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2010
Saturday 16 January 2010 7.30pm St Andrew’s Church Countesthorpe Tickets: £8 Accompanied children free Tickets available from: Glebe Garden Centre	New Year Concert Musical Director Richard Davis	Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’ Arnold Flute Concerto No.2 Soloist – Jo Conquest Hodgson Divertimento First performance

2009
Sunday 30 August 2009 2.30pm Castle Park Heritage and Arts Festival St Nicholas Church Leicester Tickets: £4		Wind Quintet of the Helix Ensemble perform Popular Classics (followed by a delicious cream tea)
Saturday 4 July 2009 7.30pm All Saint’s with Holy Trinity Church, Loughborough Tickets: £10 , £8 concessions, £5 under 18 For reservations phone: 01332-660593	Musical Director Kenneth Woods	Sawyers Symphony No. 2 Second UK performance Haydn Symphony No. 60 in C Il Distratto Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Saturday 18 April 2009 7.30pm Derby Cathedral	Concert with the Richard Roddis Singers Musical Director   Richard Roddis	Britten: Cantata Misericordium Bennett: Farewell to Arms Vaughan Williams: Jane Scroop's Lament le Fleming: Everyone Sang Partita Finzi: Eclogue
Saturday 17 January 2009 7.30pm All Saint’s with Holy Trinity Church, Loughborough Tickets: £10 , £8 concessions, £5 under 18 For reservations phone: 01332-660593	Musical Director Anthony Weeden	Stravinsky Pulcinella Rameau Les Indes Galantes Hindemith Five Pieces for String Orchestra Lutoslawski Dance Preludes Bartok Rumanian Folk Dances

2008
Saturday 17 May 2008 7.30pm All Saint’s Parish Church, Loughborough Tickets: £10 , £8 concessions, £5 under 18 For reservations phone: 01332-660593	Sphere of Influence Musical Director David Murphy	Mozart Overture to Idomeneo Corelli Concerto Grosso op. 6 No. 2 Salieri Overture Il Grotto Trofonio Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli Short talk by David Murphy Beethoven Symphony No. 8

2007
Saturday 19 May 2007 7.30pm St Paul’s Church, Woodhouse Eaves Tickets: £10 , £8 concessions, £5 under 18 For reservations phone: 01332-660593	St Paul’s Church, Woodhouse Eaves Musical Director Roger Coull Oboe – Timothy Bentham	Albinoni Oboe Concerto Op 9 no. 2 Allan Bevan To Morning Janacek Suite for string orchestra Mozart Symphony No 29
Saturday 22 September 2007 7.30pm Loughborough Endowed Schools Music School Tickets: £10 , £8 concessions, £5 under 18 For reservations phone: 01332-660593	Loughborough Endowed Schools Music School Musical Director Roger Coull	Beethoven Coriolan Overture Bartok Rumanian Folk Dances Allan Bevan To Morning Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Saturday 24 November 2007 7.30pm Tickets: Reserved (centre) £12 in advance or £15 on the door. Unreserved £10 in advance or £12 on the door. Credit card hotline 01332 345936	Derby Cathedral Musical Director   Richard Roddis	Britten St Nicolas Finzi In Terra Pax Britten Ceremony of Carols

2006
Saturday 25 March 2006 7.30pm Leonard Pegg Violin Concerto First Performance Tickets - £7 and £5 (concession)	All Saints Parish Church, Loughborough Musical Director   Jacques Cohen Violin – Michelle Taylor	Leonard Pegg Violin concerto Beethoven Symphony no. 4 Mendelssohn Overture – The Fair Melusine
Sunday 27 August 2006 2.30pm Wind quintet of the Helix Ensemble Castle Park Festival Tickets £6 and £4.50 (concession)	St Nicholas Church Leicester	Denes Agay Polka Mozart The Hunt - K458 (arr Geoffrey Emerson) Aaron Copland I Bought Me A Cat (arr by Quincy C Hillard) Bill Holcombe Autumn Afternoon Paul Patterson Westerly Winds
Saturday 14 October 2006	Derby Cathedral Musical Director   Richard Roddis	Britten Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury Haydn Nelson Mass (Missa in angustiis) Handel Dixit Dominus

