Past Concerts

Concerts have been given by musicians on the staff of Oxford's Health services and their friends for over 26 years. Here are some details of some of the concerts we've given recently:

• Date: Saturday 7th November 2009
  Charity supported: UCARE (Urology Cancer Research and Education)
  Conductor: Gary Howarth
  Soloist: James Thompson
  Programme:
  Overture to Prince Igor - Borodin
  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Rachmaninoff
  Crown Imperial - Walton
  Enigma Variations - Elgar

• Date: Saturday 6th June, 2009
  Charity supported: The Geratology Sensory Garden for elderly patients at the John Radcliffe Hospital
  Conductor: Catherine Underwood
  Soloist: Olivier Bonnici
  Programme:
  Symphonie Espagnole - Lalo
  Symphony No. 1 - Mahler

• Date: Saturday 7th March, 2009
  Charity supported: Botley Alzheimers Home
  Conductor: Will Orr
  Programme:
  'King Eldred' Overture - Charles McCreery
  Siegried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegried’s Death and Funeral March, - Wagner
  Bonn Pictures - Jill Elliott
  Symphony No. 7 - Beethoven

• Date: Saturday 8th November, 2008
  Charity supported: Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
  Conductor: Donald Lane
  Programme:
  Overture to the Wasps - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  To Autumn (Keats) Setting for Soprano and Orchestra - Donald Lane
  English Folksong Suite - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  The Planets - Gustav Holst

• Date: Saturday 30th June, 2008
  Charity supported: Parents and Children together
  Conductor: Catherine Underwood
  Soloist: Chris Britton
  Programme:
  Overture to Die Fledermaus - Strauss
  Flute Concerto - Ibert
  Symphony No. 2 - Sibelius

• Date: Saturday 8th March 2008
  Charity supported: Cancer Research UK
  Conductor: Gary Howarth
  Soloist: James Thompson
  Programme:
  Overture, 'The Roman Carnival' - Berlioz
  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor - Edvard Grieg
  Introduction and Allegro for Flute, Clarinet, Harp and String Quartet - Ravel
  Bolero - Ravel

• Date: Saturday 10th November, 2007
  Charity supported: The Archway Foundation
  Conductor: Will Orr
  Soloist: Rebecca Moseley-Morgan
  Programme:
  Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod - Wagner
  Four Last Songs - Strauss
  Symphony No. 2 - Rachmaninov

• Date: Saturday 30th June 2007
  Charity supported: Myeloma UK
  Conductor: Catherine Underwood
  Programme:
  An Italian Girl in Algiers - Rossini
  Violin Concerto - Mendelssohn (Soloist: Olivier Bonnici)
  Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin (Soloist: Pete Hambly)
  Rhapsody Espagnol - Rimsky-Korsakov

• Date: Saturday 21st April, 2007
  Charities supported: The Clive Project, The Motor Neurone Disease Association, Oxfordshire Association for the Blind and Botley Alzheimers Home
  Conductors: Will Orr and Sally Mears
  Featuring:The Radcliffe Orchestra, Headington Singers, Oxford Collutorium
  Programme:
  Festive Overture - Shostakovitch
  The Serpent God - Teichmann
  Hymn to St Cecilia - Britten
  Crown Imperial - Walton
  Zadok the Priest - Handel The King Shall Rejoice - Handel

• Date: Saturday 11th November, 2006
  Charity supported: The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
  Conductor: Gary Howarth
  Soloists: Heather Birt and Dave Goldby, Berenika Zakrzewski
  Programme:
  Concertante for Violin and Viola - Mozart
  Masquerade Suite for Orchestra - Khachaturian
  Piano Concerto No.2 - Rachmaninov

• Date: Saturday 3rd June, 2006
  Charities supported: DIPEx and Silver Star
  Conductor: Catherine Underwood
  Soloist: Olivier Bonnici
  Programme:
  Academic Festival Overture - Brahms
  Violin Concerto - Bruch
  Symphony No. 2 - Borodin

• Date: Saturday 11th March, 2006
  Charities supported: The Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the British Heart Foundation
  Conductor: Gary Howarth
  Soloists: Mark Almond, Richard Todd, Jenny Morgan, Steve Guard
  Programme:
  Nabucco Overture - Verdi
  Concertstuck for 4 horns and orchestra - Schumann
  Symphony No. 3 "The Rhenish" - Schumann

• Date: Saturday 12th November, 2005
  Charity supported: Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
  Conductor: John Wass
  Soloist: Katherine Lam
  Programme:
  Overture to "Carmen" - Bizet
  Piano Conerto No. 3 - Beethoven
  Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky