Sinfonia Cymru set to wow audiences at Pontyberem – Friday March 18th

Sinfonia Cymru bring an evening of Stravinsky, Beethoven and Mozart to Pontyberem on Friday, March 18.

The concert takes place at the Pontyberem Memorial Hall, starting at 7.30pm.

It will feature – Sinfonia Cymru and violinist Benjamin Baker.

It will be a lively and exhilarating programme of classical music, featuring works by Stravinsky, Beethoven and Mozart.

Stravinsky’s Danses Concertantes was originally written for the concert stage in 1942 and has also been choreographed and performed as a one-act ballet.

The piece is a great example of the composer’s invigorating style.

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, written in 1806, is the composer’s only violin concerto.

It is a bright and lyrical piece and has become one of the most popular works for violin.

Symphony No. 41 in C ‘Jupiter’ was Mozart’s last symphony, written in 1788.

It is a work of richness and splendour, often viewed as his greatest symphony.

This is a very special year for Sinfonia Cymru as it marks the orchestra’s 20th birthday.

In celebration of this, during 2016 Sinfonia Cymru will be presenting a programme that will focus on musical innovators, in line with the orchestra’s reputation for innovation and its passion for doing things differently.

The Conductor will be Gareth Jones and the featured violinist will be Benjamin Baker.
About Sinfonia Cymru

Sinfonia Cymru is a young and innovative chamber orchestra from Wales. The orchestra is made up of musicians in the early stages of their careers and is the first and only orchestra of its kind to be revenue-funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

Sinfonia Cymru works in partnership with The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) through the Professional Pathway Bursary scheme and regular performances at The Dora Stoutzker Hall. Sinfonia Cymru is also resident orchestra at The Riverfront, Newport and performs in venues across Wales.

The orchestra works with Young Classical Artists Trust to create opportunities for the next generation of solo artists including the orchestra’s current Leader/Director Bartosz Woroch. Sinfonia Cymru has worked with a number of celebrated guest artists including Bryn Terfel, Llŷr Williams, Paul Watkins, Carlo Rizzi, and Alina Ibragimova.

The orchestra enjoys a long-standing relationship with Deutsche-Gramophon harpist Catrin Finch. Past projects with Catrin include Classic BRIT nominated album ‘Blessing’ with John Rutter, which reached number one in BBC Radio 3’s classical chart, and a performance at Universal Live ‘Yellow Lounge’.

In 2013 Sinfonia Cymru embarked on a major project to develop and launch a new way of working for chamber orchestras. With funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the orchestra established Curate; a collective of orchestral musicians, administrators and other young creatives who come together to express their artistic ideas
and develop their own projects. Over the last three years, Curate has developed the flagship UnButtoned and Unease events in collaboration with BAFTA-Cymru winning musician Tom Raybould, the orchestra’s classical pub gig ‘Quartet’ with Fizzi Events, and a live Silent Film event at Chapter Arts Centre.

2014 was Sinfonia Cymru’s busiest year, performing 44 concerts to over 13,000 people and working with actor Richard Harrington (star of S4C Y Gwyll / Hinterland), harpist Catrin Finch alongside young conductor Ben Gernon, world-renowned baritone Bryn Terfel, and on an experimental collaboration with theatre director Tom Morris at The Bristol Proms. The orchestra also played a major role in the ‘Emerging Classical Talent in the EU’ project; an International collaboration that brought together a number of European partners and culminated in Sinfonia Cymru’s Small Nations Big Sounds Festival, which it delivered in partnership with RWCMD.

In 2015, Sinfonia Cymru performed with BBC Young Musician winner Laura Van der Heijden in March and with period violinist Rachel Podger on the orchestra’s first all-baroque concert in May. After recently relaunching its Education & Community Programme, the orchestra will also work in partnership with Mid Wales Music Trust and Arts Connection to deliver an education project for school children in Powys based on Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals throughout the year.
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