Next Concert 26th June. Our 10th Anniversary 2022/23 Concert programme is now announced!
Next Concert:
Sunday 26th June 2022 at 4pm
St Michael and All Angels, Beckenham
Kendall The Spark Catchers
Britten/Matthews Movements for a Clarinet Concerto
with soloist Nicholas Shipman
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9
Conductor: David Smith
2022/23 Concert Season
We are please to announce an exciting and varied programme of five concerts for our 10th Anniversary season. Details are here
April 2022 Concert
Thanks and congratulations to all those who played in and supported the SELO concert on April 10th. Special thanks to our soloist Jessica, our leader, Mario, and not forgetting our conductor for putting together this challenging programme! From the large audience at St Michael and All Angels, we raised over £500 for the DEC Ukraine Appeal; huge thanks to those who gave so generously.
About Us
South East London Orchestra is one of south London’s leading orchestras with a reputation for exciting, high quality concerts.
Our concerts feature great pieces of classical music by composers such as Beethoven, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Weber. SELO is equally at home with the music of the twentieth-century, performing works by Bartok, Copland, Debussy, Nielsen, Ravel and Sibelius.
We are proud of our tradition of performing music by British composers, from Boyce, Elgar and Vaughan Williams to more recent works by Lennox Berkeley, Joseph Horovitz and Richard Rodney Bennett. In 2016 we gave the UK premiere performance of a work by Fung Lam.
Based in Beckenham, we have many members from the local area and others from further afield. Our short rehearsal periods, led by conductor David Smith, are designed to appeal to busy musicians, and rehearsals are a fine balance of hard work and enjoyment.
SELO was founded in 2012 by our Music Director, David Smith, and Natalie Cole. Since then we have grown the orchestra and embedded ourselves in the heart of Beckenham’s cultural life.
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We are very interested to hear from all strings and brass players of grade 8 standard or above and/or substantial experience of playing with large ensembles. See our Joining page for more details
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Rehearsals are now underway for our final concert of the 21/22 season! Alongside Shostakovich 9, and the Britten/Matthews Clarinet concerto we’ll be playing London-born Kendall’s The Spark Catchers. More info on this piece from the composer herself here! https://buff.ly/39mxndT