About "Lavenham Sinfonia"

Leader Jessie Ridley and Conductor Frederick Marshall founded the Sinfonia in 1979 as a small string orchestra and quickly expanded it into a full symphony orchestra.

The handpicked members come from all over East Anglia; many have been professional musicians, several music teachers and some of their best students.

The Sinfonia has played all the Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, much Mozart, Haydn, Mahler, Wagner also Baroque music and where possible the best of contemporary music.

All concerts are in Lavenham Church

Sunday 25 April at 7.00 pm

Beethoven                    Egmont Overture

Beethoven                    Violin Concerto

                                   Soloist Roger Owen - violin

Mendelssohn                Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

Sunday 4 July at 7.00 pm

Vaughan Williams            Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis

Shostakovich                   Piano Concerto No. 1

                                     Soloist John Stafford - piano

R. A. Moulds                    Der Singende Wald (world première)

                                     Soloists Jessie Ridley and Caroline Mitchell - violins

Britten                            Simple Symphony

Sunday 5 September at 7.00 pm

Weber                          Der Freischútz Overture

P. Joy                           Ex Libris Aureis, in memory of Robin Golding (world première)

Berlioz                          Les Nuits d'Éte

                                   Soloist Daniela Bechly - soprano

Brahms                         Symphony No. 2

Sunday 17 October at 7.00 pm                      

Schubert                      Overture in C. major D591

Mozart                         Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K488

                                   Soloist Daniel Swain - piano

Beethoven                    Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica'