The East Anglia Chamber Orchestra is delighted to return to the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge with another attractive and demanding programme. Under the baton of John Paul Jennings, the concert will begin with the Overture to the Merry Wives of Windsor - Nicolai’s boisterous and tuneful masterpiece. We will then give the WORLD PREMIERE of an orchestral work composed for us by the enormously talented Anibal Vidal.
Our soloist for the fabulously romantic Les Nuits d’Ete by Hector Berlioz is the wonderful Phillipa Boyle. Formerly a Choral Scholar at Clare College, Phillipa is a Nevill Holt Young Artist and a successful lyric soprano.
The romance continues with Schumann’s Fourth Symphony. Completed in 1841, the newly married composer named this work after the woman he had fought so hard to win. This hugely inventive work was heavily revised and published at the behest of Clara in 1851.
Join us for a wonderful evening of marvelous music-making.
more about East Anglia Chamber Orchestra
The East Anglia Chamber Orchestra (EAChO) was founded in 2010 and has been acclaimed as the best chamber orchestra in the region. The orchestra draws players from around East Anglia, and whilst based in Cambridge, the orchestra performs regularly in other parts of East Anglia: past seasons have seen visits to The Apex in Bury St Edmunds, Ely Cathedral, the new Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden, as well as West Road Concert Hall, St John’s College Chapel, Trinity College Chapel and King’s College Chapel in Cambridge.
EAChO focuses primarily on chamber orchestra repertoire, and most programmes contain a mixture of the familiar and the less well known. The orchestra enjoys the benefit of inviting professional guest conductors and soloists for each of its concerts, who challenge the players to ever increasing heights of achievement.
Recent guest conductors have included Jacques Cohen, Toby Purser, John Paul Jennings, Dominic Grier, Ben Sheen and Mark Austin. Guest soloists have included Dame Evelyn Glennie, Andrew Watkinson, David Cohen, Gülsin Onay, Julien Van Mellearts, Kristine Balanas, Nicholas Daniels, Michael Foyle, Philippa Boyle, Sasha Grynyuk, Leonid Gorokhov and Thomas Kelly. Our regular leader is Jamie Foreman.