We are committed to producing a varied and exciting repertoire for the enjoyment of both our members and our audience. We’re also keen to involve our members in our choice of programming, so please let us know if you have any particular pieces you recommend!
Our recent concerts have included:
March 2025: World Premiere of Windows Through Time
December 2024: SWONderful Dances, featuring Illyrian Dances, Cuban Overture & In the Hall of the Mountain King
June 2024: Swon’s Summer Soirée, featuring Libertango, Crown Imperial & Aladdin
Swon’s 25th Anniversary Gala Concert: Featuring band favourites from Holst, Coates, Mendelssohn and more
Autumn Concert 2023: Featuring Wagner, Mussorgsky and Glinka
Swon’s Summer Festival 2023 – From Glastonbury to Glyndebourne!
Spring 2023 – A celebration of Film & TV favourites including Star Wars, Doctor Who & music from Hairspray
Summer 2022 – A concert to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, featuring Spirit of Pageantry and My Fair Lady
Spring 2022 – A focus on film music with selections from Grease & James Bond
Summer 2019 – A different approach, a short afternoon interactive concert aimed at children, with a programme including music from Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Brave, The Simpsons, The Incredibles, Wallace & Gromit, Aladdin.
Spring 2019 – SWON’s 20th Anniversary concert premiered Vortex, also included Peter & The Wolf, Danse Slave, España Rhapsody & Suite of American Dances
Winter 2018 – a nautical theme, including Fantasy on British Sea Songs, Pirates of the Caribbean, Adagio from Spartacus & Phrygia and Down to the Sea in Ships
Summer 2018 – Space and Beyond, featuring Mars and Jupiter from Holst’s Planets Suite, as well as themes from Doctor Who, Star Trek and Thunderbirds
Spring 2018 – An Adventure Around the Americas, including American civil war suite The Blue and the Gray, music from Duke Ellington, modern tango Danzon No.2 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue feat. solo pianist Joseph Havlat
Winter 2017 – Original British Wind Band music, featuring A Malvern Suite (Philip Sparke), Resurgam (Eric Ball), Severn Suite (Elgar) and English Dances (Malcolm Arnold).
Summer 2017 – Magic! Including themes from Aladdin, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Harry Potter and Wicked.
Spring 2017 – A Celtic Adventure, featuring highlight’s from Pixar’s 2012 hit ‘Brave’, the classic ‘Asterix and Obelix’ and Irish and Welsh Rhapsodies by Clare Grundman.
Winter 2016 – A varied selection including: Trumpet Concerto by Aritiunian performed by our guest soloist – BBC Young Musician of the Year Brass Finalist Zak Eastop, The Overture to Verdi’s Nabucco, Robert Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American Dances, Suite Pastorale by Emmanuel Chabrier – the premiere of a new arrangement for concert band by our conductor, Matthew Hardy, and Selections from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Summer 2016 – A musical adventure through Russia, featuring the ‘Finale to Symphony No.5’ and ‘Festive Overture’ by Dimitri Shostakovitc alongside Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Spartakiade’ and ‘In the Steppes of Central Asia’ by Alexander Borodin.
