Rehearsal Orchestra

Incredibly, 2027 marks our 70th birthday! We kick off the festivities on 24th January in London, with special guest John Wilson. There’s lots more good stuff to come, in London and Manchester, to take us through to the summer. Applications are now open at: www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/

Spent the day coaching four talented young conductors on Prokofiev’s 5th Symphony with @rehorch.bsky.social. I always struggle with teaching conducting because very often the answer to the question ‘how did you do that?’ is ‘I don’t really know’ or ‘it depends’.

MEET THE CONDUCTORS FOR PROKOFIEV 5: BENJAMIN DRAPER On Sunday 11th October four conductors from the Royal College of Music's postgraduate course in orchestral conducting will join us for our annual workshop for young conductors. www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

MEET THE CONDUCTORS FOR PROKOFIEV 5: ZIHAN ZHOU On Sunday 11th October four conductors from the Royal College of Music's postgraduate course in orchestral conducting will join us for our annual workshop for young conductors. www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

MEET THE CONDUCTORS FOR PROKOFIEV 5: WOOJU BAIK On Sunday 11th October four conductors from the Royal College of Music's postgraduate course in orchestral conducting will join us for our annual workshop for young conductors. www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

MEET THE CONDUCTORS FOR PROKOFIEV 5: MALIQ VEAL On Sunday 11th October four conductors from the Royal College of Music's postgraduate course in orchestral conducting will join us for our annual workshop for young conductors. www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

On Sunday 11th October, we'll be at the @rcmlondon.bsky.social for our annual workshop with four of their postgraduate conductors, to study Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. This popular event has just a few string places left, so apply now to take part! www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/cond...

Talented artists have drawn and painted the Rehearsal Orchestra at work since its earliest days. The latest example is this lovely sketch by Edinburgh open rehearsal guest Rob S. from a fortnight ago. To find out more about RO in art, visit our website: www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/artwork/

And somehow it's the final day of the Edinburgh course! Welcome to our FREE Open Rehearsal, to hear music by Brahms, Dvořák, Britten and Martinů: 2pm-4pm at George Watson's College, 69 Colinton Road, EH10 5EG. #EdinburghFestival www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/edin...

Better start by getting tuned up! With some of our oboists at #Edinburgh over the years - just as soon as they're finished with those reeds... 1959 - 1974 - 2006 - 2022

Once again, it's nearly time! Our Edinburgh residential course is just a fortnight away... not that we're counting or anything! 😉 (Photos: The very first course back in August 1957 - With Rudolf Kempe in 1972 - 2005... and 2025!)

VIOLINISTS! Fancy spending a week in Edinburgh, playing a tons of fantastic symphonic repertoire and exploring the festivals? We have late vacancies for another couple of violins on our residential course, 8th-15th August. FOR MORE INFO AND TO APPLY 👉 www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/edin...

Our weekend course season may have finished, but our next weekend event is already open for applications! On Sunday 11 October we'll head to the Royal College of Music for our fourth conducting workshop for young conductors (on Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5): www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/cond...

RVW enjoying Caturday ahead of our course on his Symphony No. 6 tomorrow.

ARE YOU A QUALIFIED ACCOUNTANT? JOIN OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES! We're seeking a volunteer Treasurer. You don’t need prior charity governance experience but must be willing to learn & have an interest in orchestral music. READ MORE 👉https://reachvolunteering.org.uk/opp/trusteetreasurer-orchestral-charity

We're delighted to announce Roger Coull as the co-conductor of this year's Edinburgh week, 8-15 August, sharing the duties with RO Artistic Director Levon Parikian! Spaces remain on the course for violin, harp, horn, trombone and percussion. APPLY NOW👉 www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/edin...

MANCHESTER We are returning to Hallé St Peter’s on Sunday 17 May for a day of Mussorgsky and Clyne, conducted by the fantastic Stephen Bell! Current vacancies: STRINGS, OBOE, HORN, TRUMPET, BASS TROMBONE and PERCUSSION. For more information and to apply 👉 www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/clyn...

Applications for our 2026 Edinburgh residential course (8-15 August) are open! It's a fantastic chance to get lots of repertoire under your belt and explore the city at Festival time. Check out the details and headline repertoire on our website! APPLY NOW www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/edin...

COMING UP NEXT! Our London course on Sunday 26th April gives you a great chance to explore two contrasting masterpieces (and musical paths) from 1908: Webern's Passacaglia and Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole. Conductor Robert Hodge will lead the way. APPLY NOW www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/webe...

Please spare a minute to nominate us for Benefact Group's Movement for Good £1,000 prize draws for 2026! Twenty charities win each day until Friday. movementforgood.com/draws/1000?c...

STRINGS! A last-minute opportunity to join our Alpine Symphony course in central London this weekend: after a couple of late cancellations, we can fit in particularly violins, but can squeeze in also a few other strings if you're quick! www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/stra...

Delighted to see Michal Oren, one of the first cohort of @rcmlondon.bsky.social conductors taking part in our workhops, in 2023, on this @classicfm.com list - congratulations, Michal! www.classicfm.com/music-news/r...

Fancy going off-piste? Seeking players for the off-stage brass (HORNS, TRUMPET, TROMBONE) for our course on Strauss's epic Alpine Symphony! Central London, Sunday 15th March, 5pm-7pm. Vacancies in the main orchestra: STRINGS (Sat-Sun) & PERCUSSION (Sun). www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/stra...

We caught up with conductor Michael Coleby for a mini interview ahead of his Rehearsal Orchestra debut this Sunday! www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

We're giving you a rare chance to work on Bartók's dazzling 'The Wooden Prince' Suite at our course in central London on Sunday 8th February! Current vacancies: VIOLIN, CELLO, TRUMPET, TENOR TROMBONE, PERCUSSION and CELESTA - get in touch! APPLY NOW 👉 www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses/bart...

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If you haven't yet nominated us for Movement for Good's charity prize draws this calendar year, please take a minute to do so now - their festive draws of 120 x £1,000 grants start tomorrow! movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...

Introducing Benjamin Draper: meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop this Sunday. www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

Introducing Yi-Chuan Chen: meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop this Sunday. www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

Introducing Giuseppe Stillitano: meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop this Sunday. www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

Introducing Wooju Baik: Meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop next Sunday www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...

Our shiny new website is here - and so is our shiny new weekend course season! Applications are open, so be sure to send in yours now! www.rehearsal-orchestra.org Huge thanks to all the brilliant people at Wild Dog Design with whom we've been working on the new site over the past year!

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO HELP US WIN! £5,000 would make a huge difference to our work in nurturing orchestral musicians. It could fund our Play ON and Co-Principal bursary schemes for a year – or cover most of our annual music and instrument hire costs. culture.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...

"Hensel wrote more than 466 numbered works, that we know about, and when I started looking at her, only a couple dozen of them were available online. … I think, now, I have something like 185 of my own editions of the scores on there (henselpushers.com)." - @henselpushers.bsky.social Incredible!