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

14 June 2013 - Meeting House

Nick Collins Theme

Bach Double Violin Concerto

Beethoven Symphony 1

Ian Morgan Williams Airs and Dancing

Leader Saki Tapsell

12 Feb 2014 - All Saints Church, Hove

Part of 'Music for Curious Minds' presented by 'Music Of Our Time'

Beethoven Symphony 7

Ed Hughes - Dark Formations

Stephen Montague - Dark Sun

Ed Hughes & Stephen Montague conductors

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

5 June 2014

Brahms - Symphony 1

Ed Hughes Sky Blue

Chamber music

Leader Saki Tapsell

Solo clarinet Alison Hughes

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

17 March 2016 - ACCA

The Meeting House

Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade

President - Hannah Al-Azzawi

7 June 2016 - ACCA

Beethoven Symphony 3

Shostakovich Symphony 9

Film music by Richard Morson and Howard Shore

President - Hannah Al-Azzawi

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’

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.

4 Dec 2021 - ACCA

Beethoven Symphony 7

Sibelius Finlandia

Purcell Chacony

[nice photo]

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

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

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