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NEXT CONCERT: Sunday 30th November 2025
 

Concert at 6 pm in St Gregory's Church, Sudbury 

with Cameron Johnson as our trumpet soloist

Concert Details

Our autunm 2025 concert will be in St Gregory's Church. Sudbury and for this concert we are performing Bruckner's Three Pieces for Orchestra, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto and Beethoven's 2nd Symphony.  

A lovely concert featuring Cameron Johnson as soloist in Haydn's Trumpet concerto.  We start the evening with Bruckners Three Pieces for Orchestra, three short, charming and really quite pretty pieces.  He wrote them quite early on in his career and they are not at all typical of his later works although you can hear the beginnings of his later musical style coming through.  

Haydn's Trumpet Concerto commissioned in 1796 is one of the first major works to take advantage of the new trumpet technology at the time - it could now play more than 10 notes!  Haydn loved the new trumpet and wrote this gorgeous concerto which is still one of the major works in the trumpet canon. Trumpet technology has moved on even more since then but this work is still played and loved by all.  Our soloist, Cameron Johnson, last performed with us back in 2015 and we are really loking forward to him performing again with us.  Cameron has a successful freelance career and has worked with many of the UK’s leading orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra so we will be in good company for the concert.  

Our final work of the evening is Beethoven's 2nd Symphony which, according to Mr Google, is an ambitious, joyful work, showcasing his bold personality through its energetic, humorous, and expansive movements.  It includes a playful Scherzo and a grand, mischievous finale marked by rhythmic surprises and unexpected twists, such as an "orchestral sneeze" at its beginning and a "sneaky tiptoeing" ending.   We just say it is a delight to play, to perform and to listen to.

Tickets

Tickets for this concert  are now available from from TicketSource and in person from the Tourist Office in Sudbury (in the Town Hall) and  Peddars in Sudbury (lovely gentlemen's outfitters).  Tickets are just £18 for adults (including complimentary concert programme) and £2 for children aged 16 and under.  Tickets will also be available on the door.  Or click here to email us and reserve your ticket.   

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