The North Cheshire Wind Orchestra (formerly known as the North Cheshire Concert Band) is a symphonic wind orchestra based in Warrington in Cheshire who perform regularly at the town’s Pyramid and Parr Hall. The orchestra play a wide range of music including standard repertoire by composers including Gershwin, Bernstein, Holst and Strauss, more unusual and modern works, and new compositions commissioned by the ensemble. The NCWO has twice performed at the prestigious International Wind Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and achieved Gold Awards at the National Concert Band Festival in the 2004 & 2005 National finals.

Next Event:

Saturday 6th November 2010 @ Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington (Box Office Tel: 01925 442345)

Pre-concert talk at 7:20 pm
Concert at 8:00 pm

North Cheshire Wind Orchestra
Catherine Tackley Conductor
Paul Vowles Clarinet
Catherine Coyne Flute
Cody Coyne Euphonium

Programme to include:

Michael Torke - Grand Central Station
Robert Orledge - Blame it on the Blues (World Première)
Stephen McNeff - Clarinet Concerto (NCWO Commission)
Oliver Waespi - Hebridean Rhapsody
Yo Goto - Fantasma Lunare
Daniel Basford - Songs and Refrains

This concert features the World Première of 'Blame it on the Blues' written especially for two members of the NCWO, as well as the opportunity to hear McNeff's sparkling Clarinet Concerto, a previous NCWO commission. The serenity of Goto's reworking of Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata provides a contrast to Torke's portrait of a metropolitan hub; whilst Waespi and Basford draw on traditional folk music in their evocations of the British Isles.

For full details, see our Concerts page

NCWO reserve the right to change any programme or soloist without prior notice.