USSO at the ACCA on 7 June 2016 (photograph by Malcolm Tan)
USSO concerts 2012 - 2026
7 Dec 2012 - St Mary's Church Brighton
Richard Morson Variations on a Theme of Janacek
Dvorak Symphony 8
Smetana Ma Vlast
12 April 2013 - St Mary's Church Brighton
Elgar Cello Concerto
Bernstein Symphony Dances from West Side Story
Beethoven 7
Cello soloist - Joseph Little
Leader - Saki Tapsell
President Sam Blausten
USSO 14 June 2013 - Meeting House University of Sussex
14 June 2013 - Meeting House
Nick Collins Theme
Bach Double Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony 1
Ian Morgan Williams Airs and Dancing
Leader Saki Tapsell
5 December 2013 - Former music student Rob Lewis rehearsing Dvorak Cello Concerto in Mandela Hall with USSO
4 April 2014 - St Mary's Church, Brighton
Beethoven Symphony 5
Paul Dukas The Sorceror's Apprentice
Rodney Newton Capriccio for Tuba
Leader Saki Tapsell
Soloist Dom Horsley
12 May 2014 - St Bartholomew's Church Brighton
Dvorak - Symphony 9 'From the New World'
Saint-Saens - Morceau de Concert
Dom Horsely - Wanderer Above the Fog
Leader Saki Tapsell
Horn solo Rebecca Hancock
16 October 2014 - USSO rehearsing ‘Morceau de Concert’ with student soloist Rebecca Hancock
20 November 2014 - USSO rehearsing a new work by Lee Westwood in the Meeting House
5 June 2014
Brahms - Symphony 1
Ed Hughes Sky Blue
Chamber music
Leader Saki Tapsell
Solo clarinet Alison Hughes
5 Dec 2014 - St Bartholomew’s Brighton
Programme included Morceau de Concert with Rebecca Hancock, horn
12 February 2015
All Saints Church, Hove, presented by Music Of Our Time. University of Sussex Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Science Festival ('Music for Curious Minds' series)
USSO conducted by Ed Hughes and Stephen Montague
Joseph Houston (solo piano)
Ed Hughes Night Music
Stephen Montague Dark Sun
Beethoven Symphony 7
USSO at All Saints, Hove, 12 February 2015. Stephen Montague conducting (?)
Former University of Sussex music student, and director of ‘Music Of Our Time’ performing on the wireless for Stephen Montague’s Dark Sun
16 April 2015
Paul James Hunter: Pénélope (first performance)
Vivaldi: Concerto in C (RV537) for two trumpets and strings
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
President Rebecca Hancock
Guest leader Christina Woods
Conductor Ed Hughes
Soloists Richard Pethick, Laura Pritchard (trumpets)
11 June 2015 - Meeting House
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Beethoven ‘Egmont’ Overture
Mendelssohn Symphony no. 4 in A ‘Italian’, op. 90
Leader Saki Tapsell - Conductor Ed Hughes - President Rebecca Hancock
USSO - 17 March 2016 - Meeting House, University of Sussex
17 March 2016 - The Meeting House, University of Sussex
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade
President - Hannah Al-Azzawi
11 May 2016 - Brighton Dome. Brighton Festival 50th Anniversary
Brighton Symphony of a City - Music by Ed Hughes, Film by Lizzie Thynne
Orchestra of Sound and Light, students from sixth form colleges in Brighton, BIMM and USSO
conducted by Ed Hughes
11 May 2016 - Brighton Symphony of a City at Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival, Orchestra of Sound and Light with members of USSO conducted by Ed Hughes
7 June 2016 - ACCA, University of Sussex
7 June 2016 - ACCA
Beethoven Symphony 3
Shostakovich Symphony 9
Film music by Richard Morson and Howard Shore
President - Hannah Al-Azzawi
Composer Richard Morson (former Sussex University music student) with USSO
7 June 2016 USSO at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts, University of Sussex
11 Dec 2016 - ACCA
7 April 2017 - ACCA
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
President - Hannah Al-Azzawi
Leader Koray Cangatin
Solo piano - Shin Suzuma
30 May 2017 - Meeting House
Overture: Cosi fan tutte
Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds in E flat major K297b
Symphony number 41 ‘Jupiter’
10 Dec 2017 - ACCA
USSO Christmas concert
10 December 2017 Brass ensemble conducted by music student
10 December 2017 USSO in the ACCA
7 Dec 2019 - ACCA
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Stravinsky Symphony in C
Beethoven Piano Concerto number 3
Shin Suzuma, piano solo
Jakob Masiak, leader
Ed Hughes, conductor
Ian McEwan, speaker
Recreation of the programme presented exactly 50 years ago by the University of Sussex Orchestra, on 8 December 1969. With conductor Laszlo Heltay, who was Director of Music at Sussex University, and a graduate of Franz Liszt Academy, where he studied with Kodaly. The piano soloist on that occasion was pianist Diana Okkalides, who was married to Prof Angus Ross, a co-founder of the English Department.
