European Doctors Orchestra
Previous European Doctors Orchestra concerts
Glasshouse (previously known as The Sage), Gateshead, UK - Sunday 10 November 2024 (3pm)
The European Doctors Orchestra
The Northern Doctors Choir and the Fenham Ensemble
Constanca Simas conductor
Jessica Cale soprano
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Elena Kats-Chernin: Collective Heart; a specially commisisoned world premiere
Charity: St Oswald's Hospice (offering palliative care services across North East England)
Programme notes:
A Celebration of Life
Welcome to The Glasshouse for what promises to be a memorable European Doctors Orchestra concert in aid of St Oswald’s Hospice. Music is the ultimate celebration of that to which medicine aspires to protect: life, in all its triumphs and tragedies, ecstasy and anguish. As the Danish composer Carl Nielsen said of his fourth symphony, ‘Music is life, and like it, inextinguishable’. This programme is a reflection on the most joyful moments of life, symbolising that inextinguishable flame of hope which we carry through life’s darkest days. Above all, we celebrate life itself, uniting NHS workers, patients and carers through the magic of music.
This afternoon’s programme is full of memorable tunes, toe-tapping rhythms and full- throttle joie-de-vivre. Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso sparkles with the infectious energy of Spanish dance music. In his Gloria, fellow Frenchman Francis Poulenc ecstatically defines his vision of compassion for all mankind, tearing up the rulebook of sacred music in favour of something universally accessible to all people. We then present a new commission by award-winning composer Elena Kats-Chernin, Collective Heart, in honour of the 20th anniversary of the European Doctors’ Orchestra. Finally, the 20th century American composers George Gershwin and Aaron Copland celebrate the sounds, romance and optimism of post-war Paris and the delirious swagger of the Mid-West in An American in Paris and Rodeo.
With very best wishes for a wonderful concert.
June 2024: Basel, Switzerland
Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale from Samson & Dalila
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Orchestral Suite No.2
Conductor: Christopher Morris Whiting
Soloist: Charl du Plessis, piano
Charity: Basel Cancer League
Sept 2023: Manchester, UK
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Conductor: Timothy Redmond
Choirs:
Ladies of St George’s Singers
Choristers of Blackburn Cathedral
Choristers of Salford Cathedral
Soloists: Sarah Castle (mezzo-soprano)
Charity: The Christie Charitable Fund
April 2023: Bad Nauheim & Wiesbaden, Germany
Verdi: Requiem
Conductor: Christopher Morris Whiting
Choir master: Fabian Kühn
Soloists: Camila Ribero-Souza (soprano), Silvia Hauer (alto), Michael Connaire (tenor), Stephanos Tsirakoglo (bass)
Charities: Palliativ Pro”, “Lebenshilfe” Wetterau and Gießen, Akademie für Ältere
February 2023: La Folle Journée, (La Cité des Congrès, Nantes), France
Mozart: Serenade No 13 K525 Eine kleine nachtmusik
Mozart: Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra K299
Conductor: Alexander Rudin
October 2022: Cadogan Hall - London, UK
Walton: Orb and Sceptre overture
Shostakovich: Violin concerto no 1
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Conductor: Grant Llewllyn
Soloist: Hyeyoon Park, violin
Charity: Royal Medical Benevolent Fund
June 2022: Moravská Filharmonie Olomouc - Olomouc, Czech Republic
Dvorak: The Water Goblin (Vodník) Op 107
Lalo: Cello Concerto
Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Vilém Petras, cello
Charity: Crosspoint Olomouc
February 2020: La Folle Journée, (La Cité des Congrès, Nantes and Salle Atlantia, La Baule), France
Beethoven: Symphony no 5
Beethoven: Romance no 2
Conductor: Faycal Karoui
Charity: West France Cancer Institute.