2005
Saturday 5 February 2005 7.30pm Tickets £7, £5 concessions, £3 under 18	Fraser Noble Building Leicester University Musical Director Anthony Weeden	Wagner Siegfried Idyll Stravinsky Suite no. 1 for small orchestra Ligeti Six Bagatelles Copland Appalachian Spring (Original scoring) Pither Concentus (First Performance)
Saturday 2 July 2005 7.30pm Tickets - £7 and £5 (concession) available on the door	Emmanuel Church, Loughborough Musical Director Ken Woods	Barber Adagio for Strings Summer Music for wind quintet Ives Symphony No. 3 Piston Sinfonietta
Saturday 24 September 2005 7.30pm Gill Sibley Memorial Concert Tickets - £7 and £5 (concession) available on the door	All Saints, Cotgrave Musical Director and Soloist:  David Greed	Bartok Divertimento for Strings Elgar Elegy Vivaldi Autumn from the Four Seasons Spohr Nonet
Saturday 12 November 2005 7.30pm “Words and Music to Remember” Tickets - £7 and £5 (concession) available on the door	St Andrews Church, Kegworth Musical Director   Jacques Cohen	Cohen Serenata Malinconica Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2 Elgar Elegy Readings: Wilfred Owen Futility Rupert Brooke The Soldier
Sunday 13 November 2005 14:30 World Premiere of Overture ‘Brundibar’ by Paul Aron Sandfort, a survivor of the Terezin Ghetto Tickets Free of Charge	Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Laxton Musical Director   Jacques Cohen	Elgar Elegy Sandfort Overture ‘Brundibar’ – (WORLD PREMIERE) Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 2

2004
Friday 27 February 2004 8.00pm	Cope Auditorium, Loughborough University “English Miniatures” Musical Director and Soloist: David Greed	Purcell Chaconne in G minor (arr. Britten) Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending for violin and orchestra Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Summer Night on the River Tippett Little music Arnold Sinfonietta No. 3 Op 81
Saturday 28 February 2004 7.30pm	All Saints, Cotgrave “English Miniatures” Musical Director and Soloist: David Greed	Purcell Chacony in G minor (arr. Britten) Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending, The for violin and orchestra Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Summer Night on the River Tippett Little music Arnold Sinfonietta No. 3 Op 81
Saturday 19 June 2004 7.30pm	St Mary’s Church, Bottesford “Summer Nights” Musical Director and Soloist:  Roger Coull	Bach Violin concerto in A minor Barber Summer Music for wind quintet Delius Summer Night on the River Copland Hoe-down from Rodeo Mozart Symphony No 29
Saturday 6 November 2004 7.30pm “Requiem”	St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham  Concert with Christopher Dixon and the Sinfonia Chorale  Musical Director:  Richard Roddis	Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Finzi Requiem da Camera Faure Requiem

2003
Saturday 8 February 2003 7.30pm	Fraser Noble Building Leicester University Musical Director Alan Suttie	Milhaud La Creation du Monde Berkley Divertimento Mozart Symphony No 39
Saturday 28 June 2003 7.30pm	Emmanuel Church Loughborough	Vivaldi L’estro harmonico Op 3 No 10 in B minor RV 580 Martinu Sextet for Wind and Piano Brahms Serenade Op 11 arranged for nonet by Alan Boustead
Saturday 1 November 2003 7.30pm	Fraser Noble Building Leicester University Musical Director Jacques Harry Cohen	Wolff Serenade (chamber orchestra version) Kodaly Summer Evening Mendelssohn Nocturne, Intermezzo and Scherzo from “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” Cohen Serenata Malinconica Haydn Symphony No 8 “Le Soir”

2002
Saturday 27 January 2002 7.30pm Holocaust Memorial	Leicester Art Gallery Musical Director: Graham Oppenheimer	Krasa Overture Karel Nonet Partos Yiskor Mendelssohn String Symphony Schumann (arr Pither) Traumerei
Saturday 15 June 2003 7.30pm 10th Anniversary Concert	Emmanuel church, Loughborough Musical Director: David Drummond	Bach Brandenburg 3 Copland Quiet City Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 I A major "The Italian"
Saturday 26 August 2002 7.30pm	South Croxton Arts Festival	String Quartets and Wind Quintets
Saturday 23 November 2002 7.30pm	Loughborough University, Musical Director: Roger Coull Soloist: Tim Garrard	Dvorak Serenade in E Handel Arias Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht

