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Previous Concert Programmes

13 August 2009

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor:     Willem van der Vis
   
Khachaturian: Waltz from Masquerade  

Copland; Variations on a Shaker Melody.

 
Mussorgsky; A Night on Bare Mountain.  

Barry McKimm

 

Barry McKimm; Dandenong Suite

with narrator: Beverley Menzies

Narrator: Beverley Menzies

 
 

14 May 2009

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductors:
    Christopher Martin and Willem van der Vis
 


   

Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus

 
Haydn: Concerto in D for Cello and Orchestra
soloist: Faye Goldsmith
 
Soloist: Faye Goldsmith
 
Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances

 

27 November 2008

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin
 

Soloist: Rebecca Chan

   

Dvořák: Slavonic Dances Op.46 Nos. 4 & 8

 
Grieg: Norwegian Dances Op.35  
Soloist: Stefanie Farrands
 
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K364

soloists: Rebecca Chan, violin; Stefanie Farrands, viola
 

18 September 2008

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Willem van der Vis
 


   

Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite no 1

Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz

Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute

 
   
 

22 May 2008

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin
 
   

Walton: Crown Imperial March

 

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8  
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Featuring: Christopher Martin and Patricia King with the Orchestra's strings and Ruth Muir [harpsichord]
 

22 November 2007

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin
 
10th Year Anniversary
   

* featuring Nahum Warhaft with the mighty Sousaphone

Rossini: Overture to Barber of Seville

 
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 [The London]  
Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 cellos and strings
Soloists: Annette Martin and Faye Goldsmith
 

Eric Coates: March from "The Dam Busters"
 
Sousa: The Liberty Bell March ***  
Strauss: Radetzky March  

9 August 2007

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Willem van der Vis
   
   

Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1
Soloist Pamela Bloom

 
Massenet: Le Cid Ballet
 

Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from the opera Prince Igor
with U3A Hawthorn Choir
 
Offenbach: Intermezzo to Tales of Hoffman    

17 May 2007

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin
   
   

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
- Mackerras arrangement

 
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor
Soloist Benjamin Martin
 

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
 

9 December 2006

Leonda Receptions
Conductor: Christopher Martin

U3A Hawthorn's 21st Birthday Celebrations


26 October 2006

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin
   
   
Soloist Annette Martin

Bruch - Kol Nidrei for Cello and Orchestra
Fauré - Elegie opus 24 for Cello and Orchestra

 
Soloist: Annette Martin
 

Schubert - Overture in C "In the Italian Style"
Dvořák - Symphony No.4 in G major, opus 88
 

10 August 2006

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Willem van der Vis

Mendelssohn: "Ruy Blas" Overture
Max Bruch: Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G minor

Soloist: Suyeong Kang

Beethoven: Symphony No.6 "Pastoral"


11 May 2006

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin

Mozart - Overture: La Clemenza di Tito
Mozart - Concerto for violin & orchestra No.4 in D
Soloist: Gillian Rosefield
Dvorak - 2 Movements from Symphony No.9 in E minor {"From the New World")


3 November 2005

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin

   
Conductor Christopher Martin

Haydn - Symphony No. 92 (the "Oxford")
Telemann - Concerto for viola and strings

 
Soloist: Christopher Martin
 

Walter Leigh - Concertino for piano and strings
soloist: Stefan Cassomenos
Sibelius - Finlandia
Grainger - Country Gardens
 

11 August 2005

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin

Rossini - Overture to "The Barber of Seville"
Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra
soloists: Rebecca Chan, violin    Nicholas Clifford, viola

Schubert - Symphony No 8 [the 'Unfinished']
Strauss - Waltz "The Blue Danube"


12 May 2005

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin

Mendelssohn - “ Hebrides ” Overture
Haydn - Symphony no 54 in G major
Bizet - Carmen Suite no 2


4 November 2004

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin

Haydn - Symphony no 101 “The Clock”
Handel - Sonata for 2 cellos and strings

soloists: Henry Wenig, Annette Martin, cello
Couperin - Pieces en concert for solo cello and strings
soloist: Henry Wenig
Bizet - Carmen Suite no 1


29 July 2004

Hawthorn Town Hall
Conductor: Christopher Martin

Beethoven - “Coriolan” Overture
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no 5
soloists: Juliette Zeelander,violin; Ben Martin,piano; Eleanor Donelan, flute
Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia
Massenet - Scenes Pittoresques


22 April 2004

St John’s Anglican Church, Camberwell
Conductor: Christopher Martin

Haydn - Symphony no 53 “L’Imperiale”
Beethoven - Romance no 2 in F for violin and orchestra

soloist: Holly Piccoli
Bach arr. – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Saint-Saëns - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for violin and orchestra

soloist: Holly Piccoli
Walton - “Crown Imperial” Coronation March

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