October 2019: Bridgewater Hall - Manchester, UK
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Brahms: Schicksalslied, Song of Destiny for Choir and Orchestra, Op.54
Shostakovich: Symphony no.7 in C major, "Leningrad", Op.60
Conductor: Peter Stark
Choir: St George’s Singers
Charity: St Ann’s Hospice.
July 2019: Philharmonic Hall - Essen, Germany
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Rachmaninov: Piano Concert No. 2
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration)
Conductor: Johannes Klumpp
Soloist: Benjamin Moser, piano
Charity: KrebsStiftung NRW.
February 2019: La Folle Journée, La Cité des Congrès, Nantes, France
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 (New World)
Conductor: Faycal Karoui
Charity: West France Cancer Institute.
October 2018: Cadogan Hall - London, UK
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Dvořák: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Conductor: Christopher Morris Whiting
Soloist: Jack Liebeck, violin
Charity: The Compassionate Friends
June 2018: Warwick Arts Centre - Coventry, UK
Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
Ravel: Concerto for Left Hand
Marcello: Oboe Concerto transcribed for saxophone
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Conductor: Simon Wright
Soloists: Nicholas McCarthy, piano; Jess Gillam, saxophone
Charity: The OHMI Trust
November 2017: Ulster Hall – Belfast, UK
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Conductor: Tim Redmond
Soloists: Doreen Curran, mezzo soprano; Orla Boylan, soprano
Choir: Irish Doctors Choir
Chorus master: Brian MacKay
Charity: Arts Care / The Pushkin Trust
May 2017: De Doelen Concert Centre - Rotterdam, Netherlands
John Williams: The Harry Potter Symphonic Suite
Hendrik Andriessen: Ricercare
Edward Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite
Conductor: Peter Biloen
Narrator: Frank Groothof
Charity: Music as Medicine project, The Friends of the Sophia Children's Hospital
November 2016: The Sage – Gateshead / Newcastle, UK
Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5.
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Conductor: Natalia Luis-Bassa
Soloist: Daniel Grimwood, piano
Charity: Clic Sargent
June 2016: The Liszt Academy Concert Centre - Budapest, Hungary
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Bartók: Violin Concerto Nr. 1.
Brahms: Symphony Nr. 4.
Conductor: Christopher Morris Whiting
Soloist: Katalin Kokas, violin
Charity: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Heim Pál Children’s Hospital
November 2015: Cadogan Hall – London, UK
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Holst: The Perfect Fool – Ballet Music
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Barber: Violin Concerto
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Boris Brovtsyn, violin
Charity: Royal Brompton Hospital (SPRinT Programme)
May 2015: Slovenian Philharmonic – Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marjan Kozina - Bela krajina, symphonic poem
Reinhold Glière - Horn concerto
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
Conductor: Marjan Grdadolnik
Soloist: Andrej Žust, horn (Berlin Philharmonic)
Charity: Slovenian Hospic Society.
