The 2026-2027 season of music marks our 40th anniversary and the orchestra will celebrate this with a special Gala Concert in May 2027. Learn all about every one of our past concerts here.

Download our 2026-2027 season brochure.

You can now purchase tickets for our second concert. In February we will give our 2nd performance in Sherborne and in March we feature our regular guest narrator and patron, Martin Clunes. Tickets for these 2 concerts will be available here shortly.

Please note that our May Gala concert is a joint promotion with Dorchester Arts. Once the 3-ticket saver offer closes on 10th October, tickets will only be available from the Dorchester Arts website.

All concerts take place in St. Mary’s Church, Dorchester except for our Sherborne February concert.

21 November 2026 7.30pm – The Spanish Concert

Espana – Chabrier

Pavane pour une infante défunte – Ravel

Concierto de Aranjuez – Rodrigo Soloist: Eva Victoria Shockmel

El Cid Ballet Suite – Massenet

Capriccio Espagnol – Rimsky-Korsakov

Born in 2001, Eva Victoria Schockmel is a classical guitarist from Luxembourg. Passionate about guitar,
percussion and arranging, she pursues her postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London
under the guidance of Gary Ryan and Christopher Stell. She is honoured to be the current recipient of the
prestigious Julian Bream Trust Scholarship as well as the Neville Wathen Scholarship and is supported by
Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg.

Book now for our 2nd concert of the season..

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The remaining concerts in our 40th Anniversary Season.

21 February 2027 3.00pm – Gransden Hall, Sherborne

Concerto Grosso Op.6 No. 12 – Corelli

Pastorale d’été– Honegger

Masques et Bergamasques – Fauré

Symphony No. 2 – Beethoven 

13 March 2027 4.00pm – Concert for Youth

The Musical Time Machine

Eight stops. Centuries of music. One extraordinary journey with Martin Clunes narrating a new script by Rebecca Anderson-Deas.

Featuring local, young trumpet soloist: Joe Ansell

8 May 2027 7.30pm – 40th Anniversary Gala Concert

Overture – Prometheus – Beethoven

Violin Concerto – Beethoven Soloist: Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux

Symphony No. 7 – Beethoven

Please note that this is a joint promotion with Dorchester Arts. Tickets for this concert can presently be purchased via the 3-ticket saver offer but after 10th October tickets will only be available from the Dorchester Arts website.

All images on our website are by Andy Whale Photography unless otherwise stated.