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.
We are very fortunate to be led by a very experienced conductor who is well known in the local area. Mike's sense of humour combined with his passion for music encourages musicians of every standard.

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 are also looking for a permanent conductor as our present director (who was involved in the group many years ago and is filling in on a temporary basis) is prepared to share the role or to hand the baton over (metaphorically speaking as he doesn't use one!) to a suitable applicant. This is a purely voluntary post. If you are interested, please contact us at join@fleetorchestra.co.uk.

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!