It was one of the very first concerts in the newly opened space of the Gardner Arts Centre (now the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts). 1969 was also the year in which the first students in the Department of Music were admitted to begin their studies in BA Music, a course which continues at Sussex to the present day.
The original programme notes were by Ian McEwan, then a student at the University of Sussex, and now a distinguished and best-selling author.
7 Dec 2019 Former Music Informatics student, Shin Suzuma, performing Beethoven Piano Concerto number 3 with USSO in the ACCA
4 Dec 2021 - ACCA
Beethoven Symphony 7
Sibelius Finlandia
Purcell Chacony
3 Mar 2022 - Meeting House
National Anthem of Ukraine
Mozart Symphony Number 40
6 June 2022 - ACCA
The Astounding Eyes of Rita, featuring Hosam Abdelaal, oudh
Massenet - Meditation - Soloist Emmy Huang
Grieg Piano concerto - soloist Frederic Collinge
Mozart Symphony Number 40
30 April 2023 - ACCA
Florence Price - Adoration
Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony no. 8
Till Stehr, leader and solo violin
Ed Hughes, conductor
9 Dec 2023 - ACCA
Franz Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
Howard Shore - Music from the Lord of the Rings
Sergei Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2
Frederic Collinge, piano
Ed Hughes, conductor
9 December 2023 - USSO at the ACCA with Fréderic Collinge (solo piano) in Rachmaninov Piano Concerto number 2
4 May 2024 - ACCA
Joe Hisaishi - Studio Ghibli Medley
Cecile Chaminade - Callirhoë (Suite for Orchestra in four movements)
Christopher J Ricketts - La Prima Sinfonia
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony number 5 in C minor op. 67
President: Myisha Box | Treasurer: Elliott Simmonds | Welfare: Yulma de Pablo Carrión | Secretary: Abigail Flowers
7 Nov 2024 - USSO coaching session with Glyndebourne Sinfonia
Dvorak American Quartet
Sibelius Pelleas et Melisande
Dvorak Symphony 9
8 Dec 2024
Jean Sibelius Pelleas et Melisande (Suite)
Justin Hurwitz La La Land (Epilogue)
Antonin Dvorak Symphony number 9
Leader: Max Generowicz Conductor: Ed Hughes President: Jay Orpana Treasurer: Song Songwutwichai. Welfare: Abigail Flowers Communications Officer: Myisha Box
11 April 2025 - St Martins Brighton
Orphée et Eurydice - Misty - Humoresque - Music for trumpet and violin Rondalla - Beethoven 3rd Symphony
6 Dec 2025 - ACCA
Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite, III. March:
"Folk Songs from Somerset"
Percy Aldridge Grainger - Irish Tune from County Derry
Ed Hughes - Wild Azure Sea (first performance)
Ernest Bloch - Baal Shem Suite (Three Pictures of Chassidic
Life)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No.5
Anton Pearson, solo electric guitar
Max Generowicz, solo violin & conductor
6 December 2025 - University of Sussex Symphony Orchestra with former music student Anton Pearson (electric guitar)
4 Feb 2026 - St Martins Church, Brighton
Nico de Benito - two headed calf (strings only, by the looks of it about 5 mins)
Debussy - petite suite
Chaminade - concertino for flute
Coleridge-taylor: petite suite de concert
Grieg - peer gynt suites 1 & 2
Max Generowicz, solo violin & conductor
Ed Hughes conductor