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2010 Concerts


July 24-31, Aberystwyth MusicFest.
Toby will be directing the first conducting class of the Aberystwyth Music Festival, with the Orion Symphony Orchestra
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For further details please click on link to download pdf.
The Festival will include the two public concerts below, in the Great Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Thursday 29th July, 7.45pm
Mozart -Overture 'Marriage of Figaro'
New works by the composers' class
Haydn - Cello Concerto
Beethoven - Symphony No 2 in D


Guy Johnston - cello


Saturday 31st July, 7.45 pm

Festival Closing Concert


Rossini - Overture 'Italian Girl in Algiers'
Beethoven Triple Concerto
John Metcalf - premier
Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 'Italian'


Pavel Fischer - violin
Guy Johnston - cello
Tom Poster- piano



September 17th and 19th at The Grange, Hampshire
September 22nd at the Cadogan Hall London.
Madama Butterfly - Puccini
Pimlico Opera, Rising Stars

Director: John Doyle
Designer: Mark Bailey
Orchestra of Nevill Holt
Cio-Cio-San: Hye-Youn Lee
Pinkerton: Jesus Leon
Suzuki: Helen Sherman
Sharpless: James Cleverton
Goro: Tobias Merz


Tickets available at www.grangeparkopera.co.uk, or 0207730 4500



Thursday 11th November. 7.30pm.
Cadogan Hall: "Remembrance & Revival"
An Armistice Day concert of celebrated and forgotten British masterpieces

Orion Symphony Orchestra

 

Evening in aid of The St Lazarus Charitable Trust, which raises money for the cure, care and rehabilitation of leprosy sufferers. The programme features the revival of Dorothy Howell's brilliant piano concerto.

Valentina Seferinova - Piano
Toby Purser - Conductor

 

Vaughan Williams: - Wasps Overture; Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus"

Holbrooke: - Variations on "The girl I left behind me".

Howell: - Piano Concerto.

Elkington: - Out of the Mist (Arrival of the Unknown Warrior)

Elgar: - In the South