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.
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Latest Additions:
10th April
| Scotland | Lomond & Clyde Community Orchestra |
| East Anglia | West Norfolk Jubilee Youth Orchestra and Concert Band |
| Northern Ireland | Donegal Chamber Orchestra |
27th March 2008
| South East | Guildford Sinfonia |
| East Anglia | Evening Rehearsal Orchestra - St Albans |
26th March 2008
| Scotland | Leith Community Concert Band
Scottish Borders Community Orchestra |
| Heart of England | Asklepios Orchestra
The Warwickshire Band |
4th March 2008
| North West | Phoenix Concert Orchestra |
| Central Southern | Chiltern Edge Orchestral Society |
| Heart of England | National Express West Midlands Band |
| East Anglia | The A10 Concert Band |
21st February 2008
| London | London Saxophone Choir |
| North West | Werneth Concert Band |
| South East | Pfizer Wind Orchestra |
10th February 2008
| Heart of England | Gloucester Charter Concert Band |
8th February 2008
| North West | Crumpsall Concert Wind Band
Congleton Youth Orchestra |
| Yorkshire & Humberside | Players for Pleasure |
| South East | Guildford Light Orchestra
Folkestone & Hythe Orchestral Society |
| London | Norwood Wind Ensemble |
| Cumbria/Scotland | Isle of Man Wind Orchestra |
| Heart of England | Dancing Bear Symphony Orchestra |
| West Country | South Bristol Music Centre |
5th January 2008
| Northumbria | Prudhoe Community Band |
| Cumbria | Westmorland Orchestra |
| Norfolk | Wymondham Symphony Orchestra |
24th December 2007
| Yorkshire | Phoenix Band |
| London | Helios Chamber Orchestra |
| East Anglia | Dacorum Recreation Orchestra |
8th December 2007
| South West | Frome Symphony
Plymouth Symphony Orchestra Somerset County Orchestra Torbay Symphony Orchestra |
7th December 2007
| East Anglia | The Pulham Orchestra
Abbots Langley Orchestra Huntingdonshire Concert Band |
17th November 2007
| Wales | Orchestre Y Ffiniau |
| Central Southern | Chiltern Camerata |
11th November 2007
| North West | Phoenix Strings
South Liverpool Rehearsal Orchestra |
| Scotland | Edinburgh University Chorus
Edinburgh University Sinfonia Edinburgh University Symphony Orchestra |
| West Country | Sherborne Community Orchestra |
| South East | St George’s Players
The Old Barn Orchestral Society |
| Heart of England | Alveley Village Band |
| Yorkshire | Todmorden Orchestra |