Concerts & Events Click here for Past Concerts
Concerts and festivals have always been part of the DNA of the orchestra. They are the climax of all the hard work entailed in learning and perfecting music.They are the moment when all the rehearsal time invested suddenly pays back and the orchestra rises to the occasion to delight their audience. They provide the buzz and excitement which is unique to performing at your best to a live audience.
Stoneleigh Junior Orchestra’s first concert was one year after it formed in 1945. Under Adrian Brown’s baton alone SYO has performed over 300 works by more than 120 composers in over 150 concerts both in the UK and abroad.
SYO’s record at major music festivals is also impressive. We took part in the Festival Of Britain under Edward Gough in 1951. The first competitive festival we entered was in 1976 in the Music for Youth Festival at the Fairfield Hall, Croydon which we won. Adrian remembers: “ We could not believe we had risen from rehearsing in a scout hut to performing the final movement of Dvorak’s New World Symphony in a large concert hall.
The School’s Prom followed and, in 1983, in the final of the National Festival for Music, Stoneleigh performed Stravinski’s Firebird Suite to rapturous applause and a glowing review from David Cairns of The Times who wrote of his delight “ to hear Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra responding to Adrian Brown's direction and playing with the utmost poetic sensibility.”
In 1989, at the Festival of British Youth Orchestras, SYO was awarded the Novello Youth Orchestra Award.
2012 Concerts & Events:
Spring Term 2012 22nd April 2012 Spring Concert Sunday 25th March 2012 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Soloist: Maria Marchant Mahler: Symphony No. 1
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Summer Term 2012 Summer Concert Sunday 8th July 2012 Hanworth Road, Hampton TW12 3HD Elgar: Cockaigne Overture Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song SYO Tour 2012 Normandy 21st - 26th July
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Past Concerts:
(click link for programme information)
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| 2011 | Royal Academy of Music | 450 Hall, Hampton School | Royal College of Music |
| 2010 | Royal Academy of Music | The Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames | Royal College of Music |
| 2009 |
National Festival for Music for Youth, Birmingham Symphony Hall |
Ashcroft Technology Academy | |
| 2008 | Cadogan Hall | St. Paul's, Wimbledon | |
| 2007 | BBC Broadcasting House Radio Theatre | St. John's, Smith Square | St. Paul's, Wimbledon |