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About the Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra
The
SPO began life as the Surrey String Players in 1932 when it was founded
by Kathleen Riddick. In 1945 it expanded to become the Surrey
Philharmonic Orchestra. Throughout its history many international artists
have appeared with the SPO, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jacqueline du
Pré, Paul Tortellier, Nigel Kennedy and Evelyn Glennie.
Today
the orchestra has as its Musical Director and Conductor Jonathan Butcher
who has been with the orchestra since 1985. The SPO became renowned for
its innovative programming at an early stage in its history and this has
continued to be a feature to the present day. On two occasions the SPO
has been the recipient of a Performing Right Society National Federation
of Music Societies Enterprise Award and has organised two very successful
Composers' Days at the University of Surrey. In 2002 the SPO joined
forces with many local school children to perform "Town and
Country" by Barry Russell at Dorking Halls. This very successful
event was masterminded by Dr Joan Rippon who was our President during the
2005 - 2006 Season.
The
SPO is delighted that Julian Lloyd Webber has very kindly accepted the
orchestra's invitation to be our President in our 78th Season during
2009/2010.
Surrey
Philharmonic Orchestra is now an Amazon Associate. This means that the
orchestra will gain a small amount of money from Amazon every time
someone accesses and shops on the Amazon site from the SPO site. If you
do shop on Amazon.co.uk would you please use the link below to the Amazon
website.
Thank you.
Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra is
Registered Charity No.: 1029543
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