Southend Symphony Orchestra - Forthcoming Concerts

	Forthcoming Concert
	Saturday 4 February 2006 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Citadel, Hadleigh, Essex Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin Leader - Richard Brittain Elgar - Enigma Variations Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra Ticket Prices £8.00 / Concessions£7.00 / Accompanied children under 12 £1.00 Tickets will be available a month in advance from: - The Salvation Army Temple, London Road, Hadleigh. The Southend on Sea Tourist Information Centre on Southend Pier ABC Music Roseberry Way, Church Road, Benfleet, Essex. (01268) 755005 MusicLand 98 Hamlet Court Road (01702) 582926 Tickets will also be available at the door. Future concerts to be announced here Saturday 17 June 2006 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Citadel, Hadleigh, Essex Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin Leader - Richard Brittain Tchaikovsky - Fantasy - Overture Romeo and Juliet Mozart - Clarinet Concerto Elgar - Symphony No 1
	Concerts Past Saturday 22 October 2005 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, Essex Conductor - Jean-Louis Gosselin Leader - Richard Brittain Soloist - Giovannin Guzzo Mendelssohn - Overture to a Midsummer Nights Dream Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto Sibelius - Symphony No 2 programme notes
	Soloist Giovani Guzzo Born in Margarita, Venezuela, Giovanni Guzzo started his Music studies with the Piano at the age of five and started his Violin studies at the age of six. Since 1996 he was a pupil of Emil Friedman and Luis Miguel Gonzales. Since then, he has been performing as a soloist in different venues in Venezuela, Spain and the UK. He has participated in Master Classes given by Jean Jacques Kantorow, Virginie Robilliard, Lenuta Ciulei, Raphael Quartet, Norbert Brainin, Andres Cardenes, Mauricio Fuks, Zvi Zeitlin, Stoika Milanova, Sally Thomas from the Juilliard Music School of New York, attending to The Meadowmount School of Music of New York.
	He is the winner of the First Prize in the XII National Violin Competition Juan Bautista Plaza in the year 1999 in Venezuela. He has performed as a soloist with the most important Venezuelan Orchestras such as the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of Caracas, Aragua Symphony Orchestra, giving concerts in different Venezuelan Cities. He is a student of Maurice Hasson at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he has performed with prestigious musicians such as Sir Colin Davis, Hugo Wolf, Mats Lidstrom, Colin Carr, among others. He has recently been awarded with a MBF String Award( MBF Music Education Award 2004) and was also one of the 6 finalists in last year's YCAT competition at the Wigmore Hall in London.
	Saturday 18 June 2005 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Citadel, Hadleigh, Essex Conductor: - Richard Brittain Soloist - Joanna Smith Glinka - Ruslan & Lyudmila Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 3 Dvořák - Symphony No 9 in Em "From the New World" programme notes
	Soloist: Joanna Smith Joanna Smith was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She attended Westcliff High School for Girls and learned the piano with Honor Jackson before going on to study at the Royal College of Music with Ruth Gerald. There she gained a First Class Honours degree and Postgraduate Diplomas in Performance and Advanced Performance (Accompaniment) with Distinction. Her last two years of study were partly funded by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, The Old Broad Street Charity Trust and a RCM Senior Exhibition.
	Whilst at college, she won several prizes including the Margerita & Peter Oundjan Prize for violin and piano duo, the John Ireland Accompanist Prize, the Adami Accompaniment Prize and the Fortepiano 2nd prize. In 1994 she won the Southend Young Musician of the Year competition and in 1997 won ~ Prize in the Essex Young Musician of the Year. Since graduating, Joanna has enjoyed a busy and varied career as a freelance pianist. She enjoys travelling, having performed extensively across the UK and foreign trips have included visits to Paris, Bologna, Ascona, Chicago (for a live radio broadcast) and Vancouver. Having made her Wigmore Hall debut recital in March 2003 with Andrew Mason (clarinet), much of her work is now at the Royal College of Music, where she accompanies for master classes, concerts, auditions and exams. Her greatest loves lie with duo, chamber and orchestral music for which she has worked with the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Concert and Elgar Chamber Orchestras. Joanna also teaches piano, is musical director for the musical theatre group ‘Rainbow 2000' and adjudicates; on two occasions at the Hong Kong Schools' Music Festival - each time hearing over 1500 pianists! Saturday 12 February 2005 at 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Citadel, Hadleigh, Essex Conductor: - Antoine Mitchell Beethoven - Symphony No 2 Op36 in D Brahms - Symphony No 1 Schumann - Overture Manfred programme notes Saturday 23 October 2004, 7.30pm at The Salvation Army Citadel, Hadleigh, Essex Conductor: - Antoine Mitchell Soloist - Keith Gurry Dvořák - Slavonic Rhapsody Delius - Violin Concerto Soloist Keith Gurry Tchailovsky - Symphony No. 5 programme notes Keith Gurry Keith was born in East Ham where he received his first musical education. He studied the violin with Marta Eitler before going to The Royal Academy of Music in 1964. Whilst at The Academy, he worked with Ralph Holmes and after being awarded the Bach and Beethoven Scholarship, he continued his studies with Sidney Griller. In 1968, Keith joined The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and continued studying the violin with Homi Kanga. He served on the Board of Directors of that Orchestra from 1973 to 1977. In 1978, Keith joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra and combined orchestral work with recitals and appearances with several chamber music groups. Together with his recital partner of over twenty years, the pianist David Silkoff, Keith made his Purcell Room debut in June 1977. Keith is currently the Leader of the Essex Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Antoine Mitchell. He is frequent guest and firm friend of the SSO and his generous nature and obvious musical talent and presence has made him a popular figure with orchestra and audiences alike. His violin is by Paul Collins