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Next Concert
Saturday 15th June
All Saints' Church Leamington
Join us for unforgettable performances of timeless masterpieces
Next Concert
Saturday 15th June
All Saints' Church Leamington
Saturday 15th June 2024 at 7.30 pm
All Saints’ Church, Leamington Spa, CV31 1AA
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 – Brahms
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73 – Weber
Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95, New World – Dvořák
Emily Wilson – clarinet
Roger Coull – conductor
Date for the diary October 12th 2024 - Warwick Hall - Kodaly, Rachmaninoff & Sibelius
Principal Conductor - Roger Coull
Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra 's Principal Conductor is Roger Coull
Roger Coull’s route into conducting has come very much from the eyes and ears of a performer. As a string quartet leader of international standing he has always been used to interpreting music and every aspect of the process of turning a vision into performance.
Emily Wilson - Clarinet
Emily graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music Masters programme with Distinction in 2016, under the tutelage of John Bradbury and Lynsey Marsh. Whilst at the RNCM Emily won the Gilbert-Fell prize for contemporary solo performance, a Music at Beaulieu Award and Third Prize in the Virovitica International Clarinet Competition
Associate Conductor - Paul Leddington Wright
Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor is Paul Leddington Wright
Paul started conducting at the age of 15 He won an organ scholarship to study at Cambridge and continued his conducting alongside his studies.
Following university, he started a career in Musical Theatre. Work in the West End and provincial theatre lasted until he moved to Coventry to take up the position of sub-organist then musical director at the Cathedral (a position he retired from recently)
Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
The Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 made its debut on January 4, 1881 in the event of Brahms receiving his honorary doctorate of music from the University of Breslau. It was expected by the university that Brahms would compose a new piece for what was sure to be a ceremonious occasion, this he did, the end result focusses very closely on the students and their
Weber - Clarinet Concerto
Weber was a child prodigy, his huge hands contributing to his piano virtuosity. He wrote his first opera when he was fourteen, and became music director of the Breslau town theatre when he was seventeen. His interest in the clarinet began in 1811, when he met Heinrich Barmann, the greatest clarinetist in Germany. He wrote a Concerto for Barmann, which met with immediate su
Dvorak - Symphony No 9 From the New World
Two months after his arrival in the States, Dvořák wrote to a friend, “The Americans expect great things from me,” adding, “I am to show them a way into…the realm of a new, independent art.” He was inspired by their faith in him and immediately sought out samples of American folk idioms. Symphony No. 9 (1893) grew out of his fascination and created a repres
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