Spring Concert, May 2008

The Endcliffe Orchestra performed a Spring Concert on Saturday 17th May 2008 at 7.30pm at St. Luke's, Lodge Moor, Sheffield.

The evening's programme included:

• Malcolm Arnold's Four Scottish Dances

• Richard Strauss' First Horn Concerto

• Jean Sibelius' Karelia Suite

• Joseph Haydn Divertimento for Wind Quintet

The Haydn Divertimento was performed by the Ecclesmoor Wind Quintet, a group formed from members of the Endcliffe Orchestra.

Soloist

Our soloist for the Strauss Horn Concerto was Frank Edenborough.

Frank has been playing horn since age 12.  He was taught by a trumpet teacher and only started horn lessons proper in the last few years so is largely self taught.  He played in the West Kent Youth Orchestra as a teenager but at Nottingham University while studying medicine joined the University Symphony Orchestra and The University Chamber Orchestra. Here Frank was suddenly required to play first horn and these were his formative years as a principal horn. During this time he also played 3rd horn in the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra.

When qualified Frank became principal in the Knowle Symphonia in Birmingham (now Solihull Symphony Orchestra) for 8 years. His high point was as 1st solo horn in the Schumann Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra in 1996. He was later invited back to perform the Strauss 1st horn concerto with them in their 10th Anniversary Concert in 2000.

Frank came to Sheffield in Feb 1999, became principal in the SPO in late 1999 to date. As well as playing many well known orchestral solos with the orchestra he was soloist in the Mozart Symphonia Concertante for oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn in June 2004, and again in 2006 with the Doncaster Hallgate Orchestra, where he is also principal horn and with whom he have played the Haydn Double horn Concerto in Eb with Sue Hyde in 2004 and the Handel Overture for Corno di caccia and 2 chalamaux with David Campbell in 2005.

He is a founding member of the Muskoka wind Quintet where he met Martin Lightowler, the Endcliffe Orchestra's conductor and musical director. The quintet performs three or four concerts per year and recently were part of a charitable concert for the Mayor of Chesterfield and the Duke of Devonshire in the Painted Chapel at Chatsworth to an invited audience.

Frank's ambition is to perform the Weber Concertino and the Haydn Concerto no 2 and to master the Strauss 2nd horn concerto in private.