Membership & Rehearsals

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

2025 Calendar

7th July 2025Holiday Orchestra
14th July 2025Holiday Orchestra
21st July 2025Holiday Orchestra
28th July 2025Holiday Orchestra
4th August 2025Holiday Orchestra
11th August 2025Holiday Orchestra
18th August 2025Holiday Orchestra
25th August 2025NO REHEARSAL
1st September 2025NO REHEARSAL
8th September 2025Rehearsals resume




Rehearsals