KSO performs Brahms’s Symphony No.3

Kensington Symphony Orchestra is joined by guest conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède for a programme including Brahms’s Symphony No.3 (1883).

After completing the work, Brahms played the first and final movements on the piano to Antonín Dvořák, who remarked that his fellow composer had surpassed his previous two symphonies, “if not, perhaps, in grandeur, then certainly in beauty”.

Chloé Van Soeterstède is principal guest conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and founder and artistic director of the Arch Sinfonia. In recent seasons, she has conducted widely in the UK, France, Spain and Sweden, working with soloists including Pavel Kolesnikov, Jess Gillam, Colin Currie and Peter Moore.

Described as “one of the very best amateur groups in the country” by Classical Music magazine, KSO has been hailed by Classical Source for “putting on bold, adventurous programmes that few of the ‘big five’ in London would either think of or get away with”.