SASO to launch Summer Music festival
St Albans Symphony Orchestra is to perform the opening concert for St Albans Summer Music: a month-long series of classical concerts, folk music and dance events. The programme under Principal Conductor Bjorn Bantock is on Saturday 8th…
SASO “in Seventh Heaven,” says critic
The Herts Advertiser was full of praise for SASO’s ‘Beethoven’s Seventh’ concert on April 27th: “St Albans Symphony Orchestra continued their progression through the symphonies of Beethoven in their concert last night at St. Saviour’s with…
Hanja and Bjorn team up for romantic concerto
An unashamedly romantic piano concerto will bring together piano soloist Hanja Bantock with her conductor husband Bjorn for a concert with St Albans Symphony Orchestra on Saturday 27th April (7.30pm, St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane,…
Magnus Johnston to interpret Beethoven’s masterpiece for violin
The Harpenden-born violinist Magnus Johnston makes a welcome return to St Albans music-making on March 9th in an early spring concert that promises to banish winter blues with brilliant masterpieces of orchestra colouring. (7.30pm, St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit…
Romantic classics to start the New Year!
Make a romantic start to 2013 with the St Albans Symphony Orchestra’s New Year Concert! Our traditional family event in St Albans Abbey features classics that are guaranteed to bring a warm glow to the…
SASO musician reveals his heroic tenor identity!
Jonathan Finney is a valued viola player with St Albans Symphony (SASO). But on Saturday November 10th he will reveal another identity as operatic superhero, singing the role of Siegmund in a scene from Wagner’s…
Festival Concert is a family affair for SASO’s conductor
St Albans Symphony Orchestra’s Festival Concert promises to be a family affair on Saturday 23rd June when conductor Bjorn Bantock leads the performers in music composed 80 years ago by his great-grandfather, Sir Granville Bantock…
