Concert Archive

Rimsky-Korsakov and his pupils

Sat 2nd March 2024
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

New Year Concert

An offer you can’t refuse!

Mon 1st January 2024
7:00pm
St Albans Abbey

Concerts for Children

On the Sea – Concerts at 2pm and 3.30pm

Sun 12th November 2023
2:00pm - 3:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Sun and Dance

Sat 14th October 2023
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Summer Concert

Sat 1st July 2023
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Remembrance

Remembering friends and important events through the celebration of music

Sat 13th May 2023
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Orchestral Classics

Celebrate classic French music, along with a brief journey to the shores of Greece

Sat 11th March 2023
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

New Year Concert

Welcome the New Year in the glorious surroundings of St Albans Cathedral

Mon 2nd January 2023
7:00pm
St Albans Abbey

Concerts for Children

Hear the symphony orchestra close-up playing an exciting selection of family music! Try the instruments!

Sun 20th November 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

St Cecilia Festival Concert

Biennial concert of the St Cecilia Festival Society, including a world premiere to celebrate the orchestra’s 90th birthday

Sat 15th October 2022
7:30pm
St Albans Abbey

American classics

Concert in memory of Tom Hammond, our Principal Conductor, who sadly died in December 2021

Sat 2nd July 2022
7:30pm - 10:00pm
St Saviour’s Church

Colours of France

Beautiful French music in the glorious St Albans Abbey

Sat 14th May 2022
7:30pm - 10:00pm
St Albans Abbey

Malcolm Arnold Celebration

A centenary celebration of Malcolm Arnold’s music

Sat 12th March 2022
7:30pm - 10:00pm
St Saviour’s Church

New Year's Day Concert - Cancelled

Welcome the New Year in the glorious surroundings of St Albans Cathedral

Sat 1st January 2022
7:00pm - 9:30pm
St Albans Abbey

Concerts for Children

Hear a full-scale symphony orchestra close up playing an exciting selection of music! Concerts at 2pm and 3.30pm

Sun 21st November 2021
2:00pm - 3:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

A Russian Evening

Enjoy an evening of beautiful Russian music

Sat 16th October 2021
7:30pm - 10:00pm
St Saviour’s Church

CANCELLED: American classics

Celebrate in American style on 4th July

Sat 4th July 2020
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Colours of France CANCELLED

In association with the Hertfordshire Festival of Music

Sat 9th May 2020
7:30pm
St Albans Abbey

English masterpieces

Celebrate the most notable music of eminent English composers

Sat 7th March 2020
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

New Year Concert

Welcome the New Year with a concert of classical favourites in the glorious surroundings of St Albans Cathedral

Wed 1st January 2020
7:00pm
St Albans Abbey

We're going on a bear hunt! Children's concerts SOLD OUT!

A musical adventure for children featuring music by Ian Stephens. Two concerts at 2pm and 3.30pm

Sun 17th November 2019
2:00pm - 3:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

St Albans St Cecilia Festival Society Concert

With the Hardynge Choir, Radlett Choral Society, St Albans Chamber Choir, Vivamus and children’s choir

Sat 12th October 2019
7:30pm
St Albans Abbey

Summer Concert

Celebrate the summer with music from Verdi, Grieg and Nielsen

Sat 6th July 2019
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

English Classics

Come and hear some classic English masterpieces, with guest conductor William Carslake

Sat 11th May 2019
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Around Europe in Music

A concert featuring nationalistic music from Scotland, Hungary and Austria

Sat 9th March 2019
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Strictly Dancing and Mostly Movies

Welcome the New Year with a concert of favourite dance and film music in the glorious surroundings of St Albans Cathedral

Tue 1st January 2019
7:00pm
St Albans Abbey

Pirates Aaarh-hoy! Concerts for Children

Our popular concerts for children with a musical adventure story. Two performances at 2pm and 3.30pm

Sun 18th November 2018
2:00pm - 3:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Shostakovich and Arnold

Powerful music which invokes memories of past conflicts and turbulent times

Sat 13th October 2018
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Concerto Evening & End of Season Friends Night

Come and join us for this special event, and hear leading players from SASO play their favourite concertos accompanied by the Orchestra

Wed 4th July 2018
7:30pm
St Albans United Reformed Church (Homewood site)

An Evening of Sibelius

A concert featuring classic works by Finland’s greatest composer

Sat 23rd June 2018
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Russian Highlights

Russian music from Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Shostakovich

Sat 12th May 2018
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Vaughan Williams and Dvorak

Colourful and expressive music, for strings, winds and the whole orchestra

Sat 10th March 2018
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

New Year Concert

Welcome the New Year with a concert of favourite American and British music

Mon 1st January 2018
7:00pm
St Albans Abbey

Children's Concerts: SOLD OUT!

