Concert Dates
Details of 2011/12 season as they currently stand are below.
Previous Seasons' archives are here

 

 

“It's not every day that the Concert Hall is sold out for a programme of orchestral music - but the NPO - managed it. The most substantial work was the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein's West Side Story. There aren't many pieces of music which pack more life-enhancing pizzazz into 20 minutes and the NPO, under its energetic and versatile conductor Mark Heron, gave such a fizzing, virtuosic account that the audience burst into applause before the conclusion.”

 

"Heron handled the complex finale [of Rosenvald's Classical Symphony] admirably.  It began like a threnody with heavy, dotted, sobbing rhythms, morphed into a fugue, built to at a joyful, almost-chorale, then returned to the despondent manner in which it began, this time pianissimo and vibrato-less, with a soft hollow pizzicato at the end.

 

“Again, I wanted to tell you what an unalloyed pleasure your performance was, how much I enjoyed meeting you (too briefly), and how moved I am by the dedication you instilled in everyone, making my opera Bandanna an important event in their lives. I truly and sincerely admire your work, and hope to work with you again.”