HCYO – Schedule: Winter - Spring 2011
All rehearsals at Thornden School, Chandler’s Ford unless
otherwise stated
Saturday 15 January
10.30 TUTTI CYO
warm-up
String Orchestra
10.45-3.20
Full
Rehearsals (including short run-through in Concert Hall during lunch)
3.35-3.55pm Informal
Performance in
Concert Hall – all family & friends welcome. (Finish by 4pm.)
CYO Strings CYO
WW/Horns/Percussion/Brass
10.45-12.45 Sectionals 10.45-12.45 Sectionals
(no tpts, tbones, tubas)
1.45-3.30 Full
Rehearsal 1.45-3.30 Full
Rehearsal (with tpts, tbones, tubas)
Chamber Orchestra
3.50-5.00 Rehearsal
(Tutti: Vaughan Williams The Lark
Ascending, then Shostakovich strings only from 4.30)
Wind Quintet 4.30-5.00 tbc
Saturday 22
January (NB
HCYB members with HCYO from the beginning of the day)
10.00 FHCYO committee meeting
– ALL WELCOME
String Orchestra
10.30 Warm-up (in Drama 1)
10.45-12.45 Sectionals
1.45-3.20 Full
Rehearsal
County Youth Orchestra
10.30 TUTTI CYO REHEARSAL BEGINS: please arrive in plenty of
time.
10.30 Rehearsal
with Tom (starting with Rossini)
10.55-1.30 Conductor
auditions
c.1.30 Lunch
and consultation period
2.30-3.30 Tutti
CYO rehearsal
3.50-5.00 Chamber Orchestra rehearsal
(Tutti: Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, then Shostakovich strings only from c.4.30)
Wind
Quintet 4.30-5.00 tbc
Saturday 5 February
Chamber Orchestra STRINGS ONLY (all other HCYO players free today)
10.30-5.00 Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony rehearsals with Fitzwilliam Quartet
Saturday 12 February (NB No
Percussion today. All Winchester Youth Orchestra players leave at lunchtime)
10.00 FHCYO committee meeting
– ALL WELCOME
10.30 TUTTI CYO
warm-up
String Orchestra
10.45-12.45 Sectionals
1.45-3.20 Full
Rehearsal
CYO Strings CYO
WW/Horns/Brass
10.45-12.45 Full Section
Rehearsal 10.45-12.45 Sectionals
1.45-3.10 Full
Rehearsal 1.45-3.10 Full
Rehearsal
(NB slightly early
finish for CYO) (NB
slightly early finish for CYO)
Chamber Orchestra
3.30-5.00 Rehearsal
(Tutti: Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending)
Saturday 5 March
10.00 FHCYO committee meeting – ALL WELCOME
10.30 TUTTI CYO
warm-up
Bryanston meeting
3.30-4.00pm (all members and parents welcome – especially those new to
HCYO)
String Orchestra
10.45-12.45 Full
Rehearsal
1.45-3.20 Full
Rehearsal
CYO Strings CYO
WW/Horns/Brass; Percussion
10.45-12.45 Sectionals 10.45-12.45 Full
Section Rehearsals
1.45-3.30 Full
Rehearsal 1.45-3.30 Full
Rehearsal
Chamber Orchestra
3.50-5.00 Rehearsal
(VW, Shostakovich, Quintet - tbc)
Saturday 19 March
10.30 TUTTI CYO
warm-up
String Orchestra
10.45-12.45 Sectionals
1.45-3.20 Full
Rehearsal (then option to sit in on Chamber Orchestra rehearsal with
Fitzwilliam Quartet)
CYO tutti
10.45-12.45 Full Rehearsal
1.45-3.30 Full
Section Rehearsals: Tutti WW/Brass/Horns; Tutti non-ChO Strings; Percussion.
Chamber Orchestra
1.45-5.00 ChO
strings only: Rehearsal (Shostakovich) with Fitzwilliam Quartet
3.50-5.00 Wind
Quintet rehearsal
Saturday 26 March (no SO today)
CYO and ChO CONCERT Petersfield Festival Hall (NB
not Churcher’s College!)
1.15 EVERYONE
help to set up
1.45 Warm
up and tune
2.00-5.30 Rehearse
7.30pm Concert
(finishes c.9.30pm):
HCYO Wind Quintet and Percussion Ensemble
Shostakovich Chamber
Symphony (with Fitzwilliam Quartet)
Mahler Symphony No.2: First Movement (‘Totenfeier’)
Rossini William
Tell Overture
Sat 2 April
Chamber Orchestra – concert in St Nicolas’
Church, Newbury, with Fitzwilliam Quartet
Vaughan Williams The
Lark Ascending; Shostakovich Chamber
Symphony (plus Schubert Death and the
Maiden quartet)
Rehearsal 2pm; Concert 7pm. Ticketing information to
follow.
String Orchestra – performance in Music For
Youth regional festival, Admiral Lord Nelson School, Portsmouth
Timings to be confirmed: please keep morning and
afternoon free for now. No tickets required.
Percussion Ensemble – performance as part of
Chairman’s Concert at St Swithun’s School, Winchester
(with Hampshire County Youth Wind Band and others)
Rehearsal timings tbc; Concert at 7.30pm. Tickets available
on the door (£5/£3).
NB All other HCYO players are free today.
SPRING HOLIDAYS and
SUMMER TERM: current dates
(a more detailed rehearsal schedule will be sent before
the Summer Term begins)
Sunday 10 – Saturday 16
April Bryanston Residential Course
Sunday 17 April
Group trip to Philharmonia Orchestra evening concert
(Mahler 2nd Symphony) at Royal Festival Hall, London
Sunday 1 May
HCYO 40th Anniversary CONCERT at The Anvil
– CYO, SO and Ex-members
Sunday 8 May
SO (and String Ambassadors) – String Bonanza
CONCERT (venue and times tbc)
Morning rehearsal,
afternoon concert
Saturday 14 May
HCYO Open Day (normal rehearsal times)
Saturday 11 June
CYO, SO and ChO rehearsals
Saturday 25 June
String Orchestra rehearsals
Sunday 26 June
CYO Lilly CONCERT at
The Anvil, Basingstoke
Thursday 30 June
Evening: CYO and SO Mahler rehearsal in Winchester
Cathedral, with choirs and soloists
Friday 1 July
CYO and SO – Mahler 2nd Symphony:
Afternoon rehearsal (CYO only); evening CONCERT in
Winchester Cathedral
Sunday
10 July
SO (and String Ambassadors) – String Bonanza
Concert (venue and times tbc)
Morning rehearsal,
afternoon concert
HCYO
Summer Party: July date to be confirmed
30
July – 3 August 2011 (plus possible Pre-tour Joint Concert)
String
Orchestra Tour with Romsey Youth Concert Band