Event Type : Classical Music

Youth Wind Band – Conductor Dan Madden
Youth Training Orchestra – Conductor Azita Mehdinejad
Intermediate and Girls’ Choirs – Conductor Rachel Wright

The Youth Wind Band presents music from both sides of the Atlantic, featuring the well-known Traditional English Sea Songs and the iconic sounds of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. The Youth Training Orchestra will include Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and music from the James Bond film Live and Let Die. The Intermediate Choir will perform music including Look to this Day by Chilcott, and Nightingale by Jay Althouse and the Guernsey Girls’ Choir performance will include Nella Fantasia by Ennio Morricone.

Guernsey Youth Orchestra- Conductor Tim Wright
Concert Wind Band – Conductor Elizabeth Green
Youth Choir – Conductor Rachel Wright

The Youth Orchestra will perform Shostakovich’s sparkling Festival Overture, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Ennio Morricone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Concert Wind Band will feature the Fort George March (composed by Music Centre alumnus Nick West) plus Hymn to the Fallen and music from Sweeney Todd and ABBA. The Youth Choir performance will include Goodall’s Love Divine and Hatfield’s Dubla.

Tickets go on sale 27.11. 9am

Major over Minor
Guest Conductor: Simon Over | Soloist: Martyn Jackson (violin)

Programme:

Felix Mendelssohn – Violin concerto in E minor, Op.64, Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92

The Guernsey Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the 2021 season features an exciting and vibrant programme under the guest baton of Simon Over. Simon is Music Director of Southbank Sinfonia, which he co-founded in 2002. This concert was due to be performed in March 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID pandemic.

To begin this exciting programme, the GSO welcome British violinist Martyn Jackson to Guernsey to perform the violin concerto in E minor by Mendelssohn. Jackson has toured all over the world and has been described as a truly sensitive musician, a player of great intensity, impassioned playing and utterly compelling.

To conclude the concert, the GSO will perform Beethoven’s seventh symphony composed between 1811 and 1812 while he was improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice. At the symphony premiere, Beethoven was noted as remarking that it was one of his best works so it is a concert not to be missed!

Kindly sponsored by Julius Baer

A Special Treat for all the family, featuring many of your favourite melodies that you love to hear again and again.
Packed full of tunes from well-known Musicals and Films, this is a concert that is guaranteed to send you home singing and dancing. (Even in the rain!)
Featured in the concert are melodies from the great works for the stage and cinema, including: West Side Story, Chicago, A Star Is Born, Mary Poppins Returns, Jesus Christ Superstar, La La Land and much, much more. A one-hour programme with something to please all ages, so get tickets early!