Sunday 12th April – 1.00pm-5.30pm
Wind and Strings Workshop Day
- String repertoire
- Joan Trimble – Suite for Strings
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for 2 Violins
- Wind repertoire
- Igor Stravinsky – Symphonies of Wind Instruments
- John Gabriel – New work
Andrew Taylor and Mel Le Breuilly – Conductors
St. Joseph’s College, Reading
Saturday 18th July and Sunday 19th July (times tbc)
¡Fiesta on the Footbridge! / ¡Arriba at All Saints!
Join us for a free performance and a chance to conduct the orchestra at Reading Station, or if you prefer, a more formal performance at All Saints, Wokingham, the day after. Or both!
- Emmanuel Chabrier – España
- Georges Bizet – Carmen Suites 1 & 2
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio Espagnol
Andrew Taylor and Mel Le Breuilly – Conductors
Reading Station Transfer Deck (18th) / All Saints Church, Wokingham (19th)
Saturday 24th October 2026, 7.30pm
A programme that combines a sequence of music inspired by dark, dramatic mystical literature in the first half – including the world famous film music of Hans Zimmer – with the bright, sweeping Third Symphony of Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose glorious sound inspired the composers of the golden age of Hollywood.
- Richard Wagner – Prelude to Götterdämmerung
- Hans Zimmer – Chevaliers De Sangreal
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Francesca da Rimini
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No.3
Andrew Taylor – Conductor
The Great Hall, University of Reading (London Road Campus)