The Brunel Sinfonia is seeking to appoint a guest conductor for 2012.

A full job description is available here.

Application Materials

Qualified applicants should submit the following materials:

1. YouTube link or video showing applicant conducting. Please contact Paul Packwood directly on pp007a3557@blueyonder.co.uk if you do not have this available
2. Letter of interest
3. Resume
4. Highlights of repertoire conducted, including orchestra conducted for each work

Further application materials may be requested by the Brunel Trustees.

Submitting an Application

Applicants should submit the materials electronically to Paul Packwood, Brunel Trustee at pp007a3557@blueyonder.co.uk by January 15^th 2012; or email Paul to arrange a postal application. Finalists may be contacted for an interview after January 15th 2012, or move directly to an audition with the orchestra (for their vote) on the upcoming seasons programme.

Thanks to everyone for turning out to see us perform The Planets on Saturday! We really enjoyed playing it and it was a cracking gig. First time we’ve ever sold out a concert, think it was standing room only at the back. Apologies it was so hot though!

We’re all going to take a break now until May, when we re-group to start building up to our Rachmaninov concert on Saturday 25th June, so make a note in your diaries people! We hope we see some of you there.

In the mean time, big shout out to Jon Lightfoot and his pals in The Bristol Concert Series Players, they’ve got a concert coming up. Thursday 14th April 2011 @ 8pm, Circomedia, St Paul’s Church, Portland Square, Bristol. Strauss – Metamorphosen, Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto (featuring Thom Petty) and Sibelius – Andante Festivo, Romance in C Major. More details here.

With the Spring term fast approaching, the rehearsal schedule for February to April 2011 has been finalised.

Rehearsals start at 7.15pm and finish around 9.30pm on Wednesdays with the first one being on Wednesday 9th February 2011. All rehearsals are at the JCR in Bristol Grammer School, click here for a map. There will also be the usual pre concert rehearsal at The Victoria Rooms on the day of the concert.

Click here for the complete scedule.

How fun was our first rehearsal! It was so great to see so many friendly faces, and welcome to all our new members. Great to see those who could make it in the Highbury Vaults after too…. hope to see more there next Wednesday. I am loving playing the film music, and am so delighted we are trying out something new and exciting. Please make a start filling your diaries with our concert date. There are links below for facebook and ENTS 24 adverts. A Flyer will no doubt start doing the rounds soon too.

This weeks rehearsal: 7.15 pm Wednesday 29th at Bristol Grammar School VIth Form Centre JCR. The other rehearsals are also all likely to be at BGS JCR on Oct 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, and Nov 3rd. Afternoon Saturday Nov 6th in Vic Rooms from 1pm-ish (no other Saturday rehearsals).

Useful links:

facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=114358401953370

ents 24: http://www.ents24.com/web/event/A-Night-At-The-Movies-Victoria-Rooms-Bristol-2042649.html

twitter: http://twitter.com/brunelsinfonia

Current Players!

 Please check your email inboxes – I need your replies asap as to whether you are wanting to play in the upcoming season!

 Dave

Dear All,

As I'm sure you have noticed, brunelsinfonia.org.uk has been off line for the past two weeks. Well! As I'm sure you can also see, we are back! Apologies all for the down time.

It appears that out hosts (Fasthosts) experienced mega problems, something to do with their system "being compromised", but I have also heard that their server rooms were flooded in the October floods that hit Gloucester. Anyway, as a result, and in their infinite wisdom, they decided to change our system password, and hence we lost our database connection and hence our site.

Both Dave and myself (from Australia!) have made numerous attempts to get in touch with Fasthosts (for a while the phone number they had on their website didn't work) but finally we have managed to get our password back!

So apologies once again! And welcome back!

Greetings from Australia by the way! Great weather. Wish you were here!

And Merry Christmas

Phil T (Admin)