Ilkley Philharmonic Orchestra
Concert Season 2026/27

Sunday 1st November
All Saints’ Church, Ilkley 3.30pm

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Hungarian Dances No.5 & 1 in G minor Brahms
Cello Concerto in B minor Dvorak
(Graham Morris cello)
Symphony No. 3 in D ‘Polish’ Tchaikovsky

Saturday 9 January
King’s Hall, Ilkley 7.30pm
Academy of Northern Ballet
Katie Bird soprano

‘New Year’s Gala Concert’

Programme to include

Overture Orpheus in the Underwood Offenbach
March ‘Eljen a Magyar’ Strauss
Dance of the Tumblers Rimsky Korsakov
Hungarian March ‘Faust’ Berlioz
Adagio & Waltz ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Tchaikovsky
Overture ‘Poet and Peasant’ Suppe
Waltz ‘Tales from the Vienna Woods’ Strauss
Czardas Monti
(Sally Robinson violin)
Waltz ‘Blue Danube’ Strauss
Radetsky March Strauss
Popular Arias (tbd)

Saturday 17 April
King’s Hall, Ilkley 7.30pm
Katie Bird soprano
Cameron Mitchell tenor
Ballet dancers (tbc)

‘A Night at the Opera & Ballet’
Programme to include
Overture ‘Force of Destiny’ Verdi
Intermezzo ‘Manon Lescaut’ Puccini
Arias and operatic scenes (tbd)
Ballet scenes (tbd)
Bacchanale ‘Samson and Delilah’ Saint-Saens

Sunday 13 June
All Saints’ Church, Ilkley 3.30pm

‘Love the Magician’
Suite ‘El amor brujo’ Manuel de Falla
‘Love the Magician’
Guitar Concerto Rodrigo
‘Concierto de Aranjuez’
(Craig Ogden guitar)
Symphony No. 1 in C Beethoven