East Midlands Only Professional Orchestra Announces Expanded Derby Series
Sinfonia Viva, the Orchestra of the East Midlands, has announced an expanded programme of performances in Derby in the coming year following the success of its 2023/2024 return series.
Between October 2024 and June 2025, the Derby-based orchestra will double its programme - performing ten concerts at its partner venues - Derby Cathedral and the Museum of Making.
These will include performances featuring world-class artists and relaxed concerts for families.
Announcing the 2024/2025 programme, Sinfonia Viva chief executive Lucy Galliard explained: “We re-launched the Derby season last year and the response from audiences was amazing with most of the concerts sold out.
“The forthcoming Derby series will be twice as spectacular and will showcase everything that is great about Sinfonia Viva: strong partnerships, world-class musicians and nationally-recognised family-friendly performances.”
Ahead of the Derby season launch, Sinfonia Viva will return to perform at the Darley Park Concert on Sunday September 1 as part of the extended weekend programme.
The full Derby series will then launch on Saturday October 5 with an afternoon family show at Derby Cathedral of Prokofiev’s much-loved ‘Peter and the Wolf’.
The concert will be narrated by Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason whose family of talented musicians are patrons of the orchestra.
The expanded series will also include two further family shows at the Museum of Making including a musical celebration of Derby’s manufacturing claim to fame – Planes, Trains and Automobiles – on Sunday May 11 which is recommended for children aged five and under.
Autumn will see a unique concert giving a fascinating insight into post-war England with an afternoon performance of poetry and music at the Museum of Making on Thursday October 10.
Derbyshire poet F.Philip Holland will read Philip Larkin’s darkly-humorous verse interspersed with nostalgic music by Larkin’s English contemporaries including Derby’s own Ronald Binge.
Other highlights of the Derby season include an evening of choral beauty and virtuoso violins on Saturday November 9 at Derby Cathedral when Sinfonia Viva will be joined by Derby Cathedral Choir and soloists Zoe Brookshaw and Ciara Hendrick in a concert of timeless compositions by Baroque masters Bach and Vivaldi.
Sea Shanties and Wild Winds is the theme for the first concert of 2025 at the Museum of Making on January 30 including Woven by Sinfonia Viva’s principal clarinettist Maddy Aldis-Evans – a piece inspired by the museum’s historic loom which made its world premiere last year.
Dr Kanneh-Mason will also present a concert on Thursday May 1 that will celebrate composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 150th Anniversary including a performance of his ‘Nonet’ and ‘African Dances’ for violin and piano.
The Cathedral’s stunning acoustics will again take centre stage at an evening of American classical music on Wednesday March 5 and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto featuring the international prize-winning clarinettist Jonathan Leibovitz on Wednesday May 21.
Elsewhere in the region, Sinfonia Viva will be performing at Southwell Minster and the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall in the coming months.
For more information about the Derby Season and to book tickets, please visit www.sinfoniaviva.co.uk
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