The GCO is always on the look-out for new players. We currently have vacancies for cellos and double basses. Details on how to join the orchestra can be found by clicking the link below.

Details have now been released on our NEW Support the GCO programme! Click on the button below to find out more about how YOU can support your favourite chamber orchestra!

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The The Glasgow Chamber Orchestra is a charity registered in Scotland No SC022256 The Orchestra is affiliated to Making Music Scotland - Supporting and Championing Voluntary Music

The Glasgow Chamber Orchestra is an amateur orchestra based in Glasgow, and has been making music here for over 50 years. We give 3 main concerts each year, usually in March, May and November. You can find out lots more about the orchestra and its music in the pages of this web-site. Hopefully, you will be encouraged to come along to a concert, or if you are a musician, you may be interested in joining us. We invite you to browse through the site, and if you need more information, there is a Contacts Page so that you can get in touch.

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Rehearsal Update

Spring Concert

We have a break from rehearsals this coming Tuesday 10 March, but full rehearsals for our Summer concert will begin on Tuesday 17 March at the usual time and venue. However, those who are playing in the Paisley Abbey Coats Choral concert are reminded that we have a rehearsal for that concert on WEDNESDAY 11 March at 7.30pm in Sherbooke Mosspark Church. An updated rehearsal schedule can be found by clicking the button below. This schedule now contains the dates of all rehearsals and concerts out to the end of April.

Another superb concert on Sunday night at St John’s Renfield Church. Well done everyone, a full programme that showed off every section of the orchestra playing at their peak. Great feedback from the audience afterwards!

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GCO on the Road !

March is a very busy month for the GCO. In addition to our Spring Concert, we will be taking part in two further Choral Concerts in Paisley and in Greenock. First up is the Coats Choral concert to be held in Paisley Abbey on Sunday 22 March at 7.30pm. The programme comprises the popular Gloria by Vivaldi, and a modern choral work entitled Illuminare by Elaine Hagenberg. Then, on Saturday 28 March, we travel down to Greenock for our annual concert with the Greenock Philharmonic Choir. This year, the choir will be performing Vivaldi’s Gloria and Benjamin Britten’s St Nicholas. This latter work includes the Voices of Inverclyde Senior Schools and St Mary’s Primary School.

Summer Concert

Our final concert for the 2025-26 season sees the return of one of our popular past soloists in the shape of Iona McDonald, this time with her partner Jonathan Fong, to play the formidable Brahms Double concerto for violin and cello. Bookending this momentous work are two Beethoven favourites, the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and the mighty Eroica Symphony A concert not be missed! We are back to our traditional concert venue of Sherbrooke Mosspark Church for this concert, which takes place on Sunday 31 May at 7.30pm. Tickets are now available from our ticketing agent Trybooking. Simply click on the button below to go to their web site.

The GCO is always on the look-out for new players. We currently have vacancies for cellos and double basses. Details on how to join the orchestra can be found by clicking the link below.

Details have now been released on our NEW Support the GCO programme! Click on the button below to find out more about how YOU can support your favourite chamber orchestra!

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