CONCERTS
2017 SEASON
Date/Time Saturday 18th March at 7.30pm & Sunday 19th March at 2.30pm
Location Memorial Hall, Bowral
The first concert of the year opened with Sibelius’s tone poem, Finlandia. Local teacher and Orchestra member, Catherine Barnett, then performed as soloist in the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1, which was followed by a performance of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.
SIBELIUS Finlandia
SAINT SAENS Cello Concerto No.1 Soloist Catherine Barnett
DVORAK Symphony No.8
CONDUCTOR Dr Allan Stiles
Date/Time Saturday 17th June at 7.30pm & Sunday 18th June at 2.30pm
Location Memorial Hall, Bowral
Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture opened the concerts with conductor, Allan Stiles then handing the baton to Eliza-Jane Corley, the Orchestra’s timpanist and percussionist, to conduct the Telemann Viola Concerto in G which featured Tim Senior, lead violist with the Orchestra. Then Allan Stiles returned to the podium to conduct Sunset Fantasy by Alfred Hill and the Symphony in D Minor by César Franck.
BEETHOVEN Overture to Fidelio
TELEMANN Viola Concerto TWV 51:G9 Soloist Tim Senior
ALFRED HILL A Sunset Fantasy
FRANCK Symphony in D minor
CONDUCTOR Dr Allan Stiles & Eliza-Jane Corley
Date/Time Saturday 9th September at 7.30pm & Sunday 10th September at 2.30pm
Location Memorial Hall, Bowral
Rossini’s William Tell Overture opened the concerts for Series 3. The Russian born flautist, Svetlana Yaroslavskaya, gave the world première performance of the Flute Concerto by contemporary Australian composer, Graham Powning. The program concluded with Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, his Symphony No. 4.
ROSSINI Overture to William Tell
POWNING Flute Concerto Soloist Svetlana Yaroslavskaya
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.4
CONDUCTOR Dr Allan Stiles
Date/Time Saturday 2nd December at 7.30pm & Sunday 3rd December at 2.30pm
Location Memorial Hall, Bowral
A Festive Spectacular was the description for the final concert of 2017. It began with Star Wars Medley by John Williams, followed by Alfred Hill’s orchestral sonnet, The Call of a Bird. Grieg’s Peet Gynt Suite No. 1 completed the first half. After interval the Orchestra was joined by dancers from the Highlands-based Angus and & Lucinda’s Academie de Danse to perform several of the characteristic dances from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. The concert ended with an assortment of well-known Christmas songs and carols interwoven by Leroy Anderson in his popular work, A Christmas Festival.
JOHN WILLIAMS Star Wars Medley
ALFRED HILL The Call of a Bird
GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Nutcracker Suite
LEROY ANDERSON A Christmas Festival
CONDUCTOR Dr Allan Stiles & Jullian Bridge