Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set about working on his only Violin Concerto in 1939, just a year after the Adagio’s premiere.

For their closing orchestral concert of the series, conductors, Rebecca Miller and Claire Clyne, and College Concerto Competition Winner, Rock Lee, present an evening featuring Barber’s stunning Violin Concerto, Smyth’s Overture to ‘The Wreckers’, Britten’s Soirees Musicales and Respighi’s Pines of Rome.