Southampton Concert Orchestra at Turner Sims Southampton
About the show
Concerto Sunday - Rachmaninov in the afternoon
Southampton Concert Orchestra return on Valentines day with “Concerto Sunday” where passion, romance, and musical poetry take centre stage. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, a sweeping symphonic fantasy that captures the tender beauty and tragic intensity of Shakespeare’s most famous lovers. Then, prepare to be moved by Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 — a work born of heartbreak and healing, filled with soaring melodies that have come to define romantic expression in music. Finally the yearning intensity of Wagner’s Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, a work that redefined musical expression with its endless longing and unresolved desire.
Featuring - Southampton Concert Orchestra
One of the leading amateur orchestras in the South. Making music since 1964.
Paul Ingram
Conductor and Music Director. Paul Ingram studied at the Universities of Southampton and Leicester, reading Music and Management respectively.
He began conducting in 1995, working with the orchestras of
Southampton University.
In 1997, Paul founded the Southampton University
Sinfonietta and remained Music Director until 2004.
In 1999, he reached the final of the British Reserve Insurance
Conducting Competition and has been Music Director of Southampton Concert Orchestra since 2001.
Paul was Principal Conductor of Per Piacere from 2007 to 2017 and
has recently been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the
professional chamber orchestra, Nova Foresta Classical Players.