Welcome to our new season of concerts: some fabulous music, and some hugely talented musicians you will recognise, as they were so good we invited them back!

We kick off the musical year with another invitation, this time to families with young children. Our Toy Stories concert takes place in that perfect magnet for families – Spectrum. So if you are a parent, aunt, uncle or grandparent, round up all the children and bring them along. It’s fun, informal, engaging and a brilliant way to introduce the young to classical music.

Then it’s full-on for our big G Live concert, with Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of Paganini. The soloist is Christos Fountos, a stunning performer who wowed the audience last year with his interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1. We discovered just how good he is when he was selected for our Young Artists concert back in 2020 and he gets better and better!

We then head Into the new year with the 2025 Young Artists at Holy Trinity Church on Saturday 25 January at 3.30pm, followed by our Spring Concert at Charterhouse Godalming on Saturday 29 March at 7.30pm and our season finale at GLive on Saturday 17 May at 7.30pm.

I hope this has whetted your appetite for a new season of wonderful musicmaking with GSO, which is described in more detail in the below season introduction from our Musical Director, Darrell Davison.