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In 2008 - open your imagination to the pure experience

Whether you treat yourself to every CSO concert or only make it to a couple, your CSO experience gives you that most precious thing - time out from the worries of the world; time for you to relax, unlock your imagination and connect with beauty.

We have daytime concerts, family friendly concerts, concerts
with the masters, concerts with the new classics. There's a CSO experience for everyone.

SUMMER

CSO Prom Concert - CSOle!
Saturday, February 9 2008
5:00pm
Government House
Conductor: Nicholas Milton
Trumpet Soloist: Geoff Payne
Vocal soloist: Victoria Lambourn - mezzo soprano
Selections to be taken from:
Mendez: Works for Trumpet

  • Bizet: Carmen Suites No. 1
  • Falla: Three Cornered Hat: Suite No. 2
  • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake: Spanish Dance
  • Massenet: Le Cid
  • Rossini: Barber of Seville
  • Mozart: Figaro



AUTUMN

St.George Business Bank Llewellyn 1 � Grace
April 16/17 2008
Canberra Theatre
7:30pm
Conductor: Luke Dollman
Soloists: Julian Smiles (cello) and Dimity Hall (violin)

  • Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Op. 25 
  • Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations, Op. 33
  • Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending 
  • Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major London 



WINTER

ACTEW Grand Gala - Carmina Burana
Friday, June 6 2008
8:00pm
Llewellyn Hall
Conductor: Nicholas Milton
Soloists from Opera Australia:

  • Teresa La Rocca � soprano
  • James Egglestone � tenor
  • Jose Carbo � baritone

Canberra Combined Choir of 320 singers


St.George Business Bank Llewellyn 2 - Joy
July 23/24 2008
Llewellyn Hall
7:30pm
Conductor: Nicholas Milton
Soloist: Kristian Chong - piano
William Barton - didgeridoo

  • Sculthorpe: Memento Mori (Australian premiere of didgeridoo version)
  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19 
  • Dvořek: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 



SPRING

St.George Business Bank Llewellyn 3 - Beauty
September 10/11 2008
Llewellyn Hall
7:30pm
Conductor: Jean-Louis Forestier
Soloist: Cameron Hill - violin

  • Mozart: Symphony No 35 � The Haffner
  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 


St.George Business Bank Llewellyn 4 - Passion
October 29/30 2008
Llewellyn Hall
7:30pm
Conductor: Nicholas Milton
Soloist: Alexey Yemtsov

  • Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina: Introduction 
  • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47


Canberra Labor Club Tea and Symphony - The Romance of Dance
Saturday, November 15 2008
2.00 pm
Canberra Theatre
Conductor: Nicholas Milton
Featuring dancers from the Australian Ballet
 Selections from famous dance repertoire such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker
Free Devonshire Tea to all patrons during interval.

2008 season

 
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