Elgar - Cockaigne Overture

Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor

• Soloist: Vincent Barrella

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Winter Dreams"

This demanding programme, so skilfully performed, admirably showed the variety and sheer delight of the romantic repertoire.

For this concert, Folkestone Symphony Orchestra was joined by the FESIC Choir conducted by Helen Brooks and the Folkestone Young Strings conducted by Floriane Peycelon.

The orchestra played two movements from the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky, 'Sleigh Ride' by Leroy Anderson and music from the film 'Superman'. We also played 'An Overture on old English Carols' by John Whittaker, who came along to hear us.  The choir joined us in a rendition of The 12 Days of Christmas which was arranged by Peter Aviss, one of the orchestra's Viola players.

Beethoven - Prometheus Overture

Glazunov - Saxophone Concerto

• Soloist: Ann-Louise Sirota

Mozart - Overture to La Clemenza di Tito (arranged for Woodwind and Brass)

Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

Two overtures, a rarely-performed 20th century concerto and a much-loved symphony – this was a magnificent, varied and demanding programme to open the season of concerts by the Folkestone Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rupert Bond and led by local violinist Floriane Peycelon.

60th Anniversary Concert

Brahms — Academic Festival Overture

Tchaikovsky — Violin Concerto in D major

• Soloist: Joo Yeon Sir

Elgar — Enigma Variations

Folkestone Symphony’s postponed (the 60 year landmark was last year) Diamond Concert was worth waiting for and it was good to see a large audience in the grandiosity of Leas Cliff Hall to enjoy it.

Mussorgsky - Night on the Bare Mountain

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor 

• Soloist: Amit Yahav

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Folkestone Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rupert Bond performed its Spring Concert of Russian Music in Brake Hall at Ashford School on Saturday 12 March 2022.

Family Christmas Concert featuring the Folkestone Primary Schools FESIC Choir.

Beethoven - Egmont Overture

Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Elgar — Cello Concerto

• Soloist: Molly Parsons-Gurr

Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 in G major

Folkestone Symphony has built a substantial audience from its local community for its orchestral concerts because of the quality of its music making.  It was rewarding to see so many people prepared to travel to the Nye Hall of Duke of York’s RM School at Dover to enjoy its first event following

Elgar - Introduction & Allegro for Strings

Sibelius - Symphony No. 4

Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2
(Soloist - Adrian Oldland)

Folkestone Symphony always provides its audience with a feast of worthwhile orchestral music.  As a musical meal, the main course of the concert on 14 March was undoubtedly the Sibelius Symphony 4, its ‘meat’ being particularly strong stuff.  The Elgar was an attractive and substantial starter, w

Dvorak - Czech Suite

Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 2 (Soloist - Joo Yeon Sir)

Beethoven - Symphony No. 7

A solo violin floats one of the most beautiful melodies of the 20th century into the vaulted heights of the Holy Trinity Church and a spell is cast by a young magician. Thirty or so minutes later everyone is saying, “we must get her back”.

Copland - Rodeo

Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor (Soloist - Floriane Peycelon)

Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

The steady growth in the size of the audience at recent Folkestone Symphony concerts is an indication of the good quality of what is on offer.