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History: Fleet Orchestra was founded about 30 years ago with the intention to assemble a group of local musicians to make music and have some fun at the same time without the full time commitment required of some of the more professional orchestras! The ethos was to enjoy making music whilst striving for improvement. Today we are a small ensemble, who enjoy playing our
instruments, working together to make music. Every Wednesday we work enjoy
working together to improve our playing and experience new music under the
guidance of our musical director. Our repertoire ranges from arrangements of the classics through to light music, and includes some pieces specially written or arranged for us. However we do endeavour to ensure that there is music that is appropriate for the resources and standard of players in our group for time to time. This means a combination of challenging works and more straight forward arrangements are looked at side by side. We welcome players both the enthusiast and those who may not
have played for a long time, however the music we play requires a standard of,
as a general guide, equivalent to around Grade 4 and above. There is no age
barrier and we welcome older school children and college students. We meet at St. Philip & St. James Church, 97 Kings Road, Fleet, Hampshire GU51 3AR (between Wood Lane and Westover Road on the map) on Wednesday evenings at 8pm. Our regular rehearsal schedule is posted here on our web site. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact us at join@fleetorchestra.co.uk and we'll get back to you! |