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.