Our resident interviewer, Philip Rham, catches up with our trumpet soloist Jasmin Ghera, who will be playing the Arutiunian trumpet concerto with us in our summer concert on 30 June 2024. Philip. Welcome Jasmin. Here we are at the Royal Academy of Music in London where you’ve just finished your Advanced Diploma, your […]
Sunday 30th June 2024 – 7.00pm – Chelsea Town Hall We have had one of the wettest springs on record, or at least that’s what it feels like but here at KPO we have come up with a sunny, bright programme that will sweep away those grey wet skies and warm the cockles of […]
Saturday 10th February 2024 – 7.00pm – St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico Shock horror – KPO is giving a concert on a Saturday and at a different venue, namely at St. Gabriel’s Church, Warwick Square, Pimlico, SW1V. It is in fact where we rehearse every Monday. Why this change, you may ask? Well, we are […]
Philip Rham meets up with David King, the organ soloist at our forthcoming concert at St. Gabriel’s Church Philip Here I am with David King, organist at St. Gabriel’s, and you’ve been here for 28 years, is that correct? David It will be 29 in March! Philip Well I never did! And was it […]
JOEL ASHFORD, the horn soloist in the Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2 in our November 2023 Concert, talks to our regular KPO interviewer, PHILIP RHAM Philip Joel, welcome and thank you for being interviewed for our KPO website. Normally I ask about our soloist’s past, but actually we already know you because you […]
Philip Rham meets up with our two soloists in a break from rehearsal at the Royal College of Music . They will perform the Brahms Double Concerto with KPO on 25 June 2023. Philip I’m here with Lucilla Rose Mariotti and Marion Portelance. Marion, you’re originally from Montreal, aren’t you? Marion Actually I […]
Melina was born in Locarno, Switzerland, into a family of musicians. She started playing the violin at the age of four. At ten she was accepted in the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in London. Further intense studies were with Prof. Zachar Bron in Lübeck, and Prof.Boris Kushnir at the University of Graz. At the […]
Strike a chord …. with Laurie Watt Interview by Philip Rham PR – Welcome Laurie. It truly is an amazing achievement as you’ve been a member of the KPO for fifty years. Doing my maths, that means you joined in 1972. This was also when you qualified as a solicitor and joined the solicitors firm Charles […]
A passionate, vibrant performance The Kensington Philharmonic Orchestra – one of London’s leading non-professional orchestras – gave their Spring Concert on Sunday, 13th March 2022, 7 p.m., at the Chelsea Old Town Hall. The programme was: SIBELIUS: Finlandia, Op. 26 RICHARD STRAUSS: Oboe Concerto in D Major (Layla Baratto, soloist) SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 […]
As we finally emerge from the darkness of the various Greek letters that have overshadowed music-making for a while now, come and celebrate with us as we contemplate a new world of spring with the clear, invigorating air of Sibelius and the warm glow of Richard Strauss. We start with Finlandia, which Sibelius aptly subtitled “Happy […]