Musicians from Marlborough, Malmesbury and everywhere in between, and who are members of Royal Wootton Bassett Orchestra, will be performing a Spring Concert – A Tale of Two Cities: Music from Vienna and Berlin in Malmesbury Abbey on March 15th at 7.30pm. They will be joined by professional horn player, Charlotte Mann, who will be performing the Strauss horn concerto. Tickets are available here.
The programme will also feature Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No 5, the Radetsky March and Ode to Joy by Beethoven. The concert will open with music by a female composer – Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C. The piece remained unpublished in her lifetime and lay undiscovered in an archive for a further 100 years. San Francisco Women’s Philharmonic gave the piece its public premiere in 1992. RWB Orchestra are pleased to bring this piece to a new audience.
Soloist Charlotte Mann (Charlie), is a graduate from the University of Southampton where she gained a BA(Hons) Music (Ist class) and an M.A. in International Music Management. She is a freelance classical and session French Horn player as well as a conductor and educator. Charlie tours the UK festival circuit with Symphonica Mr Switch, the Ibiza Orchestra Experience, and Symphonic Ibiza Productions. She plays regularly with The Fulltone Orchestra and with The International Film Orchestra on their Harry Potter and James Bond tours. Solo work includes appearances with Southampton University Symphony Orchestra, Southampton Youth Orchestra and Langtree Sinfonia. Recording work includes Don Broco ‘Live from the Royal Albert Hall’ and Faye Milton’s ‘Goddess’.
Charlie is also a keen conductor, with a particular passion for youth ensemble work. She has conducted Southampton University Symphonic Wind Orchestra, Southampton Youth Orchestra, Southampton Youth Concert Sinfonia and Per Piacere. She attributes her inspiration to become a professional musician to her own experience in a youth orchestra, so she is delighted to be working with the next generation of talented young musicians on a weekly basis. Additionally, Charlie is a brass peripatetic teacher visiting four schools in the Southampton area.
Charlie commented, “I am really looking forward to playing in Malmesbury Abbey with its wonderful acoustics. Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto No 1 is an absolutely beautiful piece of music which really showcases all the different sides of the horn. The first movement is quite energetic. The contrasting second movement is lyrical and the third movement really takes off and is very exciting to listen to.”
RWB Orchestra was founded in 1982 and is now one of the longest established amateur orchestras in the area. They perform three concerts a year and a charity concert. There are vacancies in some sections of the orchestra. If you would like to join RWBO please get in touch through the website here.
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