Boxmoor will be in for a treat when a local orchestra teams up with an ace organ soloist for a Spring concert to remember.
The full 60-piece orchestra, alongside talented local soloist Alex Flood, will play a celebrated concerto by French composer Francis Poulenc at a concert in St John’s Church Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, on Saturday 3rd March 2018.
The full 60-piece orchestra, alongside talented local soloist Alex Flood, will play a celebrated concerto by French composer Francis Poulenc at a concert in St John’s Church Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, on Saturday 3rd March 2018.
This presents a rare opportunity to hear this organ concerto which will be played as part of a programme including the popular Mozart Symphony No 40 and Faure’s moving, hypnotic ‘Pavane’ and provides an opportunity to hear talented local musicians perform live in what promises to be an uplifting and memorable seasonal concert.
Children go free - the concert provides an opportunity for budding young musicians to hear a 60-piece orchestra in full flow.
The concert takes place at on Saturday 3rd March 2018 at St John’s Church Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead at 7.30pm
Children go free - the concert provides an opportunity for budding young musicians to hear a 60-piece orchestra in full flow.
The concert takes place at on Saturday 3rd March 2018 at St John’s Church Boxmoor Hemel Hempstead at 7.30pm
Soloist - Alexander Flood
www.alexanderflood.com
Composer, conductor and organist Alexander Flood read Music at Oxford, with John Caldwell and Guy Newbury, and attended the composition classes of Robert Sherlaw-Johnson and Robert Saxton. He held successively the organ scholarships of Jesus College, Oxford, and St Albans Cathedral, having studied with John Wellingham and at the Norddeutsche Orgelakademie. Postgraduate studies culminated in a Ph.D. in Composition from King’s College, London, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His supervisors were the Argentine composer Silvina Milstein, and George Benjamin, pupil of Messiaen and Goehr.
Alex now divides his time between performing, teaching, and composing. In addition to being Assistant Director of Music at St Peter’s Church, St Albans, he conducts Radlett Choral Society and Sandringham Community Choir. As an organist, he has recently played recitals in London, Oxford, St Albans, and Würzburg, Marburg, Heidelberg and Tübingen in Germany. He teaches conducting and lectures on harmony and counterpoint and music analysis at the University of Chichester. He has a thriving practice of private piano, organ, music theory and composition pupils, and teaches three days per week at Wycombe Abbey School. His own music is highly acclaimed for its imaginative use of instruments and voices within a strong long-range harmonic framework. His works have won numerous awards and competitions, and have been performed by ensembles including Gemini, Lontano, Chinook, the Praetorius Choir, St Paul’s Cathedral Choir and the Brunel Sinfonia.
His cantata Born in Flight was premiered in 2016 to great acclaim.
The Orchestra
The Dacorum Symphony Orchestra (DSO) gave its first concert in 1972 and has performed an annual series of symphony concerts ever since. It has accompanied a long list of famous soloists, and over the years there have been many overseas visits and exchanges. The orchestra gives at least four concerts a year.
The DSO is registered charity and a member of the Berkhamsted Arts Trust. The orchestra also performs at local schools in the area as part of its community work. This gives the children the opportunity to be up close to the orchestra and ask any questions they like about what they have heard and seen. Rehearsals take place on Tuesday evenings in Berkhamsted.
Programme
Poulenc. Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani Soloist: Alex Flood
Mozart Symphony No 40
Faure Pavane
Location and prices
Adults: £12
Concessions: £10
Under 18s: FREE
The concert is being held on Saturday 3rd March 2018 at 7.30pm at St John’s Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead HP1 1JY Doors open at 7pm.
Tickets for this concert are available on our website: www.dacorumso.org; at the door; and from the Orchestra ticket secretary on 01494 727240. Alternatively, local stockists include: Luminous & Vogue, 24 Lower Kings Road, Berkamsted; Aitchisons, 63 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead; and Montagues Gallery, 40 High Street, Kings Langley.
If you have any queries, please contact by email or on the contact numbers: Jonny Bugg - 07766 441923/ Emma Bugg - 07899 847707
www.alexanderflood.com
Composer, conductor and organist Alexander Flood read Music at Oxford, with John Caldwell and Guy Newbury, and attended the composition classes of Robert Sherlaw-Johnson and Robert Saxton. He held successively the organ scholarships of Jesus College, Oxford, and St Albans Cathedral, having studied with John Wellingham and at the Norddeutsche Orgelakademie. Postgraduate studies culminated in a Ph.D. in Composition from King’s College, London, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His supervisors were the Argentine composer Silvina Milstein, and George Benjamin, pupil of Messiaen and Goehr.
Alex now divides his time between performing, teaching, and composing. In addition to being Assistant Director of Music at St Peter’s Church, St Albans, he conducts Radlett Choral Society and Sandringham Community Choir. As an organist, he has recently played recitals in London, Oxford, St Albans, and Würzburg, Marburg, Heidelberg and Tübingen in Germany. He teaches conducting and lectures on harmony and counterpoint and music analysis at the University of Chichester. He has a thriving practice of private piano, organ, music theory and composition pupils, and teaches three days per week at Wycombe Abbey School. His own music is highly acclaimed for its imaginative use of instruments and voices within a strong long-range harmonic framework. His works have won numerous awards and competitions, and have been performed by ensembles including Gemini, Lontano, Chinook, the Praetorius Choir, St Paul’s Cathedral Choir and the Brunel Sinfonia.
His cantata Born in Flight was premiered in 2016 to great acclaim.
The Orchestra
The Dacorum Symphony Orchestra (DSO) gave its first concert in 1972 and has performed an annual series of symphony concerts ever since. It has accompanied a long list of famous soloists, and over the years there have been many overseas visits and exchanges. The orchestra gives at least four concerts a year.
The DSO is registered charity and a member of the Berkhamsted Arts Trust. The orchestra also performs at local schools in the area as part of its community work. This gives the children the opportunity to be up close to the orchestra and ask any questions they like about what they have heard and seen. Rehearsals take place on Tuesday evenings in Berkhamsted.
Programme
Poulenc. Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani Soloist: Alex Flood
Mozart Symphony No 40
Faure Pavane
Location and prices
Adults: £12
Concessions: £10
Under 18s: FREE
The concert is being held on Saturday 3rd March 2018 at 7.30pm at St John’s Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead HP1 1JY Doors open at 7pm.
Tickets for this concert are available on our website: www.dacorumso.org; at the door; and from the Orchestra ticket secretary on 01494 727240. Alternatively, local stockists include: Luminous & Vogue, 24 Lower Kings Road, Berkamsted; Aitchisons, 63 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead; and Montagues Gallery, 40 High Street, Kings Langley.
If you have any queries, please contact by email or on the contact numbers: Jonny Bugg - 07766 441923/ Emma Bugg - 07899 847707
