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Leader
Rehearsal Venue/Times Contact Notes
[link]Bathgate Concert OrchestraMarco Marzella
Angela Smith
St.John's Church Hall Bathgate Friday evenings 7:30 [email]Morag Gent 01506 843 207
 
Bathgate Concert Orchestra is a voluntary group of musicians who meet on Friday evenings for rehearsal and performance of show music and light classics for fund-raising, education and entertainment.
[link]Colinton Amateur Orchestral SocietyHector Scott
 
St Cuthbert's Church Hall, Westgarth Avenue, Edinburgh. Tuesday evening 7:30 [email]Lynda Grant
 
An amateur orchestra that plays a variety of music ranging from baroque to 20th century.
[link]Dundee Symphony OrchestraRobert Dick
Alan Torrance
Monday evenings at Gilfillan Church, Whitehall Crescent, Dundee from 7:30pm to 9:45pm [email] 
 
The Society was founded in 1893 by a group of enthusiastic amateur performers. The orchestra has a core membership of some thirty, mostly amateur, players. Extra players are brought in when necessary.
[link]Edinburgh Chamber OrchestraAlberto Massimo
Alison Galbraith
Morningside United Church, Holy Corner, 15 Chamberlain Road, EDINBURGH. Wednesday 7.30-9.30pm [email]Jennifer McGregor 0131 449 6153
 
All string players welcome, especially cellists
[link]Edinburgh Philharmonic Orchestra Robert Dick
 
St.Michael’s Church, Slateford Road Robert Dick 0131 332-8747
[email]Corrinna Kearsley 0131-467-1532 or Rebecca Sawyer 0131-229-8230
A new orchestra which aims to entice big audiences to raise money for charity.
Edinburgh Players Opera Group Mike Thorne
Philip Taylor
One weekend opera course per year in Portobello Town Hall, Edinburgh. Usually the last weekend in September (Fri – Sun). Philip Taylor 01368 850235
 
An annual course in Edinburgh rehearsing and performing a complete opera with full orchestra and professional singers. Having now worked through the entire Ring, Tristan, Parsifal and Die Meistersinger, we’re returning to the Ring and 2008 will be Das Rheingold. Vacancies for strings and harps. Grade 8+ standard. Players from outside Edinburgh very welcome!
[link]Edinburgh Symphony OrchestraGerard Doherty
Philip Taylor
The Reid Memorial Church, West Saville Terrace, Edinburgh Wednesdays 8.00-10.15pm [email]Rob Saunders 0131 447 3871
 
New strings always welcome; some openings for brass and percussion
[link]Edinburgh University ChorusEwan Armstrong
 
Tuesday during term time, 7-9pm, St Peters Church Hall, Lutton Place, Edinburgh. [email]Dom El Beih
 
EUMS Chorus is a non-auditioning SATB choir. It is conducted by Ewan Armstrong and all are welcome to rehearsals.
[link]Edinburgh University SinfoniaIain McLarty
 
Saturday in term time in Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Sq, Edinburgh 10.30am - 1.30pm [email]Nick Fletcher
 
Wind, Brass and Percussion are auditioned during Freshers' Week. It is non-auditioning for strings. A grade 6 or 7 standard is expected but all are welcome so do come and join us.
[link]Edinburgh University Symphony OrchestraRussell Cowieson
 
Rehearsal 6.30-9.30 every Monday during term time. [email]Jenny Clark
 
EUMS Symphony Orchestra is a fully-auditioning orchestra. Auditions take place during freshers' week. Standard Grade 8+. Students and non-students welcome.
Edinburgh Wind Orchestra Theresa Charlton
 
7 Warriston Road EDINBURGH 7.30 Mondays [email]01506 854489 / 07917 367 089
 
Vacancies in all sections (woodwind, brass, percussion) Friendly, social atmosphere. Interesting mix of music. No auditions and quality instruments available for loan. Does regular concerts.
[link]Glasgow Chamber OrchestraPeter Jones
 
Tuesdays from 7.30pm-10pm, Cowcaddens Campus of Glasgow Caledonian University. [email] 
 
Keen to recruit a bassoonist and brass players (horns and trumpets mainly needed)
[link]Glasgow Orchestral SocietyMarco Romano, Eric Dunlea and Colin McKenzie
 
Monday evenings from 7:30pm to 9:30pm in the Community Central Hall, 304 Maryhill Road [email]Donald Gibson (secretary), 0141 942 7754
Meg Munck, 0141 946 6667
We play a wide range of music from the classical era to the present day, and have also commissioned works from eminent Scottish composers such as John Purser and John Geddes. Vacancies exist in some sections, particularly in the strings.
[link]Glasgow SinfoniaGerard Doherty
 
