SPRING CONCERTS 2005

The Westbourne Orchestra with Conductor Sam Newgarth MBE LRAM is currently rehearsing for their Spring Series of popular classical concerts to be presented in March 2005.

St. Stephen's Church, St. Stephen's Road, Bournemouth Saturday 12th March - 7.30 pm.

Admission by programme list obtainable at the door at £6 or £5 concession for students and senior citizens, £2 children or £12 for family. Souvenir programme also available

Barrington Theatre, Community Centre, Ferndown Saturday 19th March - 7.30 pm.

Admission by programme list obtainable at the door at £5 or £4 concession for students and senior citizens, £2 children or £10 for family. Souvenir programme also available.

The programme for both concerts will include: -

The orchestra welcomes new players

Details from Chairman - Tel: 01202 551360

 About the Soloist

Born in October 1982, Samantha Ward began playing the piano at the age of eight before gaining a full scholarship to Chetham's School of Music five years later.  She is now in her fourth year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she won a scholarship to study with the senior professor, Joan Havill, from September 2001. Since making her concerto debut in 2000 as a result of winning the Chetham's concerto auditions, Samantha has been offered concerto appearances with several orchestras around the UK.  She has given recitals, both solo and chamber music in such venues as Manchester's Bridgewater Hall and St David's Hall, Cardiff and St James Church Piccadilly, London, as well as in France and the Ukraine.  She has taken part in international master classes with leading professors such as Jacques Rouvier, Piotr Paleczny, Dominique Merlet and Boris Berman.

Whilst still at Chetham's, Samantha appeared on HTV Wales, S4C and Granada television, as well as on Classic FM Radio and in the Classical Music Magazine in January 2003.  She was a prizewinner in the finals of the Texaco Young Musician of Wales Competition and the Oxford Music Festival, as well as being highly commended in her first year of undergraduate study, in the Guildhall Beethoven Prize, open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. 

More recently, Samantha won both the John Ireland Piano Award at the Guildhall and the Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists, giving Samantha concert promotion round the UK and a concert in the Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St James Church Piccadilly, London.  Future engagements in 2004/5 include several concerto appearances with orchestras around the UK, as well as a concert tour in North Wales in January and several other solo and chamber music recitals with her voice and piano duo.