Upcoming Events

20th March 2012 A night of chamber music from players of the Kelvin Ensemble! 7:30pm in the Concert Hall, Glasgow University.

Details of rehearsals and social events can be found on the members' page.

Past Concerts

25th February 2012- Bute Hall - Conductor: Chris Swaffer

Sibelius - Finlandia

Nielsen - Seven Dances from Aladdin

Sibelius - Symphony No.2

Sunday 27th November 2011 - Glasgow University Chapel - Conductor: Oliver Rundell

MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood

Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture, ("Fingals Cave")

Arnold - Tam O'Shanter Overture

Mendelssohn - Symphony No.3, ("The Scottish Symphony")

Saturday 26th February 2011 - Bute Hall - 20th Annivesary Concert - Conductor: Chris Swaffer

Stravinsky - Greeting Prelude

Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto (Soloist: Tamas Fejes)

Holst - The Planets Suite

November 2010 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Tommy Fowler

Humperdinck - Prelude from "Hansel and Gretel"

Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre

Ravel - Mother Goose

Prokofiev - "Troika" from "Lieutenant Kije"

Delius - Sleigh Ride

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite

February 2010 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Chris Swaffer

Pre-concert talk by Howard Blake with a first performance of "Speiltrieb", performed by the Edinburgh Quartet

John Adams - Lollapalooza

Howard Blake - Diversions: Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra (Soloist:Heather Corbett)

Prokofiev - Symphony No.5

November 2009 - Glasgow University Chapel - Conductor: Gareth John

Shostakovich - Festive Overture

Borodin - Polovtsian Dances

Borodin - Steppes in Central Asia

Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) - Pictures at an Exhibition

21st February 2009 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Justin Fung

Mark Davis - Beginnings

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4

2 December 2008 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Chris Swaffer

Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Shore - Lord of the Rings

Blake - The Snowman (with Juliet Cadzow)

Williams - ET Main Theme

Williams - Jurassic Park

Williams - Harry Potter

orch. Willcocks - Five Christmas Carols

Anderson - Sleigh Ride

November 2008 - Conductor: Gareth John

Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man

Copland - Hoe Down from Rodeo

Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (soloist Jennifer MacRitchie

Dvorak - New World Symphony

February 23rd 2008 - Conductor: Kenneth Woods

Wagner - Overture to Rienzi

Bloch - Schelmo (soloist Barbara Misiewicz)

Sibelius - Symphony No.2

2nd December 2007 - Glasgow University Choral Society Concert - Conductor: Marjory Rycroft - Bute Hall

Haydn - the Creation

17th November 2007 - Conductors: Gareth John

Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra

Strauss - Suite for 13 Winds in B flat major

Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Haydn - Symphony No.104 in D Major

18th March 2007 - Thomas Coates Memorial Concert - Thomas Coates Memorial Church, Paisley - Conductor: Gordon Munro

Sibelius - Finlandia

Sibelius - The Captive Queen

Elgar - Te Deum & Benedictus

Schubert - Mass No.5 in Ab

2nd March 2007 - Bute Hall and 3rd March 2007 - Greyfriars Kirk (Edinburgh) with Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra Chamber Orchestra - Conductor: William Conway

Martin Suckling - Mosaic

Elgar - Sea Pictures (soloist: Susan Boyd)

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

2nd December 2006 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Kenneth Woods

Tommy Fowler - 15th Anniversary Commission

Walton - Viola Concerto (soloist: Veronika Toth)

Dvorak - Symphony No. 8

19th March 2006 - Thomas Coates Memorial Concert - Thomas Coates Memorial Church, Paisley - Conductor: Myra Soutar

Verdi - Stabat Mater (from "Four Sacred Pieces")

Brahms - A German Requiem

11th March 2006 - Mozart 250th Anniversary Concert - Glasgow University Chapel - Conductor: Marjory Rycroft

Mozart - Church Sonata No.12 in C

Mozart - Church Sonata No.14 in C

Mozart - Mass in C minor

18th February 2006 - Glasgow University Memorial Chapel - Conductor: John Moore

Beethoven - Egmont Overture

Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor (piano: Jennifer MacRitchie)

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.5 in E minor

4th December 2005 - Glasgow University Chapel - Conductor: James Grossmith

Dohnanyi - Szeged Mass (Scottish Premiere)

Vaughan Williams - Job, A Masque for Dancing

20th March 2005 - Thomas Coates Concert - Thomas Coates Memorial Church, Paisley

Dvorak - Te Deum

Jean Sharrock - Gloria

Mozart - Requiem

11th March 2005 - Glasgow University Music Club 50th Anniversary - Bute Hall - Conductor: Marjory Rycroft