Mondays, 7.30pm at Woodlands Methodist Church, Woodlands Road, Glasgow [email] 
 
If you live in, or around the Glasgow area and are interested in joining up, please contact us by email. Although we are an amateur orchestra, our standard is quite high, so ideally players should have passed Grade 7 or above.
YMCA Glasgow Wind OrchestraMichael Philip
 
Renfield St Stephens Church - Fridays, 7:30 - 9:30pm [email]Noreen Thompson, (0141) 423 6185
 
Regular vacancies in woodwind, brass and percussion.
[link]Grampian Concert OrchestraDr Tim Tricker
 
St Ninian’s Episcopal Church, King Street, Aberdeen. Mondays 7:30 to 9:45 [email]07831 223422
 
GCO is a friendly and informal community orchestra, which rehearses and performs all year round. We welcome new players Grade 6 or above on any instrument - no auditions.
[link]Helensburgh Orchestral SocietyNEWRobert Baxter
Christine Sinclair
Victoria Halls, Helensburgh, on Monday evenings at 7:30 [email]Alice Gee
 
Helensburgh Orchestral Society performs a broad programme at two concerts a year, in March and December. We run a chamber music weekend each autumn and occasionally have toured further afield. Membership is open to players of grade 5 or above, with no auditions necessary. At the moment we are particularly looking for lower strings, French horns and a trombone.
[link]Isle of Man Wind OrchestraNEWPaul Dunderdale
 
Every thursday during school term time [email]Joanna Drysdale
 
 
[link]The Kelvin Ensemble Guest conductors
 
Normally rehearse for two intensive weekends before each concert. [email]0798 660 9764
 
The student-run orchestra of Glasgow University. We’re happy to hear from any students in Glasgow who want to play.
Kintyre Orchestral Society 
 
Saturday afternoons in the Heritage Centre Hall from 3 to 4.30, Campbeltown Kintyre. Jacqueline Fitzgibbon 01586 830181
 
No audition necessary,we are either late starters or returnees and play easy arrangements of music like Singing in the rain, movements from Pictures at an Exhibition and a wealth of extracts from Handel's Water Music.
[link]Lanarkshire Cecilian OrchestraTommy Fowler
Dr Peter McCabe
St. Andrew’s Parish Church Hall, Glasgow Rd, Blantyre. Thursdays 7.15pm - 9.15pm, September to May in school term times. [email]Gail Graham
 
New members always welcome, particularly strings (and particularly cellos). Wide range of music types from overtures and symphonies to film themes and show medleys.
Leith Community Concert BandNEWFrederick Frayling-Kelly
 
St.Margaret's Episcopal Church, 170, Easter Road, Edinburgh EH7: Thursdays 7.30 -9.45pm. [email]Director of Music 0131-554-0568
 
A concert and marching band with a wide repertoire of music. Entry around Grade 5, but promising players not quite at that level may be taken. No formal auditions. A friendly, busy band with a core of experienced players who are happy to advise and encourage newcomers. There are vacancies in all sections. Recent performances in Germany and Belgium. At home several concerts per year plus participation in the Festival Cavalcade, Norwegian Constitution Day Parade, the Leith Festival Tattoo etc..
[link]Lomond & Clyde Community OrchestraNEWJohn Grant
 
Saturday 10.00-12.00 noon, St Michael's Church Hall, William Street, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute [email]Ruth Sinclair
[email] 
The orchestra is for all orchestral instruments, all abilities and all ages from primary school to pensioners - all that is needed is one year's playing experience, an instrument, music stand and a willingness to play music and enjoy yourself! We play a wide range of music from classical to modern with public performances at various times throughout the year, especially at Christmas. We're really in need of string players, oboes and bassoons at present - and we'd like additional adult members. We don't hold auditions - everyone is always welcome.
[link]Meadows Chamber Orchestra Peter Evans
 
  [email]Spedding Micklem (Chairman)
 
The MCO has performed regularly and with critical acclaim to audiences in Edinburgh and many parts of Scotland for almost 30 years.
[link]New Edinburgh OrchestraTim Paxton
Joanna Michael
Nicolson Square Church, Tuesdays, 7 - 10 [email]Wind players
[email]String Players
The NEO is a friendly orchestra which performs 3 concerts a year which include new works, some commissioned by or written for the orchestra, as well as established classical repertoire.
[link]The Open OrchestraAndrew Lees
Laurence Egar
Wednesday (7.45pm - 9.45pm), September to June at: Cluny Church Centre, Cluny Drive, Edinburgh [email] 
 
