Orpheus Strings is a Katoomba-based community orchestra made up of professional and amateur string players with Julie Cooney as conductor and Rotraud Schneider as leader. The orchestra has presented four concerts per year since its inception fifteen years ago. The repertoire is not always strictly strings, as often works with other instruments, vocal soloists and choirs are added.

The Orpheus Strings  is a community-based chamber orchestra that has been entertaining in the Blue Mountains since 1993.
 
The orchestra's repertoire consists mainly of string music (occasionally other instruments or voices are included) from Baroque to Twenty First Century composers. The orchestra consists of both amateur and profesional musicians.
 
As well as the orchestra providing entertainment, we also have the Orpheus Quartet. This is a highly talented group which performs throughout the Mountains and Sydney.
 
Both Orchestral and Quartet concerts are staged in the "Pat Heffernan Hall" of Katoomba Public School in Merriwa Street, Katoomba. Turn off Lurline Street at "Club Katoomba".
 
More information about the orchestra and future concerts can be found at their website – www.orpheusstrings.org
 
On the program for the Winter Magic Concert on Sunday June 22nd will be two works by Ralph Vaughan-Williams; Concerto Grosso for strings and Rhosymedra. An abridged arrangement for strings and percussion of Maurice Ravel's Bolero will be heard along with G.F. Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 6 Number 6. Three short works by Katoomba composer and percussionist, Jamie Briton will be presented; Pirun Polska, Novocastrian Csardas and The Black Cockatoo. A trio (violin, cello and piano) will perform Oblivion Trio by Argentinian composer, Astor Piazzola.

For more information
Contact: Collin Semmler
Phone: 4782 5765.
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