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St Saviour's Church
25 Sandpit Lane
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 4DF
England
Tickets
Prices: Tickets £18 on the door or £16 (plus booking fee) in advance from TicketSource. Children £1.
Book Tickets
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn – The Fair Melusine, Op.32: Overture
Dmitry Shostakovich – Cello Concerto no.1 in E flat major, Op.107
~ Interval ~
Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no.100 in G major 'Military', Hob.I:100
Performers
Lewis Gaston – Conductor
Ella Harrison – cello
Programme Note
Amadeus Chamber Orchestra welcomes back Lewis Gaston as conductor for our May concert. We open with Mendelssohn's romantic 'The Fair Melusina' overture, then welcome Ella Harrison as soloist in the lively and virtuosic Shostakovich 1st cello concerto. The second half of the concert opens with Wagner's intimate and tender Siegfried Idyll, written as a birthday gift for his wife. Haydn's dramatic Symphony no. 100 'Military' completes this exciting programme.
Our soloist Ella attended The Purcell School and is now in her first year at the Royal College of Music. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for five years, including as principal cello in 2025, performing at the BBC Proms. She was the soloist in Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra and played in Julian Lloyd Webber’s Broadway Arts Festival. She has also given recitals at St James Piccadilly, collaborated with the Lee Singers, and performed as a chamber musician at Wigmore Hall, both the Leeds and Leicester International Chamber Music Series, and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts.
