HPO Concerts from 1975 Fred Edwards (1975 - 1981) Details not known. Any information welcome. Wilfred Bennett (1981 - 1986) Mar-81 Rossini Italian Girl in Algiers Saint-Saens, Verdi Contralto Solos Beethoven Symphony No. 1 Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers (Nutcracker) J Strauss Pizzicato Polka, Perpetuum Mobile Bizet Contralto Solos Mascagni Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) Rossini Ballet Music (William Tell) Jul-81 Nicolai Overture - Merry Wives of Windsor Handel, Schubert Bass Solos Schubert Symphony No. 3 Bizet Suite - Arlesienne Gilbert & Sullivan selection J Strauss II Waltz - Wine Women & Song

Nov-81 Offenbach Overture - Orpheus in the Underworld (with Chapel-en-le-Frith various Choral items Ladies Choir) Mozart Minuet and Trio (from Symphony No. 39) Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 8 Gilbert & Sullivan selection Dec-81 Glinka Overture - Russlan and Ludmila Mozart Minuet (Symphony No. 39) Schubert Marche Militaire Haydn Toy Symphony Lesley Gaskarth (Contralto) various Carols Mozart Minuet and Finale (Symphony No. 36) Waldteufel Skaters Waltz Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 8 Mar-82 Mendelssohn Overture - The Hebrides Faure Pavane Anthony Walker (Flute) Mozart Flute Concerto Elgar , Mozart Symphony No. 39 Jun-82 Glinka Overture - Russlan and Ludmila Mozart Minuet (Symphony No. 39) Rossini Ballet Music (William Tell) Mendelssohn Overture - The Hebrides Verdi Prelude from La Traviata (with Chapel-en-le-Frith Male Gilbert and Sullivan Selection from Iolanthe Voice Choir) Oct-82 Rossini Overture - Thieving Magpie John Edwin Thomson (Piano) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3

Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (excerpts) Nov-82 Glinka Overture - Russlan and Ludmila Mendelssohn Pilgrims March (from Italian Symphony) Elgar Chanson de Nuit, Chanson de Matin Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs Suite Beethoven Overture - Prometheus Rossini Ballet Music (William Tell) Mar-83 Sullivan Overture - Di Ballo Boyce Symphony No. 5 Handel, Britten, Vaughan Songs Williams Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs Suite May-83 Elgar Three Bavarian Dances Beethoven Overture - Egmont Beethoven Symphony No. 5 Grieg Piano Concerto Jul-83 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (excerpts) Rossini Overture - Barber of Seville Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs Suite Elgar Three Bavarian Dances Oct-83 Brahms Two Hungarian Dances Nicolai Overture - Merry Wives of Windsor Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

May-84 Bizet Carmen Suite No. 1 Beethoven Overture - Prometheus Brian Marsden (Oboe) Haydn Oboe Concerto Schubert Symphony No. 1 Lesley Gaskarth (Contralto) Elgar Jul-84 Elgar Three Bavarian Dances Boieldieu Overture - The Caliph of Baghdad Catherine Wetters (Violin) Beethoven Romance No. 2 for Violin and Beethoven SymphonyOrchestra No. 8 Mendelssohn The Hebrides Elgar Chanson de Matin, Chanson de Nuit Gretry Cephale et Procris (Minuet and Tambourin) Dec-84 Rossini Ballet Music (William Tell) (in aid of National Trust) Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Schubert Entr’acte from Rosamunde Bizet Carmen Suite No. 1 Mar-85 Rossini Overture - Italian Girl in Algiers

Schubert Entr’acte from Rosamunde Krommer Wind Octet Mozart Wind Octet Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Bizet Suite - Jeux d’Enfants Jul-85 Nicolai Overture - Merry Wives of Windsor (In aid of High Peak Hospice) Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile for Strings

Delibes Coppelia Ballet Suite Mozart Symphony No. 31 (Paris) Sibelius Karelia Suite Dec-85 J Strauss Overture - Gypsy Baron Richard Walsh (Piano) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 Mozart Symphony No. 35 (Haffner) Dvorak 2 Slavonic Dances Mar-86 Rossini Overture - Italian Girl in Algiers

