10:20am Thursday 18th March 2010
Settle Orchestral Society performed its first concert in Skipton’s newly-refurbished Christ Church on Saturday.
The church’s efforts to create a superb concert space, with comfortable chairs, were appreciated by both orchestra members and the audience.
The programme featured the first performance of “Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra” by Arthur Butterworth, with Layth Hanbali as soloist.
Mr Butterworth has always encouraged young players, and in 2009 he composed this one movement concerto in order to give a young soloist the opportunity to perform a new and unknown work with the orchestra he conducted for many years.
Layth, 17, is a pupil at Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, and is a member of the school’s String Ensemble, The Harrogate and Skipton Symphony Orchestra, The North Yorkshire Schools Symphony Orchestra, and has just been offered a place in the Palestine Youth Orchestra.
He performed the “Capriccio” with great sensitivity and virtuosity, supported by the orchestra and its conductor Darren Everhart.
The programme also included the Overture to Rosamunde by Schubert, and the Symphony No 3 in E flat “The Rhenish” by Schumann.
The concert will be repeated at Settle Parish Church this Saturday at 7.30pm.
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