Members

Cellos 2006

The orchestra rehearses on Mondays from 19:30 to 22:00 at Bishop Justus CE School, Magpie Hall Lane, Bromley BR2 8HZ. Please bring a music stand to rehearsals.  Bowed string parts are available online after the first rehearsal and string players mark up their own parts. Tea, coffee and biscuits are normally available for 50p during the rehearsal interval – please bring your own mug if possible.

We welcome applications from prospective members and ask new members to complete a registration form and Gift Aid declaration after their first rehearsal. We collect an annual subscription from members who attend rehearsals, with a 50% discount for students. Seating positions are rotated where possible and there are opportunities to perform solo parts.

Playing members commit to the full rehearsal series for each concert they play in. If an absence is unavoidable please contact your section leader immediately, and if you were due to rehearse a solo part, please find a deputy. Members are also expected to put in the necessary time outside rehearsals to learn and practise the pieces they perform, and to promote ticket sales for all the orchestra’s concerts. 

There is a facebook members group ‘BSO Tutti‘, an official facebook page to like and follow, an X feed @BromleySymphony and an Instagram account bromleysymphony. Many instrument sections have WhatsApp groups – ask your section leader to be invited. Some members socialise at The Two Doves in Oakley Road after rehearsals and The Railway in West Wickham after concerts.

Rehearsal and Event Schedule

Monday 25th Mar, 2024
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Immolation

21:00 Haydn

Monday 15th Apr, 2024
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Dutchman

20:15 Rhine

21:00 March

Monday 22nd Apr, 2024
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Immolation. Rhine

Monday 29th Apr, 2024
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Dutchman

20:00 March, Immolation

21:00 Haydn

Tuesday 7th May, 2024
19:00 - 21:30

Bishop Justus CE School

Note Tuesday and early start

19:00 Wagner all evening. Immolation, Rhine, March.

Saturday 11th May, 2024
14:00 - 17:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

14:00 Haydn

15:00 Dutchman

15:15 Immolation, March, Rhine

Saturday 11th May, 2024
19:30 - 22:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Wagner Flying Dutchman Overture
11’ Picc,2.2.CA.2.2. 4.2.3.1. T. Harp. Strings.

Haydn Symphony 85 La Reine
20’ 1.2.0.2. 2 High Bflat Horns. 0.0.0. Strings 8.6.4.4.2. (Players!)

Interval

Wagner Götterdämmerung
Picc.3.3.CA.3.Bass Cl. 3. 8 Horns (4 Tubas). 3 Tr. 3 Trom. 1 Double Bass Trom. 1 Bass Trumpet. 1 Tuba, 2 Pairs Timp. Tenor drum. TT. Tri. Cyms. Sus Cym. Glock. 6 Harps!. Strings.

Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
10′

Siegfried’s Funeral March
8′

Immolation Scene
18’

Monday 13th May, 2024
20:00 - 22:30

Bishop Justus CE School

20:00 AGM, library

Saturday 16th Nov, 2024
19:30 - 22:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Brahms Academic Festival Overture
10’

Stephen Goss Guitar Concerto
25’ 2.2+ca.2+bcl.2/3.2.1.0/T+2/gtr/str soloist Louis Moisan

Rachmaninov Symphony 2
60’

Saturday 18th Jan, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Dedicated to the memory of Bernard Brook (BSO Leader 1989-2012)

Elgar Violin Concerto
Soloist Sasha Rozhdestvensky
50’

Nielsen Symphony 1
35’

Saturday 15th Mar, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Schubert Symphony 8 (Unfinished)
22’

Strauss Four Last Songs
25’

Mahler Symphony 4
57’ No trombones or tuba

Saturday 24th May, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Ravel Alborada del gracioso
8’ Prominent bassoon solo

Brahms Double Concerto
38’ Thelma & Lionel Handy

Shostakovich Symphony 5
55’

Sunday 15th Jun, 2025
17:30 - 20:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Childrens’ Concert

Saint Saëns Carnival of the Animals
22’ Full orchestra version arr by Richard Blackford

Kleinsinger Tubby the Tuba
20’ 2(2pic)12(bcl)1/2211/timp.2perc/cel(pf)/str Narrator tbc

Richard Brown Pageant of the Seas
Extracts