8th July 2017 50th Anniversary Concert Photo: Annie Galpin
14th July 2018
¡Viva la Música! – an Evening of Spanish and Latin American Music
With the Chesterton Choral Society (Conductor Quintus Benziger)
Part of the 2018 Chesterton Festival
In aid of the Chesterton Festival and St George’s Church
8th July 2017
50th Anniversary Concert
Featuring two world premieres: The Lakes of Cold Fen by Nigel Hess and Grantchester Variations by Tim Brooks. The latter was inspired by Pink Floyd‘s Grantchester Meadows.
In the presence of composers Tim Brooks and Peter Bumstead
In aid of Voluntary Service Overseas
27th October 2016
The Battle of the Somme
Cinema performance with live orchestral music
Music by Laura Rossi
Part of the Ideas Festival Chelmsford
Free event with donations to the Royal British Legion
10th September 2016
The Battle of the Somme
Cinema performance with live orchestral music
Music by Laura Rossi
Part of the 2016 Cambridge Film Festival
In aid of the Royal British Legion
No programme
2nd July 2016
As You Like It
Featuring the world premiere of The Beauty of Life by Edwin Sung
In aid of Voluntary Service Overseas
27th June 2015
Summer Festival
With aerial acrobatics by Cambridge Community Circus‘s High Wired
Part of the Chesterton Festival
In aid of Cambridge Cruse Bereavement Care
5th July 2014
Welcoming the Blue Skies of Summer
Featuring the world premiere of The Light Blue Suite by Matthew Curtis
In the presence of composer Matthew Curtis
In aid of Voluntary Service Overseas
28th March 2014
Trip the Light Fantastic
An Impington Music Society event
Featuring the world premiere of Peter Bumstead’s orchestral arrangement of Penseés Musicales (Louis Lefébure-Wély)
In the presence of composer Peter Bumstead
In aid of Jimmy’s Night Shelter
19th October 2013
Music for EACH and Everyone
With the Suffolk Concert Band (Conductors Anthony Bailey and Tom Rumbold)
In aid of EACH (East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices)
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
19th March 2011
Some Enchanted Evening
With the Chesterton Choral Society
Guest Conductor Quintus Benziger
In aid of the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund
21st March 2009
Cambridge Connections
To help celebrate 800 years of the University of Cambridge (1209-2009)
Featuring the world premiere of the orchestral arrangement of Bridges over the River Cam by Derek Bourgeois
In aid of the Friends of Meldreth Manor and Orchard Manor
8th March 2008
Grand Charity Concert
With the Chesterton Choral Society (Conductor Quintus Benziger)
In aid of Age Concern (Cambridgeshire), the Alzheimer’s Society, the Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cam-Mind, CARE (Cambridge Arthritis Research Endeavour), Coeliac UK, The Cogwheel Trust, COPE (Cambridgeshire Older People’s Enterprise), Magpas (the Emergency Medical Charity), Mercy Ships, Phab and Press Relief (the Cambridge News charity)
17th March 2007
40th Anniversary Concert
19th November 2000
A Special Festival Concert
Part of the Cambridge Music Festival 2000
14th July 1999
A Farewell to Ian Wallace
In the presence of Ian Wallace, our retiring President
Ian Wallace sang along to a lot of it!
28th March 1998
30th Anniversary Celebration Concert
In aid of Cambridge Dial-a-Ride Drop-In Centre
12th April 1997
A Celebration of the Life of George Dobinson
In the presence of Ian Wallace
In aid of Wood Green Animal Shelters
28th November 1992
25th Anniversary Gala Concert
In the presence of Ian Wallace
Guest Conductor Pat Vince
In addition, Ian Wallace sang a Victorian drinking ballad and two verses from The Road to Mandalay
1st July 1989
Music for a Summer Evening
With New Melbourn Singers (Conductor Pat Vince)
Featuring the world premiere of Diversions (for Wind Ensemble) by Tim Brooks
In aid of St Laurence’s Church Restoration Fund
St Laurence’s Church, Foxton
14th June 1986
Light Classical and Popular Music
A Bottisham Village College Music Society event
Guest Conductor Tim Brooks
In aid of the East Anglia Autistic Community Trust
6th June 1980
An Evening Concert
With the Cambridgeshire Women’s Institute Choir
Programme missing
24th April 1977
An Evening Concert
With John Hanson
Programme missing
16th November 1975
An Evening Concert
With Ian Wallace
Programme missing
16th April 1972
An Evening Concert
With John Hanson
Programme missing
22nd October 1971
Your Kind of Music
With our President Charles Shadwell as Guest Conductor
In aid of Comberton Tennis Club
21st March 1971
Your Kind of Music
With Bruce Trent
25th October 1970
Your Kind of Music
With Robert Docker and Cyril Watters
Some time in the late 60s
An Evening Concert
Programme missing