Mozart Symphony No. 40 (Jupiter) Dvorak 2 Slavonic Dances Delibes Suite - Le Roi S’amuse Smetena 3 Dances from The Bartered Bride Jul-86 Suppe Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna Dvorak Czech Suite Bizet L’arlessienne Suite No. 1 Handel Arrival of Queen of Sheba Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite Handel Water Music

Charles Oldfield (1986) Dec-86 Herold Overture - Zampa Frank Proctor (Horn) Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 Sullivan selection from Pineapple Poll Suite MacCunn The Land of the Mountain and the Flood Bizet Symphony No. 1 J Strauss Radetsky March David Bentley (1987-1993)

Apr-87 Humperdink Overture - Hansel and Gretel Schubert Symphony No. 5 Arnold Little Suite No. 2 Brian Marsden (Oboe) Donizetti Oboe Concerto Borodin Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor Summer, Winter 1987 not known Information welcome Mar-88 Mozart Overture - Idomeneo Anthony Walker (Piano) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) Summer 1988 not known Information welcome Dec-88 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Carol Concert Brahms Variations on St Anthony Chorale Beethoven Choral Fantasia Apr-89 Humperdink Overture - Hansel and Gretel Julian Gregory (Violin) Beethoven Violin Romance No. 2 Elgar 3 Bavarian Dances Dvorak Symphony No. 8 Summer 1989 not known Whaley Bridge Festival Nov-89 Mendelssohn Overture - The Hebrides Mark Stoppard (Bassoon) Mozart Bassoon Concerto No. 1 Richard Rodney Bennett Nocturne from Serenade for Small Orchestra Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) Mar-90 Brahms Academic Festival Overture Walton 3 Dances from Facade Sibelius Karelia Suite Bizet Symphony No. 1 Jun-90 Mozart Overture - Idomeneo Sandra Brown (Violin) Telemann (in aid of Cot Death Support) Dvorak Wind Serenade

Beethoven Symphony No. 7 Dec-90 Handel Faithful Shepard Suite Sophie Hawkes (Cello) Haydn No. 1 Elgar Three Sea Pictures Schubert Symphony No. 4 (Tragic) May-91 Vaughan Williams The Wasps George Hulbert (Baritone) Mahler Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Baritone Songs Finzi Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Nov-91 Weber Overture - Der Freischutz Elgar Serenade for Strings R Strauss Serenade for 13 Wind Kodaly Intermezzo - Harry Janos Dvorak Symphony No. 7 Mar-92 Beethoven Overture - Egmont Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Defunte Brahms Serenade No. 1 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (Italian) Jun-92 Mozart Overture - Il Seraglio Cornelia Entwistle (Violin), Bach Concerto for 2 Violins Julian Stevens (Violin) Gordon Jacob Old Wine in new Bottles (in aid of High Peak Hospice) Delius La Calinda

Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Kathy Bentley (1993 - 1998)

Mar-93 Dvorak Largo - Symphony No. 9 (New World) Ken Brown (Trumpet) Purcell Trumpet Tune Jemima Lawrence (Piano) Massenet Meditation from Thais Sandra Brown (Violin) Handel Sonata No. 2 Neil Cumming (Bassoon) Elgar Chanson de Nuit, Chanson de Matin Gounod Petit Symphony Faure Dolly Suite Jul-93 Rossini Overture - Barber of Seville Noble Hertfordshire Suite for Wind Octet Rossini Le Rendez de Chasse (Horn Quartet) Vivaldi Concerto Grosso for 2 violins, cello, continuo and strings

Haydn Symphony No. 104 (The London)

Dec-93 Vaughan Williams The Wasps Pan Hon Lee (Violin) Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Elgar Chanson de Nuit, Chanson de Matin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 (New World)

Mar-94 Borodin (arr Glazounov) Overture - Prince Igor (in aid of High Peak Hospice) Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

Mozart Selection from Marriage of Figaro arranged for Wind Octet Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) Jul-94 Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Borodin Nocturne from No. 2 Gordon Jacob More Old Wine in New Bottles