Haydn - Symphony No.100 "Military"

4th/5th March - with Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra - Conductor: William Conway - Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh/Bute Hall

Stravinsky - Symphonies of Winds

Glasunov - Saxophone Concerto (saxophone - Andrew Somerville

Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

4th December 2004 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Bashar Lulua

Matthew Taylor - The Needles Overture (Scottish Premiere)

Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for Violin and Viola (Violin - Feargus Hetherington, Viola - Alexa Beattie

Brahms - Symphony No.2

21st March 2004 - Thomas Coates Memorial Church, Paisley - Conductor: Myra Soutar

Haydn - 'Spring' from The Seasons

Schubert - Mass No.1 in F major

Faure - Requiem (movements IV-VII)

21st February 2004 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Mark Evans

Smetana - Vltava

Ibert - Flute Concerto (soloist: Emma Wilkins)

Ciurlionis - In The Forest (Scottish Premiere)

Bizet - Selection of Movements from L'Arlesienne Suites 1&2

Saturday 22nd November 2003 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Marco Romano

Beethoven - Coriolan Overture

Mozart - Piano Concerto no.21 in C (soloist Natalia Ossentchakova)

Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Summer Night on the River

Beethoven - Symphony No.8

Saturday 23rd March 2003 - Thomas Coates Memorial Church, Paisley - Conductor: Myra Soutar

Mozart - Mass in C Minor

Shostakovich - Festival Overture

Walton - Coronation Te Deum (Organ and Choir only)

Vaughan Williams - Towards the Unknown Region

7th/8th February - with Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra - Greyfriars Kirk/Bute Hall - Conductor William Conway

Reich - Variations for Strings, Winds and Keyboards

Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto (soloist - Feargus Hetherington)

Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) - Pictures at an Exhibition

Saturday 14th December 2002 w/Glasgow University Choral Society - Bute Hall - Conductor: Giles Brightwell

Handel - Messiah

Saturday 30th November 2002 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Stephen Broad

McGuire - The Caledonian Muse: A Symphonic Rhapsody

MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood

Mendelssohn - Symphony No.3

20th/21st August 2002 - Central Methodist Church, Edinburgh/RSAMD, Glasgow - w/Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra? - Conductor: Robert Dick

Mozart - Marraige of Figaro Overture

Weber - Clarinet Concerto No.2

Schubert - Symphony No.4

17th March 2002 - Thomas Coats Memorial Church - w/Thomas Coates Memorial Choir - Conductor Myra Soutar

Tippett - Spirituals from Child of our Time

Rossini - Stabat Mater

Saint-Saens - Finale of Symphony No.3 "Organ"

16th February 2002 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Will Conway - Piano: Simon Smith

Kodaly - Dances of Galanta

MacMillan - "... in angustiis I" (world premier)

MacMillan - Cumnock Fair

Beethoven - Symphony No.5

24th January 2002 - Glasgow university Chapel - Conductor: Stephen Broad

Petr Eben - Two Invocations for Trombone and Organ (Trombone: Gavin Bryce, Organ: Jonathan Salmond)

Giles Swayne - Symphony for Small Orchestra

24th November 2001 - Bute Hall - Conductor Giles Brightwell

Beethoven - Egmont Oveture

Copland - Clarinet Concerto

Mozart - Requiem

11th March 2001 - Thomas Coats Memorial Church - w/Thomas Coats Memorial Choral Society - Conductor: Myra Souter

Verdi - Reqiuem

23rd/24th February 2001 - Greyfriars Kirk/Bute Hall - Conductor: William Conway

Debussy - La Mer

Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

25th November 2000 - Glasgow University Chapel - Conductor: Michael Spencer

Steve Arkell - Choreia

Mac Yeats - The Anatomy of Air

Schumann - Symphony No.3

12th February 2000 - Glasgow University Chapel - Conductor: Peter Jones

Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture

Haydn - Horn Concerto No.1 (soloist: Fergust Kerr)

Larsson - Pastoral Suite

Beethoven - Symphony No.3

4th December 1999 - Glasgow University Chapel - Conductor: Garry Walker - Saxophone: Brian Molley

Stravinsky - Orpheus

Michael Spencer - Las Redes de Piedra

Mozart - Symphony No.39

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25th November 1995 - Bute Hall - Conductor: Nigel Boddice

Faure - Masques et Bergamesques

McGuire - Symphonies of Titans

Haydn - Trumpet Concerto (soloist:Angela Whelan)

Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 "Italian"