Notices for SWSO members

2019/20 concert dates:

Sunday 6th October 2019, 3pm (James Mayhew children’s concert)
Sunday 17th November 2019, 3pm (Sibelius 2 concert)
Sunday 9th February 2020, 3pm (Film music concert)
Saturday 28th March 2020, 7.30pm (CANCELLED)
Sunday 5th July 2020, 3pm (Family concert)

2020/21 concert dates:

Sunday 27th September 2020, 3pm (James Mayhew children’s concert)
Saturday 24th October 2020, 7.30pm (Thaxted Film music concert)
Sunday 29th November 2020, 3pm (Brahms, Rachmaninov, Khachaturian, Hindemith)
Sunday 7th February 2021, 3pm (American concert)
Sunday 16th May 2021, 3pm (Dance concert)
Sunday 27th June 2021, 3pm (Joint SWSO/SWCS concert)

Scheduled rehearsals:

Sunday 5th July 2020, 3pm: Family concert

Programme to include:

Edmunds – Peter and the Flu (World premiere)

Hovhaness – And God Created Great Whales

Sunday 7th June 2020: 6.30 – 9.30 NVH

Sunday 14th June 2020: 6.30 – 9.30 NVH

Sunday 21st June 2020: 6.30 – 9.30 NVH

Sunday 28th June 2020: 6.30 – 9.30 NVH

Friday 3rd July 2020: 7.30 – 9.30 SWCHS E7

Sunday 5th July 2020: 10.00 – 1.00 Saffron Hall

Tickets for our concerts in or near Saffron Walden are generally available from:

For events at Saffron Hall – online, tel. 0845 548 7650 or in person at the box office
For events in Saffron Walden including Saffron Hall – Saffron Walden Tourist Information Centre, 1 Market St, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1HR, tel. 01799 524002
On the door

Member subscriptions and gift aid

Please submit your subscription to our treasurer – £60/yr or £20/concert (first rehearsal free for newcomers), or by electronic payment to “Saffron Walden Orchestral Society – SWSO”, at Barclays Bank Plc, sort code. 20-00-87, Acct. 90850217.

Payment is due on 1st August. To save on admin for the committee, please set up a standing order.

If you are a taxpayer, you can make your subscription worth 25% more to the orchestra at no cost to yourself, by making it under the Gift Aid scheme. You can also help the orchestra minimise its administration costs by paying your subscription annually by standing order. Download the Gift Aid (.doc), and return it completed to our treasurer.

Please don’t regard subscriptions as optional; the orchestra does have significant costs to cover.

All programme information is subject to confirmation

Concert dress: all black, no jackets

In light of the latest information from Public Health England, it is with great sadness that we have made the difficult decision to cancel our forthcoming concert on Saturday 28th March in St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden. The Tourist Information Centre, Saffron Walden, will refund tickets purchased through the centre. We will work with the online box office provider to arrange refunds.

SWCO Easter Course – CANCELLED

We are very sorry to have to say that following the developments of the Covid-19 virus outbreak and with the closure of all schools, we have no alternative but to cancel the Easter Course 15-17th April 2020.