Saturday March 14th 2026 at 3:00 pm - Halifax Minster, Halifax
Music from the Ballet
An exciting concert of Ballet music including melodies:
Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky
Coppelia Prelude and Mazurka - Delibes
Perfect Fool - Holst
Pineapple Poll - Gilbert and Sullivan
Clog Dance - Herold
Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky
Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 3:00 pm - Halifax Minster, Halifax.
Dvorak's Journey to America
A programme of music dedicated to Antonin Dvorak:
My Homeland Overture
Slavonic Dances
Symphony No 9 From the New World
Sunday 18th May 2025 at 3:00 pm - Victoria Theatre, Halifax.
Songs from the Musicals
Featuring:
Compere – Peter Alexander
Soprano – Victoria Darvill
Baritone – Adam Smith
presenting Orchestral selections from
Wicked
Les Miserables
Chicago
and many more.
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 at 3:00 pm - Halifax Minster, Halifax.
Music of the British Isles
Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) – Felix Mendelssohn
Irish Rhapsody #1 – Charles Villiers Stanford
Verses (Penillion) – Grace Williams
Violin Concerto – George Dyson with Soloist - Tom Greed
This concert was generously supported by the Sir George Dyson Trust
Saturday 23rd November 2024 at 3:00 pm – Halifax Minster, Halifax
Myths and Mischief
Hansel und Gretel Overture – Humperdinck
The Water Goblin – Dvorak
Danse Macabre – Saint-Saens
Symphony No.5 – Tchaikovsky
Sunday 19th May 2024 at 2:30 pm – Square Chapel, Halifax
An afternoon at the opera
including:
Nessun Dorma – Puccini
Aida Triumphal March – Verdi
Marriage of Figaro Overture – Mozart
…. and many more with
Tenor – Davide Basso and Soprano – Kimberley Raw
Sunday 10th March 2024 at 2:30 pm - Square Chapel, Halifax
The Arrival of Spring
Symphony #7 - Sibelius
Horn Concerto #4 - Mozart - with soloist Molly Bielecki
Symphony #1 (Spring) - Schumann
Sunday 26th November 2023 at 2:30 pm - Square Chapel, Halifax
West to East - A Musical Journey
Carnival Overture - Dvorak
Spartacus Suite #2 - Khachaturian
Carmen Suite #1 - Bizet
Symphony #2 - Borodin
.
Saturday 13th May 2023 at 7:30 pm - Square Chapel, Halifax
A Festival of Popular Film Music
A collection of film music from...
Harry Pottter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Les Misérables,
Phantom of the Opera, Finlandia, The Blue Danube and more.
Saturday 11th March 2023 at 7:30 pm - Square Chapel, Halifax
A celebration of English Composers
Little Suite #1 - Malcolm Arnold
Viola Concerto - Walton with soloist Hannah Borlase
Suite on English Folk Songs - Vaughan Williams
Enigma Variations - Elgar
Sunday 27th November 2022 at 3:00 pm - Square Chapel, Halifax
From Europe with Love
Euryanthe - Weber
Double Concerto for Violin & Cello - Brahms with soloists Caroline & Jonathan Pether
Symphony #8 in B minor - Schubert
Rosamunde Entre'acte #1 - Schubert
Rosamunde Ballet Music #2 - Schubert
Saturday 14th May 2022 at 7:30 pm - Square Chapel, Halifax
Sounds of Summer
Walk to the Paradise Garden - Delius
Midsummer night's Dream Overture - Mendelssohn
Land of the Mountain and the Flood - McCunn
Summer Evening - Kodaly
Pastoral Symphony (last two movements) - Beethoven
Beach Boys Medley
Crown Imperial March - Walton
Saturday 26th March 2022 at 7:30 pm - Square Chapel, Halifax
Springs Eternal
Ruy Blas - Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto #1 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with soloist - Teleri Sian
Symphony #3 - Jean Sibelius
Sunday, November 21st, 3:00pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Eroica
Cosi fan Tutte - Mozart
Variations on a theme by Hadyn - Brahms
Symphony #3 - Beethoven
Sunday, March 8th 2020, 3:00pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
North and South
Grand March from Aida - Verdi
Carmen Fantasy with solist Manu Brazo - Bizet
Peer Gynt Suites (extracts) - Grieg
Symphony #4 - Nielson
Saturday, November 23rd 2019, 7:30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
From Russia with Love
Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture – Glinka
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with soloist Teleri-Siân – Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 4 – Tchaikovsky
Saturday, May 18th 2019, 7:30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Big screen, Small screen
Saturday, March 9th 2019, 7:30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Romantic Masterpieces
Overture: Marriage of Figaro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto with violin - Savva Zverev - Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony #4 with Soprano - Charlotte Trepess - Gustav Mahler
Saturday, November 24th 2018, 7:30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Reflections of War
Pomp and Circumstance #4 in G - Edward Elgar
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue - William Walton
War Elegy - Ivor Gurney
Mars - Gustav Holst
Symphony #5 - Vaughan Williams
Sunday, May 13th 2018, 3pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Heart of the Dance
A selection of dances including Grieg's Norwegian dances
Dvorak's Slavonic dances, extracts from Bernstein's West Side Story
Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty and others
Saturday, March 10th 2018, 7.30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Masters of Europe
Overture Die Meistersinger - Wagner
Cello Concerto with soloist Gunda Baranauskaite - Dvorak
Symphony No1 - Sibelius
Monday, 11th December 2017
Christmas Concert
A selection of Christmas Music and Carols
Saturday, November 25th 2017, 7.30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Romantic Encounters
Khovanschina: Overture - Modest Mussorgsky
Piano Concerto No.2 with soloist Joshua Kelly - Sergei Rachmaninov
Scheherazade - Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Saturday, May 13th 2017, 7.30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
A Festival of Film Music
Star Wars (A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Away) – John Williams
The King’s Speech (Symphony No. 7) – Beethoven
James Bond featuring soloist Lesley Kirkham
and more!
Saturday, March 11th 2017, 7.30pm at Square Chapel, Halifax
Masters of Melody
Rosamunde Overture D.644 - Franz Schubert
Piano Concerto - Edvard Grieg featuring Iyad Sughayer on Piano
Symphony No.7 in D minor - Antonín Dvořák
Sunday 4th December 2016 at Square Chapel, Halifax
The 55th Parallel
Sabre Dance - Khachaturian
Scottish Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra featuring Iona McDonald on Violin - Bruch
Symphony No.5 - Shostakovich