St Andrew Amateur Orchestral Society

Edinburgh's Longest Established Amateur Orchestra
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Welcome to the website for St Andrew Amateur Orchestra

 
- the longest established amateur orchestra in Edinburgh.  
 
The Orchestra's next concert will be on Saturday 1st May 2010.
The Programme will include
Beethoven Symphony No 3, 'Eroica', and
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Fife violinist Liam Lynch.
Rehearsals start on Tuesday 5th January 2010.
 
If you would like to be on our mailing list and be advised about upcoming concerts,
please get in touch using our contact form here
Who Are We?
 
The St Andrew Amateur Orchestral Society was founded in 1878 and has given concerts every year since then.
 
Previous Patrons have included Hans Gal, and some recent conductors have included Noel De Jongh, John Willmett, and Alison Rushworth. Some soloists we have played with include Florian Meierrott (Pictured below with our conductor, John Glenesk Mortimer), Roddy Long, Garry Walker, Andrew Shetcliffe, Steven Osborne, Malcolm Watson, Sandy McGrattan, Edna Arthur, Elizabeth Clements, Pamela Turley, Malcolm Martineau, Inga Mantle and others.
 
  

 
We rehearse between September and December, and January and May, putting on two concerts a year. Our rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings at Gillespies School in Edinburgh. For our latest dates and programme, click on 'Programme and Rehearsals' above.

 
For further information, please contact frank_glynn@hotmail.com.  

 
Our conductor is John Glenesk Mortimer. John has conducted and played in Scotland and Switzerland as well as having been a composer and arranger for many years. 
 

  
John's resume can be found here... 
 
 
Interested?

If you are interested in joining this friendly and welcoming orchestra, please contact us on the contact page here . There is no audition, and we have vacancies in all sections. In particular, we are looking for brass players and violinists.