River will conduct the Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra

A selection of repertoire performed includes:

KHACHATURIAN - Masquerade Waltz and Galop
DVOŘÁK - Slavonic Dances
DE FALLA - Ritual Fire Dance
SHOSTAKOVICH - Jazz Waltz No.2
ANDERSON - ABBA Symphonic Suite

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra for their Community Day

The programme will include:

Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King Suite) - Howard Shore

The Lion King Suite - Hans Zimmer

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg (Part-Day)

River will perform Violin with Symphonic Ibiza at Summer Lovin Live Festival in Newcastle (Leazes Park)

Set List included: Right Here Right Now, Children, Titanium, Sandstorm and Get You Free

River will conduct the Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra

BEACH - Bal Masqué
COPLAND - Rodeo
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR - Othello Suite
GRANT-STILL - Symphony No 1 “Afro-American”

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra.

Join Sheffield Youth Orchestra for a wonderful family friendly concert of classical music - performing works celebrating the orchestral legends of sound and screen.

·       BERNSTEIN: The Magnificent Seven

·       BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture

·       SCHÖNBERG: Selections from Les Misérables

·       MOZART: The Magic Flute Overture

·       COPLAND: Hoe-Down from Rodeo

Tickets are 'Pay what you can' with suggested donations £5 Adult, £2 Student/Under 18. Reserve tickets for free on ticket source and cash donations are taken on the day (Cards accepted).

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra for their Community Day as part of their 60th Anniversary Celebrations.

The programme will include:

WILLIAMS : Star Wars Suite for Orchestra

River will perform with the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra.

KAPRÁLOVÁ Military Sinfonietta
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto feat. Richard Jenkinson
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

This thrilling programme opens with Vítězslava Kaprálová's best known work Military Sinfonietta, which she premiered in 1937 in Prague, becoming the first woman to conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.  Following will feature a piece by a more familiar Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák.  The Orchestra are delighted to accompany acclaimed cellist, Richard Jenkinson who will play Dvořák’s sumptuous and virtuosic cello concerto.  After the interval the Orchestra will present Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor.  Brahms’ First Symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took him 21 years to complete.  It begins with the pounding of a broken heart, and ends in a blaze of triumph guaranteed to get your pulse racing!

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra.

Join Sheffield Youth Orchestra for an evening of contemporary classics: spanning film scores, new compositions and minimalism.

·       DERBYSHIRE: Theme from Dr Who

·       REICH: Music for 18 Musicians (Section VI)

·       WILLIAMS ET AL.: The Complete Harry Potter Suite

·       DOCASAL: La Esperanza (Conducted by Minnie Docasal)

·       ZIMMER: Earth

Tickets are 'Pay what you can' with suggested donations £5 Adult, £2 Student/Under 18. Reserve tickets for free on ticket source and cash donations are taken on the day (Cards accepted).

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra for their Community Day.

The programme will include:

WILLIAMS ET AL.: Harry Potter Suite

HOLST: Mars from The Planets

ZIMMER: Earth from BBC Planet Earth

River and Sheffield Youth Orchestra will be joining forces with Steel City Choristers for a Christmas celebration at St Marie’s Church in Sheffield of orchestral and choral music.

Programme to be announced.

River and Sheffield Youth Orchestra will be joining forces with Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra to bring a Christmas extravaganza!

Join Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sheffield Youth Orchestra at their annual family Christmas concert.  We’ve packed a stocking full of the best-loved festive music of all time.  And of course, there's your chance to join in and sing along too - everyone’s welcome!

Programme to be announced.

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra.

Join Sheffield Youth Orchestra for a wonderful varied evening of exciting classical works celebrating the Autumn Equinox. 

·       GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

·       WHITACRE: October

·       SHAPIRO: Tight Squeeze with Electronics

·       FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance

·       SAINT-SÄNS: Danse Macabre

·       COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Christmas Overture

Tickets are 'Pay what you can' with suggested donations £5 Adult, £2 Student/Under 18. Reserve tickets for free on ticket source and cash donations are taken on the day (Cards accepted).

River will perform with the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra.

Join the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra as it launches it's 79th annual concert season in style by taking you on a trip to the movies.

The Orchestra will play some classic and popular film scores from 1927 to 2001, including music from: Lord of the Rings, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Metropolis, Psycho, Forrest Grump, Wallace and Gromit, and many more!

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra for their Community Day.

