Mélanie Who?

We are now rehearsing the Suite en Forme de Valses by Mélanie Bonis, known as Mel. A Parisian late-Romantic, Bonis was highly praised by Saint-Saens but suffered from the prejudice against women composers and her music was unjustly neglected for decades after her death. We will do our bit to put that right. Alongside the Bonis our March concert will include Beethoven's fourth symphony and his violin concerto with soloist Konrad Elias-Trostmann.

It will be a British programme in May with Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Hamish MacCunn's Land of the Mountain and the Flood and Vaughan William's fifth symphony. To round off the season we will be back with the Chamber Choir for a concert including Brahms' fourth symphony, Parry's 'Blest Pair of Sirens' and 'In Windsor Forest' by Vaughan Williams.

Come and play with us

We have room for new string players, particularly viola and double bass, and in some other sections. There is no membership fee in your first term so if you would like to try us out do get in touch. See the 'Members' page for more details.

We are...

Finchley Symphony Orchestra – a successful and friendly amateur orchestra in north London, rehearsing weekly and giving five high standard concerts each year. We enjoy playing great music together, working hard while having fun, and celebrating it afterwards We are constantly looking for new challenges and opportunities..

Richard Garry, 2018

The FSO consistently produces music of a very high standard and together with highly talented soloists provide wonderful evenings full of happiness and light.

Jill and Peter Holland, 2018

Over several years we have been to many concerts given by The Finchley Symphony Orchestra (and occasionally with the Finchley Chamber Choir). Our policy is that - if we are free, Trinity Church, Finchley, is the best place to be - sometimes challenging, but always offering an evening of fine music, beautifully played.

Julian Ansell, 2018

[Finchley Symphony Orchestra is] a top drawer symphony orchestra with first class soloists without having to go to the Festival or Albert Halls.

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We play everything...

...from baroque to large scale romantic works, 20th century music, new commissions, symphonies, concertos and – at Christmas – carols!

We've played with...

Tasmin Little, Valeriy Sokolov and many others - see our Artists page.

Quick links

• Finchley Chamber Choir – our sister choir with whom we perform regularly.
• Book for our next concert
• Support us at no cost via The Giving Machine

Find us

Our normal concert and rehearsal venue is:
Trinity Church, North Finchley
N12 7NN

Finchley Symphony Orchestra is affiliated with Making Music.

For general queries email: info@finchleysymphony.org

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