Our popular concerts for children with a musical adventure story. Two performances at 2pm and 3.30pm

Sun 19th November 2017
2:00pm - 3:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

St Cecilia Festival Society Concert

The Hardynge Choir, Radlett Choral Society and St Albans Chamber Choir join the Orchestra

Sat 14th October 2017
7:30pm
St Albans Abbey

Concerto Evening & Friends Night

Come and join us for this special event, and hear leading players from SASO play their favourite concertos accompanied by the Orchestra.

Wed 5th July 2017
7:30pm
St Albans United Reformed Church (Homewood site)

English Music

A concert of English music! Emma Johnson, clarinet, plays the clarinet concerto ‘Lost Lanes, Shadow Groves’. Also featuring Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’.

Sat 24th June 2017
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Sibelius and Brahms

Two of Sibelius’s patriotic tone poems and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1, featuring Alissa Firsova.

Sat 6th May 2017
12:00am
St Saviour’s Church

Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev

A flavour of Russia, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and two works by Prokofiev.

Sat 11th March 2017
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

New Year Concert 2017

Welcome the New Year with a concert for all the family in the glorious surroundings of St Albans Abbey and hear some of the most exciting music ever written.

Mon 2nd January 2017
7:00pm
St Albans Abbey

Not Now, Bernard! Concerts for Children

Our popular concerts for children with a musical adventure story, ‘Not Now, Bernard!’, narrated by the composer Bernard Hughes.

Sun 6th November 2016
2:00pm
St Saviour’s Church

Concerto Evening and End of Season Friends Night

Join us and hear leading players from the Orchestra play their favourite concertos accompanied by the Orchestra.
Wed 6th July 2016
7:30pm
St Albans United Reformed Church (Homewood site)

Mahler Symphony No.5

The fourth movement of Mahler’s epic Symphony No.5 may be his most famous composition and was used in the 1971 film Death in Venice
 

Sat 25th June 2016
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Elgar Symphony No.2 Workshop

In memory of Babs Yule (1920-2010)

Guest conductor: Bjorn Bantock

A weekend orchestral workshop to prepare and perform Elgar’s spectacular Symphony No.2. The workshop starts on Friday. Sectional tutorials led by professional tutors will take place on the Saturday morning, followed by further rehearsal and an evening performance.

Sat 14th May 2016
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

Mendelssohn, Britten, Hindemith and Glinka

Cristian Grajner De Sa began violin and piano lessons at the age of seven and since then has enjoyed performing in recitals and as a concerto soloist on the violin. He has appeared as a String Finalist in the televised BBC Young Musician of the Year 2012 competition.

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is possibly the most popular work ever written for violin, with glorious melodies displaying the soloist’s virtuoso technique.

Britten’s Sea Interludes are scene changes from his opera Peter Grimes, and he always intended for them to be published separately. Hindemith sketched a series of movements based on themes by Weber to be used in a ballet for a dance company, but the ballet never came to fruition.

Sat 5th March 2016
7:30pm
St Saviour’s Church

New Year's Day 2016

Welcome the New Year with a concert for all the family in the glorious surroundings of St Albans Abbey and hear some of the most exciting music ever written.

Fri 1st January 2016
7:00pm
St Albans Abbey

Biennial Concert of the St Cecilia Festival Society

The Hardynge Choir, Radlett Choral Society and St Albans Chamber Choir join St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Geraldine McGreevy, soprano
Deborah Miles-Johnson, alto
Mark Wilde, tenor
Jeremy White, bass

Dvorák composed his Requiem in the final decade of the 19th century. Despite the specifically religious nature of its text, the work, with its large scale, its many performers and its construction in two parts so as to allow for an intermission, was always intended for the concert hall rather than the church.

Sat 31st October 2015
7:30pm
St Albans Abbey