English Sinfonia return to the Elgiva to serenade you into the festive period. Some of the finest string players in the country come together this December under Principal Conductor Chris Hopkins to play Dvorak’s uplifting ‘Serenade for Strings’ alongside Dag Wiren’s popular Serenade, heart-warming string miniatures from Grieg, festive music, and Dvorak’s beautiful ‘Romance’ for violin.

Join us for an evening of enchanting live music for string orchestra!

Programme includes:

Dvorak: Serenade for Strings

Dag Wiren: Serenade for Strings

Dvorak: Romance

Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies

Christmas Carols!

Experience the magic of some of the world’s favourite film composers, told through enchanting chamber music.

English Sinfonia are part of a fantastic season at Reading Concert Hall with the following programme:

Jenkins - Palladio

Gipps - Cringlemere Gardens

Britten - Simple Symphony

Schubert - Rondo

Elgar - Serenade for Strings

Grieg - Two Elegaic Melodies

Members of the English Sinfonia continue their residency at The Elgiva with a programme of gorgeous music for piano trio.

Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann had a complicated relationship built on friendship and love, and they are brought together in this concert with sensational piano trios from both composers alongside other works for trio by Philip Glass and Frank Bridge.

Join English Sinfonia’s Artistic Director and leader, Janice Graham, cellist Julia Graham, and Principal Conductor Chris Hopkins for a mesmerising evening of live music.

English Sinfonia continue their residency at the Elgiva with our Christmas concert featuring Prokofiev’s Peter and The Wolf, and other Christmas themed music still to be announced.

Following the fantastic audience reception to the performance of their summer concert, the English Sinfonia continue their residency with an Autumn concert.

Members of English Sinfonia are joined by soprano Emma Tring and Nick Korth on horn.

The programme will include:
Schubert: ‘Trout’ Quintet
Korth: Metha Songs
Mozart: Horn Quintet

English Sinfonia continue their residency at The Elgiva with a Summer concert celebrating the Platinum Jubilee year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The concert will present music that would have been heard in the year of the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 alongside a World Premiere of Nicholas Korth’s ‘Jubilare – An Enigmatic Fanfare’, all culminating in Elgar’s incomparable Enigma Variations.

Programme: ‘Heart of England’, including The Lark Ascending, and chamber music by Bax, Elgar, Beach and Piazzolla.

Programme: ‘Heart of England’, including The Lark Ascending, and chamber music by Bax, Elgar, Beach and Piazzolla.

The English Sinfonia embarks on a voyage into the night sky, with a programme featuring Holst’s monumental and awe-inspiring work The Planets, alongside Mozart’s own serenade to the night Eine kleine Nachtmusik, and Vaughan Williams’ ethereal and beautiful The Lark Ascending.

A festive feast of music including carols (with audience participation strongly advised!) and everything from Corelli to Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Holst, Ireland as well as Howard Blake’s beloved ‘Walking In The Air’ from The Snowman.
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A piano trio concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ alongside popular favourites by Elgar, Saint-Saens and Morricone and, in the second half of the concert, a rare chance to hear Rachmaninoff’s intense and beguiling ‘Trio élégiaque No. 2.
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For the second concert of the season, English Sinfonia returns with a programme featuring a firm favourite, Mozart’s wonderful Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, a beautiful piece for strings by the great American composer Florence Price and Elgar’s thrilling Piano Quintet. Read more …

The Elgiva is proud to welcome back the renowned chamber orchestra English Sinfonia with their artistic director Janice Graham leading from the violin and principal conductor Chris Hopkins beginning a brand new season of live concerts at The Elgiva.

The English Sinfonia is delighted for the first concert of the season to be a celebration of strings, with pieces including the ever popular Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’, Grieg’s ‘Holberg Suite’, and ‘Palladio’ by Karl Jenkins, alongside works for string ensemble by Gipps, Elgar and more.

Here the English Sinfonia present two major concertos which celebrate the full virtuosity of both the piano and the violin. First, Beethoven’s beautiful Fourth Piano Concerto, in an intimate arrangement for piano and string quintet; followed by Vivaldi’s thrilling Four Seasons directed from the violin by Janice Graham.

Programme: ‘Heart of England’, including The Lark Ascending, and chamber music by Bax, Elgar, Beach and Piazzolla.

Programme: ‘Heart of England’, including The Lark Ascending, and chamber music by Bax, Elgar, Beach and Piazzolla.

From the previous concert which explored the music of the Piano Trio, the ensemble now turns to the Piano Quartet. This concert presents an epic musical journey from the tango-driven music of Piazzolla, to the fantastical worlds of Bax and Bridge before ending with Brahms’ magical Piano Quartet in C minor.

A mix of repertoire which celebrates the versatility and impact of the Piano Trio. From Nyman through to Amy Beach, Mendelssohn and Piazzolla, the English Sinfonia demonstrates why this classic combination of instruments continues to be such a popular choice for composers and audiences alike.

Programme includes:
Amy Beach – Piano Trio;
Piazzolla – Seasons;
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata;
Saint-Saens – The Swan;
Ruth Gipps – Rhapsody

With their newly-appointed Principal Conductor Chris Hopkins at the keyboard, English Sinfonia presents English Miniatures - a delightful programme of rarely performed, charming English chamber works from the late 19th and 20th century by Bridge, Coleridge-Taylor, Bax and Holst. English Sinfonia's leader, Janice Graham, opens the concert with Vaughan Williams' much-loved The Lark Ascending, marking 100 years to the day since the work's first public performance on 15 December 1920.
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With their newly-appointed Principal Conductor Chris Hopkins at the keyboard, English Sinfonia presents English Miniatures - a delightful programme of rarely performed, charming English chamber works from the late 19th and 20th century by Bridge, Coleridge-Taylor, Bax and Holst. English Sinfonia's leader, Janice Graham, opens the concert with Vaughan Williams' much-loved The Lark Ascending, marking 100 years to the day since the work's first public performance on 15 December 1920.
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www.sjss.org.uk/events/english-sinfonia

With their newly-appointed Principal Conductor Chris Hopkins at the keyboard, English Sinfonia presents English Miniatures - a delightful programme of rarely performed, charming English chamber works from the late 19th and 20th century by Bridge, Coleridge-Taylor, Bax and Holst. English Sinfonia's leader, Janice Graham, opens the concert with Vaughan Williams' much-loved The Lark Ascending, marking 100 years to the month since the work's first public performance on 15 December 1920.
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