Rimsky-Korsakov Scherazade (2 movts) Khachaturian Three Dances from Gayeneh

Dec-94 Elgar Cockaigne Ken Brown (Trumpet) Haydn Trumpet Concerto (in aid of High Peak Hospice) Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

Mar-95 Elgar Cockaigne Lynn Threadgold (Clarinet) Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 Smetana Ma Vlast Finlandia Sibelius Jul-95 Rossini Overture - Semiramide Lynn Threadgold (Clarinet) Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 Dvorak Symphony No. 8 Dec-95 Wagner Overture - Rienzi David Baker (Cello) Bruch Kol Nidrei for Cello and Orchestra Berlioz Hungarian March Brahms Symphony No. 2 Mar-96 Weber Overture - Oberon Schubert Entr’acte No. 2 from Rosamunde Timothy Redmond (Oboe) Haydn Oboe Concerto Mozart Symphony No. 40 Jul-96 Mendelssohn Overture - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Vox al Viva) Albinoni Adagio for Strings Dvorak Serenade for Wind Britten Matinees Musicales (with Vox al Viva) Elgar, Pearsall, Stanford songs Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music Nov-96 Mendelssohn Overture - The Hebrides (with Lindow Singers) Handel Zadok The Priest Jayne Carpenter (Soprano) Haydn Nelson Mass Mar-97 Brahms Academic Festival Overture Christopher Rakowski (Cello) Saint Saens Cello Concerto

(in aid of High Peak Hospice) Schubert Symphony No. 9 (Great C Major) Jun-97 Wagner Overture - Die Meistersinger Kevin Norbury (Tuba) Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto Rossini Overture - The Silken Ladder

Elgar Nov-97 Rossini Overture - An Italian Girl in Algiers Sue Lee (Violin) Anne Mozart Sinfonia Concertante Morrison (Viola) Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) Mar-98 Liszt Les Preludes Celia Mills (Flute) Carl Reinecke Ballade for Flute and Orchestra Cecile Chaminade Concertina for Flute and Orchestra Brahms Symphony No. 4 Jul-98 Mozart Overture - The Magic Flute Tim Jackson (Horn) R Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Gloria Bakshayesh (1998 - 1999) Dec-98 Verdi Overture - The Force of Destiny Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Dvorak Symphony No. 7 Mar-99 Rossini Overture - William Tell Richard Simpson (Oboe) Mozart Oboe Concerto (in aid of High Peak Hospice) Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Jul-99 Walton Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Dale Culliford (Cello) Elgar Cello Concerto (in aid of St. Johns Church) Vaughan Williams London Symphony Andrew Hodkinson (1999 - 2016) Nov-99 Humperdinck Overture – Hansel and Gretel

Lynn Threadgold (Clarinet) Mozart Clarinet Concerto (in aid of High Peak Hospice) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor (Pathetique) Apr-00 MacCunn Overture – Land of the Mountain and of the Flood Patrick Gundry-White, Garry Schumann Konzertstuck Mason, Paul Horton, Elizabeth Markham (Horns) (in aid of Buxton Mountain Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Rescue) Jul-00 Shostakovich Festival Overture Elena de Jesus (Violin) Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Michael Williams (Organ) Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (Organ) (in aid of St. Johns Church) Holst Beni Mora Suite Dec-00 Ireland Minuett and Elegy from A Downland Suite Cornelia Pratt-Hartmann Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (Violin) (in aid of High Peak Hospice) Elgar Sea Pictures

Coates Three Elizabeths Suite Apr-01 Beethoven Overture – Leonora No. 3 (In aid of The Samaritans Richard Strauss Wind Serenade Of Buxton and High Peak) Kodaly Galanta Dances Brahms Symphony No. 1 Jul-01 Nicolai Overture – The Merry Wives of Windsor Dale Culliford (Cello) Haydn Cello Concerto in C Major (in aid of St. Johns Church) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Dec-01 Mozart Overture – Don Giovanni Richard Simpson (Oboe) Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto (In aid of Daniel’s Light) Gundry-White Escaping Processions (First Performance) Schubert Symphony No. 3 Mar-02 Sibelius En Saga Dara De Cogan (Violin) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Jul-02 Dvorak Huttiska Overture Steve Wilkie, Dale Culliford Beethoven Concerto for Violin, Cello and Janet Simpson Piano Rachmaninov Nov-02 Beethoven Egmont Overture Steve Daykin (Clarinet) Spohr Clarinet Concerto No.1 Wagner Siegfried Overture Sibelius Valse Triste Bizet Symphony No.1 Mendelssohn Overture Ruy Blas Mar-03 Handel Concerto Grosso Op.6 No. 5

