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.

Douglas Lilburn - Aotearoa Overture

Susan Spain-Dunk - Cantilena for Clarinet and Orchestra  (Soloist: Peter Cigleris)

Weber - Concertino for Clarinet in Eb Major  (Soloist: Peter Cigleris)

Brahms - Symphony No. 2 in D Major

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Soloist: Vincent Barrella)

Schubert - Symphony No. 8

Amy Beach - Gaelic Symphony

Folkestone’s Holy Trinity Church was reasonably full for this performance of several large Romantic works – the first movement of Schubert’s Unfinished, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto, then the Gaelic Symphony by a less familiar female composer, Amy Beach.