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Rehearsal Orchestra
@rehorch.bsky.social
We run orchestral courses for future professionals and serious amateurs in the UK. Going ROgue since 1957!
Introducing Benjamin Draper: meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop this Sunday.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Introducing Yi-Chuan Chen: meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop this Sunday.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Introducing Giuseppe Stillitano: meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop this Sunday.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Introducing Wooju Baik: Meet the young conductors taking part in our Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 conducting workshop next Sunday
www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/about/latest...
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Our shiny new website is here - and so is our shiny new weekend course season! Applications are open, so be sure to send in yours now! www.rehearsal-orchestra.org

Huge thanks to all the brilliant people at Wild Dog Design with whom we've been working on the new site over the past year!
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO HELP US WIN! £5,000 would make a huge difference to our work in nurturing orchestral musicians. It could fund our Play ON and Co-Principal bursary schemes for a year – or cover most of our annual music and instrument hire costs.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"Hensel wrote more than 466 numbered works, that we know about, and when I started looking at her, only a couple dozen of them were available online. … I think, now, I have something like 185 of my own editions of the scores on there (henselpushers.com)." - @henselpushers.bsky.social Incredible!
September 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
And just like that, our Edinburgh week 2025 is nearly over!
But you can see Rehearsal Orchestra at work in tomorrow's Open Rehearsal:

Friday 8th August, 2pm-4pm in the School Hall, George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place (entry via The Vennel gate), Edinburgh EH3 9EQ. WELCOME!
FREE ADMISSION

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August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
LAST-MINUTE PLACE: HARP! Our annual Edinburgh course from this Saturday 2nd August to Friday 8th August (leaving Saturday morning). Accommodation is available.

It's a week of amazing repertoire (full list for harp and more information in thread).

Thanks for sharing!
July 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A fortnight ago we shunned the London sunshine and closed our weekend-course season with musical trips to two other capital cities in Duke Ellington's Harlem & Gershwin's An American in Paris, with Artistic Director @levparikian.bsky.social as our guide - and what a fantastic journey it was!
July 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
If you haven't already nominated RO for the Benefact Group's 2025 Movement for Good regular draws, now is the perfect time - £2,000 would be a massive help to our charitable work in nurturing orchestral musicians. It's very quick and easy to nominate!
👉 movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...
July 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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My new answer to any and all questions in rehearsal.
Me to the next editor who asks to confirm a source.
July 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A hugely enjoyable day with @rehorch.bsky.social. An American in Paris is always fun, but the highlight was conducting Duke Ellington’s Harlem for the first time and discovering first-hand what a cracking piece it is. Should be done far more often.
June 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A DOUBLE BASS has had to withdraw on short notice from this Sunday's course on Ellington HARLEM and Gershwin AN AMERICAN IN PARIS in central London (Henry Wood Hall) - could you join us? Get in touch!
👉 www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses#cour...
June 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We still have a vacancy for a TENOR TROMBONE for our Ellington & Gershwin course in central London this Sunday (29th). We can also fit in a few more STRINGS (if you're quick) - get in touch now!
Some student bursary funding is available.
👉 www.rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses#cour...
June 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Sharing conducting duties at our Edinburgh residential course this August is Johann Stuckenbruck, announced last week as the new Music Director of l’Orchestre Symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (OSSLSJ) from 2025/26!
jstuckenbruck.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We currently have a few vacancies for STRINGS on Sunday 29th June (in central London): a great opportunity to study Duke Ellington's Harlem and Gershwin's An American in Paris, two exciting and atmospheric 'city' pieces written three decades apart!

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June 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Would £1,000 help you to catapult your creativity? If you’re an amateur musician, we’d love to hear a solo instrumental piece (up to 3 mins) inspired by birds 🕊️ Any music inspired by birds is perfect for this brief, whether in title or lyrics, a well-known song or your own composition.
June 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A few more photos from last weekend's Symphonic Dances course in sunny Manchester, conducted by the fantastic Stephen Bell. And such a treat and privilege to have composer Edward Longstaff with us to introduce his piece (as well as join the cello section). What a brilliant day we had!
May 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Like last year, Manchester greets us with glorious sunshine - one could get the impression that it’s always like this… 😉
May 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Last-minute places for a viola and a double-bass have just become available for our course in Manchester tomorrow (Sunday 11th May) - Symphonic Dances by Rachmaninov and Longstaff. Get in touch if you’d like to play!
rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses
May 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
For our course in Manchester tomorrow, we are pairing Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances with the central movement of Edward Longstaff’s piece of the same name. ‘Reach for the moon’ celebrates the “power of the creative spirit to imagine new and better worlds”.
www.edwardlongstaff.com/five-symphon...
May 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Now sorted, thanks for your help!
TUBA VACANCY! We're looking for a tuba player for our course in Manchester this Sunday 11 May. We'll be working on Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, alongside a movement from Edward Longstaff's composition of the same name, conducted by the Hallé's Stephen Bell.
rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses#cour...
May 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
TUBA VACANCY! We're looking for a tuba player for our course in Manchester this Sunday 11 May. We'll be working on Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, alongside a movement from Edward Longstaff's composition of the same name, conducted by the Hallé's Stephen Bell.
rehearsal-orchestra.org/courses#cour...
May 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Many happy returns to RO Artistic Director @levparikian.bsky.social!
April 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM