IWSO thrills with new season opener to a packed audience

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Last Saturday, 19th November, the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra got their 2022/23 season under way with a trio of works that showed off their versatility and innate musicianship. Playing to a packed Medina Theatre, the concert kicked off with Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture”, a six-minute tour de force offering a combination of majesty and dexterity […]

Where There’s A Will

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Jonathan Dodd, of On The Wight, shares his review of the latest Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra concert. On Saturday 9th July, in sweltering heat, the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra performed a fantastically varied programme of music from many countries and periods, in a celebration of the end of this season’s concerts. There were […]

Island premiere for orchestral work thought to have gone down with the Titanic

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The Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Johnathan Butcher, opened the new year on Saturday 22 January at Medina Theatre, blowing away the cobwebs with some lively dances from Croydon to Bohemia, and a breath-taking performance by Charlie Lovell-Jones . The young violinist, recognised as one of the most promising of his generation to […]