Event Information
Date: Saturday 18th October 2025
Ticket Price: Adults: £15 Students & children: £5
Entry Time: 19:00PM
Event Starts: 19:30PM
Show length: 2 hours approx.
Tickets available from www.royalsuttoncoldfieldorchestra.org.uk or by calling 0121 758 7821.
Royal Sutton Coldfield Orchestra is 50! Come and help us celebrate at a special anniversary gala concert packed with classical favourites, music from stage and screen, plus a celebratory new work for trumpet and orchestra.
We’ll play selections from Pirates of the Caribbean, West Side Story and Jurassic Park, and themes to the Magnificent Seven and 633 Squadron among others. Shostakovich’s Festive Overture sets the scene and music by Saint-Saëns and Debussy features. The centrepiece is a brand new Trumpet Concerto from composer (and orchestra president), Robert Ramskill, noted for his jazzy rhythms and catchy melodies. Award-winning trumpeter Steve Lee, who has played with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Onyx Brass and English Symphony Orchestra, is the soloist. Finally, Marquez’s sultry Latin American Danzon No 2 winds up to create a grand finale to a thrilling evening.
Don’t miss this chance to join the celebrations and support your local orchestra – Royal Sutton Coldfield Orchestra – we’d love to see you there.
Royal Sutton Coldfield Orchestra (leader, Jeremy Blunt)
Bob Vivian conductor
Steve Lee trumpet
PROGRAMME
Shostakovich Festive Overture
Saint-Saëns Bacchanale, from Samson and Delilah
Debussy Petite Suite (extracts)
Robert Ramskill Trumpet Concerto
Goodwin 633 Squadron
L Bernstein Somewhere, from West Side Story
E Bernstein Magnificent Seven (theme)
Williams Jurassic Park
J Strauss II Pizzicato Polka
Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean (selection)
Andersson / Ulvaeus I Know Him So Well, from Chess
Marquez Danzon No 2