, among others. He has recently been awarded with a MBF String Award( MBF Music Education Award 2004) and was also one of the 6 finalists in last year's YCAT competition at the Wigmore Hall in London.  
 



 

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