Orchestral Music on the Isle of Wight
Last Saturday week, 21st January, the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra took to the stage at the Medina Theatre with a concert specifically designed to give a platform to up-and-coming musical talent. Both guest conductor James Thomas, and piano soloist Thomas Luke are at the very beginning of what will inevitably become exciting careers. The […]
Last Saturday, 19th November, the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra got their 2022/23 season under way with a trio of works that showed off their versatility and innate musicianship. Playing to a packed Medina Theatre, the concert kicked off with Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture”, a six-minute tour de force offering a combination of majesty and dexterity […]
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 […]
We are busy rehearsing for the first concert of our 2021/22 season, which will be on Saturday 27th November at Medina Theatre, Newport. The programme’s main work is Gustav Mahler’s magnificent Fifth Symphony, while in the first half we will be playing Tintagel by Arnold Bax and the Horn Concerto by Ruth Gipps, which will […]
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 […]
Last Saturday week, 21st January, the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra took to the stage at the Medina Theatre with a concert specifically designed to give a platform to up-and-co