2001
Saturday 24 March 2001 7.30pm	Fraser Noble Hall Leicester Musical Director: Jacques Harry Cohen Soloist: John Christodoulou	Elgar Chanson de Nuit Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Bach Brandenburg no 4 G major Barber Capricorn concerto
Saturday 9 June 2001 7.30pm	Emmanuel Church, Loughborough Musical Director: David Greed	Mozart Don Giovanni overture Mozart Piano Concerto C minor K491 no.24 Mozart Symphony no 38, Prague
Saturday 14 October 2001 7.30pm	Loughborough University Musical Director: David Curtis	Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No 1 Ravel Introduction and Allegro

2000
25 Mar 2000	Leicester Fraser Noble, Musical Director: Composers of the 21^st Century	Corelli	Concerto Grosso op 6 no 6
		Bricher (Philip)	Trinity Waltz
		Stephens (Sarah)	The Murderous Magician
		Beethoven	Quintet for piano and winds
		Hill (Stewart)	Emerald Strings
		Chamberlain (Fiona)	Amber
		Phillips (Lucy)	Anne
		Ives	Unanswered Question
01 July 2000	Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Musical Director: Janet Hall	Corelli	Concerto Grosso op 6 no 6
		Maxwell Davies	Renaissance Scottish Dances
		Ronald Binge	The Watermill
		Janacek	Mladi
		Holst	St Paul’s Suite
14 Oct 2000	Loughborough Music Centre, Musical Director: David Curtis	Ravel	Introduction and Allegro
		Schoenberg	Chamber Symphony op 1 no 9
		Handel	Harp concerto
		Dvorak	Nocturne
		Mozart	Serenade C minor K388

1999
20 Mar 1999	Leicester Fraser Noble, Musical Director: David Lawrence, Soloist: Nic Fallowfield	Vivaldi	Concerto G Minor RV577
		Strauss	Capriccio
		Glass	Company
		Pither	Pater Noster
		Beethoven	Septet Eb op20
15 May 1999	Loughborough music centre, Musical Director: Peter Sheppard-Skaerved	Schwertsik	Twilight music
		Hindemith	Septet for winds
		Bach	Suite no 2 B minor
		Alison Bean	Quodlibet
		Mozart	Violin concerto A major K219
16 Oct 1999	Loughborough music centre, Musical Director: David Lawrence, Soloist: Meinir Wyn Thomas Contrasts Concert	Britten	Les Illuminations op 18
		Strauss	Concerto for small orchestra
		Shostakovich	Piano Quintet op 57
		Caplet	Suite Persane

1998
07 Mar 1998	Leicester Fraser Noble, Musical Director: Ofer Falk	Gibbons	Two fantasies
		Martinu	La Revue de Cuisine
		Jones (Kevin)	Lost Little Penguin
		Mendelssohn	Octet
16 May 1998	Loughborough University, Musical Director: David Campbell	Handel	Concerto grosso op6 no 1
		Carpenter (Gary)	Ein Musikalisches Snookerspiel
		Stravinsky	Concerto in D for strings
		Beethoven	Rondino
		Haydn	Symphony no 99 Eb
30 Oct 1998	Holy Trinity Church, Berwick upon Tweed Musical Director: David Drummond	Mozart	Divertimento
		Pachelbel	Canon
		Elgar	Chanson de Nuit
		Grieg	Holberg Suite
		Barber	Capricorn Concerto
		Hindemith	Wind Septet

1997
15 Mar 1997	Leicester Fraser Noble, Musical Director: Roger Coull	Albinoni	Adagio
		Ireland	Concerto Pastorale
		Rutter	Suite Antique
		Schubert	Octet
17 May 1997	All Saints Loughborough, Musical Director: David Drummond 5th Anniversary Concert	Rossini	Overture: La Scala di Seta
		Reizenstein	Serenade in F Op 29
		Shostakovich	Chamber Symphony for string orch. Op 110a
		Mozart	Symphony no 40. K550 G minor
18 Nov 1997	Loughborough University Musical Director: Tim Brown Voices for Hospices	Handel	Messiah Part 3
		Malcolm Arnold	Suite

