To open the season we welcome Herman Ringer to conduct a concert designed for all ages to enjoy. The concert features actor David Oakes, an ex-Bishop Wordsworth’s pupil known to many for his roles on TV in The Pillars of the Earth and Victoria, to narrate Peter and the Wolf.

Please note the early start time: 7.00pm

International soloist Richard Rowntree makes his debut with the orchestra alongside Fiona Brockhurst in the atmospheric Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. The rest of the programme features our string section in an eclectic mix of wonderful music.

In this, the orchestra’s 100th concert, we return to St. Thomas’s starting with Schumann’s exciting Konzertstück with soloists Cornucopia. We then visit our conductor’s homeland with Piazzolla’s Tangazo and feature our leader, Richard Parsons, in the Beethoven Romance in F before ending with Dvorak’s ever-popular 8th Symphony.