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Milton Keynes Sinfonia's List of Past Concerts and Events






Saturday 7.30pm

25th November 2023


Tchaikovsky:
Nutcracker Suite
Delibes:
Coppélia : Prelude, Valse and Mazurka
Stravinsky:
Petrushka (1947)

Summer Concert *


Saturday 7.30pm

1st July 2023


Butterworth:
A Shropshire Lad
Finzi:
Dies Natalis
Soloist: Simon Berridge
Carwithen:
Suffolk Suite
EJ Moeran:
Symphony in G Minor

* (This concert is generously supported by a grant from the Finzi Friends)


Chamber Concert


Boyce:
Symphony No. 1 in Bb major
Handel:
Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 2 in Bb major
Handel:
Organ Concerto in F No. 13 in F major, 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'
Soloist: William Thallon
Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major


Saturday 7.30pm

25th March 2023


Spring Concert
Beethoven:
Egmont Overture
Weber:
Bassoon Concerto
Soloist: Iona Griffiths
Brahms:
Symphony No. 2


Saturday 7.30pm

26th November 2022


Autumn Concert
John Williams:
Adventures on Earth (from ET)
Prokofiev:
Lieutenant Kijé Suite Op. 60
John Williams:
Jurassic Park
Ravel:
Mother Goose Suite
John Williams:
Star Wars (suite)


Saturday 7.30pm

9th July 2022


'Dance'
Humperdinck:
Hansel and Gretel overture
Massenet:
Le Cid, ballet suit
Chabrier:
España, rhapsody for orchestra
Copland:
Appalachian Spring concert suite
Dvorak:
The Noon Witch
Lysenko:
Taras Bulba overture


Saturday 7.30pm

19th March 2022


'Theme and Variations'
Brahms:
Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Hindemith:
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Sibelius:
The Swan of Tuonela
Britten:
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra


Saturday 7.45pm

11th December 2021


Church of Christ the Cornerstone,
Central Milton Keynes, MK9 2ES

'MKS 50th Birthday concert'
Tippett:
Suite in D for the Birthday of Prince Charles (1948)
Saint-Saëns:
Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61
Soloist: Cristian Grajner Desa
Sibelius:
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43


Saturday 7.30pm

14th March 2020


'Beethoven 250th'
Beethoven:
Fidelio overture, Op. 72
Beethoven:
Piano Concerto 'Emperor' No. 5 in Eb, Op. 73
Soloist: Alexander Karpeyev
Beethoven:
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67


Saturday 7.45pm

30th November 2019


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Tchaikovsky:
The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a
Brahms:
Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op. 68
Vaughan Williams:
Five Mystical Songs
Soloist: Jonathan de Garis (baritone)


Saturday 7.45pm

6th July 2019


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

‘London’
Coates:
'London' Suite
Ireland:
'London' Overture
Elgar:
'Cockaigne' Overture (In London Town), Op. 40
Elgar:
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
Soloist: Cristian Grajner Desa


Saturday 7.30pm

11th May 2019


‘Leipzig’


Telemann:
Don Quixote Suite
Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No 3
Mendelssohn:
String Symphony No 10 in B minor
Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No 5


Saturday 7.30pm

23rd March 2019


‘Paris’
Gershwin:
'An American in Paris'
Saint-Saëns:
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor
Soloist: Alexander Karpeyev
Berlioz:
Symphonie Fantastique

Saturday 7.30pm

1st December 2018


‘Vienna’
Lehár:
Overture: ‘The Merry Widow’
Mahler:
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Soloist: Andrew Hamilton
Mahler:
Symphony No. 1 in D major

Saturday 7.30pm

30th June 2018


Copland:
Hoe-Down from Four Dance Episodes (Hoe-Down is part of BBC Ten Pieces III) from ‘Rodeo’
Finzi:
Cello Concerto, Op. 40
Soloist: Jacqui Johnson
Dvorak:
Symphony No.7 in D minor, Op. 70

Saturday 7.30pm

28th April 2018


Chamber Concert - St Mary & St Giles Church, Stony Stratford

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges:
Symphony No.1 in G major, Op.11 (part of BBC Ten Pieces III) (1st Movt. only)
Haydn:
Symphony No. 83 in G minor - 'The Hen'
R. Strauss:
Romance for Cello and Orchestra in F
Soloist: James Jarvis
Mozart:
Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major
Soloist: Lizzie Molloy
Fauré:
Masques et Bergamasques, suite, Op.112

Saturday 7.30pm

10th March 2018


The Venue MK, (Walton), MK7 7WH

Rossini:
William Tell Overture
Mendelssohn:
Symphony No.3, Op. 56 ‘Scottish’
Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, Op 23
Soloist: Ilya Kondratiev

