Oare String Orchestra Concert at St Nicholas Church

The award winning Oare String Orchestra is to play at St Nicholas Church, New Romney on Saturday 24th September 2022 at 7.30pm.

Who are Oare String Orchestra?

OSO was founded in 1982 by Don Goodsell and Peter Aviss, who both shared common interests in sailing and music – more specifically, string orchestral music. Since then, OSO has won 6 PRS awards, performed in Holland, France and Denmark, and given many UK, European and world premieres.

OSO is based in Faversham in North Kent and normally gives 3 Faversham concerts a year, unless touring or giving concerts at Festivals. The players come from all over Kent as well as London and Cambridge. Many of our instrumentalists work in the music industry – teaching, performing, composing or writing about music. Our new leader is Floriane Peycelon, a professional violinist and teacher from Folkestone. Our principal violist is Sally Aviss, who is a well-known Romney Marsh musician along with her husband Peter Aviss, the founder conductor and musical director of OSO as well as being a composer. Many of Peter’s compositions have been performed by OSO, as well as nationally, and most recently at JAM on the Marsh in 2020 and 2021. Peter has lived locally for the last 32 years.

What is the programme?

In recognition of the Queen’s platinum Jubilee, we start the programme with Clive Jenkin’s Majesty. We are also celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth with two works, Five Variants on Dives & Lazarus and Fantasia on Greensleeves. The 1st half of our programme ends with Alwyn’s Oboe Concerto with Kim Keeble as soloist. Kim starts the 2nd half with the well-known Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor. The concert finishes with John Ireland’s wonderful Concertino Pastorale. Both the Alwyn and the Ireland are products of the 2nd World War years. The Ireland was written for the Boyd Neel String Orchestra for performance in Canterbury in 1939. Ireland was living in Deal at the time, not so far away from Romney Marsh! Alwyn wrote his oboe concerto in 1944-45 and is scored for string orchestra and harp. The Ireland is a three-movement work comprising Eclogue, Threnody and provides a rhythmic, and and exciting end to the String Orchestra Concert at St Nicholas Church on 24th Sept.
concert Toccata. As our three main British composers all composed for film, they produced dramatic music, and knew how to write a good tune!
So please do come along and enjoy a cornucopia of British music, the dulcet tone of Kim Keeble’s oboe playing and the exuberance of Oare String Orchestra!
Tickets cost £10 (under 18s free) at the door.

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