Everyone welcome!

We are happy to accept all players; no-one will ever be turned away for a surplus instrument or inexperience.

We help absolute beginners as much as possible, both by playing through music together and by giving sectional training. Some of us learned instruments as children, gave up as children and joined the orchestra in retirement!

Very experienced players will find us able and willing to give them practice at concertos that could not be given in larger semi-professional orchestras.

We have a lively Youth Orchestra where anyone from young children to teenagers are very welcome. This meets at 6.00pm at the Maldon United Reformed Church on Market Hill. There are 'section tutors' for each part of the Youth Orchestra, to help players, but we aim to compliment one-to-one lessons, not replace them. All children and parents are welcome!

Newcomers to the adult orchestra come free but we ask members for £3 each week to pay for the hall and music.

Tea and chocolate biscuits are served in a 15 minute social break, which we consider to be as important as the playing. This is an informal musical society and certainly not a 'sit down, shut up and play' orchestra.

Current members

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We change numbers quite a lot – currently we need lots of woodwind but any new player is welcome.

We are ready to cater for any orchestral instrument – give us a couple of weeks and we will have parts transposed if necessary!