Orchestral Music on the Isle of Wight
On the last Saturday of July an audience of over 700 enjoyed both glorious sunshine and wonderful music as the island’s very own Symphony Orchestra gave a oustanding mid-Summer concert at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in Havenstreet. The orchestra dispensed with their usual concert dress and replaced them with a combination of black […]
Jonathan Dodd, of On The Wight, shares his review of the latest Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra concert. On Saturday 9th July, in sweltering heat, the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra performed a fantastically varied programme of music from many countries and periods, in a celebration of the end of this season’s concerts. There were […]
The Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Johnathan Butcher, opened the new year on Saturday 22 January at Medina Theatre, blowing away the cobwebs with some lively dances from Croydon to Bohemia, and a breath-taking performance by Charlie Lovell-Jones . The young violinist, recognised as one of the most promising of his generation to […]
The Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra is just five weeks away from performing their Summer Concert at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. When Jonathan Butcher brings down his baton at 3pm on Saturday 31st July, the trumpets will sound and the orchestra will play in public for the first time since March 2020. The […]
A pleasingly large audience given the present worries enjoyed the concert given by the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra last Saturday. The concert held at the Medina Theatre featured a programme of Russian music, two rarely performed works and an old favourite. The concert opened with an early work by Rachmaninov, his Caprice Bohemian or […]
Popular concert pianist Viv McLean returns to the Isle of Wight on Saturday March 14th 2020 to perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra. Sandwiching the Concerto will be a Caprice by Rachmaninov and a Symphony by Balakirev making it an all Russian programme. The concert being held at […]
The IWSO under the baton of guest conductor Cathal Garvey performed a wonderful concert last Saturday (18th January 2020) The capacity audience were treated to an eclectic mix of musical styles. The concert opened with the little known concert overture “Street Corner” by English composer Alan Rawsthorne. The work cleverly and humorously describes the sights […]
Once again the new Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra season opened with a concert performed to a capacity audience. The concert held last Saturday at the Medina Theatre opened with the ever popular Karelia Suite by Sibelius. The three movement suite is based on national tunes from the Karelia area (originally Finland now mainly Russia), […]
Internationally renowned trombonist Peter Moore was the soloist for the latest concert given by the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra. In great demand across the world, Peter managed to find a space in his busy diary to perform the Symphony for Trombone by Ernest Bloch at the concert. This demanding work for both soloist and […]
Join us for our third concert of the season on Saturday 16th March at Medina Theatre in Newport, 7.15pm. As well as the passion and violence of de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, you can hear one of the country’s leading trombonists, Peter Moore in Bloch’s dramatic Symphony for Trombone and Orchestra. Peter is the youngest […]
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