The programme will include:

• WILLIAMS: Raider’s March

• GIACHINNO: Suite from ‘Up’

• HISAISHI: My Neighbour Totoro

Source: https://sheffieldyouthorchestra.com/community-day-september-2023

River will be conducting Endcliffe Orchestra in Sheffield, rehearsing excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4

Source: https://www.endcliffeorchestra.com

River will perform with the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) is delighted to be bringing award-winning illustrator and author James Mayhew to Elsecar Ironworks, Barnsley. James will be painting live onstage while the Sheffield Philharmonic plays music inspired by Fantasy and Fables. Projected onto a big screen, Mayhew’s artwork will bring the music to life in this amazing multi-media experience.

“It’s quite the tonic to watch Mayhew match colours, shapes and images to the orchestra’s own sweet patterns.” Sunday Times

• COLERIDGE–TAYLOR: Music from Othello

• MOZART: Die Zauberflöte, Overture

• HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel Prelude

• TCHAIKOVSKY: Sleeping Beauty, op.66

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra.

Join Sheffield Youth Orchestra for a wonderful family friendly concert of classical and film music - performing works from an eclectic mix of cultures. 

·       ROWLEY: Miniature Piano Concerto (Britain)

·       BACH: Double Violin Concerto (Germany)

·       GRIEG: 4 Norwegian Dances (Norway)

·       MÁRQUEZ: Conga del Fuego (Mexico)

·       DESPLAT: Mr Fox in the Fields (France)

·       HISAISHI: My Neighbour Tortoro (Japan)

Tickets are 'Pay what you can' with suggested donations £5 Adult, £2 Student/Under 18. Reserve tickets for free on ticket source and cash donations are taken on the day (Cards accepted).

River will perform with the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra.

The SPO will be diving back into the musical world of Florence Price with her virtuosic Concert Overture No. 1 on the spiritual “Sinner, Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass”m followed by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s delightful Othello Suite; the incidental music that he wrote for a production of Shakespeare’s Othello at His Majesty’s Theatre in 1912.

i. Dance
ii. Children's Intermezzo
iii. Funeral March
iv. The Willow Song
v. Military March

To close, the orchestra will perform Anton Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. This sunny and lyrical Seventh Symphony owes much to the influence of Brahms, but it is distinctively Czech. As Dvorák said during its composition, “what is in my mind is Love, God and my country.”

We will also be joined by Sheffield's award winning classical music blogger, Classicalexburns, for a short informal pre-concert talk at 7pm.

• Price: Concert Overture No. 1

• Coleridge–Taylor: Suite from Othello, Op. 79

• Dvorák: Symphony No. 7, Op. 70 in D minor

River will conduct the Sheffield Youth Orchestra for their Community Day. The will perform Copland’s Billy the Kid Suite and Powell’s Chicken Run.

River will perform with Albinoni’s Adagio for Strings and Organ, Holst’s St Pauls Suite and Poulenc’s Organ Concerto with the Guild of Strings.

River conducted the Sheffield Youth Orchestra and the Sheffield Symphony Orchestra in a joint concert as part of Classical Sheffield Weekend 2023. The programme included Jessel’s The Parade of the Tin Soldiers, Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette, and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 Movement 2.

The Sheffield Symphony Orchestra is a large orchestra of experienced, skilled players and music professionals. It offers adventurous programmes for the larger orchestra. Their aim is to inspire a whole new generation of young music lovers and musicians and to break down barriers between classical musicians and their audiences.

Sheffield Youth Orchestra is South Yorkshire’s longest-running independent youth orchestra. Since 1964 they have led the way in developing young musicians through outstanding training and performance opportunities across the Steel City.

In this concert, in the spirit of collaboration, the two orchestras joined together to showcase some of the music from their individual repertoires.

River conducted the Silverdale School Orchestra for Badelt’s Pirates of the Carribean Suite.

River conducted the Hallam Choral Society for the world premiere of the Sheffield Nocturne.

River conducted the Sheffield Youth Orchestra for their Community Day. The programme included Joby Talbot’s Hovercraft, Shore’s The Fellowship of the Ring, and Badelt’s Pirates of the Carribean Suite.

River conducted the Sheffield Youth Orchestra for their first international collaboration. SYO performed with the Scotch College Symphony Orchestra visiting from Australia in Manchester’s premier concert venue, Stoller Hall. The programme included Powell’s How to Train Your Dragon Suite.

River conducts the Sheffield Youth Orchestra concert, celebrating music of the British Isles.