St Albans Symphony Orchestra » Workshop – Rachmaninov Symphony no 2

Workshop – Rachmaninov Symphony no 2

30th August 2025

Fri 19th Sept/Sat 20th Sept at Townsend school, St Albans.

Children’s Concert Theme 2025

5th December 2024

We are pleased to announce that the theme for next Years Children’s concert will be:

SPACE

Vacancy for Principal Conductor

16th February 2022

Applications sought for this position following the tragic death of Tom Hammond.

New Year’s Day

28th December 2021

We have taken the difficult decision to cancel our New Year’s Day concert

Rehearsals restart…

28th October 2020

See our Rehearsals page for further details about attendance.

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14th October 2019

We have vacancies in our orchestra for experienced players of a high standard. In particular, we’re looking for trombones and a 3rd trumpet.

Clarinet star Emma Johnson to perform with SASO

9th June 2017

Emma Johnson – acclaimed as “Britain’s favourite clarinettist”* – will be the celebrity soloist with St Albans Symphony Orchestra for their end-of-season summer concert on Saturday 24 June (7.30pm St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane, St Albans AL1 4DF). Emma, who gained international success after winning the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year competition in the …

Alissa Firsova and SASO to renew their performing partnership

30th April 2017

The internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Alissa Firsova will renew her partnership with SASO on Saturday 6 May, performing the Piano Concerto No 1 by Brahms

“He completely gripped the audience with the quality of his playing…”

20th March 2017

All sections excelled in a fine performance of Prokofiev’s rugged and technically demanding Fifth Symphony on Saturday 11 March. But it was magnificent playing in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto by soloist David le Page that provided the evening’s crowning success, according to Herts Advertiser critic John Manning “His playing was warm and sonorous, yet fully charged with the …

Guest violinist is ‘stunning success of the evening’

20th March 2017

All sections excelled in Prokofiev’s rugged Fifth Symphony, according to Herts Advertiser critic John Manning. But magnificent playing by soloist David le Page provided the evening’s stunning success in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto While Serge Prokofiev’s March from his The Love for Tree Oranges suite might be one of this best known pieces, the same cannot …

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