Saturday 7.30pm

9th December 2017


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Sibelius:
Finlandia, Op. 26 (part of BBC Ten Pieces III)
Sibelius:
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Soloist: Charlotte Moseley
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No.5, Op. 64

Saturday 7.30pm

1st July 2017


The Venue MK, (Walton), MK7 7WH

Berlioz:
Benvenuto Cellini Overture
Shostakovich:
Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor
Soloist: Ilya Kondratiev
Beethoven:
Symphony No.3 in E-flat ‘Eroica’

Saturday 7.30pm

13th May 2017


Chamber Concert - St Mary & St Giles Church, Stony Stratford

Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No.6
Schubert:
Symphony No 5 in B-flat major
Stravinksy:
Danses Concertantes

Saturday 7.30pm

18th March 2017


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Bliss:
Checkmate: Concert Suite from Ballet
Elgar:
Sea Pictures
Soloist: Emma Wheeler
Walton:
Symphony No.1 in B-flat minor

Saturday 7.30pm

3rd December 2016


Bartok:
Dance Suite
Ginastera:
Harp Concerto
Soloist: Gwenllian Llyr
Dvorak:
Symphony No 8 in G major

Sunday 10.00am - 4.00pm

18th September 2016


Orchestral Workshop - NOT concert
Mahler:
Symphony No.6

Saturday 7.30pm

2nd July 2016


St Mary & St Giles Church, Stony Stratford

Canteloube:
Songs of the Auvergne
Soloist: Lottie Greenhow
Poulenc :
Organ Concerto
Saint-Saëns:
Symphony No 3 in C, Op 78. Organ Symphony
Soloist: William Thallon

Saturday 7.30pm

30th April 2016


Chamber Concert - Newport Pagnell St Peter & St Paul Church, MK16 8AR

J C Bach:
Symphony No. 4 in D, Op.18
Haydn:
Symphony No.31 ‘The Horn Signal’
Michael Haydn:
Double Horn Concerto
Soloists: Tom Molloy and Kate Knight
Haydn:
Symphony No.69 in C ‘Laudon’

Saturday 7.45pm

12th March 2016


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Khachaturian:
Suite from ‘Spartacus’
Prokofiev:
Piano Concerto No.1 in D-flat major
Soloist: Ilya Kondratiev
Shostakovich:
Symphony No.10 in E minor

Saturday 7.45pm

21st November 2015


St Mary & St Giles Church, Stony Stratford

Schubert:
Unfinished Symphony ( No.8 ) in B minor
Sibelius:
Symphony No.7 in C major
Dvorak:
Cello Concerto in B minor
Soloist: Corinne Morris

Saturday 7.45pm

4th July 2015


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Gershwin:
Cuban Overture
Adams:
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Copland:
Quiet City
Peaslee:
Arrows of Time
Soloist: Carol Jarvis (trombone)
Dvorak:
Symphony No 9, From the New World

Saturday 7.30pm

25th April 2015


Chamber Concert - Newport Pagnell St Peter & St Paul Church, MK16 8AR

Brahms:
Variations on a theme of Haydn (wind)
Holst:
St Pauls Suite
Mozart:
Symphony No 40 in G minor

Saturday 7.45pm

14th March 2015


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Rimsky Korsakov:
Capriccio Espagnol, Op 34
Kodaly:
Peacock Variations
Rachmaninov:
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Soloist: Craig Greene
Sibelius:
Symphony No.6 in D minor

Sunday 10.00am - 4.00pm

25th January 2015


Hub Theatre, The OU, MK7 6AA

Orchestral Workshop - NOT concert
Bernstein:
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Saturday 7.30pm

6th December 2014


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Richard Strauss:
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15
Soloist: Elton Lin
Brahms:
Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98

Saturday

5th July 2014


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Dvorak:
The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109
Bruch:
Violin Concerto
Soloist: Cristian Grajner Desa
Debussy:
La Mer

Saturday

17th May 2014


St Mary's Church, Woburn, MK17 9PG

Beethoven:
Symphony No.7
Mozart:
Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Orchestra
Templeman:
Concerto for String Orchestra

Sunday 10.00am - 4.00pm

30th March 2014


Hub Theatre, The OU, MK7 6AA

Orchestral Workshop - NOT concert
Janacek:
Sinfonietta

Saturday

22nd March 2014


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Shakespear Concert
Vaughn Williams:
Serenade to Music
Choir: Polymnia
Elgar:
Falstaff Overture
Prokofiev:
Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky:
Hamlet Overture

