Welcome to the Hertford Symphony Orchestra

The Hertford Symphony Orchestra has grown and developed hugely in the approximately fifty years since it was first formed. We have built up an enviable reputation for high musical standards combined with a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, attracting fine amateur and professional players from a wide area. Programmes are aimed to stretch the orchestra and to introduce our large and loyal audience to less familiar repertoire whilst including some real favourites. We have a busy season, giving three main concerts, a children’s concert, a family concert and a joint Christmas concert with the East Herts Chorus.

The Conductor

Gerry Cornelius lives in London’s East End, he graduated from Durham University before studying conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Sir Colin Davis and at the State Conservatory in St Petersburg with Ilya Musin. He is a winner of the Henry Wood, August Manns and Philharmonia Chorus scholar-ships for conducting.

On returning to the UK he was appointed conductor to the orchestras of Morley College where he directed the first Tippett Memorial Festival. Since then he has been increasingly involved in productions of Opera, Ballet & Music Theatre as well as performing on the concert stage with many orchestras in Europe. He has been a regular member of the music staff for Aldeburgh-Almeida and the RuhrTriennale Opera Festivals. He has for the past eight years been the music director of the Hertford Symphony Orchestra.

Directing and conducting Hertford Symphony Orchestra since 1999, Gerry Cornelius is highly in demand as a conductor for the Welsh National Opera, English National Ballet, the RuhrTriennale Festival, Aldeburgh- Almeida Productions, Spitalfields Festival, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Klavier Festival Ruhr, the Teatro Real in Madrid, The Opera Group and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.
He is the current conducting tutor for the Symphony Orchestra course at Canford Summer School as well as visiting conductor and tutor at the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, London and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

MARGARET HOLTER is a professional freelance musician and has led the Hertford Symphony Orchestra for ten years. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and has become a well established player in orchestras throughout the country.

Rehearsal Information
Mill Mead School
Port Vale
Hertford
Tuesday evenings 7.30
Sept - June (term time)

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