Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra
Our next concert…
Sunday 14 June 2026, 3pm
SWSO celebrate 70 years with a new commission from local composer Sarah Cattley.
SWSO’s 70th anniversary year celebrates the past but also looks to the future. The first performance of a new commission from talented local composer Sarah Cattley opens the concert. We follow with Kabalevsky's youthful Violin Concerto, played here by rising star and winner of the 2025 Barker Bursary, Alice Cumberbatch. Written in 1953, the year of Stalin’s death, Dmitri Shostakovich’s monumental 10th Symphony vividly characterises life under the dictator, but finishes with a positive vision of the future.
Cattley – Zarparān - (New Commission)
Kabalevsky - Violin Concerto (Alice Cumberbatch - Violin)
Shostakovich – Symphony No.10
Sunday 4th October 2026, 3pm, Saffron Hall
James Mayhew - Birds and Animals Themed Concert
Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
Ravel - Mother Goose
Saturday 31st October 2026, 7.30pm, Thaxted Church
James Bond themed concert
Sunday 29th November 2026, 3.00pm, Saffron Hall
Hovhaness - And God Created Great Whales
Page - Tahlequah (Markus Sadler, Piano)
Vaughan Williams - Sinfonia Antarctica
Sunday 7th February 2027, 3.00pm, Saffron Hall
A concert of film music
Sunday 9th May 2027, 3.00pm, Saffron Hall
Barber - Essay No.1 for Orchestra
Bax - Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra (Robin Ashwell, Viola)
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Saturday 26th June 2027, 7.30pm, Saffron Hall
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra and Saffron Walden Choral Society
Elgar - The Music Makers