About us
The HPO was founded in 1981 as Harrogate Pro Musica and is a semi-professional chamber orchestra of about 32 regular players. We specialise in baroque and classical repertoire mainly, together with more modern works for smaller orchestras. From the Concerts link can see our future programmes, and the Reviews link shows opinions of our past performances.
Its players, many of whom are professional and trained musicians, are drawn from a wide area, attracted by its diverse and challenging repertoire. The orchestra encourages young musicians from the local area both as regular players and as concerto soloists.
Through its history the orchestra has been under the baton of many highly reputed regular and guest conductors including John Forsyth, Nick Meredith, Eno Koço, Phil Wilby and John Anderson.
The Harrogate Philharmonic is registered charity no.701239
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Eric Clark (leader)
William Green will be the soloist in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini William is 19 and lives in Baildon, near Shipley. He studied the piano with Mark Fitton from the age of 11 until 18. Since September 2008 he has been a student of the Junior RNCM and studies the violin with Jia Zhang and the piano with John Gough. He was a violinist with the National Children’s Orchestra GB from 2000-2005 and is a former pupil of Eta Cohen and Tracy Keeley. He was also a member of the Bradford Youth Orchestra for several years. William relishes opportunities to perform concertos; he performed Ravel’s G major piano concerto with the Orchestra of Square Chapel, Halifax, in June 2009. He will be returning in October 2010 to play Rachmaninoff’s 2 nd Piano Concerto. He has also played Beethoven’s 4 th piano concerto with the Oswestry Sinfonia in June and Chopin’s Krakowiak for piano and orchestra in July of this year. Playing the Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini is the realisation of a childhood ambition! He was a student at Bradford Grammar School, where he studied French, German, Latin and Music for A-Level. He’s currently on a gap year, and will be reading Music at Christ Church, Oxford, from October. William is a keen chamber musician, and performs in a piano quintet and trio at the RNCM. In his spare time he enjoys reading and listening to music.
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