Saturday 7 June 2025 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: William Carslake

Soloist: So Ock Kim (Violin)

Guest Choir: Fleet Choral Society (Musical Director – Nick Cartledge)

Beethoven: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Choral Work TBD
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Saturday 5 April 2025 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: Daniel Hogan

Soloist: Oliver Wass

Dvořák: The Noon Witch
Glière: Harp Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

Sunday 19 January 2025 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: Charlotte Politi
Soloist: Hannah Teasdale (Viola)

Moberg: Sunrise from the Sunrise Orchestral Suite
Berlioz: Harold in Italy
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’

Saturday 16 November 2024 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: Mimi Doulton (Soprano)

Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet
Lutoslawski: Silesian Triptych
Lutoslawski: Lacrimosa
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

Saturday 8 June 2024 4.00 pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: William Carslake

Saturday 16 March 2024 7.45pm
High Cross Church, Camberley, GU15 3SY – Venue Information

Guest Conductor: Lewis Gaston
Soloists: So-Ock Kim (Violin)

Saturday 20 January 2024 7.45pm
St Peter’s Church, Farnborough, GU14 7AP – Venue Information

Guest Conductor: Daniel Hogan
Soloist: John Myerscough (Cello)

Saturday 11 November 2023 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: Charlie Jones (Tuba)

Saturday 10 June 2023 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloists: Alison Wyld (French Horn) and Ruairi Bowen (Tenor)

The FSO is concluding its 2022-23 season with a programme of English music. Our soloists are our very own Alison Wyld (FSO Principal Horn) and Ruairi Bowen, a finalist in the International Handel Singing Competition in 2020.
Supported by the Elgar Society

Saturday 11 March 2023 7.45pm
Farnham Maltings, Farnham, GU9 7QR – Venue Information

Guest Conductor: Benedict Collins-Rice

To preside over the FSO’s Spring concert we will be welcoming guest conductor, Benedict Collins-Rice, who will be helping us to explore the depth and beauty of  two late-nineteenth-century masterpieces: the Gaelic Symphony by Amy Beach and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4.

Saturday 21 January 2023 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Guest Conductor: Daniel Hogan
Soloist: So-Ock Kim (Violin)

The FSO opens the New Year with works by Franck, Korngold and the winner of the FSO Young Composer Competition 2020, Sam Gooderham. We also welcome back consummate violinist, So-Ock Kim, to play Erich Korngold’s popular violin concerto and guest conductor, Daniel Hogan, who is currently studying with a full scholarship for a Master’s in Conducting at the Royal College of Music.

Saturday 12 November 2022 7.45pm
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: Christian Pacquette (Flute)

The FSO begins its 2022-23 season with a birthday concert celebrating 100 years since the orchestra’s first performance on 13th December 1922. The opening work is Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture, which brims over with Schubert’s infectious melodies. Christian Paquette will play the Reinecke Flute Concerto and the concert concludes with Dvorak’s 8th Symphony.

Saturday 11 June 2022
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX – Venue Information

Conductor: William Carslake

Talbot: Purcell Chacony
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D Major (‘Haffner’)
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major

The climax to the FSO’s Centenary Season features two symphonies by Austrian composers: Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. The other work in the concert is the Purcell Chacony, written by contemporary British composer, Joby Talbot.

Saturday 19 March 2022
Farnham Maltings, Farnham, GU9 7QR

Conductor: Orlando Jopling
Soloist: Hiroko Imai (Piano)

Grieg: Piano Concerto
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major

Saturday 22 January 2022
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX

Conductor: William Carslake

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Carslake: Timidus
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (‘Scottish’)

The FSO’s Centenary Season opens the New Year with an homage to Scotland.  Mendelssohn’s evocative Hebrides Overture opens the progamme, and his wonderful third symphony, the ‘Scottish’, closes it. The other work in the programme is the premiere of an orchestral piece by our Artistic Director, William Carslake, inspired by his camping trips in the Cairngorms.

Saturday 13 November 2021
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: So-Ock Kim (Violin)

It is with great excitement that the FSO is able to announce its first concert since the break due to the pandemic. All the works in our season opener begin in a minor key and transition to a major key – a metaphor for encouraging times ahead as the orchestra embarks on its centenary season.

Saturday 11 January 2020, 14:30
Adults: £13.50
Children: £6.75
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX

Conductor: William Carslake

Saturday 16 November 2019
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: John Myerscough (Cello)

Saturday 15 June 2019
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: Hiroko Imai (Piano)

Saturday 16 March 2019
Farnham Maltings

Conductor: William Carslake
Soloist: Nathan Winters (Clarinet)

Saturday 19 January 2019
Princes Hall, Aldershot, GU11 1NX

Conductor: Johann Stuckenbruck – Guest Conductor
Soloist: Fidelio trio