Vaughan Williams & Sibelius 19th March 2022 West Road Concert hall It was pure joy to be in the concert hall last night but joy mixed with deep sadness as after that spine-tingling finale with its utterly gorgeous theme we all remembered the opening words of the conductor. Mike Levy, The Cambridge Critique We all …
We are delighted to announce that Harry Sever will be the Cambridge Philharmonic’s new Music Director, with Lucy Hollins joining us as Principal Guest Conductor. Harry and Lucy will work alongside our outgoing Music Director, Tim Redmond, during the 21/22 concert season. We met so many hugely talented conductors during an interview and audition process …
On 6 November 2021 at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge, the Cambridge Philharmonic return with a concert celebrating both the chorus and orchestra in turn. The chorus, conducted by Chorus Master Tom Primrose, will take centre stage for the first half with Janáček’s Six Moravian Choruses and Parry’s Songs of Farewell. The orchestra, conducted by Timothy …
As we begin the second lockdown, we reflect on the past two months of music making in the Cambridge Philharmonic. Following guidelines from Making Music, the orchestra and chorus started rehearing again at the beginning of September. We began with the orchestra, starting out with just a small group of string players sitting two metres …
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We hope you are keeping well and making up for the complete lack of live classical music with the wealth of material available online and on the radio – from Radio 3 and Classic FM to YouTube and Operavore. If you are an opera buff there is an enormous choice of free live streaming of productions …
We are very sad to hear that world-renowned conductor, and previous Vice President of the Cambridge Philharmonic, Raymond Leppard has died, aged 92. A trail-blazing Musical Director, Leppard played an enormous role of the reintroduction of Italian Baroque-era opera into the repertoire through his historic Glynebourne productions. Also a former Director of Music at Trinity …
With our performance of ‘Stargazer’ just around the corner (7.30, 17th October, West Road Concert Hall), our Director Tim Redmond sat down with the piece’s composer, Jonathan Dove, and our Trombone soloist Peter Moore, to discuss this amazing musical work. Tickets for the performance can still be purchased here
Our Orchestral Leader, Paula Muldoon, has recently featured on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s ‘Women Making Waves’! Paula, a software developer, composer and violinist, was interviewed as part of a series on women at the forefront of empowering local change. You can listen to the full interview here.
Congratulations to Bianca Andrew, Margo Arsane and Elgan Llyr Thomas who have just been awarded bursaries at the International Opera Awards! All three young singers sang with us in Falstaff in December 2016.