There are vacancies in the String and Brass sections.
[link]Perth Symphony OrchestraAllan Young
Lorna McGovern
Wednesday evenings, 7.25-9.45 p.m. During term time, Perth Academy [email] 
 
We are always happy to welcome new members, especially brass and string players. No audition is necessary but we do ask for commitment to regular attendance at rehearsals and concerts.
[link]Phoenix Wind BandBill Phillips
 
Thursdays from 7-9 p.m. at the Society of Musicians, 3 Belford Road (near Dean Bridge), Edinburgh [email]Liz Wight
 
Running free workshops in February and March 2006 to encourage lapsed players back to performing music.
[link]The Really Terrible OrchestraSir Richard Neville-Towle
 
Wednesdays at St George's Music Rooms, Edinburgh. Generally 8pm [email]Peter Stevenson, Chairman
 
" the Really Terrible orchestra has rapidly become one of the highlights of the Edinburgh Fringe. Why this group of [very] modestly talented musicians should presume to perform in public is beyond anybody "
[link]The Rehearsal OrchestraLevon Parikian
Edmund Reid
Weekend courses in London and Manchester; annual week-long course at the Edinburgh Festival [email]Anne-Marie Norman 020 7820 9994
 
Not a regular weekly orchestra, nor strictly amateur, but has for many years rehearsed and played in London as well as around the country
[link]St Andrew Amateur Orchestral SocietyJohn Mortimer
 
James Gillespie High School - Tuesday evenings, 7:15pm - 9:15pm (mid September through to early May) [email]Frank Glynn 01383 860265
 
The orchestra is always interested to hear from potential new players: strings, wind, brass etc. (although we cannot always guarantee vacancies in all sections).
[link]St James Orchestra, PaisleyEric Dunlea
Alan Laing
in the Free Church, St Ives [email]Tom Ferguson 01505 816132
 
St James Orchestra is always pleased to welcome new members. No formal audition is necessary while previous experience of orchestral playing is helpful but not essential. For string players, experience to around Grade IV/V standard will be adequate - orchestra players are always happy to help new members get "up to speed".
[link]Scottish Borders Community OrchestraNEWGuest conductors
Lucy Cowan
Various evenings for individual groups – see website for details [email]SBCO office 01573 228464
 
We invite players of grade 5 or above to join us for regular practice groups taken by professional musicians and play in occasional chamber performances and twice yearly orchestral concerts. Concerts are held in the main towns of the Borders under a guest professional conductor, usually with a professional soloist. In addition we perform in schools, care homes and hospitals.
[link]Scottish SinfoniaNeil Mantle
Michael Rigg
Concert weekend and three Sunday afternoons beforehand [email] 
 
The orchestra is a mixture of professional players, instrumental teachers and amateurs, who aim to make music to the highest standard of which they are capable. The orchestra is organised concert by concert, and changes in size according to the programme requirements.
The Skye and Lochalsh OrchestraRosemary Bungard
Margaret Cormack
Twice monthly, August - April/May. Saturday 10 -12.30 (main orchestra) 12.45 – 2pm (training orchestra) [email]Rosemary Bungard 01478 660248
 
Founded 3 years ago, approximately 60 members divided between the main orchestra and the string training orchestra. We give 2 main concerts a year in December and April/May, the Christmas concert is a fundraiser for local charities.
[link]Solway SinfoniaGeoff Keating
John Phillips
4 Sunday afternoon rehearsals for each of 2 main concerts per year. [email]Nick Riley (Chairman)
 
Founded in 1997 and drawing members from round the Solway estuary, we give two concerts a year, one in Dumfries and one elsewhere in the region. Our website, www.solwaysinfonia.org.uk gives full details of our history, concerts, rehearsals etc.
[link]Stirling Orchestra John McGonigle
Lois Stewart
Wallace High School, Stirling. Thursdays 7:15 - 9:30pm, September to May. [email] 
 
Keen to recruit any strings and bassoons, trumpets and trombones.
[link]Stockbridge & New Town Community OrchestraLouise Martin
Donald MacLeod
Thursday evenings at 7.30 at the Stockbridge Parish Church on Saxe-Coburg Street, Edinburgh [email]Infoline 0792 985-0483
 
Friendly for-fun group working to 2 - 3 concerts per year. Grade 3+, no audition. Currently recruiting strings (especially 'cello and viola) and brass.
[link]The Yetholm SinfoniaGeoffrey Emerson
Tony Kime
Rehearses on the concert day, concerts mainly given in Kelso's octagonal Old Parish Church [email]Geoffrey Emerson 01 573 420 279
 
An occasional orchestra, but giving eight concerts in 2007, with a subdivision called Border Blowers. Last Orchestra in Scotland!

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