Can you help?

The IWSO are indebted to Wightlink for their continued sponsorship. They provide generously reduced fares ferry crossings for our conductor, soloists and guest musicians. Without their support we could not operate in the way we do.

We are also extremely grateful to Allan Marsh LRPS for much of the photography of the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra published on this and other websites.

The players love making music so much that they each pay £120 every year in the subscription. This covers our rehearsal fees and goes towards the hire of music, concert venue costs and fees/expenses for players of instruments that do not reside locally. It also allows us to employ a high-quality conductor.

Recently we have been lucky enough to have sellout houses for our concerts, however even with all this support the majority of our concerts run at a financial loss. The Medina Theatre is an excellent venue but is limited on its seating capacity. There is no other venue on the Island that has a stage big enough or acoustics good enough for the orchestra.

We need to keep ticket prices competitive to attract the full houses, but need to explore other revenue streams. Can you help?

We are actively seeking sponsors both corporate and individual. Maybe you have a special Birthday or Anniversary, or might like to support a concert in memory of a loved one? Support can either be acknowledged in the programme or you can remain anonymous.

Areas where sponsorship would be welcome are listed below, the monetary values are there as a guide and are open to negotiation.
If you can help, please contact the IWSO here.

 

Some of the Sponsorship Opportunities

There are a number of opportunities available for both corporate and individual sponsorship and can be for either the entire season, or for one concert.

  • Concert Sponsorship from £1500 per concert
  • Sponsor the Conductor £1000 per concert
  • Sponsor the Concert’s Soloist £700 per concert
  • Sponsor the Music Hire £500 per concert
  • Sponsor the Orchestra Leader £350 per concert
  • Sponsor a Guest Player £100 per concert
  • Sponsor a Young Orchestral Player £120 per season
  • Sponsor a Guest Player £100 per concert
  • Sponsor a Principal Player £120 per season
  • Sponsor a Non-Principal Player £50 per season

If you are a UK tax payer, any of the above is eligible for gift aid. Your generosity will be acknowledged in the programme(s). Of course, please let us know if you wish this to be anonymous.

To really help secure the future of live, local, orchestral music on the Island, you might want to remember us in your will.

 

CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION

Upcoming Concerts and Events

Dmytro Fonariuk, Clarinet

Dmytro Fonariuk, Clarinet

Saturday 18th May 2024, 7.15pm Scenes from the Humber, Anthony Hedges Introduction, Theme and Variations, Gioacchino Rossini Soloist: Dmytro Fonariuk Night On Bare Mountain, Modeste Mussorgsky Concertino in E flat, Carl Maria von Weber Soloist: Dmytro Fonariuk Symphony No.2 in B minor, Alexander Borodin A musician of wide artistic tastes and talents, Anthony Hedges was initially educated at Bicester Grammar School. While there he became Organist of his local Methodist Church before heading to Oxford to study music. His abiding love of Yorkshire, including its dales and moors, developed during his years of National Service. He later moved to the East Riding which inspired a number of major works, not least the Scenes From The Humber which celebrated the Humber Bridge. Gioacchino Rossini is well known for his operatic output yet retired from composing in his early forties to concentrate on his other great loves —eating and drinking. His Introduction, Theme and Variations was composed when he was just 18 years old as a student project at the Bologna Conservatory of Music. It remains one of the most popular virtuosic works for clarinet to this day. The IWSO welcomes the you Ukrainian clarinettist, Dmytro Fonariuk, to perform with us for […]

Thomas Luke, Piano

Thomas Luke, Piano

Saturday 6th July 2024, 7.15pm Fanfare from La Péri, Paul Dukas Festivities, Roy Douglas Warsaw Concerto, Richard Addinsell Soloist: Thomas Luke Dance of the Hours, Amilcare Ponchielli Orb and Sceptre, William Walton Three Card Trick Suite, Pam Wedgwood Party Piece, Richard Rodney Bennett Billy The Kid, Aaron Copland Paul Dukas’ La Péri is a 1912 ballet in one act and is about a man’s search for immortality and an encounter with a mythological Péri (a winged, fairy-like creature). The original music to the ballet was written in 1911 as a Poème Dansé En Un Tableau (Dance Poem in One Scene), and was Dukas’ last published work. The opening fanfare is often performed separately and is a fitting start to our concert. Festivities, an orchestral overture by British composer Roy Douglas, was written 1972. Although having a large output of his own, Roy Douglas worked alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Richard Adinsell as editor, copyist and amanuensis. his favourite recreation was motorcycling, travelling throughout England on a Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub until his doctor ordered him to stop after his 80th birthday Roy Douglas also orchestrated Richard Adinsell’s music for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight, which contained the popular […]