R.Strauss Suite for 13 Wind Instruments

Brahms Symphony No. 3 Dec-03 Weber Overture - Der Freischutz Andrew Hodkinson and Steve Bruch Concerto for Clarinet, Viola & Dakin Orchestra Schuman Symphony No. 3 Kathy Rundell (Soprano) Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 Mar-04 Borodin Overture - Prince Igor Dvorak Symphony No. 6 Soloist Grace Huang Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 Jul-04 Chabrier March Joyeuse Soloist Andrew Cummings Poulenc Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Soloist Patrick Gundry-White Chabrier Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra 11th December 2004 Faure Pellias and Mellisande Soloist Damion Browne Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 Brahms Serenade No. 1 19th March 2005 Dvorak Carnival Overture Dvorak Symphony No. 8 Soloist Oliver Nelson Beethoven Violin Concerto 6th July 2005 Grieg Sigurde Jorsalfar Suite Sibelius Symphony No. 5 Soloist Steven Wilkie Dvorak Romance in F Soloist Jonathan Ormston Mayuzumi Concerto for Xylophone 26th Novemember 2005 Bruckner Symphony No. 4 Soloist Conrad Marshall Mozart Flute Concerto Sibelius Finlandia 18th March 2006 Mozart Exultate Jubillate Brahms St Anthony Variations on a theme of Haydn Soloist Kathy Rundell Rachmaninov Vocalise Cesar Franck Symphony in D minor 15th July 2006 John Ireland Epic March Soloist Benjamin Powell Grieg Piano Concerto Mahler Symphony No. 1 9th December 2006 Soloists Krommer Concerto for Two Clarinets Steve Daykin and Omar Sattaur Mozart: Symphony No.38 (Prague) Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Ballet Suite 24th March 2007 Soloists Haydn Double Horn Concerto Patrick Gundry-White and Laura Tanner Elgar Enigma Variations Dvorak Czech Suite 14th July 2007 Soloists Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Violin Louise Carter - Violin, Andrew and Viola Hodkinson - Viola Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 Glinka Russian and Ludmilla 30th September 2007 Soloists Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Violin Mary Anderson - Violin, and Viola Andrew Hodkinson - Viola

Elgar Enigma Variations Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla 8th December 2007 Schubert Symphony No. 4 Soloist Quentin Duerden Larssen Trombone Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.7 8th March 2008 Grieg Norwegian Dances Soloist Oliver Nelson Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 Brahms Symphony No. 2 19th July 2008 Dvorak Symphonic Variations Soloist Richard Simpson Martinu Oboe Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 28th September 2008 New Arne Parry Henry Wood Jerusalem - Rule Britannia - Mills Arts Theatre Sea Songs Strauss Radetzky March Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Strauss Blue Danube Waltzes Elgar Pomp & Circumstance Marches No. 5, 2 & 1 13th December 2008 St Elgar John's Church Buxton Soloist Diana Milner-Gruber Dittersdorf Double Bass Concerto Dvorak New World Symphony 7th March, 2009 New Mills Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Town Hall Soloist Laura Tanner Hindemith Horn Concerto Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 18th July 2009 St John's Rossini The Thieving Magpie Overture Church Buxton Soloist Simon Turner Dvorak Cello Concerto Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances 27th September 2009 New Arne Parry Henry Wood Jerusalem - Rule Britannia - Mills Arts Theatre Sea Songs Rossini Thieving Magpie Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Coates London Suite 5th December 2009 St John's Elgar Wand of Youth Symphony Buxton Soloist Ben Lathbury Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 Parry Symphony No. 2 (Cambridge)

