Past Events
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Sun 09 Feb 2025
Sun 09 Feb 2025
2025 is a year of celebration when it comes to remembering two very famous composers – Ravel and Shostakovich – and York Guildhall Orchestra's concerts during this year will feature music by both composers.
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Sun 06 Oct 2024
Sun 06 Oct 2024
Come along to a concert of nostalgic reminiscing, and enjoy the film music world of John Barry.
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Sun 19 May 2024
Sun 19 May 2024
Our final concert in this season will see us welcome a new soloist for the orchestra and for York, Annemarie Federle.
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Sun 11 Feb 2024
Sun 11 Feb 2024
Our second concert in the Barbican this season sees the return of Leeds Festival Chorus.
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Sat 14 Oct 2023
Sat 14 Oct 2023
As York’s principal symphony orchestra, we are delighted to begin our 43rd concert season on Saturday 14th October.
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Sat 20 May 2023
Sat 20 May 2023
York’s local symphony orchestra concludes its season of concerts with a flourish, and welcome back violinist Nicholas Wright in the sumptuous Korngold violin concerto. Bernstein’s overture to Candide starts proceedings and the concert concludes with one of Rachmaninov’s best known works, his second symphony.
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Sat 11 Feb 2023
Sat 11 Feb 2023
York’s local symphony orchestra are joined by the Leeds Festival Chorus for an all-Beethoven concert, which will include the wonderful 9th symphony, known as ‘The Choral’.
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Sat 15 Oct 2022
Sat 15 Oct 2022
York’s local symphony orchestra open their 42nd season at the York Barbican with a programme of popular music for choir and orchestra.
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Sat 14 May 2022
Sat 14 May 2022
York’s local symphony orchestra concludes its season of concerts with a flourish, and welcome back violinist Nicholas Wright in the sumptuous Korngold violin concerto.
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Sat 5 Feb 2022
Sat 5 Feb 2022
The second concert in their 41st concert season sees the York Guildhall Orchestra perform one of Beethoven’s rarely played overtures.
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Sat 16 Oct 2021
Sat 16 Oct 2021
York Guildhall Orchestra presents a concert that combines the forces of the York Guildhall Orchestra and Leeds Festival Chorus.
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Sat 9 May 2020
Sat 9 May 2020
This event has now been cancelled, please click here for more info.
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Sat 15 Feb 2020
Sat 15 Feb 2020
York Guildhall Orchestra celebrates their 40th birthday with another stunning anniversary concert.
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Sat 4 Jan 2020
Sat 4 Jan 2020
Following the enormous success of their first New Year’s Family Concert in 2019, York Guildhall Orchestra returns to repeat the experience in 2020.
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Sat 12 Oct 2019
Sat 12 Oct 2019
The York Guildhall Orchestra concludes its extended journey through the major symphonic works of Jean Sibelius with his last symphony, and a wonderful start to the Orchestra’s 40th concert season.
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Sat 18 May 2019
Sat 18 May 2019
The York Guildhall Orchestra welcome back Ian Bousfield to perform again after his triumph last season, with the glorious, but little known concerto by Grondahl.
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Sat 9 Feb 2019
Sat 9 Feb 2019
The winter concert sees the orchestra continue with its journey through the major symphonic works of Jean Sibelius - this time it is his 6th symphony.
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Sat 5 Jan 2019
Sat 5 Jan 2019
‘Happy New Year’ - a selection of music for all the family, compèred by the president of the orchestra, Lynne Dawson.
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Sat 13 October 2018
Sat 13 October 2018
Brahms - Tragic Overture |
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor |
Brahms - Symphony No.4 in E minor
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Saturday 19 May 2018
Saturday 19 May 2018
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto (soloist: Jack Liebeck)
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
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Saturday 10 February 2018
Saturday 10 February 2018
Berlioz - Les Franc-Juges |
David - Concertino in Eb (soloist: Ian Bousfield) |
Puccini - Nessun Dorma (Turandot) (soloist: Ian Bousfield) |
Pryor - Variations on Blue Bells of Scotland (soloist: Ian Bousfield) |
Beethoven - Symphony no.3 in Eb (Eroica)
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Saturday 14 October 2017
Saturday 14 October 2017
Berlioz - Carnaval Romain ~ Fauré - Pavane ~ Bartók - Piano Concerto No.3 with soloist Grace Huang ~ Sibelius - Valse Triste ~ Sibelius - Symphony No.5
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Saturday 13 May 2017
Saturday 13 May 2017
In our final concert of the season, we shall present a ‘Proms’ style event with lots of the kind of music one would expect, including the Fantasia on British Sea Songs arranged by Sir Henry Wood, Pomp and Circumstance, Jerusalem and Rule Britannia.
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Saturday 11 February 2017
Saturday 11 February 2017
In our second concert of the season, we welcome back Peter Donohoe in a superb showpiece for piano and Orchestra.
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Saturday 15 October 2016
Saturday 15 October 2016
Richard Strauss – Don Juan;
Antonin Dvorak – Cello Concerto in B minor;
Sir Edward Elgar – Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma);
Soloist – Jamie Walton (photo attached);
Conductor – Simon Wright;
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Saturday 14th May 2016
Saturday 14th May 2016
Rossini – Overture: The Silken Ladder
Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Soloist: Alison Balsam
“She is an astonishing virtuosa” The Times
“Balsom is simply divine” Sunday Telegraph