Saturday

23rd November 2013


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Holst:
Ballet music to The Perfect Fool
Elgar:
Cello Concerto
Soloist: Jacqui Johnson
Britten:
Sinfonia da Requiem
Britten:
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Saturday

13th July 2013


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Debussy:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Brahms:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major
Soloist: Craig Greene
Bartók:
Concerto for Orchestra

Saturday

16th March 2013


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Elgar:
Overture 'In the South (Alassio)'
Walton:
Viola Concerto
Soloist: Emma Sheppard
Vaughan Williams:
A London Symphony (No 2)

Saturday

17th November 2012


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Haydn:
Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat major
Soloists: Jan Kaznowski, James Jarvis, Emma Miller, Ian Every
Bruckner:
Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major

Saturday

7th July 2012


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Tchaikovsky:
Capriccio Italien
Rodrigo:
Concierto de Aranjuez
Soloist: Tom McLauchlan
Rachmaninov:
Symphonic Dances

Saturday

24th March 2012


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Britten:
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto
Soloist: Peter Bussereau
Elgar:
Enigma Variations

Saturday

3rd December 2011


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Mozart:
Serenade in Bb K 361 “Gran Partita”
Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G. Op.58
Soloist: Tim Short
Vaughan Williams:
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Stravinsky:
Suite from ‘The Firebird” 1919

Saturday

2nd July 2011


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Kodály:
Dances of Galánta
Rachmaninov:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op.30
Soloist: Tallis Barker
Brahms:
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op.90

Saturday

12th March 2011


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Sibelius:
Tone Poem En Saga
Mahler:
Symphony No. 4
Soloist: Zoe South
Wagner:
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Soloist: Zoe South

Saturday

20th November 2010


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Grieg:
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Miaskovsky:
Cello Concerto
Soloist: Julian Metzger
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 6

Saturday

3rd July 2010


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Brahms:
Academic Festival Overture
Beethoven:
Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
Soloist: Mei Yi Foo
Dvorak:
Symphony No 6 in D major

Saturday

6th March 2010


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Mahler:
Symphony No 5
Mozart:
Flute & Harp Concerto in C major, K.299
Soloists: Abigail Burrows, Flute; Daniel de Fry, Harp

Saturday

21st November 2009


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Rachmaninov:
Isle of the Dead (symphonic poem)
Prokofiev:
Violin Concerto No 1 in D major
Soloist: Robert Bishop
Sibelius:
Symphony No 1 in E minor

Saturday

20th June 2009


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Saint-Saens:
Danse macabre
Lalo:
Cello Concerto
Soloist: Jacqui Johnson
Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique

Saturday

28th March 2009


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Engelbert Humperdinck:
Hansel and Gretel Overture
Nielsen:
Flute Concerto
Soloist: Abigail Burrows
Rachmaninov:
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor

Saturday

15th November 2008


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Vaughn Williams:
Symphony No.6
Vaughn Williams:
Variations on Dives and Lazurus
R Straus:
Four Last Songs
Soloist: Zoe South
R Straus:
Serenade for Wind

Saturday

22nd June 2008


Ampthill Parish Church
In conjunction with Ampthill Festival Choir
(Director: Alan Richardson)

Finzi:
Clarinet Concerto
Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No.2
Haydn:
Mass

Saturday

21st June 2008


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Dvorak:
Wind Serenade in D minor
Finzi:
Clarinet Concerto
Mendelssohn:
Italian Symphony (No. 4)

Saturday

29th March 2008


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Berlioz:
Les francs-juges Overture
Bruch:
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
Soloist: Peter Bussereau
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor

Saturday

3rd November 2007


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Delius:
La Calinda
Ravel:
Piano Concerto in G
Soloist: Tim Short
Elgar:
Symphony in A Flat (No. 1)

Saturday

1st July 2007


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Gounod:
Petite Symphonie for Wind
Schumann:
Cello Concerto
Soloist: Jacqui Johnson
Elgar:
Serenade for Strings
Wagner:
Siegried Idyll

Saturday

27th May 2007


St Mary's Church, Cowes, IOW
Entrance by programme at the Church

Boyce:
Symphony No. 5
Gounod:
Petite Symphonie for Wind
Mozart:
Andante in C for Flute and Orchestra
Soloist: Janelle Phillips
Elgar:
Serenade for Strings
Haydn:
Symphony No 103 in E flat "The Drumroll"

Saturday

10th March 2007


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Rossini:
Semiramide
Brahms:
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello Op102

Saturday

18th November 2006


Church of Christ the Cornerstone

Glinka:
Overture 'Ruslan and Ludmilla'
Sibelius:
Violin Concerto
Soloist: Balint Szkeleky
Shostakovich:
Symphony No.9