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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 6.30pm at the Maldon United Reformed Church
on Market Hill with a beginner's session ‘Earlybirds’
at 5.30pm. 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 main orchestra come free but we ask members for £2 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, but a typical meeting might have:
2
first violins, 2 second violins, 1 viola, 2 cellos
2
flutes, 2 clarinets, 1 oboe, 1 bassoon, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone
We are
ready to cater for any other orchestral instrument, but horns and double bass
are especially welcome and there is plenty of room for strings!
