SPO

Slaithwaite is an industrial village in the beautiful Colne Valley near Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Here a group of amateur musicians met in 1891 to found a 'Philharmonic Band'. In its long history it has experienced both triumph and disaster (the full story of its first 100 years is told in its 250-page official history An Improbable Centenary), but for some years now it has enjoyed uninterrupted success - recognised by the award of the National Federation of Music Societies' Sir Charles Groves Prize in 1993 and a Performing Rights Society Enterprise Award in 1991 and again in 1996... The orchestra encourages young players, and in the last few years we have been fortunate to welcome such up and coming soloists as singers Catrine Kirkman, Marta Fontanals-Simmons and Terence den Dulk, pianists Edyta Lajdorf, Evelyne Berezovsky and Olga Jegunova, and violinists Miina Järvi and Tadasuke Iijima.

Also known as: Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra

Registration numbers: 506840 (W), 508216 (W)

Primary location: United Kingdom