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.
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
2025 Calendar
| 6th Jan 2025 | Bach / Mozart | |
| 13th Jan 2025 | Haydn | |
| 20th Jan 2025 | ||
| 27th Jan 2025 | ||
| 3rd Feb 2025 | REHEARSAL CANCELLED | |
| 10th Feb 2025 | ||
| 17th Feb 2025 | NO REHEARSAL | Half Term |
| 24th February 2025 | ||
| 3rd March 2025 | Janacek movements 3,5,6 Haydn movements 2,4 | |
| 10th March 2025 | ||
| 17th March 2025 | Mendelssohn | |
| 24th March 2025 | Haydn | |
| 31st March 2025 | Haydn | with Wind players |
| 7th April 2025 | NO REHEARSAL | Easter |
| 14th April 2025 | NO REHEARSAL | Easter |
| 21st April 2025 | NO REHEARSAL | Easter Monday |
| 28th April 2025 | ||
| 5th May 2025 | NO REHEARSAL | Bank Holiday |
| 12th May 2025 | ||
| 19th May 2025 | Haydn | with Wind players |
| 26th May 2025 | NO REHEARSAL | Bank Holiday |
| 2nd June 2025 | ||
| 9th June 2025 | Haydn | with Wind players |
| Saturday 14th June 2025 | Concert! | St James Road Methodist Church |
| 16th June 2025 | AGM | |
| 23rd June 2025 | Vivaldi Gloria | |
| 30th June 2025 | Vivaldi Gloria |