Rehearsals
We meet each Monday evening during Hampshire term time, from 7.30 to 9.30pm at The Friends’ Meeting House, 1a Ordnance Road, Southampton, SO15 2AZ. We enjoy a short social break during the rehearsal, with a hot drink and a biscuit.
Our repertoire is normally any string orchestra music we think we can manage from Corelli to Bartok, and occasionally beyond. The emphasis is on shaping performances which give pleasure, stimulus and satisfaction mainly to the players themselves, but a couple of times a year we also hope similarly to engage our audiences.
We meet between 730pm and 930pm at The Friends Meeting House, 1a Ordnance Road, Southampton, SO15 2AZ. You can find a map here and a picture here.
Membership
We invite you to join us for some introductory rehearsals, free of charge, whilst you try some of our repertoire and get to know us. We will probably ask you to sit at the front of the section for part of one rehearsal. If you would then like to consider becoming a member of the orchestra, we will discuss with you whether your skills are a good fit for our current balance of string players.
As a member, we ask for subs of £150 per year (or two payments of £75 in September and March), to cover hall hire, music costs etc, and for a commitment to participate in two concerts a year. If paying the full subscription would be challenging for you, do get in touch with any committee member – we don’t want to discourage people just due to affordability.
Do please get in touch if you’d like to try us out!
Members’ Area
Password protected Members’ Area
2026-2027 Calendar
| 18th May 2026 | NO REHEARSAL | |
| 25th May 2026 | NO REHEARSAL | Bank Holiday |
| 1st June 2026 | AGM | Bring your instrument if you’d like Wayne Mayor to look at it. |
| 8th June 2026 | ||
| 15th June 2026 | ||
| 22nd June 2026 | ||
| 29th June 2026 | ||
| 6th July 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | Hall open 730pm-930pm, bring your own drink (no break), chamber music for fun! |
| 13th July 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | |
| 20th July 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | |
| 27th July 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | |
| 3rd August 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | |
| 10th August 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | |
| 17th August 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | |
| 24th August 2026 | Holiday Orchestra | |
| 31st August 2026 | NO MEETING | Bank Holiday |
| 7th September 2026 | Rehearsals start | |
| 14th September 2026 | ||
| 21st September 2026 | ||
| 28th September 2026 | ||
| 5th October 2026 | ||
| 12th October 2026 | ||
| 19th October 2026 | ||
| 26th October 2026 | NO REHEARSAL | Half Term |
| 2nd November 2026 | ||
| 9th November 2026 | ||
| 16th November 2026 | ||
| Saturday 21st November 2026 | Concert Day | St James Road Methodist Church, Shirley, 3pm |
| 23rd November 2026 | NO REHEARSAL | |
| 30th November 2026 | ||
| 7th December 2026 | ||
| 14th December 2026 | ||
| 21st December 2026 | NO REHEARSAL | Christmas/New Year |
| 28th December 2026 | NO REHEARSAL | Christmas/New Year |