The Rehearsal Orchestra is a symphony orchestra that runs weekend and full-week orchestral courses for serious amateurs and future professionals. It offers high-level training through intensive rehearsal, exploring the core orchestral repertoire under the batons of prominent conductors.
Sir Mark Elder
In 2005 and 2007, Arts Council England supported the Rehearsal Orchestra’s Rehearse to Learn project, enabling young professional musicians in the transition from conservatoire to working life to enlarge on their repertoire and experience under professional conductors in a supportive environment by participating in Rehearsal Orchestra weekend courses.
In 2007, the Rehearsal Orchestra was awarded an Arts for All grant from the Lottery Fund to invest in a substantial number of new (and much needed) music stands and a conductor’s podium.