Members

Cellos 2006

The orchestra rehearses on Mondays from 19:30 to 22:00 at Bishop Justus CE School, Magpie Hall Lane, Bromley BR2 8HZ. Please bring a music stand to rehearsals.  Bowed string parts are available online after the first rehearsal and string players mark up their own parts. Tea, coffee and biscuits are normally available for 50p during the rehearsal interval – please bring your own mug if possible.

We welcome applications from prospective members and ask new members to complete a registration form and Gift Aid declaration after their first rehearsal. We collect an annual subscription from members who attend rehearsals, with a 50% discount for students. Seating positions are rotated where possible and there are opportunities to perform solo parts.

Playing members commit to the full rehearsal series for each concert they play in. If an absence is unavoidable please contact your section leader immediately, and if you were due to rehearse a solo part, please find a deputy. Members are also expected to put in the necessary time outside rehearsals to learn and practise the pieces they perform, and to promote ticket sales for all the orchestra’s concerts. 

There is a facebook members group ‘BSO Tutti‘, an official facebook page to like and follow, an X feed @BromleySymphony and an Instagram account bromleysymphony. Many instrument sections have WhatsApp groups – ask your section leader to be invited. Some members socialise at The Two Doves in Oakley Road after rehearsals and The Railway in West Wickham after concerts.

Rehearsal and Event Schedule

Dates for next season are provisional.

Monday 27th Jan, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Sectionals

Wind/brass 19:30 Strauss 20:15 Mahler

Monday 3rd Feb, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Mahler mov 1, 2, 4

Monday 10th Feb, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Strauss

21:00 Schubert

Monday 24th Feb, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Mahler mov 3, 2, 4, 1

Monday 3rd Mar, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Strauss

21:15 Schubert

Monday 10th Mar, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

19:30 Strauss

20:45 Mahler

Saturday 15th Mar, 2025
14:00 - 17:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

14:00 Strauss

15:00 Mahler

16:15 Schubert

Saturday 15th Mar, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Schubert Symphony 8 (Unfinished)
25’ 2222 2230 Str.

Strauss Four Last Songs
24’ Maximum orch. 4(2fl,2 picc), 3(CA). 3(Bcl.) 4331. T. Hp. Cel. Str.

Interval

Mahler Symphony 4
54’ 3(picc), 1 Picc, 3(CA), 3( Eflat and Bcl.), 3(Con). 4300. T. 4Perc. Hp. Str.

Monday 17th Mar, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Monday 24th Mar, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Monday 31st Mar, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Monday 28th Apr, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Tuesday 29th Apr, 2025
19:00 - 21:30

Bishop Justus CE School

Note Tuesday and early start

Rehearsal

Tuesday 6th May, 2025
19:00 - 21:30

Bishop Justus CE School

Note Tuesday and early start

Rehearsal

Monday 12th May, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Saturday 17th May, 2025
14:00 - 17:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Rehearsal

Saturday 17th May, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Ravel Alborada del gracioso
8’ Prominent bassoon solo. 3(picc).2+ca.2.2+contra/4.2.3.1/timp.perc(lots!).2hp/str

Brahms Double Concerto
38’ Thelma & Lionel Handy. 2.2.2.2/4.2.0.0/timp/str

Shostakovich Symphony 5
55’ 3(picc).2.3(Eb).3(contra)/4.3.3.1/timp.perc.2hp.cel.pno/str

Monday 19th May, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Monday 2nd Jun, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Monday 9th Jun, 2025
19:30 - 22:00

Bishop Justus CE School

Rehearsal

Sunday 15th Jun, 2025
14:00 - 16:00

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Rehearsal

Sunday 15th Jun, 2025
17:00 - 19:30

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts

Concert Order and Orchestration:

Childrens’ Concert

Saint Saëns Carnival of the Animals
22’ Full orchestra version arr by Richard Blackford

Kleinsinger Tubby the Tuba
20’ 2(2pic)12(bcl)1/2211/timp.2perc/cel(pf)/str Narrator tbc

Richard Brown Pageant of the Seas
2.2.2.2/4.2(1 dbl picc tpt).2.1/Timps. 3 perc. Hp. Optional mandolin/str. (and yes, that’s correct – just two trombones rather than three).

Monday 16th Jun, 2025
20:00 - 22:30

Bishop Justus CE School

20:00 AGM, library