Cuore Chamber Orchestra follow launch in Harrogate's Royal Hall with Leeds debut at Howard Assembly Room
A new Harrogate-based orchestra is preparing for its biggest single moment since its debut less than 12 months ago.
Already hailed as the best orchestra launch in the region in decades, the Cuore Chamber Orchestra will play its first date out of town on Friday, March 6 in a concert which means a lot personally to its impressive Artistic Director William Dutton and Cuore’s young, world-class musicians.
Appearing at The Howard Assembly Room in Leeds, it’s not only a high-profile fundraiser for St Gemma’s Hospice, which William Dutton has strong family links to, it will also feature the UK premiere of Elisabetta Brusa’s Simply Largo.
The brilliant Anglo/Italian composer has had five volumes of CDs recorded and released by the Naxos label in recent years, performed by orchestras such as the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
A short song without words with a seamless melodic clarity that reflects Brusa's power to summon up great expressive depth, Simply Largo is just one highlight in a stunning programme of works by Purcell, Parry and Dvorak.
But the partnership with Leeds-based charity St Gemma’s Hospice means more than music to the Cuore Chamber Orchestra’s talented conductor William Dutton.
"One of those closely involved in the establishment of the hospice in the late 1970s was my grandfather, Professor Gerald Richards,” said William.
"He went on to become chairman in 1996 and became a patron of the hospice after stepping down from the role in 2008.”
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