November 2014: Cadogan Hall – London, UK
Sibelius - Finlandia
Brahms - Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky - Symphony Number 6 (Pathétique)
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
Charity: Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity and Friends of Royal Brompton Hospital Hybrid Theatre Appeal
June 2014: Kulturcasino - Bern, Switzerland
Glinka - Ruslan and Ljudmila Overture
Beethoven - The Triple Concerto (piano, violin and cello)
Dvořák - Symphony Number 6
Conductor: Christopher Morris Whiting
Soloists: Noémie Rufer Zumstein, violin; Seraphina Rufer, cello; Evelyne Grandy, piano
Charity: Krebsliga Schweiz
November 2013: Town Hall - Birmingham, UK
Bernstein - Candide Overture
Roth - Fandangle
Gershwin - ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ (Orchestrated by Grofe)
Holst - The Planets
Conductor: Simon Wright
Soloist: Emil Duncumb, piano
Charity: CHARMS (Children's Hand and Arm Surgery, Birmingham)
June 2013: Konzerthaus – Berlin, Germany
Richard Wagner: Faust Overture
Max Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Robert Schumann: Symphony No.3
Conductor: Warwick Stengaards
Soloists: Marlene Ito, violin; Sarah Verrue, harp
Charity: Paul Gerhardt Diakonie Hospice
November 2012: Cadogan Hall – London, UK
Brahms : Tragic Overture
Elgar: ‘Cello Concerto
Tchaikovski: Symphony No.4
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Thomas Carroll, cello
Charity: Barnardo’s
November 2011: The Sage – Gateshead / Newcastle, UK
Mussorgsky/Rimsky - Korsakoff : Night on a Bare Mountain
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Shostakovitch: Symphony No.5
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Bradley Creswick
Charity: CLIC Sargent - Children with Cancer
May 2011: Oslo Konserthus, Oslo, Norway
Tveitt: Folktunes Suite No 1
Halverson: Norwegian Rhapsodie
Aratunian: Trumpet Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No 1
Conductor: Ingar Bergby
Soloist: Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet
Charity: Save the Children (Norwegian Domestic Branch)
November 2010: Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture
Walton: Viola Concerto
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Eniko Magyar, viola
Charity: Save the Children
June 2010: Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, Scotland
McCunn: Overture, The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Bruch: Violin Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony No 8
Conductor: David Danzayr
Soloist: Josephine Robertson, violin
Charity: Edinburgh Sick Childrens’ Foundation
November 2009: Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Rossini: Overture, William Tell
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherezade
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist John Ward
Charity: Save the Children
May 2009: The Philharmonic Hall, Poznan, Poland
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Chopin: Piano Concerto no 2
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 (Choral)
Conductor: Ruben Silva
Soloist: Joanna Ławrynowicz, piano
Charity: Polskie Tawarzystiro na rzecz walki zmkowiscydoza
November 2008: Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Shostakovich: Festival Overture
Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1
Sibelius: Symphony No 5
Conductor: Rupert Bond – soloist: Piotr Zukowski
Charity: Save the Children
June 2008: Teatro Filarmonico Verona, Italy
Verdi: Overture, Nabucco
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony No 9 'From the New World'
Conductor: Silvano Perlini
Soloist: Tommaso Zuccon Ghiotto, violin
Charity: ABEO, Associazione Bambino Emato-oncologico
November 2007: Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Vaughan Williams: Overture, The Wasps
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Schubert: Symphony no.9
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Gemma Rosefield, cello
Charity: Save the Children
June 2007: Konzerthaus, Berlin, Germany
Berlioz: Overture, Carnaval Romain
Strauss: Oboe Concerto
Mahler: Symphony no.1
Conductor: Warwick Stengards
Soloist: Emma Davislim Black, oboe
Charity: Bjorn Schulz Foundation
November 2006: Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Beethoven: Overture, Leonora no.3
Michael Brooks: Trombone Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony no. 2
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Byron Fulcher, trombone
Charity: Save the Children
June 2006: Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary
Levente: Hymnus der Liebe
Brahms: Double Concerto
Brahms: Symphony no.1
Conductor: Gyorgi Vashegyi
Soloists: Alexander Balanescu, violin; Nicholas Holland, cello
Charity: Bethesda Childrens’ Hospital, First Childrens’ Clinic of Semmelweis University
November 2005: Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Glinka: Overture, Ruslan and Ludmilla
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.5
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloists: Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin, Tania Prochazka, cello, Nadia Lasserson, piano.
Charity: Save the Children
June 2005: Athaneum, Bucharest, Romania
Suppe: Overture, Light Cavalry
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
Dvorak: Symphony no.8
Conductor: Warwick Stengards
Soloists: Rudolf Koelman, violin, Hartmut Lindemann, viola
Charity: PARC (orphan children)
November 2004: Blackheath Halls, London, UK
Rossini: Overture, The Thieving Magpie
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Brahms: Symphony no 2
Conductor: Rupert Bond
Soloist: Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin
Charity: Wizzkids