The NEXT Concert will be on Saturday 5th July 2025 at 7.30pm in Central Hall, The Dolphin Centre, Darlington DL1 5RP
Darlington Orchestra is a community orchestra featuring local amateur musicians. We perform two regular concerts per year and occasionally participate in other events.
Opportunities with Darlington Orchestra
We now have several vacancies in the group because of maternity leave, ill health, recent retirements and changing work commitments for some members.
- Do you play the violin, viola, trumpet or other brass instruments? The orchestra would be delighted to hear from you. There is no audition process but people need to be playing at Grade 5 level and above to be able to enjoy the music.
Rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings during school term-time, from 7.15pm to 9pm, at St Thomas Aquinas Community Hall, Darlington DL1 2PU. There is free on-site parking.
Significant dates for 2024-25:
10th September 2024 – rehearsals re-start
- 29th October 2024 No rehearsal
- 24th December 2024 No rehearsal
- 31st December 2024 No rehearsal
- 7th January 2025 rehearsals re-start
- 25th January 2025 Concert
- 28th January 2025 No rehearsal
- 25th February No rehearsal
- 15th April 2025 No rehearsal
- 22nd April 2025 No rehearsal
- 27th May 2025 No rehearsal
- 5th July 2025 Concert
New members are always welcome – Email us
LISTEN TO THE ORCHESTRA
Click here to listen to extracts from the January 2018 concert/p>
The Extracts are: Sonatina Symfonicka By Antonín Dvorák; Ave Maria By G. Caccini, soloist Sophia Nikolaiets; Soundtrack Highlights By John Williams; Abba Medley By Beny Andersson Bjorn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson (with audience participation)/p>
- To reflect the history of the orchestra images, that act as page headers, are randomly selected from photographs taken over several years. To see images relevant to the most recent concert (and programme notes) go to the Concerts page.
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