Following our first (and highly successful) concert in St John’s
Renfield church, our final orchestral concert of the 2024-25
season returns to the familiar setting of Sherbrooke Mosspark
Church, on Sunday 25 May.
The concert opens with Schubert’s delightful Overture in the
Italian Style. Written in 1817, when Vienna was in the grip of
a Rossini music craze, this was Schubert’s take on the style.
Light, tuneful and melodic, it makes a great start to our
summer concert.
Arriaga was a Spanish composer in the classical style. He was
born in 1806 but sadly died too soon, of tuberculosis, just
before his 20th birthday. He was lauded at the Spanish
conservatoire as the “Spanish Mozart”, but such was his short
life that his potential was never realised. His Symphony in D
has been compared to Mozart’s 40th. Here’s your chance to
see what you think!
Closing our summer concert is summer music personified. Mendelssohn’s Italian symphony
stemmed from a Grand Tour of Italy in 1830. It has been described as “blue sky in A major”, and
Mendelssohn himself described it as the happiest music I have ever written. Enjoy!
The GCO is always
on the look-out for
new players. We
currently have
vacancies for
violas, cellos and
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
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Glasgow Chamber Orchestra
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.
Welcome !
Photos courtesy of Neil Stuchbury (@what_stuch_saw)
Rehearsal Update
Choral Concerts
GCO Summer Concert
Rehearsals continue on Tuesday
evenings in the Balshagray Centre.
Following the EGM on Tuesday, the
decision has been taken to move to
Sherbrooke Mosspark church for our
rehearsals as from September 2025.
A full rehearsal schedule can be
found by clicking the button below.
The GCO continues to be in great demand, accompaning local choirs in their choral concerts. So
far, in 2025, we have accompanied the Coats Choral Choir in their spring concert, which featured
Poulenc’s Gloria and the Faure Requiem, and the Greenock Philharmonic Choir, in their
performance of Brahms’ A German Requiem.
The orchestra is greatly indebted to all the players who have given up their time to play in these
events, which are additions to our normal concert season programme.
Our final role as choral accompanists will be in May, when we will be
accompanying the Kelvin Choir in their summer concert, featuring a
lesser known version of Vivaldi’s Gloria and a Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo.
This takes place on Saturday 10 May in St John’s Renfield church at
7.30pm. Tickets can be purchased at the door on the night.
Tickets - Adults - £15 Concessions - £10 Children (under 18yrs) - £5
Click on the button to go to our online
booking agent to book your tickets now!