Next concerts
Saturday 11th February 7.30pm, Shirley Methodist Church, 257 Stratford Rd, Shirley, Solihull B90 3AL
Programme:
- Shostakovich Festive Overture (Op.96)
- Tchaikovsky violin concerto (soloist: Charlotte Moseley)
- Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E Minor (Op.27)
South Birmingham Sinfonia return to Shirley Methodist Church for the first time since COVID lockdown, with Music Director, Sabrina Ko, and Leader, James Hamilton.
Featuring an exciting programme of romantic music by Russian composers, Dmitri Shostakovich, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninov, and including the ever popular Violin Concert by Tchaikovsky performed by Charlotte Moseley, SBS will take you on a voyage from the exciting Fesival that is Shostakovich's overture originally written for the Bolshoi Theatre, through Tchaikovsky's concerto written for violinist and lover Iosif Kotek, to Sergei Rachmaninov's lush second symphony.
Book tickets here:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/solihull/shirley-methodist-church/south-birmingham-sinfonia-winter-romantics/e-oxrkyl.
Saturday 8th July 7.30pm, Bournville Parish Church, St Francis of Assisi, Sycamore Rd, Birmingham B30 2AA.
Programme:
- Doreen Carwithen: Overture - One Damn Thing after Another (ODTA)
- Frank Bridge: The Sea
- Edward Elgar: Symphony No.1
South Birmingham Sinfonia's summer concert features the ever popular first symmphony by Edward Elgar, coupled with music by other English composers, Doreen Carwithen and Frank Bridge. Music Director, Sabrina Ko, and Leader, James Hamilton.
Recent concerts
Saturday, 9th July 2022, 7.30pm, Bournville Parish Church, St Francis of Assisi, Sycamore Road, Birmingham B30 2AA.
Programme:
- Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments", Op.16
- Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op.64
- Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
Saturday, 8th February 2020, 7.30pm, St Hilda's Church, Warley Woods, Smethwick B67 5NQ.
Programme:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 - Soloist : Liang Shan
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.3
Saturday, 13th July 2019, 7.30pm, in St. Francis' Church, Bournville.
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Saturday, 9 February 2019, 7.30pm, at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre.
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Saturday, 13th July 2018, 7.30pm, at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis
- Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
- Butterworth: Rhapsody on "A Shropshire Lad"
- Holst: Suite from "A Perfect Fool"
- R. Strauss: Suite for Winds
- Walton, Suite for "Henry V"
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Saturday, 10 February 2018, 7.30pm, at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre.
- Mussorgsky – Night on a Bare Mountain
- Borodin – In the Steppes of Central Asia
- Rachmaninov – Isle of the Dead
- Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Other past concerts
- Summer 2017, featuring: the Wesendonck
Lieder by Wagner with soloist Paula Sides, Wagner's Prelude to Tristan
und Isolde, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.
- Winter 2017, featuring: Elgar, Prelude to The Dream of Gerontius, Enigma Variations; Sibelius, Karelia Suite; and Franck, Le Chasseur Maudit
- Summer 2016, featuring Beethoven's
overture, Leonore number 3, Dvořák's Cello Concerto (Soloist:
Thomas McMahon) and Brahms' Symphony number 4
- Spring 2016, featuring movements
from Má Vlast by Smetana and Dvořák's Symphony number 5
- Autumn 2015, featuring Mendelssohn's
Overture "Ruy Blas",
Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor (soloist Liang Shan), and
Schumann's fourth Symphony
- Summer 2015, featuring Shostakovich's
Scherzo for orchestra in F sharp minor,
Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major (soloist Michael Bochmann) and
Tchaikovsky's Symphony number 5 in E minor
- Winter 2015, featuring Berlioz's
Symphonie Fantastique, as well as Weber's Overture to 'Der Freischütz'
and Dvořák's tone poem 'Polednice' (The Noonday Witch)
- Summer 2014, featuring Strauss's Four Last Songs
(soloist: Paula Sides) and Mahler's first symphony.
- Winter 2014, featuring Sibelius's ‘Finlandia’
and second symphony, and also Grieg's Symphonic dances
- Summer 2013, with Wagner's Overture "Rienzi",
Liszt's Tone poem "Les Préludes", Wagner's prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, and
Brahms's Symphony Number 2 in D major
- Winter 2013, featuring Schubert's
symphony number 8 (The Unfinished) and Bruckner's symphony number
9.
