Richmond Chamber Orchestra
North Yorkshire's pocket-sized orchestra
Richmond Chamber Orchestra
North Yorkshire's pocket-sized orchestra
The Richmond Chamber Orchestra is a new orchestra for North Yorkshire. Based in Richmond, it brings together the best musicians, professional, semi-professional and amateur, to play under an exciting young professional director.
It is small, no more than 20 players, of a very high quality, and its repertoire includes all styles of music from Arcangelo Corelli to Anna Clyne.
Being a pocket-sized orchestra that fits in anywhere and plays anywhere, we can make live music accessible by bringing it close to people. Find a space and the RCO will fill it with music performed by some of the best musicians in the area.
We offer a platform to outstanding young players as soloists or members. Currently this is a string ensemble, but we've already been lucky enough to have a young piano concerto soloist and a harpsichordist join us. Our next concert includes a harpist. We'll invite other instruments to play in due course.
Philippa Mo
(photo Guy Carpenter)
Violinist Philippa Mo directed our first concert, and we are delighted that she has agreed to direct the next one, on JUNE 30th. Follow the link to her website and see what an exciting prospect this is.
Explore the site to find info about young players, about supporting the RCO, and about future plans.
Welcome to the RCO!
Sunday June 30th at 2.30 pm
in St Andrew's Church, Grinton DL11 6HH
Philippa Mo directs the orchestra in a fascinating programme of music spanning 400 years. Some familiar masterpieces, and others perhaps less well known: something for everyone. We are joined by harpist Sarah Paterson for Vaughan Williams' beautiful Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, written almost 30 years after his Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis. Harpsichordist David Francis joins us for two joyfully energetic baroque pieces: Bach’s 3rd Brandenburg Concerto and Summer from The Four Seasons. He also features in Suite in Old Style by the Bulgarian/English composer Dobrinka Tabakova. This is an exciting and inventive tribute to French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau (the subtitle is The Court Jester Amareu - note the anagram). The Court Jester is played by violist Alyssa Moskowitz. See below for the full programme.
JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto #3
Elgar Serenade for Strings
Dobrinka Tabakova Suite in Old Style (solo viola Alyssa Moskowitz)
Vivaldi Summer from The Four Seasons (solo violin Philippa Mo)
Gerald Finzi Romance for string orchestra
Vaughan Williams 5 Variants of Dives & Lazarus
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Ticket prices
£15.00 Main aisle & other seats with unrestricted views of the performers.
£12.00 Restricted view seats. All seats have an acceptable view of the performers, some are slightly restricted by the church's magnificent pillars.
£8.00 Under 18s (both unrestricted and restricted view seats)
Join our mailing list to keep in touch with developments and future concerts. In July we will be playing in Wycliffe Church, near Barnard Castle. There will be link from our website to The Bowes Museum ticket office. To receive details in advance, click below and we'll let you know. We are also planning a Christmas concert and another concert next year in the Georgian Theatre, Richmond.
March 3rd. Morvern & the orchestra enjoying Mozart.
01/17
Corelli Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 2
Solo violins Philippa Mo & Rebecca Howard
Mozart Piano Concerto in A major K414
Soloist Morvern Scrivene
Grieg Holberg Suite Opus 40
Janacek Suite for String Orchestra
SOME REVIEWS
'it was rather like having an orchestra playing to you in your front room!' Audience member.
'We were very impressed by your first concert and thoroughly enjoyed it.' Audience members, by email.
'The players soon showed their strengths, especially in the second half; Grieg’s Holberg Suite really came alive, and they were clearly enjoying themselves. Ending the programme with a suite by Janacek was a bold move too - an early work full of quirkiness and Czech flavours.'
John Grundy, in Richmondshire Today. John Grundy was previously conductor of the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra and the Sydney Sinfonia, and the Principal of St Mary's Music School in Scotland.
We are very grateful indeed to Richmond Town Council and the Abstract Group of Companies for supporting our first concert on March 3rd. Now we must find other sources of support, which isn't always easy these days.
If you think that our aims - encouraging young players, bringing music to people who may not often hear live classical music, championing living composers as often as we are able to - if they make us worthy of support, you can become an Associate of the RCO - an ARCO. String players will know that arco means playing with the bow as opposed to pizzicato!
Associates will be closely involved with the orchestra. You can come to a rehearsal, meet the players, meet the soloists, invite us to play for an event of your own. Get updates (no spams), prior booking for concerts (useful if we are playing in a small venue), and an annual social event at one of our concerts. Your contribution will be acknowledged in our concert programmes, unless you would rather remain anonymous.
Becoming an ARCO costs £25.00 a year, £35.00 for a couple.
Please email us from the mailing list link above. We will get back to you as soon as we can.
If you are involved with a business and would like it to be associated with the Arts, you can become a Business Associate. In return for your support your business will be acknowledged in everything that we do: online on our site and on social media, in publicity and in concert programmes. You and a colleague or partner will also be welcome to the Associates' benefits as outlined above.
Please email us from the mailing list link above. We will get back to you as soon as we can.
Becoming a Business Friend costs £35.00.
One of the USPs of the RCO is to offer a platform to outstanding young players, as soloists or members of the orchestra.
Morvern Scrivener, the soloist in our opening concert, is the first. We are looking for the next one! Get in touch, or ask your teacher to contact us, and we'll see what we can do.
Photo of Morvern Scrivener in rehearsal for the March 3rd concert. (photo David Francis)
No, we can't offer you a job, not yet at any rate! But we can help you understand how to stage a concert, the most effective way to present your publicity, contacting artists, organising orchestral parts, what a concert day requires, and so on.
Promoting events via Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites is crucial to success. If you think you'd be good at it and want to learn how to choose and manage material for different audiences, get in touch.
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