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If you have any news you would like to share please contact us. Nick Rozanski swam 2.5km for Swimathon 2008, raising nearly £900 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. You can still sponsor Nick to help fund more than 2,000 Marie Curie Cancer Nurses across the UK. We are delighted to welcome Helena Ruinard as our new leader. You can find out more about Helena on our People page. Simon Callaghan, who has performed with the orchestra on several occasions, has brought out a CD of Victorian English piano music, including two world premieres, and is performing in St John's Smith Square on 21 February 2008. You can find out more here. We were sorry to learn of the sad death of Jim Addington on 21st June 2007. Jim was a loyal supporter of the orchestra for many years, and we particularly appreciated the regular reviews of performances that he wrote for the local press. You can find out more on our People page. KCO at Lille Our Charity Concert at St Andrew Church Holborn raised over £1,000 in aid of The Friends of Thomas Coram. Our trip to Lille has been booked for 24 - 26 October 2008. More information will follow soon. We were delighted that Sui-Leung Chai returned to the orchestra to lead our November concert. Sui-Leung came to Lille with us last year and he was leader of the orchestra before Charles. Charles Knights has moved on to take on some new musical challenges at the Menuhin Foundation in Bermuda. We are very sorry to see him go, and wish him all the best in the future. We've gathered all our recent reviews onto one page. Click on the new Reviews button on the left to find out what others think of our performances. Lille 2007 photos are available for viewing (orchestra members only). Click on the Gallery button and follow the instructions at the bottom of the page. We travelled to France to perform at the Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille in October. The concert was a great success and we took four curtain calls - a KCO record! Click on the Repertoire button for details. Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille The Kingston Music Collective brought together a host of local talent (including some KCO members) in a large-scale collaborative event as part of the Amnesty Freedom Festival. The Wupadupa String Thing took place on Saturday 7th October at All Saints Church, Kingston Market Place. Profits went to Amnesty International. Congratulations to friend of the orchestra Rachel Gadsden who has won the Visual Artist Award at the Dada Awards 2005. The KCO is twenty years old! We celebrated our birthday at the Dysart Pub in Petersham in June 2006. (If anyone has any old KCO programmes from before 1988 please contact the webmaster.) Congratulations to our conductor Andy Meyers, who has taken a runner-up prize in the St Martin-in-the-Fields / BBC Radio 4 Christmas Carol Competition. According to the judges, "the entries encompassed a hugely varied range of styles which made the judging all the more enjoyable ... although there was only one prize, mention should be made of three other entries which were close runners up." You can find more information here. A review of our concert on 18 June 2005 with Samantha Ward said, "... the orchestra produced a full and satisfying sound ... this was a performance worthy of many professional orchestras." Click on the Repertoire button for details. You can now book tickets for our concerts online! Click on the Concerts button for details. We premiered a new work by David Lewiston Sharpe, Stone of the Seven Kings. Click on the Repertoire button for details. We went on a concert tour to Kortrijk, Belgium, on 8-10 October 2004. We stayed at the Grand Hotel Damier and performed in the beautiful Sint Maartenskerk (Saint Martin's Church). We performed a concert at the Royal Star and Garter, Richmond, on 3 April 2004 (click on the Repertoire button for details). This concert was well-received and we hope to do more with this charity. You can now buy a CD of music from some of our recent performances. Click on the Sounds button for details. We performed another benefit concert with Opera d'Amici on Saturday 19th July 2003 in aid of the Kingston All Saint's Church Parish Appeal. The programme included a complete performance of The Impresario and excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro. Click on the Repertoire button for details. We performed in a Charity Concert for Children of the Andes on 5 April 2003 in St James Piccadilly. Click on the Repertoire button for details. Our trip to Delft (Amsterdam) took place on 25-27 October 2002. We performed a very successful concert including works by Haydn, Mozart and Meyers. We have added links to a number of reviews of our recent performances. Click on the Repertoire button for details. We performed a benefit concert with Opera d'Amici in December 2001. We raised three thousand pounds in support of Kingston All Saint's Church Parish Appeal. Click on the Repertoire button for details.

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