Sunday 22 March, 7:30pm
Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
Posted on behalf of Georgia Steel, Musical Director of Cardiff Chamber Orchestra:
Amplified: Disabled Excellence in the Orchestra is a landmark concert celebrating disabled leadership and creativity at the heart of orchestral music.
Why this concert matters:
- It platforms disabled composers and conductors on a major orchestral stage;
- It spotlights disabled creatives in classical music, past and present;
- It challenges traditional ideas of who shapes musical excellence in the orchestra;
- It offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience classical music led and defined by disabled artists.
What makes it exceptional?
This concert marks a series of important firsts. It connects the experiences of Joaquín Rodrigo, a blind composer, with Georgia Steel, a sight-impaired musician; this concert will be the first time Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez has been conducted by a sight-impaired musician. The performance also features home-grown Welsh talent in guitarist Oliver Manning, the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by disabled composer Charlotte McGregor-Graham, alongside music by historical composers who lived and worked with disabilities. Together, the programme reframes the orchestral canon through the lens of disabled excellence, past and present.
Programme
- Mendelssohn: Die Hebriden
- Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez (Oliver Manning, guitar)
- Charlotte McGregor-Graham: Emergence (World Premiere)
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Event details
- Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff
- Sunday 22 March, 7:30pm
- Cardiff Chamber Orchestra, led by Georgia Steel
Amplified is an invitation to experience orchestral music as it rarely appears – led, shaped and amplified by disabled excellence.
