- Our 2024 to 2025 Concert Season
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Date Posted: Tue, 20 Aug 2024
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.
- Tickets on sale for our November 'Romance & Revolution' concert
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Date Posted: Tue, 20 Aug 2024
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Tickets are now on sale for our last concert of 2024 at G-Live in the centre of Guildford. An evening of great music associated with Romance and Revolution, featuring Rachmaninov's Variations on a theme of Paganini. We are pleased to welcome back the fabulous pianist Christos Fountos as our soloist for the evening. Then we move onto Prokofiev's powerful Symphony number 5. Tickets are now avaialble to purchase from the G-LIve Box Office. Please just click here for more details and to purchase your tickets..
- A 5 Star review for GSO's Opening Concert of the 2022/23 season
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Date Posted: Tue, 29 Nov 2022
GSO opened up their 2022/23 concert season with a contrasting mix of all-British music. The concert featured Elgar's Cello Concerto - brilliantly performed by Liubov Ulybysheva as soloist - as well as Vaughan Williams' London Symphony. The concert recived a 5 Star review from Shelagh Godwin. To read Shelagh's review in full, please click here.
- Spring Concert 'New World' Programme announced
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Date Posted: Tue, 1 Feb 2022
We are pleased to announce the programme details for our Spring Concert at Charterhouse School on Sunday 27th March. It will feature Elgar's Overture 'Froissart', a new saxophone concerto written by our Music Director Darrell Davison and Dvorak's popular 'New World' Symphony. We are delighted to have Manuel Brazo join us again as our saxophone soloist. Tickets for this event will be available for purchase online shortly.
- Manu Brazo and a New Saxophone Concerto by Darrell Davison
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Date Posted: Wed, 19 Jan 2022
The GSO are pleased to announce that one of the highlights in our Spring Concert at Charterhouse School on Sunday 27th March will be a new Saxophone concerto composed by our Music Director Darrell Davison. We are also delighted to be welcoming back an awarding winning solist Manu Brazo to perform the work. Manu has performed with the GSO on a number of occasions and is a past winner of the GSO's Jellinek Award for young soloists.
To find out more about the new concerto and Manu Brazo then please visit our Artist Profile page by clicking here.
Full details about the Spring Concert and online ticket details will be made available soon on the GSO website.
- Brahms Requiem and GSO's 'Splendid Comeback'
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Date Posted: Mon, 29 Nov 2021
Over 18 months since the pandemic stopped live performances, the GSO returned to G-Live Guildford on 20th November with a programme dedicated to Brahms - Symphony No.1, followed by the mightly German Requiem. This collaboration with Guildford Choral Society built upon the orchestra's successful Centenary concert in 2019, which featured Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Two conductors shared the rostrum. GSO's Musical Director Darrell Davison started the concert by leading the orchestra through Brahms' 1st Symphony. Then after the interval, Jonathan Willcocks from Guildford Choral Society conducted the choir and orchestra for the German Requiem. The choir and orchestra were joined by two soloists: bass Michael Ronan and the soprano Louise Fuller, a late replacement,
Shelagh Godwin's review summed up the evening by saying: 'in everyway, this was a memorable concert'.
Please click here to read Shelagh Godwin's full review.
- Green shoots of recovery
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Date Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2021
After a year of cancelled rehearsals due to Coronavirus restrictions, the GSO reunited during the early summer months for a series of informal get togethers. Using a new venue - Christ Church in Guildford - the orchestra were able to perfom again in a covid-safe enviroinment. During the short series of rehearsals the orchestra covered a range of classic symphonies such as Sibelius 2 and Brahms 4. These early sessions have paved the way for the resumption of more regular rehearsals during the Autumn term. With the confirmation of the first concert since lockdown taking place on 20th November the orchestra will be focusing exclusively on Brahms - the German Requiem and 1st Symphony.
