Founded 1881  

Registered
Charity 1037051   

  www.chichesterso.co.uk   

President: His Grace,  the Duke of  Richmond and Gordon       
Vice President: Alan Thurlow, Cathedral Organist, BA, FRCO(CHM)   

Conductor: Michael Walsh, ThD FGMS GTCL FCCM
Leader: Mark Hartt-Palmer

 

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The CSO has enhanced the cultural life of the area with over 125 years of music-making!
It is one of the oldest musical societies in West Sussex.


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The Chichester Symphony Orchestra provides amateur and professional musicians with the enjoyable and fulfilling  experience of playing together on a regular basis.
The orchestra makes a major contribution to the preservation of live performances of classical music by local musicians for the community and holds three or more concerts each year.

Traditionally the summer concert is included in the Chichester International Festivities in July and the autumn concert is part of the popular Chichester Cathedral lunchtime series. The orchestra also holds concerts designed specially for younger children.  

Regular concert venues include Chichester Cathedral, St. Paul's Church, Northgate and the Chapel at the University of Chichester.  Venues have facilities for the disabled and good nearby or on-site parking.

Our repertoire includes popular as well as lesser known works such as the Symphony in C minor by Alice Mary Smith, played at the  Cathedral Lunchtime Concert in 2005 and at the July 2006 Festivities concert the orchestra performed the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's violin concerto, opus 40 in G minor, the first performance of this work by an amateur orchestra in the United Kingdom.

The orchestra encourages local talent and we are delighted to have well-known local teacher Evelyn Harrison as soloist at our 2008 Spring Concert when she will be playing Weber's Clarinet Concerto No.2, and Stephen Caldicott will play Mozart's 2nd Horn Concerto in our Festivities 2008 concert.

Ella Rundle, a former pupil of Chichester Girls High School,  now at the Guildhall School of Music and one of our youngest soloists ever while  still at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music, played the first Saint-Saens Cello Concerto in the 2005 Festivities concert. More recently, Lyndsay Cuming,  a former CSO member, was the soloist in Ronald Binge's Concerto for Saxophone at the Spring Concert in 2007.

We hope our audiences enjoy our performances  as much as we do and that our concerts continue to extend appreciation of classical music in the area.

The Chichester Symphony Orchestra is  registered under the Charities Act No. 1037051 and gratefully acknowledges the support and encouragement of the Chichester City Council, the Chichester District Council, the West Sussex County Council and Chichester Cathedral.

Chichester District Council

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