27th March 2010 Methodist Dvorak Legends (selection) Church, Market Square, Buxton Soloist Ben Simnett Malcolm Arnold Clarinet Concerto No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) 17th July 2010 St.John’s Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Buxton Overture Soloist Oliver Nelson Korngold Violin Concerto Brahms Symphony No. 4 11th December 2010 New Weber Oberon Overture Mills Town Hall Borodin Symphony No. 2 Soloist Kirsty Hetherington Reinecke Flute Concerto 2nd April 2011 New Mills Schumann Symphony No. 1 Town Hall Brahms Tragic Overture Soloist Kevin O'Sulivan Weber Bassoon Concerto Soloist Mary Dainton Faure Elegy for Cello and Orchestra

16th July 2011 St.John’s Borodin Polovtsian Dances (from Buxton Prince Igor) Soloist Katrina Brown Walton Viola Concerto Sibelius Symphony No. 1 10th December 2011 New Elgar Cockaigne Overture Mills Town Hall Soloists Jane Coombe - Flute, Sallieri Concerto for Flute and Oboe Kate Hamey - Oboe

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) 31st March 2012 Buxton Rossini William Tell Methodist Church Soloist Steven Wilkie Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 Dvorak Symphony No. 4 15th July 2012 St John’s Beethoven Fidelio Overture Church Buxton Soloist Ben Powell Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Mozart Symphony No. 40 17th November 2012 St Vaughan Williams Wasps Overture John’s Church Buxton Soloists: Dewi Tudor Jones - Brahms Concerto for Violin and Violin, Doug Badger - Violoncello Violoncello Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) 16th March 2013 New Mills Bridge The Sea Town Hall Soloist Ben Simnett Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade 21st July 2013 St John’s Nielsen Maskarade Overture Church Buxton Soloist Anya Muston Sibelius Violin Concerto Delius Florida Suite 14th December 2013 Chapel- Beethoven Symphony No. 8 en-le-Frith High School

Soloist Harry Jepson Torelli Trumpet Concerto Dvorak Symphony No. 7 5th April 2014 Buxton Schubert Symphony No 7(8) Methodist Church “Unfinished" Soloist Ben Lathbury Leroy Anderson Piano Concerto in C Bruch Symphony No 3 12th July 2014 St John’s Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Church Buxton Faune Soloist Miriam Brown Schumann Cello Concerto Soloist Jane McNeill Mahler Symphony No. 4 22nd November 2014 New Balakirev Overture on Russian Themes Mills Town Hall Liadov 8 Russian Folk Songs Soloist Omar Sattaur Carmichael Fêtes Champêtres Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 14th March 2015 Buxton Beethoven Egmont Overture Methodist Church Soloist Oliver Nelson Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Schubert Symphony No. 9 12th July 2015 St John’s Dvorak Festive March Church Buxton Soloist Ryan Drucker Rachmaninov Paganini Variations Bruckner Symphony No. 6 12th December 2015 New Sibelius Finlandia Mills Town Hall Soloist Rosa Hartley Brahms Violin Concerto Conductor: Patrick Gundry- Nielsen Symphony No. 1 White 12th March 2016 Chapel-en-le-Bizet Roma Frith Methodist Church Soloist James Swarbrick Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Brahms Symphony No. 1 10th July 2016 St John’s Walton Orb & Sceptre Church Buxton Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suite No. 1 Dvorak Symphony No. 8 10th December 2016 New Schumann Genoveva Mills Town Hall Soloists: Maria Snowdon - Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp Flute, En Hudson - Harp Conductor: Patrick Gundry- Brahms Symphony No. 3 White 8th April 2017 Buxton Dvorak Serenade Methodist Church Soloist Miriam Brown Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations Conductor: Juan Ortuño Sibelius Symphony No. 2 David Chatwin (2017-) 8th July 2016 St John’s Humperdinck Overture – Hansel and Gretel Church Buxton Soloist Iona McDonald Prokofiev Violin Concerto Cesar Franck Symphony in D minor