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Concert 129: Saturday 21 April 2012 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
Weber, orch. Berlioz
Invitation to the Dance
Arutunian
Trumpet Concerto (Vere Smyth)
Vaughan Williams
Symphony no 2 "London"
Not performed by St Giles Orchestra since 1998 a chance to hear one of the pinnacles of British symphonic repertoire, reflecting the sights and sounds of London, including the chimes of Big Ben. SGO's principal trumpet Vere Smyth, formerly principal trumpet with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (New Zealand) joins us as soloist in the concerto by living Armenian composer Alexander Arutunian.
Concert 130: Saturday 30 June 2012 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
A concert featuring a rare opportunity to hear the tuneful Third Symphony of Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford, which deserves wider hearing. Plus two favourites - Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and a popular piece by Debussy to celebrate the 150th anniversay of his birth.
Concert 131: Saturday 10 November 2012 at 19:30
Cornerstone, Didcot
Programme to be announced
Concert 132: Saturday 19 January 2013 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
Taneyev
La Oresteia
Vaughan Williams
Tuba Concerto (Nicola Adcock)
Tchaikovsky
Symphony no 3 in D "Polish"
Concert 133: Saturday 13 April 2013 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
Katy Smith is one of the country's most exciting up-and-coming violinists. By her first year at music college she had been a finalist in the BBC Young Musician Competition and had mastered the most difficult of concertos such as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Korngold. "[In the Mendelssohn] Katy Smith delivered a fluently controlled line of melody in a tone of taut velvet with precision, lyrical delicacy, and awesome bow control" ...Rutland and Stamford Mercury
Concert 134: Saturday 15 June 2013 at 19:30
"French Bonbons" St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande Suite
Saint Saëns
Violin Concerto no 3 in B minor (Olivier Bonnici)
Chausson
Poème (Olivier Bonnici)
Ravel
Bolero 107
An all French programme featuring the fantastic playing of French violinist Olivier Bonnici, plus Ravel's ever-popular Bolero.
Concert 135: November 2013
Cornerstone, Didcot
Programme to be announced
Concert 136: January 2014
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
We welcome back bassoonist Shelly Organ to play a bassoon arrangement of Gliere's lyrical Horn Concerto arranged especially for this occasion by Geoffrey Bushell. The Tchaikovsky in the second half completes a cycle of all his symphonies (including the seventh and Manfred) played by SGO over the years.
Concert 137: Saturday 5 April 2014 at 19:30
Oxford Town Hall
Verdi
Requiem 99
SGO is partnering with not one but two Oxfordshire choral societies to stage a large performance of this stunning masterpiece of the choral repertoire.
Concert 138: June 2014
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
We welcome back our coloratura soprano soloist Dr Yukiko Ishida from Philadelphia USA to perform Richard Strauss's eternal Four Last Songs, in this the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. The concert begins with three symphonic poems by the unjustly neglected Liadov who died 100 years ago.
Concert 139: November 2014
Cornerstone, Didcot
Programme to be announced
Concert 140: January 2015
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
As well as the rarely played original of the three versions of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture, we welcome as our soloist Radovan Cavallin, principal clarinet with the Gran Canaria Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Clarinet at the Conservatory of Music of the Canary Islands. In the Saint Saens organ Symphony, the soloist is orchestra member and former Queens College Organ Scholar Kate Adcock.
Concert 141: April 2015
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
Rebecca is completing her Masters at the Royal Academy, and prior to that studied at Chetham's School of Music, Corpous Christi College Cambridge, and the prestigious Eastman Eastman School of Music in the USA. Rebecca has already won numerous prizes and awards. We also celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius with his ever-popular and patriotic Finalandia.
Concert 142: June 2015
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford
Emma Griffiths is a member of the Bicester Choral and Operatic Society, where she has sung solos and performed in shows such as Calamity Jane. She is currently at Coventry University reading Music Performance and Professional Practice. We also continue to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius, plus the 100th anniversary of the unjustly neglected Hungarian composer Karl Goldmark.
Later programmes and soloists subject to confirmation. See 
2010 ranking
"French Bonbons" 
