The home of chamber orchestral music in Wales
The Welsh Sinfonia is a Cardiff-based professional chamber orchestra of up to thirty-five musicians, conducted by Mark Eager, and led by Robin Stowell.
Now in its twenty third season The Welsh Sinfonia concentrates on the chamber orchestral repertoire, drawing on the wonderful variety of music written for smaller orchestras by composers from the 16th century to the present day.
Opportunities to hear professional performances of works for chamber orchestra are rare in Wales and The Welsh Sinfonia is an important champion of this rich and diverse repertoire.
Concert Season Finale:Thursday March 22nd at 7pm in the Dora Stoutzker Hall
Haydn: Symphony No 22 in E flat ‘The Philosopher’
Hardy: ‘Night Flight’. First performance, supported by Geldards LLP.
Schubert: Symphony No 5 in B flat
Tickets £13/£11, family £20, Students £5 from the college Box Office, on 29020 391391 or http://www.welshsinfonia.co.uk/concert-season-finale-march-22nd/
Read the review of the concert on January 29th here
Work and Play!
Our second event was on Wednesday February 29th at the GE Aviation factory in Nantgarw, followed by a pop-up performance at ASDA in Blackwood and a concert at Blackwood Miners’ Institute in the evening.
Here we are playing in the Calsonic factory in Llanelli in December.
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November concert 5-star reviewed
The string concert on November 3rd recieved wonderful reviews, echoing comments from audience and players alike. A “stunningly professional performance” was given “with the professionalism and technical ability of any of Britain’s foremost chamber orchestras.” Read the full review here.
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The Welsh Sinfonia in rehearsal for its Mozart Gala Concert on October 8th
Audience and players alike were wowed by the Hall, and, as one reviewer said, “As soon as the first chord was played it was clear they would struggle to find any concert hall better suited
to them than this.” Read the full review here.
“What more could you want
from a Sunday afternoon?”
Read the review of the climax of our second season on
April 10th 2011 with the stunning new piece from
Rhian Samuel for treble recorder and strings, played by
Pamela Thorby. Children from all over Wales came
together to form a descant recorder chorus that played
an important part in the new work.
http://www.bachtrack.com/review-welsh-sinfonia-st-davids-hall
Pamela Thorby, left, with Rhian Samuel
and Mark Eager during rehearsals for
the first performance of
‘The Path through the Woods’
In 2010 the Welsh Sinfonia and percussionist Dave Danford gave the world première of Eilir Owain Griffiths’ work
The Emoticons of Time as part of its Spirit of the Dance series.
You can watch the performance on YouTube.
The Welsh Sinfonia in rehearsal with the Cross Keys Choral Society
The Welsh Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra, and numbers around 35 players. We are available to accompany choirs and choral societies, to perform at festivals or as part of a concert series and to provide music for film, radio and television.
Please contact the Orchestra Manager, Lucy Campion, 07792 960812 or lucy@welshsinfonia.co.uk , if you are interested in hiring the orchestra.
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