UK Amateur Orchestras
This is a jumping off point for an unofficial round-up of the huge number of non-professional orchestras in the UK (also called community orchestras in some circles). A large number of them now have their own websites, and I get frequent e-mails from people looking for places to play and letting me know of orchestras I need to add to my list - I welcome the correspondence!
So, if you're looking for somewhere to play or somewhere to listen, just pick the area you're in, click on the map and you'll be there... Some areas are better represented than others (yes, you can tell where I have lived), but I'm adding new entries all the time.
Have you joined the UK Amateur Orchestras FACEBOOK group?
NOTICE
28th June 2009
The amateurorchestras mail domain is being used for spam. I'm not sure when this will subside, but please bear with me during
the next few days. Responses to mail may be lost in the deluge of bounced mails that are currently appearing in the inbox.
Thanks, Geoff.
Latest Additions:
22nd June 2009
| Wales | Wrexham Symphony Orchestra |
21st June 2009
| Central Southern | Basic Strings |
| London | Harmony Sinfonia
Middlesex Yeomanry Concert Band The London Gay Symphonic Winds |
| Scotland | The South Side Community Orchestra
Glasgow Symphony Orchestra |
| South West | Music at Saltford
Loosemore String Orchestra |
| East Midlands | Friesland Orchestral Society |
17th June 2009
| North West | Fylde Concert Orchestra |
| Wales | Monmouth Community Orchestra |
16th June 2009
| South East | Kent Police Band
Ashford Orchestra Players |
| London | West London Strings |
15th June 2009
| Northumbria | Semitones Volunteer Music Ensemble |
23rd April 2009
| North West | Hope Park Concert Band |
| Scotland | Dukeries Community Concert Band |
| Central Southern | Freeland Orchestra |
| East Midlands | Kettering Symphony Orchestra |
11th April 2009
| North West | Chester Wind Band |
23rd March 2009
| South East England | East Grinstead Concert Band |
| Central Southern England | Portsmouth Philharmonia |
| Heart of England | Sutton Coldfield Orchestra |
8th March 2009
| South West England | Hartland Chamber Orchestra |
| East Anglia | Lowestoft Orchestral Society |
| Central Southern | Charity Symphony Orchestra |
7th March 2009
| London | Walton on Thames Orchestra
Croydon Symphonic Band |
| North West England | Lymm Concert Band |
| East Anglia | Bedfordshire Adult String Sessions (BASS)
Dennis Light Orchestra |
| South East | The Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra |
| Heart of England | The New Streetly Youth Orchestra |
29th January 2009
| Wales | Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra |
| Heart of England | Central England Concert Band |
| East Anglia | King John Orchestra |
7th December
| Yorkshire and Humberside | Leeds Symphony Orchestra |
| Central Southern | Bournemouth and District Concert Band
Beech Hill Concert Band |
27th November
| East Anglia | Hunstanton Concert Band |
24th November
| East Anglia | Abbey Gateway Orchestra (St Albans)
Waveney Strings |
| West Country | Redland Wind Band |
| Central Southern | Rushmoor Concert Band
Woodley Concert Band |
21st November
| North West | Jubili Orchestral Youth |
20th November
| Heart of England | The West Midland Light Orchestra |
| London | Chamber Academy Orchestra |
| North West | The Saturday Morning Orchestra |