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
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 below to find out more about how YOU can support your favourite chamber orchestra!

Join the GCO !

Support the GCO !

Join the GCO
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 !

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Photos courtesy of Neil Stuchbury (@what_stuch_saw)

Rehearsal Update

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Choral Concerts
Support the GCO

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.

Rehearsal Schedule
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
Trybooking
Click on the button to go to our online booking agent to book your tickets now!
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 below to find out more about how YOU can support your favourite chamber orchestra!
Welcome !
Join the GCO !   Support the GCO !  
Glasgow Chamber Orchestra
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!
 GCO Summer Concert
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.
Photo courtesy of Neil Stuchbury (@what_stuch_saw)
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.
Choral Concerts  

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.

Rehearsal Update

 Rehearsal Schedule
The GCO is a charity registered in Scotland No SC022256
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.
Click on the button below to go to our online booking agent to book your tickets now!
Trybooking
Tickets Adults - £15 Concessions - £10 Children (under 18yrs) - £5