WMSO Summer Family Concert 2025

WMSO Family Concert   
Sunday 22nd June 2025 at 4pm
at Newbold College Church, Binfield RG42 4AN

Free tabla drumming workshop at 3pm
Concert starts at 4pm

Chabrier España
Wijeratne  Tabla Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov  Scheherazade

Our summer concert features works from or inspired by exotic lands!  We are very excited to be playing music that  mixes Indian and western music traditions in the Tabla concerto in what is surely a highlight of this season.  Alok Verma is an internationally renown exponent of the art of Indian drumming and we are very fortunate to have him perform this concerto with us. It was first premiered in 2012 to  a great reception and has continued to be performed regularly since.   Scheherazade also brings eastern sounds to the symphony orchestra in Rimksky-Korsakov's most popular work that tells the stories from 1001 Arabian nights in musical form:  The sea and Sindbad's ship, The Kalendar Prince, The young Prince and Princess and finally Festival at Baghdad.  And to open the concert we have pictures of Spain as imagined by Chabrier.

Tabla soloist - Alok Verma


Tickets: £15, £5 (student/child)
A handling fee of 70p will be added to the price of adult tickets and 50p to student tickets to cover our box office costs