Winter 2011 Concert
The Royal Forest of Dean Orchestra is delighted to announce details of its forthcoming winter concert on Saturday 3rd December 2011 at Coleford Baptist Church. The orchestra will once again be under the musical direction of its energetic young conductor, Thomas Payne, who studied violin and conducting at the Birmingham Conservatoire and will perform Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances and Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C in the first half. The soloist is cellist Kwesi Edman who graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied with David Strange and Philip Sheppard.
Since leaving the Academy his career has branched out to include other art forms such as the spoken word, dance and artists.
He performs regularly across the world as a soloist, chamber musician, pop musician and conductor and has collaborated with players from the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Southbank Sinfonia, the Royal Opera Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has worked alongside artists such as Shirley Bassey, Damon Albarn and Elton John and even appeared next to David Beckham at the Beijing Olympics.
Kwesi founded Chamber Academy Orchestra in 2007 of which he is the principal conductor. He is head of the Performance, Advanced and Alpine courses at Oxford Cello School and teaches privately in London.
Following the interval the second half will entirely devoted to a performance of one of Mozart’s best known and final works; Symphony No 41 ‘The Jupiter’. The orchestra is led as usual by distinguished local performer and teacher, Ros Taunton. The concert will start at 7.30pm and tickets are available at the door, £8/£5 concessions with children under 14 getting in for free, so long as they are accompanied by an adult. There will be retiring collection in aid of ‘Hope for Tomorrow’ and refreshments will be available. The orchestra now has a fully updated website www.rfdo.org.uk and a facebook page where further details about the orchestra can be found.
For any further info about the orchestra please contact The Chairperson on 01594 510604.
