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Conductor Nic FallowfieldLeader Jon Barwell

2015/16Nic Fallowfield leads a varied life as conductor,violinist and teacher. He has been co-leader ofthe English String Orchestra, co-principal 1stviolin of the Northern Sinfonia, and iscurrently co-leader of Sinfonia Viva. Playinghas taken him on tour throughout Europe,North and South America, and Japan, and hehas recorded extensively for radio, televisionand commercially.

Nic is a well-respected and sought-after teacher,both at Birmingham Conservatoire and privately,and is also in demand as an experienced chambermusic coach.

A conducting pupil of George Hurst, Nic wasinvited to make his professional debut with aseries of concerts in Finland in 1991, since whenhe has conducted in France, Germany, Austria,Belgium, Romania and Greece. He was conductorof the Hereford String Orchestra from 1991 to2006 and is currently Musical Director of theBeauchamp Sinfonietta in Warwickshire.

Nic was appointed conductor of The CharnwoodOrchestra in 1997.

Founded by Joseph O’Reilly, Director of Music at RawlinsCollege in Quorn, the Charnwood Orchestra was originallyknown as the Quorn Orchestra. The Orchestra is now basedat Humphrey Perkins School in the neighbouring village ofBarrow upon Soar and performs a wide variety of repertoire,working with soloists of the highest calibre. Each season theOrchestra usually gives five concerts at venues aroundLeicestershire and has undertaken a number of successfultours to France, Ireland, Scotland, north east England and,most recently, Dorset.

The 2015-16 season opens in Barrow upon Soar withWagner’s beautiful “Siegfried Idyll”. Simon Smith joins usto perform both Mozart’s last violin concerto and theEstonian composer Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres” in the version forviolin, strings and percussion. November’s concert featuresthree of Dvorák’s overtures and the brilliant KatyaApekisheva returns to perform Brahms’ magnificent firstpiano concerto. January sees our now traditionalexploration of the delights of the popular Vienneserepertoire – as always, a mixture of old favourites and newdiscoveries for audience and players alike! In March wewelcome back another great friend of the Orchestra,Thomas Bowes, to perform Benjamin Britten's violinconcerto. Also on the programme is Tchaikovsky’s secondsymphony, nicknamed the “Little Russian” because of thecomposer’s use of Ukrainian folk songs in three of itsmovements. The season ends in spectacular style with aconcert of twentieth-century English music. The first halffeatures three of Vaughan Williams most popular works,including his tuba concerto played by the youngLeicestershire musician Stephen Calow – no stranger to theOrchestra, but his first time performing with us as a soloist.The concert ends with Holst’s monumental orchestral suite“The Planets”.

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Ticket prices:September 2015 concert:£10.00 (£9.00 concessions)£3.00 for accompanied children under 16.

November 2015, March & July 2016 concerts:£12.00 (£10.00 concessions)£3.00 for accompanied children under 16.

January 2016 concert:£14.00 (£12.00 concessions)£3.00 for accompanied children under 16.

Tickets are available from:our website, members of the Orchestra and on the doorFor further details contact the Orchestra Secretary:judithrodgers155@gmail.com, 07718 153117

Katya Apekisheva

A Winter’s Night in Vienna

Saturday 16th January 2016 at 7:00pm

Humphrey Perkins Community Centre,Barrow upon Soar

Saturday 19th March 2016 at 7:30pmAll Saints Parish Church,Loughborough

Schubert Overture: “Rosamunde”

Britten Violin concerto

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2“Little Russian”

Conductor Nic FallowfieldViolin Thomas Bowes

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Saturday 2nd July 2016 at 7:30pm

Church of St. James the Greater,London Road, Leicester

Vaughan WilliamsOverture: “The Wasps”

Vaughan WilliamsFantasia on “Greensleeves"

Vaughan WilliamsTuba concerto

Holst The Planets

Conductor Nic FallowfieldTuba Stephen Calow

Stephen Calow

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A selection of classics from the Strauss family and otherViennese masters. Programme to include “The Blue Danube”,“Pizzicato Polka”, “Radetzky March” and many more.

Saturday 26th September 2015 at 7:30pm

Holy Trinity Church,Barrow upon Soar

Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Mozart Violin concerto No. 5

Arvo Pärt Fratres

Haydn Symphony No.100“Military”

Conductor Nic FallowfieldViolin Simon Smith

Saturday 28th November 2015 at 7:30pm

Emmanuel Church,Forest Road, Loughborough

Dvorák In Nature’s Realm

Dvorák Carneval

Dvorák Othello

Brahms Piano concerto No. 1

Conductor Nic FallowfieldPiano Katya Apekisheva

Simon Smith

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