Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra

Who we are

We are an ensemble of committed and experienced amateur, student and professional musicians, playing under the expert guidance of conductor David Curtis. We play a huge variety of classical pieces throughout the year in various venues in and around Gloucestershire.

The Orchestra gives about six concerts each year. In recent times we have performed in the Town Hall, Pittville Pump Room and All Saints Church in Cheltenham and in Winchcombe Parish Church, Leonard Stanley Priory, the Chapel of Wycliffe College (Stonehouse), Pershore Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey and Colston Hall, Bristol.

The Orchestra regularly performs with young musicians. We perform concertos with the Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year.  

Since 2000 the Orchestra has given concerts in support of no fewer than ten local charities.

The repertoire is varied. Since 2005 the Orchestra has performed works by, among others, Beethoven, Elgar, Holst, Mahler, Messiaen, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, as well as by living composers, including members of the orchestra.