1996
10 Feb 1996	Leicester Fraser Noble, Musical Director: Andrea Quinn, Soloist: Wyn Hyland	Wolf	Italian Serenade
		Villa-Lobos	Cirando das Sete Notas
		Mozart	Piano Concerto C minor K491
		Handel	Concerto Grosso Op 3 no 1
		Benjamin	Jamaican rumba
		Milhaud	La Boeuf sur le toit
15 Jun 1996	Loughborough Town Hall, Musical Director: Roger Coull	Martinu	Nonet
		Muldowney	Sonata for 4 violins
		Mozart	Eine kleine nachtmusik
		Milhaud	La Cheminee du Roi Rene
		Ireland	Minuet and Elegy
		Wagner	Siegfried Idyll
16 Nov 1996	Loughborough University, Musical Director: Robert Chasey	Corelli	Concerto grosso op 6 no 8 (Christmas Concecerto)
		Weir	Airs from another planet
		Haydn	Symphony no 49 F minor
		Alison Bean	Phonema
		Nielson	Little suite A minor op1

1995
04 Feb 1995	Leicester Fraser Noble, Musical Director: Anice Paterson, Soloist: Susan Blair	Bach	Brandenburg 6 Bb major
		Poulenc	Sextet for Piano and wind quintet
		Debussy	Danse Sacree et Danse Profane
		Farkas	Ancient Hungarian Dances
		Part	Festina Lente
		Hindemith	Horn Concerto
13 May 1995	Hinckley United Reformed Church, Musical Director & Soloist: Roger Coull	Vivaldi	Concerto G major - flute, violin, oboe, bassoon
		Maxwell-Davies	Renaissance Scottish Dances
		Mendelssohn	Violin Concerto D minor
		Albinoni	Adagio
		Martinu	Nonet
		Elgar	Serenade for strings
11 Nov 1995	Loughborough University, Musical Director: David Drummond	Purcell	Sonata A Minor no 3
		Maconchy	Tribute
		Tippett	Divertimento for Chamber orchestra
		Francaix	The flower clock
		Brahms	Serenade no 2 in A

1994
11 Jun 1994	Loughborough Town Hall, Musical Director: Peter Lea-Cox, Soloist: Jenny Saunders	Corelli	Concerto Grosso Op 6 no 1 D major
		Dvorak	Serenade Op 44 Dminor
		Villa-Lobos	Bachianas Brasileiras No 5
		Bach	Prelude and Fugue
		Gorecki	Three pieces in Olden Style
		Respighi	The Birds
12 Nov 1994	Loughborough University, Musical Director: David Drummond	Pachelbel	Canon and Gigue
		Strauss	Serenade Eb - 13 wind instruments
		Stravinsky	Pulcinella suite
		Sibelius	Valse Triste
		Beethoven	Symphony no 2 D major

1993
27 Feb 1993	Loughborough Town Hall, Musical Director: Anice Paterson Soloist: Janet Masters	Purcell	Chaconny
		De Falla	Concerto da Camera
		Arvo Part	Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
		Mozart	Concerto no 5 in A K219
		Mendelssohn	Octet
22 May 1993	Loughborough Town Hall, Musical Director: Jonathon Grieves-Smith	Delius	Two pieces for small orchestra
		Janacek	Mladi
		Vivaldi	Concerto for 2 violins in A
		Duxbury	Two pieces for the Dawn
		Mozart	Symphony no 29 in A major K201
06 Nov 1993	Loughborough University, Musical Director: David Campbell	Bartok	Divertimento for Strings
		Lodge	Temptation rag
		Gershwin	Nice work if you can get it
		Fats Waller	Undercurrent
		Barber	Adagio
		Puccini	Chrysanthemums
		Weill	Suite from ''Threepenny Opera'

1992
06 Jun 1992	Loughborough Town Hall, Musical Director: Anice Paterson First Concert	Copland	Quiet City
		Mozart	Wind Serenade in C Minor
		Vivaldi	L'Estro Harmonico Op 3 No 1
		Delius	Deux Aquarelles
		Stravinsky	Dumbarton Oaks
07 Nov 1992	Loughborough University, Musical Director: Anice Paterson, String Coach: Janet Masters Soloist: Richard Roddis	Finzi	Dies Natalis
		Gibbons	3 part fantasia
		Copland	Appalachian Spring
		Stravinsky	Apollo
		Bach	Brandenburg 1
		Nielson	Serenata in Veno

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