The reviewer for our concert on 8th March 2025, Grenville Hancox said "This was a challenging and interesting programme of music presented by Folkestone Symphony, led by the remarkable Floriane Peycelon, whose expertise & experience informs the orchestra, and its conductor Rupert Bond. The sprightly themes of The Wasps Overture by Ralph Vaughan Williams heralded the start of an intriguing programme of music performed to a large and supportive audience by this remarkable amateur orchestra."

"It is quite remarkable to have an eminent composer playing a prominent role in the orchestra and to have the support of both the orchestra & the local authority.  'Searching' by Peter Aviss was completed only at the end of 2024, this being its first performance. A demanding score based on a set of variations built to a dramatic climax which, as the composer suggested, left us wondering whether there were still unanswered questions." 

"The first half of the programme ended with a Mussorgsky 'Songs & Dances of Death' orchestrated by Rupert Bond and sung by Thomas Lowen. A bold decision both to programme the work and realise it in a new orchestration.  The second half was devoted to the 3rd Symphony of Robert Schumann.  There was much fine playing in all sections of the orchestra, the horns & brass especially finding the spaces of Holy Trinity a joy to fill."

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Please see "Forthcoming Concerts" for a list of our planned concerts for the rest of this season and for the 2025-26 Season.