- AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2025
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Date Posted: Wed, 19 Nov 2025
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News
Chorleywood Musical Youth
Summer concert review
From the podium
Vivaldi Gloria concert review
Cake recipe corner
This Autumn term features two concerts with Rickmansworth Young Musicians of the Year performing concertos with the Chorleywood Orchestra. Iván Cherednichenko Carrillo, pictured, played the Saint Saen’s Cello Concerto in September and Robby Cassels will play Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto in November.
News in brief
Many of our members are involved in music making with young performers and we explore the various opportunities provided by our members in our feature on page 2.
As is now custom, our ensemble players will be busy throughout December performing festive arrangements and carols at a variety of local venues including churches and care homes.Attachment: 
- SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2025
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Date Posted: Tue, 10 Jun 2025
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News
VE Day Celebrations
Workshops for string players
Thomas Kelly at Wigmore Hall
From the Podium
Rococo Variations
Rickmansworth Young Musicians
Cake recipe cornerNews in brief
The Spring term featured two concerts and the final of the Rickmansworth Young Musician of the Year competition.
Both concerts were well attended and pushed the orchestra to new heights with some challenging repertoire, including Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures from an Exhibition’ and Brahms Symphony No.1. Our 2024 RYMY, Jammal Kashim, played the Glière Harp Concerto with technical excellence and musical brilliance. More recently our pianist friend, Thomas Kelly, has made his solo debut at the prestigious Wigmore Hall as well as giving a private performance for friends of Chorleywood Music at Fiona and Andrew’s at Meadowsteep.
We are looking forward to our Summer Concert which will stretch the orchestra once again with Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony No. 3 and featuring Nicola Tait Baxter performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations.Attachment:
- Spring Newsletter 2025
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Date Posted: Thu, 20 Feb 2025
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News
Our Christmas gig photos
From the Podium
Concert review
Nick Cousins and his bassoon
Pictures at an Exhibition
Cake recipe corner
RYMY 2025 & fundraisingNews in brief
Our Autumn term highlights were the Beethoven 9th Symphony
concert and our performance of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite
at our family concert in December.
It is now normal for us to have a busy schedule of Christmas
performances and gigs by several smaller groups of orchestra
members and this season there were around a dozen taking
place, from outdoor festival performances to local church
services.
Our programme for 2025 commenced with our February concert
and we have lots more to follow.Attachment:
- Autumn Newsletter 2024
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Date Posted: Tue, 29 Oct 2024
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News
What we did last summer
From the Podium
Woodwind player, Ali Lowe
Our new Timpani
Cake recipe corner
Fundraising
News in brief
Our summer was busy with activities on Chorleywood common, including a fully staged live orchestral concert; a first for us and the Chorleywood Parish Council and a stall at the annual village day.
However, summer is over and we are well into our autumn season. The orchestra is still on a ‘high’ after performing Beethoven’s 9th symphony in celebration of 200 years since its first performance in Vienna in 1824.
We are looking forward to our December family concert which, this year, will feature Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite and will be held at the Rickmansworth School.
The orchestra has invested in a set of timpani to enhance its rehearsals and performances, more about that later.Attachment:
- Summer newsletter 2024
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Date Posted: Wed, 26 Jun 2024
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The Parkrunners
RYMY: a brief history
Laure Chan, Schumann Violin Concerto
From the Podium
More insight from Rina
Concert review
Cake recipe corner
Fundraising
News in brief
This year sees the orchestra’s busiest and most ambitious concert season yet. Not only have we performed Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade, the Grieg Piano Concerto with Firoze Madon, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with soloist Katie Mazur and Dvorak’s 8th Symphony, but we are preparing for a major outdoor summer concert on Chorleywood Common, Beethoven’s last major work, the famous 9th Choral Symphony, in September, followed by a Christmas Nutcracker family concert in December.
We have once again organised and run the Rickmansworth Young Musician of the Year competition which had 36 entries. The three winners and our judges are shown above. There is more about the competition inside this issue.
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- Spring newsletter 2024
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Date Posted: Fri, 26 Apr 2024
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News
Community and Charity events
Meet the editor
From the Podium
Meet our players
Concert programme news
Concert review
Cake recipe corner
Fundraising
News in brief
The last few months have been a busy period for the orchestra. We have performed two concerts and our ensembles and bands have had a full schedule of Christmas events. You can read more about that in Christine Deeley’s article in this issue.
We have another orchestral concert in March which will feature the Tchaikovsky violin concerto performed by violinist, Katie Mazur.
The Rickmansworth Young Musician of the Year competition is well under way with 34 entries this year. The concert final will take place on Sunday 17th March, where the top eight young musicians will compete for the title.Attachment:
- Chorleywood Music Newsletter Autumn 2023
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Date Posted: Thu, 14 Dec 2023
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News
Community and Charity events
From the Podium
Concert programme news
A message from Nicola Tait Baxter
Our Young Musician of the Year
Meet our players
Cake recipe corner
Fundraising
News in brief
The orchestra is busy rehearsing for concerts in December and January, mainly under the baton of our assistant conductor, Ryan Bunce. At the moment we are focussing on music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and shortly, Howard Blake.
We are also getting ready to launch our annual Rickmansworth Young Musician of the Year competition. This year we have the support of Richard Lawson Pianos, Herts County Council and St James’s Place. The final of the 2024 event will take place in March in front of an invited audience. Details of how to apply for tickets will be available soon.Attachment:
